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description: "A repository's scattered knowledge as Knowledge Trust Ladder keeps it: catalogued, authenticated and explained, with the trust in every claim left visible. Each item added to the collection is an accession."
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  - resource: docs/architecture.md
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# Overview

The README's opening paragraph, which the architecture page repeats, says that Knowledge Trust Ladder keeps any repository's scattered knowledge as a **collection**: catalogued, authenticated and explained, with the trust in every claim left visible.

The architecture page uses the museum word the same way. The [registrar](registrar.md) keeps each [accession](accession.md), an item added to the collection, documented, with its provenance filed. The [docent](docent.md) is the role the poem leaves implicit, because the collection exists for its visitors.