Artifacts

What counts as an artifact?

An artifact is any inspectable object produced in the course of scientific inquiry that enables understanding, critique, or replication.

Artifacts are inputs to knowledge, not just outputs. They make reasoning, evidence, and uncertainty visible rather than compressed into opaque claims.

Hosting scope. hbar.science does not host large, executable, or continuously evolving research assets. Instead, it curates metadata, structure, and durable links to externally hosted artifacts (e.g., code repositories, datasets, notebooks), preserving inspectability while avoiding duplication or version drift.

Artifact types

All artifacts on hbar.science are classified under one of the following canonical types:

• Algorithm — a formally specified procedure, update rule, or method; the intellectual artifact independent of any particular implementation
• Code — executable or inspectable implementations, scripts, or pipelines
• Dataset — raw or generated data used for analysis or evaluation
• Analysis — derived results such as simulations, benchmarks, parameter sweeps, or evaluation outputs
• Protocol — formally specified procedures defining how experiments, simulations, or evaluations are conducted
• Model / Framework — conceptual or mathematical structures with explicit assumptions and scope
• Tool / Application — an interactive interface (web app, CLI, dashboard) that enables use, exploration, or presentation of a scientific object; typically has a deployed URL and source link
• Collection / Bundle — a structured index pointing to multiple related artifacts (e.g., thesis + app + pipelines), used to present a coherent project while keeping sub-artifacts independently inspectable

These categories are intentionally minimal and stable.

Specific implementations (e.g., notebooks, benchmarks, proof sketches) are treated as instances of these types, not as separate categories.

Note: "Paper" and "Essay" are formats, not canonical artifact types. A paper is typically a model or analysis artifact with an associated publication link. An essay is a synthesis artifact in the Synthesis zone.

See also: Method