# Facts

Canonical URL: https://grounding-map.com/facts/
Status: experimental v0.1

The /facts/ directory is the Grounding Map Directory and Grounding Map Index Page for grounding-map.com.

A Grounding Map is a directory-based index layer that connects a website's Grounding Pages, explanatory articles, evidence pages and machine-readable resources.

Grounding Pages in this map:
- https://grounding-map.com/facts/grounding-map/
  Grounding Page for the Grounding Map concept.
- https://grounding-map.com/facts/marc-de-boer/
  Grounding Page for Marc de Boer as initiator and maintainer.

Reference implementation:
- https://marcdeboer.de/fakten/
  First external reference implementation used to derive Specification v0.1.
- https://marcdeboer.de/fakten/grounding-map/
  External Grounding Page for the Grounding Map concept.
- https://marcdeboer.de/blog/grounding-map/
  Editorial explanation of the Grounding Map concept.

Machine-readable resources:
- https://grounding-map.com/llms.txt
- https://grounding-map.com/facts.md.txt
- https://grounding-map.com/facts/grounding-map.md.txt
- https://grounding-map.com/facts/marc-de-boer.md.txt
- https://grounding-map.com/assets/schema/grounding-map.schema.json
- https://grounding-map.com/assets/templates/grounding-map-template.json
- https://grounding-map.com/assets/examples/marcdeboer-grounding-map-example.json

Boundaries:
- Specification v0.1 is experimental.
- This project does not claim external adoption, certification, ranking impact or measured outcomes.
- marcdeboer.de/fakten/ is a public reference implementation, not proof that the model is broadly established.