Kristal is a portable knowledge artifact: a compact package of structured meaning, provenance, and reusable outputs.
Its job is simple:
Make knowledge transferable, checkable, and usable under real-world constraints (including low-connectivity and high-trust environments).
At a glance
A Kristal helps you:
Freeze a body of knowledge into a stable, shareable object.
Verify where it comes from (sources, authorship, authority policies).
Reuse it across products and contexts without re-building everything from scratch.
Operate offline with the same meaning and constraints, when needed.
Audit decisions that relied on it (what was known, what was assumed, what changed).
What you get (in human terms)
1) A reliable “knowledge package”
Not a blog post. Not a spreadsheet. Not a single document.
A Kristal is closer to a library you can carry, with clear boundaries:
what it contains
what it does not contain
who published it
which rules/policies were used to validate it
2) A reusable foundation for civic workflows
Kristals enable systems where decisions can be traced back to stable knowledge—so people can contest outcomes without debating reality from scratch.
3) An offline-capable “runtime”
In kOA, many important contexts are degraded: crisis response, fieldwork, public institutions, low-trust environments.
Kristals are designed so that useful access survives connectivity loss.
Where Kristals appear in kOA
Kristals are the shared substrate beneath multiple layers:
Konnaxion: public knowledge objects, civic dossiers, learning content, governance records.
Orgo: execution cases that require stable references, checklists, and accountable context.
Ariane: structured navigation and interpretation that depends on stable meaning.
Voting / decision workflows: decisions reference Kristals so outcomes stay auditable over time.
Core guarantees (non-technical)
Kristal is meant to support these guarantees:
Portability: you can move it between machines, institutions, or communities.
Integrity: what you received is what was published (no silent drift).
Provenance: you can see who published it and what it is based on.
Contestability: people can challenge inputs, interpretations, and updates.
Compatibility: older Kristals remain usable when the ecosystem evolves.
Offline usefulness: core access works without always-on infrastructure.
Common use cases
Knowledge preservation
A community publishes a Kristal capturing its history, institutions, and decisions so it cannot be erased, rewritten quietly, or fragmented.
Civic dossiers / policy packets
A municipality shares a Kristal that bundles a project’s facts, constraints, and public comments—so debates happen on a shared reference.
Education and competence
A Kristal packages a curriculum (concepts, definitions, exercises, evaluation criteria), enabling learning that remains consistent across schools and contexts.
Operational memory
An organization uses Kristals to freeze the “what we knew then” context behind major decisions, enabling accountability and post-mortems.
What Kristals are not
Not a social feed.
Not an “AI opinion.”
Not a black-box model output.
Not a substitute for governance or legitimacy.
Kristal is infrastructure for shared reality—so deliberation can become action without domination or confusion.
Next pages
Trust & provenance: how publication, authority, and validation work.
Portability & offline: how Kristals stay usable under degraded conditions.
Distribution & versioning: how Kristals evolve without breaking trust.
Integrations: how platforms consume Kristals (Konnaxion, Orgo, Ariane, decision workflows).
