Continuing participant history

The primary research account connects preliminary material, home visits, object relations, event activity, later visits for each participant under the agreed scope. Researchers maintain a continuing reference while preserving sources, dates, contexts, revisions. This supports extensive comparison across modalities and time.

A returning participant may encounter a previous question, another visitor's response, news of their possession, a proposed activity. Researchers can use the person's wider history while interpreting a new contribution. The actual context available during a decision belongs in the record. Continuing representations explains the enrichment process.

Staff distinguish this working history from public identification, custody contact information, the material disclosed in a particular reply. Participants can review the account and its uses through review and permissions. Administrators explain the continuing reference and available correction or recovery procedures.

Alternatives include session-only accounts, object-specific histories, selected connections among visits. These narrower configurations remain explicit choices beside the primary cumulative account. Research, return visits, object memory describe the related operations.