# 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]] ## Relationships - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] argues that the future will know us through what we preserve, explain, admit and refuse to forget. - **Hub:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] · **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The future will know us through what we preserve, what we explain, what we admit, and what we refuse to forget.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* [[reminders/Preservation/The Future Will Know Us Through What We Refuse to Forget by Bryant McGill|The Future Will Know Us Through What We Refuse to Forget by Bryant McGill]] > “The future belongs to those who understand that memory is not passive; what we choose to remember shapes what we become.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* [[reminders/Memory/What We Choose to Remember Shapes What We Become by Bryant McGill|What We Choose to Remember Shapes What We Become by Bryant McGill]] ## 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 --> > “Archives look passive only after their decisions have become invisible. Canons look inevitable only after everyone who fought over their composition is dead.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* [[reminders/Memory/Archives Look Passive Only After Their Decisions Become Invisible by Bryant McGill|Archives Look Passive Only After Their Decisions Become Invisible by Bryant McGill]]