• Proceedings can be a queryable scholarly corpus on the day they are published rather than a folder of disconnected files. • Reviews and programme-committee discussions can point to exact elements rather than temporary page and line numbers. • Machine-checkable reference lists can help identify missing, malformed, or unusual citation patterns before manual review. • Shared concepts, citations, and work relationships can support conference-level maps of themes and scholarly connections. • Reference datasets, commentary layers, or proceedings-wide navigation can be distributed alongside the immutable publications rather than baked into each paper.