Project 00 · Note on the Re-edition
What the 2007 Workshop Knew without Naming It — a Substantive Rereading of Project 00 in the Light of Processual Ontology
Conceived and directed by David Bories — Albi, France.
Written using generative artificial intelligence.
Version 0.1.1-en — June 2026
Translation produced by generative artificial intelligence, under the supervision of the author.
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Note on the Re-edition — Project 00, from 2007 to the Corpus
Note on the translation — This translation re-fixes the source text without displacing its substance. A few terms of the corpus have no obvious equivalent in English; the choices made, and how they are to be read, are set out in the section “Translation choices” at the end of the volume. This translation is not frozen: it will evolve with readers’ feedback and with the improvement of the means of translation. The French version is authoritative.
What This Note Is
The Quality and Activity Management System (SGQA) announces that a substantive rereading of its source is the object of a separate note: here it is. It replaces the old version of this document (Project 00 · v2026), which gave the whole matrix again — supply, making, distribution, inscriptions, indicators — whereas the SGQA now holds it alone and is authoritative. One will therefore no longer find the apparatus here: one will find its dated origin, the rereading that made it possible to re-edit it, and the exact listing of what the re-edition kept, de-dated, or left to the archives.
This note belongs to form: it documents a trajectory, it founds nothing. The substance belongs to the trilogy; the matrix belongs to the SGQA.
The Origin, Dated
In 2007, well before the ontology was formulated, an apparatus called SQA — Système Qualité Artisan (Artisan Quality System) was designed for a craft business in the Tarn (processing and cutting, a few people, several work sites). It was presented in ten presentation files — the business, the processes (supply, making, distribution), traceability, the management of internal flows, production data, the phases — and was taken as far as a trial phase.
Its structuring choices, as the files of 2007 fix them:
- Three flows running through the activity: the flow of the product (its circulation, its designations), the flow of the material (its distribution, its quantities), the flow of the data (their evolution, the batch). Three readings of the same real, held together.
- An internal batch number in the format
DD.MM.YY.NNN(the files give the example17.07.77.030): each batch carries its date of birth in its very identifier. - A traceability at two levels — basic and complete — connecting each outgoing product to its incoming materials.
- Cadence sheets setting the rhythm of recordings, indicators with tolerance limits triggering actions, a statistical process control (SPC).
- Seven phases of setting up, from presentation to autonomous functioning, and — in file 60 — five phases of evolution of the apparatus after its installation.
- Three sectors of record-keeping: accounting, production, quality.
The Substantive Rereading — What 2007 Handled without Naming It
The apparatus preceded, in practice, the ontology that today formulates its substance. The re-edition therefore did not plaster a theory onto a tool: it recognized in the tool the ground where the theory germinated, and reformulated it in the language it called for without possessing it. Term by term:
| What 2007 did | What the corpus says about it |
|---|---|
| Recording at each stage of the work | The act of inscription: the work on the material is accompanied by an inscription, and it is the reread succession of these inscriptions that makes the activity governable |
The internal batch
DD.MM.YY.NNN |
The canonical form of the act of inscription: the datum carries its date — its freshness can be read in its very name |
| The cadence sheets | The cadence of a flow of observation: the rhythm of the drawings makes up for the lapse of each one |
| Basic / complete traceability | The chain of traceability, and the reference corpus attached to the datum that circulates |
| The three flows (product, material, data) | Three canals on one and the same real: three regulated readings of one and the same activity |
| Indicators with tolerances, preventive actions | The read indicator: the indicator → action loop, which exists only if a situated reader closes it |
| SPC, deviating production | The freshness of readings: a dashboard that one no longer rereads is a trace, not steering |
| The presentation files themselves | The reader’s share made practicable: presenting the activity so that another can read it |
What the Re-edition De-dated
The generic base of the SGQA was obtained by removing from 2007 what was dated: the European approvals specific to the sector of the time became “the requirements specific to the activity”; the vocabulary of the original trade was made generic; the seven phases were kept but de-dated — an order of setting up, not a calendar. Nothing in the skeleton changed: the three processes, the thread of inscriptions, the dated batch, the cadence sheets, the indicators passed through as they were, renamed in the language of the corpus.
What the SGQA Extends
The SGQA takes up this base and carries it beyond 2007: it restores the five phases of evolution that file 60 provided for and that the first re-edition had left aside, and it opens what the local steering of 2007 did not aim at — pooling between structures. For all the rest, a simple rule: the matrix is authoritative in the SGQA. This note duplicates nothing of it; in the event of a gap between a memory of 2007 and the SGQA, it is the SGQA, dated and versioned, that settles.
Status and Archives
This note is form: revisable, dated, without authority over the substance. The ten files of 2007 remain what they are — archives of dated form: one does not correct them, one reads them as the testimony of a practice which, eighteen years before the trilogy, already held that the activity is governed by the reread succession of its inscriptions. The corpus did not invent this conviction; it gave it its reasons.
Note on the re-edition — v0.2.0, July 2026. A proposal to be validated by the author; it succeeds “Project 00 · v2026” (v0.1.1), whose sections duplicated with the SGQA are removed in favour of the reference above.
Translation choices
These notes say how to read the English words that render the terms of the corpus; they are fixed for the whole English translation by the Translation Charter of the Corpus.
- datum / data. The corpus treats the datum as an individual: constituted by an act, dated, carried by media. The translation therefore says datum in the singular and data as its plural.
- apparatus (dispositif): the management set-up of 2007 and of the SGQA; device keeps its everyday sense.
- drawing; lapse; freshness (prélèvement; péremption; fraîcheur): the gesture of drawing from the flow, the relation by which a datum goes stale for a use, and the proximity between the act and the present of the real. A trace is the mark the real leaves of itself, before any inscription.
- cadence sheet; batch (cadencier; lot): as in the SGQA. The batch template becomes DD.MM.YY.NNN; the example of the 2007 files is kept as it is.
- French names. The Système Qualité Artisan (SQA) keeps its French name, with an English rendering. SPC renders MSP (maîtrise statistique des procédés).
- Titles. Tried by the Flow renders À l’épreuve du flux; this volume is Project 00 · Note on the Re-edition; the Quality and Activity Management System is the SGQA.