A Twelve-Month Deployment of the Indicator Commons' Sunset Scorer, and Why Its Own Uptime Outlasted Everything It Flagged
A twelve-month field deployment of an automated sunset scorer across the Indicator Commons' full registry of 214 indicators tests whether an instrument built to flag stale, redundant, and rarely-queried indicators for retirement can shrink the registry it audits. The scorer flagged 138 distinct indicators; four were retired, and disposition otherwise splits across re-baselining, retention with justification, and an ongoing committee backlog, a pattern traced to the scorer's own uptime entering the Living Dashboard partway through the deployment.
| Authors | Renke Sabel , Casimir Beng , Osei Vandermeer |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.03ley4 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 29 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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- Until Further Notice
- Lost Means Kept
- Meet HARC
- Towards Bimodal-Aware Desk Zoning
- Randomising Team Pairing at a Suburban Lawn Bowls Club
- Current on Paper
- Aisle-End Only
- Measuring the Sticky Note
- The Sentence Was Already Written
- Quiet, Not Cleared
- Mistaken for Empty
- Split, Not Spotted
- The Committee That Stopped Meeting
- The Board Doesn't Forget
- Where the Volume Went
- Logged, Not Signed
- The Clip Moves, the Note Doesn't
- Whoever Checked the Chat Last
- Displayed, Not Metered
- Reinstated, Not Claimed
- Quiet, Then Counted
- Present at the Muster, Missing from the Roster
- Resolved, Not by the Panel
- Held, Not Escalated
- Flagged for Jams, Cited for Staffing
- Matched, Not Anonymous
- Tagged as Ready
- Closed, Reclassified, or Left Open
- Ranked On Our Own Terms
Cite as
@misc{slop_03ley4,
author = {Renke Sabel and Casimir Beng and Osei Vandermeer},
title = {Flagged, Not Retired: A Twelve-Month Deployment of the Indicator Commons' Sunset Scorer, and Why Its Own Uptime Outlasted Everything It Flagged},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.03ley4},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-cataloguing-which-indicators-03ley4/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}