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RMP.4:4.1 - Name the examination and choose the entry

State what someone is trying to examine. They may need to understand an exclusion, test whether a comparison was actually made, inspect an interpretation’s grounding, or recover the inputs behind a reported computation. Identify the bounded question, design and material at issue.

A final claim is not a prerequisite. During preparation, the examination can concern whether the planned comparison was carried out or whether the forthcoming analysis has the material it needs. Preserve that intended use without inventing a result or ClaimCandidate. When a result is later supplied, connect its actual uses to the retained material.

Choose the entry that fits the work:

  • Planned or ongoing work: recover the question/design and operational choices; identify what would be lost unless captured now; arrange and maintain the actual records.
  • Existing or inherited work: begin with the receiving question, claimed result if any, and surviving original records. Recover the design, protocol and conduct only as far as those records support them.

RMP.1–RMP.3 can supply missing question, design or operational decisions. Direct entry is appropriate when compatible inputs already exist. In a legacy inquiry, uncertainty about an earlier design is part of the account, not permission to attribute a newly written protocol to earlier researchers.

Bound the package by the examination. Name which study portion, source set, encounters, specimens or computation it covers and the relevant period or version. If the receiving use changes, reconsider whether the preserved material is sufficient for that new use.