# Pond — permanent GIL Atom https://w3id.org/gil-next/atom/d393d6b4-3cd1-4e75-a3cb-eaf1d6478211. Generated by spine/gateway.sh from Raiden 6ec20810708f7b239079913bf45dbcd277be4bdf; not a source of record. PREFIX acx: PREFIX core: PREFIX dcat: PREFIX dct: PREFIX prov: PREFIX spine: dcat:version "v2.3.10"; prov:wasDerivedFrom . a core:ComponentLink; dct:references ; dct:subject ; dct:type core:MimirMeaning; "Candidate link from the permanent Pond Atom to this exact definition revision. Connected is source-link completeness only, not selection into Core."@en; prov:wasDerivedFrom ; core:connectionState core:Connected . a prov:Entity; dct:subject ; prov:wasDerivedFrom . a core:DefinitionRevision; dct:created "2026-10-16"^^; dct:isVersionOf ; dct:subject ; "Supersedes the codename v2 reading (logical candidate-lifecycle boundary; not a database or physical location) by the operator's Pond definition: a domain data-modeling system, not a container, a lifecycle state machine or a glyph."@en; "Pond is a persistent, domain-scoped semantic data model within GIL. It defines a domain's data boundaries, source-backed resources, relationships, lifecycle, and interfaces, using GIL Atoms and Molocules as its shared semantic vocabulary. A Pond may reference multiple physical stores, datasets, named RDF graphs, versioned records, and derived views without requiring those resources to be copied into one database. A Pond preserves the identities, provenance, lifecycle, and domain context of its resources. It does not independently confer Canon Standing, HOME, or operational authority. Atoms and Molocules may participate in zero, one, or many Ponds. Their semantic identities remain independent of Pond membership."@en; "Operator, 2026-10-16, verbatim: \"One of the most important things that the linkages that we could have with atoms is the link to their ponds, because that's where all the underlying data is going to be. That being said, not every atom or molecule will have a pond, but many will. This is kind of the main core stability component that atoms and molecules are going to be leaning on. If atoms and molecules are the definitional basis, then ponds are our actual modeling system for the domains of our underlying GILs' data.\""@en; "Pond Definition (a versioned model of a Pond's structure) and Pond instance (one domain's Pond) are separate resources; Atoms define things, Molocules define compositions, Ponds define and organize the data environments in which those semantics have source-backed meaning. Canon's admitted Leaf mdr:concept:pond records the notation rule \"πX is X's pond\" (D-ANANKE-005); under this definition π is the versioned notation associated with Pond and a π composition does not by itself establish Pond membership, data ownership or authority (membership is an explicit, evidenced relationship of a Pond instance). That divergence is flagged for Canon, not changed there."@en; prov:wasDerivedFrom , ; prov:wasRevisionOf . a core:AtomIdentity; dct:conformsTo ; dct:isPartOf ; "Pond"@en; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-10-16T06:36:10Z"^^; prov:wasDerivedFrom ; , .