Research Dataset on Recursive Verification Logic in China’s Higher Education Digitalisation Governance: Policy Documents, Documentary Relationships, and Provision-Level Adjudication Data (2012–2026)

The corpus covers the period from 2012 to 2026 and comprises 82 national, Henan provincial, and university-level policy and institutional documents, including materials from Zhengzhou University and Anyang Institute of Technology. The deposited materials include archival copies of the 82 source documents, a complete corpus register, a classification register of 107 documentary relationships, 79 eligible provision-level verification sequences, a source audit of 316 evidence-anchor cells, a re-adjudication log, a data dictionary, quality-assurance records, and reproducibility materials.Documents are treated as source units, while substantively comparable provisions constitute the units of inference.

Each eligible sequence is adjudicated across three analytically separable components of RVL: C1, Verification Translation, which concerns the conversion, retention, or further specification of weakly observable educational goals into institutionally authorised forms of proof; C2, Proof Responsibility, which concerns the organisational allocation of responsibility for producing, validating, maintaining, aggregating, or transmitting authorised evidence; and C3, Recursive Re-entry, which concerns whether proof products themselves become formal inputs into subsequent evaluation, remediation, planning, responsibility tracking, resource allocation, or renewed evidentiary specification.The final locked analytical funnel is: 82 documents → 107 mapped documentary relationships → 49 R1/R2 candidate relationships → 48 relationships yielding eligible provision-level comparison → 79 eligible sequences.