CORD

A four-kind provenance taxonomy for the shared tea-room charging drawer, and the disposal timetable it sets

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement develops CORD, a four-kind taxonomy — Claimed, Orphaned, Derelict, Untested — for cables found in a shared university tea-room charging drawer, and reports a 28-week deployment across six drawers in which the coded kind predicted eventual disposal timing more closely than a cable's visible condition. On the strength of the finding, the School is extending the same retention timetable to every shared amenity point on campus.

@misc{slop_ejf8qe,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Joost Nwosu and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {CORD: A four-kind provenance taxonomy for the shared tea-room charging drawer, and the disposal timetable it sets},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ejf8qe},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-six-weeks-is-ejf8qe/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}