{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.wm-org-009","code":"wm-org-009-public-office","url":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-org-009-public-office/","name":"Public Office","alternateNames":["A11"],"kind":"world-model","status":"published","version":"0.3.0-reviewable-draft","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"World Models","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"entity","plane":"","domain":["SOC.ORG.OFF"],"industry":["Cross-industry"],"navPath":"NAV.SOC.ORG.OFF","tags":["public","office","soc.org.off"],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"One jurisdiction-qualified office instance, possibly vacant or jointly held, with stable identity across holder changes. The root is a position of public authority, not its incumbent, employing body, building, election or register. Office-specific assertions link to separate person, institution and legal-record masters. Local records describe evidence and uncertainty; they do not create public powers or determine legal validity.","purpose":"Describe one enduring public office, its evidenced authority and its qualified links to holders, tenure and accountability records.","scope":{"in":["Office identity, classification, establishing basis, body and territory references, nonphysical properties and continuity","Office-specific competence assertions, selection and tenure links, vacancy and acting arrangements with temporal evidence","Applicable accountability duties, declaration and oversight references, restricted views, provenance and authorized record maintenance"],"out":["Person biographies, employment/payroll, institution governance, election administration, lawmaking and general legal-document masters","Making appointments, removing holders, exercising or delegating powers, issuing sanctions or deciding the validity of official acts","A universal definition of public official, a complete national office register, or an executable legal-authority engine"],"boundaries":[{"neighbor":"WM-ORG-004 Position","distinction":"Conceptual specialization candidate only. This root adds public-law basis and office-specific context without ratifying generic Position inheritance or duplicating its operational machinery."},{"neighbor":"WM-PER-001 Person and tenure relationship","distinction":"A person is externally mastered; tenure is a separately identified qualified link, not a second person master. Office identity survives succession and vacancy."},{"neighbor":"WM-POL-016 Public Authority / Institution","distinction":"The body containing or supporting an office is externally referenced. The legacy self-reference for the branch body is rejected; a post is not automatically the institution itself."},{"neighbor":"WM-POL-003 Election and WM-ORG-007 Mandate / Charter","distinction":"Election outcomes and competence instruments are referenced, not authored or validated here. Nomination, election, appointment and assumption of duties can have different effects."},{"neighbor":"WM-POL-013 Registry Mandate","distinction":"A mandate may govern an adopting register; it does not make every office record or declaration public. Public projections require an evidenced disclosure rule."}]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Unlike WM-ORG-004 Position: Conceptual specialization candidate only. This root adds public-law basis and office-specific context without ratifying generic Position inheritance or duplicating its operational machinery.","Unlike WM-PER-001 Person and tenure relationship: A person is externally mastered; tenure is a separately identified qualified link, not a second person master. Office identity survives succession and vacancy.","Unlike WM-POL-016 Public Authority / Institution: The body containing or supporting an office is externally referenced. The legacy self-reference for the branch body is rejected; a post is not automatically the institution itself.","Unlike WM-POL-003 Election and WM-ORG-007 Mandate / Charter: Election outcomes and competence instruments are referenced, not authored or validated here. Nomination, election, appointment and assumption of duties can have different effects.","Unlike WM-POL-013 Registry Mandate: A mandate may govern an adopting register; it does not make every office record or declaration public. Public projections require an evidenced disclosure rule."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"bundle-foundation","name":"Office identity and basis","description":"Establish the enduring subject and its qualified legal context.","layers":[{"id":"layer-identity","name":"Office identity","description":"Resolve one office independently of holders, titles and physical premises. Seat or joint-office granularity must be explicit; neither a name match nor a shared holder authorizes merging records.","findings":[{"id":"finding-identity","name":"Persistent office and aliases","description":"Resolve one office independently of holders, titles and physical premises. Seat or joint-office granularity must be explicit; neither a name match nor a shared holder authorizes merging records.","questions":[{"text":"Which qualified master identifier resolves this office and its historical aliases?","id":"q-identity-1","kind":"identity"},{"text":"Does the record denote a single seat, a joint office or an office class, and what distinguishes it from a body or person?","id":"q-identity-2","kind":"classification"},{"text":"What evidence supports continuity when a title or identifier changes?","id":"q-identity-3","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"layer-basis","name":"Establishment and profile","description":"Bind the office to a cited establishment basis and adopting jurisdiction profile. Constitutional, statutory or other recognized bases require evidence; creation by a new enactment is not universal. Keep uncertain existence claims reviewable.","findings":[{"id":"finding-basis","name":"Office existence and legal context","description":"Bind the office to a cited establishment basis and adopting jurisdiction profile. Constitutional, statutory or other recognized bases require evidence; creation by a new enactment is not universal. Keep uncertain existence claims reviewable.","questions":[{"text":"Which instrument or recognized legal basis establishes this office under the applicable profile?","id":"q-basis-1","kind":"authority"},{"text":"When is that basis asserted to take effect, change or cease, and at what time precision?","id":"q-basis-2","kind":"temporal"},{"text":"Which evidence and reviewer support the current existence status?","id":"q-basis-3","kind":"evidence"}]}]}]},{"id":"bundle-authority","name":"Context and authority","description":"Locate the office within institutions and bounded competence assertions.","layers":[{"id":"layer-context","name":"Institution and territorial context","description":"Keep public body, constituency, jurisdiction, site and contact references distinct. A geographical area describes context; it does not by itself prove territorial competence or supply physical measurements for this abstract office.","findings":[{"id":"finding-context","name":"Body and area relationships","description":"Keep public body, constituency, jurisdiction, site and contact references distinct. A geographical area describes context; it does not by itself prove territorial competence or supply physical measurements for this abstract office.","questions":[{"text":"Which institution contains or supports the office during the relevant interval?","id":"q-context-1","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which jurisdiction or constituency is associated with the office, and is it different from its working site?","id":"q-context-2","kind":"spatial"},{"text":"Which labels and official contact channels describe the office without exposing private holder contacts?","id":"q-context-3","kind":"definition"}]}]},{"id":"layer-powers","name":"Competence and constraints","description":"Record sourced competence and limitation assertions with dates and context. A title, reporting edge or directory entry cannot prove permission to act. Delegation is a referenced instrument with bounded scope, not an inferred transfer of all powers.","findings":[{"id":"finding-powers","name":"Qualified authority assertions","description":"Record sourced competence and limitation assertions with dates and context. A title, reporting edge or directory entry cannot prove permission to act. Delegation is a referenced instrument with bounded scope, not an inferred transfer of all powers.","questions":[{"text":"Which functions may the office perform according to the cited authority profile?","id":"q-powers-1","kind":"authority"},{"text":"Which exclusions, consent requirements or joint-action conditions limit an asserted power?","id":"q-powers-2","kind":"constraint"},{"text":"What evidence bounds an alleged delegation and distinguishes it from acting appointment or ordinary reporting?","id":"q-powers-3","kind":"authority"}]}]}]},{"id":"bundle-holding","name":"Selection and holding","description":"Connect separately mastered people to evidenced assumption and tenure assertions.","layers":[{"id":"layer-selection","name":"Selection and assumption","description":"Reference selection, appointment, election or ex officio basis separately from assumption of duties. Qualification, approval, oath or affirmation requirements are profile-dependent; a missing document means unknown, not automatic invalidity.","findings":[{"id":"finding-selection","name":"Evidence of taking office","description":"Reference selection, appointment, election or ex officio basis separately from assumption of duties. Qualification, approval, oath or affirmation requirements are profile-dependent; a missing document means unknown, not automatic invalidity.","questions":[{"text":"Which selection route and competent authority are asserted for this holder link?","id":"q-selection-1","kind":"process"},{"text":"Which eligibility or assumption conditions apply, and what evidence addresses each?","id":"q-selection-2","kind":"requirement"},{"text":"Which observed events distinguish nomination, appointment and assumption of duties?","id":"q-selection-3","kind":"event"}]}]},{"id":"layer-tenure","name":"Tenure and holder links","description":"Give every tenure assertion its own stable identifier. Holder, office and dates are attributes rather than a composite identity. Preserve joint or competing claims and unknown ends without deciding precedence from recency alone.","findings":[{"id":"finding-tenure","name":"Qualified holding intervals","description":"Give every tenure assertion its own stable identifier. Holder, office and dates are attributes rather than a composite identity. Preserve joint or competing claims and unknown ends without deciding precedence from recency alone.","questions":[{"text":"Which independently identified tenure assertion links which person to this office?","id":"q-tenure-1","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"What actual and expected boundaries apply to the holding interval, including uncertainty?","id":"q-tenure-2","kind":"temporal"},{"text":"How are concurrent holders or competing tenure claims distinguished for the requested date?","id":"q-tenure-3","kind":"exception"}]}]}]},{"id":"bundle-continuity","name":"Vacancy and continuity","description":"Describe temporary coverage and evidenced change without inventing legal effects.","layers":[{"id":"layer-vacancy","name":"Vacancy and acting arrangements","description":"Office existence, occupancy and exercise of particular duties are separate states. Evidence can indicate vacant, unknown, disputed or temporarily covered status. A database gap is not proof of vacancy, and acting authority need not fill the substantive office.","findings":[{"id":"finding-vacancy","name":"Continuity without a substantive holder","description":"Office existence, occupancy and exercise of particular duties are separate states. Evidence can indicate vacant, unknown, disputed or temporarily covered status. A database gap is not proof of vacancy, and acting authority need not fill the substantive office.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence distinguishes a vacant office from missing or disputed occupancy data?","id":"q-vacancy-1","kind":"state"},{"text":"Which instrument supports temporary performance of duties and with what limits?","id":"q-vacancy-2","kind":"authority"},{"text":"How does a holder lookup expose temporary or contested status without certifying legal capacity?","id":"q-vacancy-3","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"layer-change","name":"Change and cessation","description":"Separate tenure ending from office abolition and from correction of a record. Renaming, merger or reorganization may require a successor reference rather than identity reuse. Do not infer automatic legal effects on prior acts.","findings":[{"id":"finding-change","name":"Office and tenure transitions","description":"Separate tenure ending from office abolition and from correction of a record. Renaming, merger or reorganization may require a successor reference rather than identity reuse. Do not infer automatic legal effects on prior acts.","questions":[{"text":"Which evidenced event ended or changed a particular tenure while leaving the office identity intact?","id":"q-change-1","kind":"lifecycle"},{"text":"What basis supports retirement, abolition or succession of the office itself?","id":"q-change-2","kind":"lifecycle"},{"text":"How is a retrospective correction distinguished from the historical event it describes?","id":"q-change-3","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"bundle-accountability","name":"Accountability and disclosure","description":"Track duty references and audience-specific information controls.","layers":[{"id":"layer-duties","name":"Integrity obligations","description":"Record which duty profile applies and references to evidence or oversight records. Scope may depend on capacity, jurisdiction and dates. Declaration absence, an allegation or a data inconsistency does not establish misconduct.","findings":[{"id":"finding-duties","name":"Applicable accountability duties","description":"Record which duty profile applies and references to evidence or oversight records. Scope may depend on capacity, jurisdiction and dates. Declaration absence, an allegation or a data inconsistency does not establish misconduct.","questions":[{"text":"Which integrity, incompatibility or recusal rules apply to this office and tenure?","id":"q-duties-1","kind":"requirement"},{"text":"Which filing or recusal evidence is linked to each assessed obligation?","id":"q-duties-2","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"Which competent oversight decision, if any, resolves a disputed compliance assertion?","id":"q-duties-3","kind":"decision"}]}]},{"id":"layer-disclosure","name":"Declarations and permitted views","description":"Keep accountability metadata separate from declaration contents and private details. Public access requires a specific disclosure basis; restricted fields and third-party information remain protected. This model records a view decision but never publishes automatically.","findings":[{"id":"finding-disclosure","name":"Disclosure boundaries","description":"Keep accountability metadata separate from declaration contents and private details. Public access requires a specific disclosure basis; restricted fields and third-party information remain protected. This model records a view decision but never publishes automatically.","questions":[{"text":"Which audience may access each declaration or office-record field under which rule?","id":"q-disclosure-1","kind":"access"},{"text":"What redactions or data-minimization controls apply to holder and third-party details?","id":"q-disclosure-2","kind":"privacy"},{"text":"Which accountable custodian approves and reviews the permitted public projection?","id":"q-disclosure-3","kind":"ownership"}]}]}]},{"id":"bundle-stewardship","name":"Stewardship and interchange","description":"Preserve evidence, retention decisions and semantic qualifiers across projections.","layers":[{"id":"layer-stewardship","name":"Evidence and record stewardship","description":"Maintain source-linked office assertions with integrity checks and lawful correction/disposal controls. Digests detect byte changes but do not authenticate legal authority. Retention and access policies are adopter requirements, not treaty-derived storage periods.","findings":[{"id":"finding-stewardship","name":"Assertion integrity and retention","description":"Maintain source-linked office assertions with integrity checks and lawful correction/disposal controls. Digests detect byte changes but do not authenticate legal authority. Retention and access policies are adopter requirements, not treaty-derived storage periods.","questions":[{"text":"Which source version, assessor and observation support each current office assertion?","id":"q-stewardship-1","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which approved retention, hold and disposal rules apply to each local record class?","id":"q-stewardship-2","kind":"retention"},{"text":"Which contradictions or stale references require review before an office record is reused?","id":"q-stewardship-3","kind":"quality"}]}]},{"id":"layer-exchange","name":"Interchange and acceptance","description":"Align office and tenure concepts selectively to ORG and Popolo. Direct current-holder shortcuts can lose temporal or dispute qualifiers. Conversion requires versioned mappings and explicit refusal where the target cannot retain essential meaning.","findings":[{"id":"finding-exchange","name":"Qualified projections and losses","description":"Align office and tenure concepts selectively to ORG and Popolo. Direct current-holder shortcuts can lose temporal or dispute qualifiers. Conversion requires versioned mappings and explicit refusal where the target cannot retain essential meaning.","questions":[{"text":"Which mapping version carries office and tenure identities into the target profile?","id":"q-exchange-1","kind":"interoperability"},{"text":"Which authority, time, privacy or dispute qualifiers would a projection lose?","id":"q-exchange-2","kind":"exception"},{"text":"Which acceptance cases demonstrate that vacancy, joint holding and disputed succession survive the mapping?","id":"q-exchange-3","kind":"validation"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Resolve an office reference: Proposed operation, not implemented. Resolve a qualified office identifier and aliases without merging by title, holder or site.","Record an office-basis assertion: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link existing establishment or competence evidence with review status; cannot create an office or grant a power.","Link a tenure assertion: Proposed operation, not implemented. Record independently identified holder and interval evidence, retaining competing assertions; cannot appoint or remove anyone.","Inspect occupancy at a time: Proposed operation, not implemented. Return qualified holder candidates and vacancy, acting, stale or disputed status. Absence of data returns unknown, not vacant.","Record accountability evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link a duty to filing or oversight evidence, preserving allegation versus determination and restricted contents.","Prepare an authorized office projection: Proposed operation, not implemented. Build a local recipient-scoped view with mapping and redaction records. Refuse unsupported loss of time, authority or dispute qualifiers."],"mustNot":["Local deletion cannot abolish an office, erase a tenure's legal effect, remove an external master record or invalidate an official act.","Deny access to unclassified payloads; expose only a custodian-approved public or role-specific view grounded in applicable rules.","Exceptional oversight access requires specific authority and purpose; it never becomes a permanent public grant."],"requiresHuman":["Public title data does not open declarations or person masters."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Approve audience-specific projections, redaction and privacy review","Jurisdiction-specific office definitions, tenure rules, delegation powers, judicial independence, records law, accessibility, privacy and disclosure need qualified adoption review."],"affectedParties":[]},"owners":{"steward":"Accountable public register custodian and evidence of stewardship mandate, separate from appointing authority and holder","roles":[{"name":"Register custodian","responsibilities":["Maintain namespace, stewardship mandate and approved record policy"]},{"name":"Authority reviewer","responsibilities":["Assess establishment, capacity and jurisdiction-profile evidence without automated legal adjudication"]},{"name":"Evidence editor","responsibilities":["Record attributed links and preserve competing assertions under approved access"]},{"name":"Disclosure reviewer","responsibilities":["Approve audience-specific projections, redaction and privacy review"]},{"name":"Records steward","responsibilities":["Apply retention schedules, legal holds and authorized payload disposal"]},{"name":"Read-only auditor","responsibilities":["Inspect permitted provenance, conflicts and review decisions"]}],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"WM-ORG-004","type":"aligned","note":"Candidate Position alignment; boundary and version must be pinned before integration, with no assumed inheritance."},{"target":"WM-PER-001","type":"references","note":"Holder and witness person masters when applicable; do not duplicate biography, identity proofing or person lifecycle."},{"target":"WM-POL-016","type":"references","note":"Candidate body reference with external institution identity and governance. Replaces the erroneous legacy body self-reference conceptually."},{"target":"WM-ORG-007","type":"references","note":"Candidate authority-instrument binding; competence is an evidenced assertion, not inferred from linking this model."},{"target":"WM-POL-003","type":"references","note":"Optional election outcome reference for elected offices; no election administration or assumed mandate validity."},{"target":"WM-POL-013","type":"references","note":"Optional adopting register mandate governing access and stewardship; no universal public-register requirement."},{"target":"https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/","type":"aligned","note":"Conceptual Post and Membership alignment; target mapping requires temporal and capacity qualifiers."},{"target":"https://www.popoloproject.com/specs/","type":"aligned","note":"Candidate civic interchange with explicit membership-mediated holding; release pin and loss tests remain outstanding."},{"target":"WM-ORG-004 Position","type":"neighbor","note":"Conceptual specialization candidate only. This root adds public-law basis and office-specific context without ratifying generic Position inheritance or duplicating its operational machinery."},{"target":"WM-PER-001 Person and tenure relationship","type":"neighbor","note":"A person is externally mastered; tenure is a separately identified qualified link, not a second person master. Office identity survives succession and vacancy."},{"target":"WM-POL-016 Public Authority / Institution","type":"neighbor","note":"The body containing or supporting an office is externally referenced. The legacy self-reference for the branch body is rejected; a post is not automatically the institution itself."},{"target":"WM-POL-003 Election and WM-ORG-007 Mandate / Charter","type":"neighbor","note":"Election outcomes and competence instruments are referenced, not authored or validated here. Nomination, election, appointment and assumption of duties can have different effects."},{"target":"WM-POL-013 Registry Mandate","type":"neighbor","note":"A mandate may govern an adopting register; it does not make every office record or declaration public. Public projections require an evidenced disclosure rule."}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Authoritative master-system identifier with namespace","Governed global identifier or IRI","Adopting Dimension UUID or ULID with unresolved-reconciliation status"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":[]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Resolve an office reference: Proposed operation, not implemented. Resolve a qualified office identifier and aliases without merging by title, holder or site.","Record an office-basis assertion: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link existing establishment or competence evidence with review status; cannot create an office or grant a power.","Link a tenure assertion: Proposed operation, not implemented. Record independently identified holder and interval evidence, retaining competing assertions; cannot appoint or remove anyone.","Inspect occupancy at a time: Proposed operation, not implemented. Return qualified holder candidates and vacancy, acting, stale or disputed status. Absence of data returns unknown, not vacant.","Record accountability evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link a duty to filing or oversight evidence, preserving allegation versus determination and restricted contents.","Prepare an authorized office projection: Proposed operation, not implemented. Build a local recipient-scoped view with mapping and redaction records. 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Their differing holder representations require a selected mapping profile."]}},"sources":[{"title":"The Organization Ontology","url":"https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/","note":"World Wide Web Consortium"},{"title":"Popolo Post specification","url":"https://www.popoloproject.com/specs/post.html","note":"Popolo project"},{"title":"Popolo Membership specification","url":"https://www.popoloproject.com/specs/membership.html","note":"Popolo project"},{"title":"United Nations Convention against Corruption","url":"https://treaties.un.org/doc/source/RecentTexts/Corruption_E.doc","note":"United Nations"},{"title":"The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription","url":"https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript","note":"United States National Archives"},{"title":"PROV-O: The PROV Ontology","url":"https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/","note":"World Wide Web Consortium"},{"title":"Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339.html","note":"Internet Engineering Task Force"}],"openQuestions":["Run the coordinator source checker, then verify authentic source versions, effective law, domestic implementation and permitted source reuse for each adopting profile.","Implement nested office and tenure schemas and mappings with fixtures for vacancy, joint holding, competing claims, temporary duty performance, date correction, redaction and lawful disposal.","Validate candidate neighbor bindings and expand specialist office-family coverage without taking ownership of external person, institution, election or instrument masters.","Restore independent external review before any canonical or publishable-draft promotion.","Independent external review is absent; Claude and Grok are skipped under the owner waiver.","Direct HTTP checks are unmeasured under the owner-reported sandbox block; browser readings do not close source authenticity, version, currency or applicability verification.","Nested instance schemas, executable functions, mappings and adversarial fixtures are not implemented.","Jurisdiction-specific office definitions, tenure rules, delegation powers, judicial independence, records law, accessibility, privacy and disclosure need qualified adoption review.","No comprehensive treatment of customary, international, hereditary, military, collective or emergency offices; profile-specific legal bases and authority disputes remain research gaps."],"resources":{"spec":"/models/wm-org-009-public-office/spec.yaml","agents":"/models/wm-org-009-public-office/AGENTS.md","source":"https://github.com/ver-cy/world-models/tree/feat/mega-model-registry/research/runs/wm-org-009"},"provenance":{"origin":"world-models research","builtFrom":["models/wm-org-009-public-office/spec.yaml"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"reviewable-draft","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T15:19:52Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"derived","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"derived","ethics":"derived","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"missing","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"missing","interaction.interfaces":"derived","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"distinguishingFeatures":"Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.","agentConduct":"Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.","ethics":"Sentences mentioning harm, privacy, consent or similar, collected from the specification.","interaction.properties":"Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties."},"score":0.75}}