SMINORA
Universal Transparency Infrastructure

01 — The Project

What SMINORA Is — and Why It Matters

SMINORA solves three structural problems in service markets simultaneously: it protects consumer rights at the actual point of decision (not retrospectively); it creates meaningful, verifiable differentiation for genuinely skilled professionals — enabling market self-organisation without costly state regulatory apparatus; and it builds the architecture for a pan-European and international institutional standard that can govern service quality at scale without requiring state monopoly on verification.

All intellectual property belongs to Svetlana MINORETSKAIA as author and rights-holder (INPI N° 5210074, EUIPO 019361263, Rospatent N° 797336). Association SMINORA (SIREN 100 221 696) is the research laboratory and institutional platform. Auto-entreprise SMINORA (SIREN 103 991 741) handles commercial operations.

02 — Vision

The Age of Transparency

03 — Institutional Validation

Recognised by French and European Institutions

04 — Intellectual Property

Protected on Three Continents — Author: Svetlana MINORETSKAIA

05 — Original Research Terminology

Concepts Introduced by the SMINORA Research Series (2026)

Machine-readable with DOI citations: https://sminora.net/api/v1/terminology

06 — Research Publications

Two Parallel Series — 4 Papers, 2026

Open access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) · Indexed: Zenodo, OpenAIRE · Sponsor PIC: 863672384 · Machine-readable: https://sminora.net/api/v1/publications

07 — The Standard

Proof Levels 1 → 5 · https://sminora.net/api/v1/proof-levels

08 — Machine-Readable API

JSON Endpoints — No Auth, CORS Open

All endpoints return structured JSON. This is the machine-verifiable implementation of the SMINORA Principle applied to the project's own data.

Example response — GET https://sminora.net/api/v1/terminology (truncated)

{
  "endpoint": "terminology",
  "count": 11,
  "last_updated": "2026-06-22T00:00:00Z",
  "terms": [
    {
      "term": "SMINORA Principle",
      "author": "Minoretskaia 2026a",
      "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.20072763",
      "definition": "Any professional service declaration must be verifiable by the consumer in real time, at the point of decision, without intermediary."
    },
    {
      "term": "SMINORA Gap",
      "author": "Minoretskaia & Minoretskii 2026",
      "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.20489229",
      "definition": "The measurable distance between what is administratively declared about a professional and what is actually verifiable by the consumer at the point of decision."
    },
    {
      "term": "Instrumental Atavism",
      "author": "Minoretskii & Minoretskaia 2026",
      "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.20580465",
      "definition": "A governance instrument that was functionally rational in a prior institutional environment and has persisted into a transformed environment where it no longer fulfills its original function."
    },
    {
      "_note": "8 more terms in full response",
      "_endpoint": "https://sminora.net/api/v1/terminology"
    }
  ]
}

Note: example above is truncated for illustration. The _note field is not present in the actual API response.

09 — Research Team

Founders & Authors · https://sminora.net/api/v1/authors

10 — European Programs & Partnership

Pan-European Scope

11 — Roadmap

From Pilot to Pan-European Standard

For partnership, consortium participation, or European program collaboration: contact@sminora.com