These figures count this recovery snapshot — what had been recovered from the Zenodo corpus by 19 June 2026. They are not the severance count, and the two do not disagree; they measure different things.
| 862 | deposit records removed at the repository layer, 2026-06-19 |
| 1,817 | DOIs registered through DataCite across them (concept + version layers) |
| 946 | of those 1,817 still findable |
| 871 | keys in the founding-case capture set — 3 malformed truncations, leaving 868 well-formed severed DOIs |
871 is used twice in this archive with different units: works recovered here, and DOI capture keys on persistentidentifiers.org. Same number, different quantity.
The figure previously shown as “DOIs Destroyed” was 6,596. That is the sum of per-row DOI lists, not a count of DOIs — 769 of the 993 distinct DOIs appear on more than one row, and one row lists 386. The distinct figure is 993.
Sources: Zenodotus’ Book-Burning (deposit #1, v9.1) · PID Erosion Observatory.