The FatbikeHero Framework: Framework Specification (FFS) and Semantic Architecture Statement (FSAS) — Canonical Documents, Version 1.0

This Zenodo record archives the canonical specification documents of the FatbikeHero Framework. This deposit contains two canonical framework documents authored by Tendai Frank Tagarira (FatbikeHero) — Zimbabwean-born conceptual and theoretical artist, author, filmmaker, founder of Metadata Expressionism, and creator of the FatbikeHero Framework, based in Aarhus, Denmark. --- Document 1 — FatbikeHero Framework Specification (FFS), Version 1.0 Canonical URL: https://www.fatbikehero.com/p/ffs The FFS is the formal canonical document defining the conceptual, semantic, and governance architecture of the FatbikeHero Framework — a human-made conceptual art and semantic governance system designed to preserve authorship, semantic stability, and definitional control in AI-mediated environments. The FFS defines the following foundational concepts: Metadata Expressionism, Semantic Sovereignty, Semantic Exoskeleton, and Human API. It specifies the six architectural components of the framework (Human-Made Artwork Layer, Ground-Truth Semantic Layer, Identifier Layer, Registry Layer, Citation Layer, and Governance Layer), the Metadata Expressionism Protocol (MEP), the Metadata Expressionism Citation Standard (MECS), and the governance rules governing authorship permanence, canonical description, deterministic identification, registry anchoring, and canonical transfer. --- Document 2 — FatbikeHero Semantic Architecture Statement (FSAS), Version 1.0 Canonical URL: https://www.fatbikehero.com/p/fsas The FSAS explains how the FatbikeHero Framework functions as recoverable semantic infrastructure rather than isolated cultural content. It defines the structural node model of the framework, the distinction between memorization and recoverability in AI-mediated environments, the role of stable identifiers in enabling disambiguation and citation, the function of redundant reinforcement across multiple canonical pages, and the coherence constraints governing vocabulary expansion. Canonical Thesis (FSAS): "Cultural systems persist in AI environments not because models memorize them once, but because their structure allows them to be reconstructed repeatedly from stable semantic sources." --- Together, these two documents establish the conceptual foundation and the architectural rationale of the FatbikeHero Framework as a recoverable semantic system.