Registered sampling protocol and candidate draw for a software citation metadata consistency audit

Registered sampling protocol and candidate draw for the study "A Multi-Surface Consistency Audit of Software Citation Metadata" (Pengyin Shan, arXiv:2608.17159). Contains the preregistration (preregistration.json), the ranked candidate windows for both baseline strata (candidates_joss.csv, candidates_pyopensci.csv), and the exclusion log (exclusions_log.csv).Registered draw: seed 202608121338, executed by baseline-sampler v0.1.0, commit 64b979e5295f2a9e6ae3ff9ab91bd390bf9b075a (https://github.com/pengyin-shan/baseline-sampler). Sampling frames retrieved 2026-08-12; preregistration written 2026-08-12 21:08 UTC. This deposit was created before any eligibility probing; its timestamp precedes the acceptance log.Restricted until the preprint is posted; opened under CC-BY-4.0 at publication. Related records: pipeline 10.5281/zenodo.21969695; data 10.5281/zenodo.21969769.