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Stable Identity Through OIDs

Files move. Titles improve. Folders are reorganized. Presentation changes. Identity must survive all of them.

QLens assigns each canonical object an object identifier, or OID. The OID is the durable identity of the object. A path is only its present location.

Stable identity enables:

  • reliable relationships across reorganizations;
  • unambiguous revision history;
  • duplicate detection;
  • references from external systems;
  • long-lived citations within the research space.

OID stability is therefore not a convenience. It is a prerequisite for traceability.