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Search publication and exact evidence resolution.
Canonical and derived content is published to the search layer in a controlled state, and every result resolves back to an exact locator inside the original item.
Search and evidence
6 min
Publication is explicit
An object is not searchable simply because it exists. Each canonical and derived object carries a search-publication state, so an operator can tell whether material has been published to the search layer, is awaiting publication, or has been withheld. Nothing becomes discoverable as a side effect of processing.
Retrieval modes
The same published objects support several retrieval modes. Full-text search runs over canonical and derived text. Structured search filters typed fields in the envelope and in typed bodies. Identifier search matches the specific values that appear across sources. Time search uses the separated event, acquisition and transformation times. Geospatial search uses location observations where a place or coordinate is present.
Exact locators
Every result resolves to an exact position inside the original item. For a message that is the message body or a specific source message. For a document it is a page and paragraph. For a tabular import it is a row and column. For derived optical character recognition output it is a bounded region on a page. The locator is recorded at transformation time, which is what allows a citation to stay stable.
Optional semantic retrieval
Semantic retrieval can be enabled as an additional discovery signal. Vectors are treated as derived content, generated from canonical or derived text under recorded parameters. They help a user find candidate material that keyword search would miss. They are never the evidence: a citation always resolves back to the original object and its locator.
Key points
Objects carry a search-publication state, so what is searchable is always explicit.
Results resolve to exact locators: a message body, a page and paragraph, a row and column, or a bounded region.
Full-text, structured, identifier, time and geospatial retrieval modes run against the same published objects.
Optional semantic retrieval is a derived discovery signal. Evidence always resolves to the original.
Where this stops
Semantic retrieval helps a user find candidate material. It is not evidence. Citations resolve to the original object and the locator recorded at transformation time.
Next
See the behaviour on your own material.
An evaluation runs NERVE against an approved sample in your environment, with the originals retained and every transformation recorded.