{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/use-aliases-for-names-that-change-but-the-knowledge-object-does-not",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0694",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Use aliases for names that change but the knowledge object does not",
  "summary": "Names drift faster than the underlying need.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Keep old names, acronyms, translated terms or common misspellings as aliases on the canonical entry. Search should match the alias while the displayed title remains current. This is especially useful across migrations, rebrands and multilingual work.",
  "limits": [
    "Aliases should support retrieval, not merge concepts that actually changed meaning during the rename."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-personal-knowledge-refinding-and-maintenance"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-5525599D0E9B225A"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Information re-finding research distinguishes content search, browsing structures and contextual cues as different ways people relocate previously encountered information.",
      "source_id": "RS-5525599D0E9B225A",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The review is older and specific tools have changed; the retrieval-mode distinction remains the relevant claim.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A project, product or concept gets renamed and old vocabulary stops retrieving the current note."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Aliases should support retrieval, not merge concepts that actually changed meaning during the rename."
  ],
  "example": "A project renamed from Lautform to Ptichi keeps 'Lautform' as an alias so old notes and future searches still converge.",
  "check": "Searching an important prior name reaches the current knowledge object.",
  "steps": [
    "Searching an important prior name reaches the current knowledge object."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-5525599D0E9B225A",
      "title": "A survey on information re-finding techniques",
      "url": "https://www.emerald.com/ijwis/article-abstract/7/4/313/165143/A-survey-on-information-re-finding-techniques"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-5086A3A5AA1D243D",
      "title": "Keep knowledge so you can find, trust and reuse it later",
      "url": "/collections/keep-knowledge-so-you-can-find-trust-and-reuse-it-later"
    }
  ]
}