# CAVE Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine
**Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system
**Aliases:** CAVE; Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine
**Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Type:** Connectome annotation and versioning software
**Primary sources:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]]; [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]
## Relationships
- CAVE manages petascale annotation, collaborative proofreading, and edit history in the [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] ecosystem.
- It is part of [[wiki/Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure|Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure]].
- CAVE records human changes to machine segmentation; it is distinct from the [[wiki/MICrONS Explorer|MICrONS Explorer]] access interface.
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This entry is routed through [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section.
### Additional Documented Relationships
- [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] is identified with the tooling **CAVE Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine**. Versioned proofreading/annotation infrastructure.
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## Related Work in the Corpus
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- In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **MICrONS: Function-Structure Registration at Mammalian Scale** provides the narrative context for **CAVE Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine**: Key Princeton contributors include J.
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## Research Edges
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**Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]]
**Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]
#### Incoming typed edges
- **Edge 360 — [[wiki/Connectomics|connectomics]] `tooling` → this entry** — **CORPUS**; evidence `CORPUS_ATLAS`. Versioned proofreading/annotation infrastructure.
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**Resolved aliases:** `CAVE (Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine)`
**Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]
**Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]]
**Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]
#### Incoming typed edges
- **Edge 360 — [[wiki/Connectomics|connectomics]] `tooling` → this entry** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_CORPUS**; evidence `CORPUS_ATLAS`. Versioned proofreading/annotation infrastructure.
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