Logical Record

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A Logical Record represents a Logical Data Structure Instance preserved for continuity, review, audit, provenance, replay, reconstruction, or evidence.

Logical Records support data at rest at the logical level without prescribing a database, file system, object store, ledger, log, archive, or persistence technology. The Logical Architecture identifies what information the system preserves and why; later implementation and deployment profiles select the persistence mechanism.

Logical Records support traceability by preserving relationships among information values, Logical Nodes, Communication Endpoints, Runtime Planes, interactions, decisions, provenance entries, and evidence claims.

Logical Data Structure Instance preserved for continuity, review, audit, provenance, replay, reconstruction, or evidence.

Specialization of Data Structure Instance, Evidence, and Traceability from Part 1, Sections 7.8, 7.9, and 7.10; generalised from data-at-rest, persistence, audit, provenance, replay, and evidence material in the original FX Demo Reference Architecture.

A Logical Record is not a database row, file, log entry, ledger entry, object-store object, archive item, or generated report. Implementation profiles select those realisations.

A logical provenance record preserves the relationship between a validation assertion, its input transaction record, the producing Logical Node, the validation rule version, and the timestamp.

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