v0.6.3 · Fix Zenodo archive: invalid DataCite relation

Fix release: corrects the invalid DataCite relation that prevented v0.6.1 and v0.6.2 from archiving on Zenodo.

What went wrong with v0.6.1 / v0.6.2

Both prior releases were correctly received by Zenodo (HTTP 202 ack) but failed in async processing with:

{ \"errors\": \"Invalid value isinspiredby.\" }

The .zenodo.json file contained a related_identifiers entry with \"relation\": \"isInspiredBy\" — not a valid DataCite Schema 4.x relation value. Zenodo's strict DataCite validator rejected the entire deposit.

What was fixed

• .zenodo.json: relation: isInspiredBy → relation: references (the closest valid DataCite value for intellectual-debt acknowledgment without implying derivative authorship — important because nuwa-skill is MIT-licensed while this project is CC BY-NC 4.0; isDerivedFrom would create license-stacking interpretation problems that references avoids)
• CITATION.cff version bumped to 0.6.3 to match this release tag

This release is otherwise functionally identical to v0.6.0.

After this release

Once Zenodo finishes archiving (1–2 minutes), the repository will have a permanent DOI of the form 10.5281/zenodo.NNNNNNN. The README + CITATION.cff will then be updated with the DOI badge + identifiers field in a follow-up commit.

See v0.6.0 release notes for the CC BY-NC 4.0 license change. No functional changes since then.

v0.6.2 · Zenodo archive trigger (functionally identical to v0.6.1)

Trigger release for first Zenodo archive of this repository.

The previous v0.6.1 release was created shortly before the Zenodo↔GitHub toggle was flipped ON for this repository, so it was not picked up by Zenodo's archival pipeline. This v0.6.2 release is published purely to trigger that archive — functionally identical to v0.6.1 (same code, same metadata, just a version bump in CITATION.cff).

After Zenodo finishes archiving (1–2 min after this release), this repository will have a permanent DOI of the form 10.5281/zenodo.NNNNNNN that resolves to the v0.6.2 archive (with a version-agnostic Concept DOI that always points to the latest release).

See v0.6.0 release notes for the CC BY-NC 4.0 license change. No functional changes since then.

v0.6.1 · First Zenodo-archived release · DOI minting trigger

First Zenodo-archived release of this repository.

Functionally identical to v0.6.0 plus two new metadata files. The purpose of this release is to trigger the first Zenodo archive event for this repository, establishing a permanent DOI that can be cited in academic work.

Added

• CITATION.cff (Citation File Format 1.2.0) — machine-readable citation metadata. GitHub will auto-display a "Cite this repository" button in the right sidebar that exports BibTeX / APA / Chicago / etc.
• .zenodo.json — parallel metadata for Zenodo's archival pipeline.

Both files document:

• Author: Shen Cong (alias tizzy916), Tianyu Vision · MA, History of Science, Tsinghua University
• License: CC BY-NC 4.0
• Methodological inspiration acknowledgment to nuwa-skill with explicit notes distinguishing scholar-wendao's design departures (third-person default, perspective skill vs. persona, 5 honest-epistemics categories)

What this means for citation

Once Zenodo finishes archiving (typically 1–2 minutes after this release publishes), this repository will have a permanent DOI of the form 10.5281/zenodo.NNNNNNN. The DOI will be:

• Version-specific: each future release gets its own DOI (this one for v0.6.1)
• Concept-DOI: a version-agnostic DOI that always resolves to the latest release

Papers using this skill — or any perspective skill generated by it — can then cite:

Shen, C. (2026). Scholar-Wendao: A Framework for Distilling Scholar
Perspectives into Runnable Analytical Lenses (Version 0.6.1) [Software].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.NNNNNNN

See v0.6.0 release notes for the license change details. No functional / behavioral changes in this release.

v0.6.0 · License change to CC BY-NC 4.0

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE — license switch from MIT to CC BY-NC 4.0.

Versions ≤ v0.5.5 remain under MIT and retain their original commercial-use rights for those specific versions. From v0.6.0 onward, commercial use is prohibited without a separate license.

Why CC BY-NC 4.0

• Aligns with several skills in the ecosystem (academic-research-skills, humanities-writing-companion) that use the same license, simplifying license-stacking for combined use
• Reserves commercial rights for the author's own work (Tianyu Vision)
• Permits all non-commercial use: academic research, teaching, personal projects, open-source derivatives

What changed

• LICENSE: replaced MIT text with full CC BY-NC 4.0 legal code from creativecommons.org
• README.md / README_EN.md: license badge swapped; License section rewritten with change notice + Commercial Use subsection
• examples/aristotle-perspective/README.md + examples/stiegler-perspective/README.md: same badge + License section updates (perspective examples inherit the parent repo's license)

Companion repos

Sibling projects humanities-writing-companion also relicensed to CC BY-NC 4.0 (at its v3.0.0).

Commercial licensing

For inquiries: shencong916@gmail.com (Shen Cong · Tianyu Vision).

This is the current latest release.

v0.5.4 · Agent-agnostic positioning + paper-writing core use case

Standalone perspective skills + agent-agnostic framing.

Changed

• READMEs (main + both standalone perspective examples: Aristotle, Stiegler) synced to agent-agnostic positioning — works in Claude Code, Cursor, GPT (via Codex CLI), Gemini, custom agents, anywhere SKILL.md can be loaded into a system prompt.
• Paper-writing positioned as the core use case — scholar-wendao is built for humanities researchers writing papers who want to load a scholar's analytical lens into their workflow, not for casual "chat with X" use.
• Standalone perspective skills are now properly README'd to clone independently of the meta-skill: git clone https://github.com/tizzy916/aristotle-perspective.git etc.

License

This is the final v0.5.x release under MIT license. v0.6.0 relicenses to CC BY-NC 4.0.

See v0.6.0 release notes for the license change.

v0.5.0 · Traditional scholar support: lineages + multi-perspective

Major framework expansion: traditional (pre-modern, multi-reception) scholars now first-class.

Prior to v0.5, scholar-wendao was optimized for contemporary scholars (Stiegler, Yuk Hui, Latour, Haraway — recent or near-contemporary single-author corpora). v0.5 adds first-class support for traditional scholars (Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Kant, Hegel — pre-modern figures with multiple reception lineages over centuries).

What "traditional scholar" means

A scholar whose work has been read through multiple distinct interpretive traditions across history (e.g., Aristotle has the Scholastic / Arabic / Heideggerian / post-analytic lineages). The framework can no longer treat them as a single voice — it must produce multi-perspective analysis showing how each lineage reads the scholar differently.

Added

• Lineages as first-class concept — each traditional scholar has N reading lineages distilled, with their own concept maps, methodological commitments, and characteristic readings of the source.
• Multi-perspective output mode — when analyzing material with a traditional-scholar lens, the skill can output a fused single voice, OR show how each of N lineages would read it.
• scholar_type: traditional schema — meta-skill workflow branches by type at Phase 0.

Validated by

• v0.5.1 (Aristotle) — first traditional-scholar dogfood
• v0.5.2 (Stiegler reverse-upgrade) — proves framework is bidirectional (works for both contemporary and traditional scholars)

See CHANGELOG via git log for full history.