About widapmeta
widapmeta serves as a neutral explanatory layer that documents how budgeting systems are described and maintained. It focuses on the language and structural signals that appear in budget records: how categories are named, how limits are shown, and how revisions are noted. The intent is to provide a clear interpretive map so readers can understand the form and meaning of entries without directing or advising on calculations or decisions. The content is descriptive and archival in tone, oriented toward clarity, consistency, and reproducibility across different record sources.
Scope and method
widapmeta documents naming conventions, symbol sets, and versioning formats. The method emphasizes lightweight, plain-text friendly patterns that remain legible when exported, copied, or displayed in different environments. Documentation includes canonical examples of headers, inline qualifiers, and revision tags. Emphasis is placed on minimalism: a small set of qualifiers and symbols is preferred to reduce ambiguity when interpreting records. The approach also describes safe nesting rules for annotations and guidance for preserving original text while adding contextual notes.
Standards and versioning
Documented standards include a compact version tag, a set of structural symbols, and minimal qualifier suffixes for scopes such as estimated or actual. The version tag format uses an ISO date and a revision ordinal to make provenance explicit. Revision chains are represented as concise logs that pair a version tag with a short explanatory note. The standards favor readability: tags and symbols are chosen to remain meaningful in plain text and in systems that do not preserve rich formatting. Where possible, guidance describes both human-readable patterns and simple machine-friendly encodings to support parsing without changing the original recorded text.