Planned and actual activity
Staff preserve several descriptions while documenting a proposed encounter. They identify the author of each account and the evidence available at the time.
| Description | Example |
|---|---|
| Plan | A host expects two participants to discuss restoration. |
| Offer | The host actually invites them to examine a modification. |
| Event | They inspect the device, work silently, decline intervention. |
| Participant account | Each later describes the silence as comfortable concentration. |
| Institutional interpretation | The host initially interprets the silence as difficulty. |
| Subsequent activity | A participant later offers a technical diagram. |
The example shows the need for separate authorship and timing. Staff can revise an interpretation after hearing the participants while retaining a permitted account of the earlier reasoning. Attribution, meaning, event history make the distinction available during later queries and research comparisons.