MTCS-R Release Package
SF0004 / Synthience Institute
Author: Thomas W. Gantz
Affiliation: Synthience Institute
Contact: research@synthience.org
License: CC-BY 4.0 (see LICENSE.txt)
Canonical record: synthience.org

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FILES
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1. SF0004_MTCS-R.pdf
   Role: Primary instrument specification (PDF, deposited form).
   Description: Multi-Turn Coherence Scale, Revised (MTCS-R).
                Construct definition, behavioral anchors, validation
                pathway, reporting standards, references.
   Format: PDF (Word and Markdown source forms available at the
           canonical record on synthience.org).
   License: CC-BY 4.0

2. MTCS-R_Rater_Training_Packet.docx
   Role: Companion rater training material.
   Description: Dimension definitions, behavioral anchor reference
                tables, scoring guidelines, three annotated example
                transcripts with reference scores and rationale,
                calibration discussion guide, reference materials.
   Format: DOCX (Microsoft Word)
   License: CC-BY 4.0

3. MTCS-R_Scoring_Template.xlsx
   Role: Workbook for entering dimension scores, notes, composite
         scores, and simple observed agreement.
   Description: Three-sheet Excel workbook (Scoring Form, Dimension
                Anchors, Reliability). The Reliability sheet
                computes simple observed agreement only; for
                ICC(2,k) and Krippendorff's alpha, use the R script
                in the Code Examples archive.
   Format: XLSX (Microsoft Excel)
   License: CC-BY 4.0

4. MTCS-R-Code-Examples.zip
   Role: Computational examples and reliability calculation tools.
   Description: Sentence-embedding-based semantic drift analysis
                (Python script and Jupyter notebook), perplexity
                trajectory analysis (Python), inter-rater reliability
                calculation including ICC(2,k) and Krippendorff's
                alpha (R), sample data files for demonstration.
   Format: ZIP archive
   License: CC-BY 4.0 for original code; third-party software
            dependencies under their own licenses (see archive
            requirements.txt and README.md for details)

5. README_FIRST.md
   Role: Orientation document.
   Description: Pre-validation framing requirements (must be read
                before opening the paper), recommended use order,
                package inventory, citation format. Designed to
                make framing requirements unavoidable.
   Format: Markdown
   License: CC-BY 4.0

6. MANIFEST.txt
   Role: This file. Inventory of deposit contents.
   Format: Plain text
   License: CC-BY 4.0

7. LICENSE.txt
   Role: License statement for the deposit package.
   Format: Plain text
   License: text describes CC-BY 4.0 application to the package

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VERSIONS AND CANONICAL RECORD
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Companion files in this package do not embed paper version
numbers. The paper itself is versioned. The current version of
the paper, the canonical DOI, and any release notes are
maintained at:

  synthience.org

The Zenodo deposit also displays the current version DOI and
concept DOI for the paper. Companion files should be used with
the version of the paper available at the canonical record at
the time of use.

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PRE-VALIDATION STATUS
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This package is a pre-validation specification. MTCS-R has not
yet undergone Phase 1 reliability testing or Phase 2 factor
structure validation. See SF0004 Section 10 for the full
pre-validation status statement and README_FIRST.md for the
framing requirements that follow from it.