Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
AODM, a markup language for facts that carry receipts
FucaSpark presents AODM, an open data-markup specification for giving claims a source, confidence level, validity window, and derivation history.
Why it surfacedThe project includes a generator, browser validator, reference parsers, documentation, and a free Apache 2.0 download. Its central promise is unusually concrete: make data easier for AI systems to cite without losing where a claim came from or when it expires.
Continue into the edition
Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.