# Records Knowledge and Memory Across Generations **Domain:** Deep Time / Knowledge Preservation / Nuclear Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established OECD NEA international initiative ## Definition **Records, Knowledge and Memory Across Generations (RK&M)** is the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency initiative for preserving understandable information about radioactive-waste repositories across generations. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Continuity requires not only preserving state but preserving the meaning, provenance, instructions, and institutions needed to interpret it. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The NEA has developed a preservation toolbox, essential-record concepts, and key information files to keep repository knowledge socially recoverable across long horizons. ## Evidentiary Boundary Nuclear repositories are the source domain; continuity use is structural analogy. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Set of Essential Records|Set of Essential Records]] · [[wiki/Key Information File|Key Information File]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Institutional Memory|Deep-Time Institutional Memory]] · [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_15088/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->