Enterprise Fact Authority
EM-XCT-02: explicit fact accountability, stewardship, source precedence, write grants and retained conflicts in a Company Dimension. Bounded original companion contract.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 6 layers · 18 findings · 18 questions
Governance Scope, accountability and operational appointments.
Scope and accountable term
FactAuthority; definition/value separation.
Object boundary
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Is this a meaning, value assertion or ownership record? context-question
Stable identity
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What survives rename/transfer? context-question
Definition authority
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Who defines this predicate? context-question
Accountability for values
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Who answers for values at T? context-question
Overlapping authorities
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Which of two authorities applies? context-question
Accountability transfer
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What happens at responsible-party change? context-question
Operational appointments
StewardshipAssignment; bounded duties and valid terms.
Stewardship and escalation
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Who handles the disagreement? context-question
Source policy Source preference and submission permission are governed separately.
Selection
MastershipRule; explicit source priority and overlap conflict.
Source precedence
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Which source is preferred at fact time? context-question
Submission
WriteGrant; current rights for an authenticated source writer.
Current submission rights
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- May this actor submit for source S now? context-question
Observation Source-scoped assertions, correction history and retained evidence.
Assertions and corrections
FactObservation; immutable anchors and attributed revisions.
Correction history
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- How is a wrong claim corrected? context-question
Evidence and veracity
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Does provenance prove the value? context-question
Reliance Historical evaluation, disclosure, adoption and integration.
Historical query and projection
Derived Evaluation and AuthorityRegister; explicit input slices and permissions.
Conflicting observations
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What if equal sources disagree? context-question
Historical knowledge
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What was known at T about valid time V? context-question
Reader disclosure
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What can this reader see? context-question
Minimum startup profile
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Does a startup need HRIS? context-question
Missing context
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- What if source/policy is missing? context-question
Native binding and validation
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Does native validation prove semantics? context-question
Legacy migration
Information needed to answer this governance question for a Company Dimension.
- Can earlier owner strings be imported? context-question
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Enterprise profiles
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- companion-contract
- Navigation path
- NAV.XCT
- Domain
- EnterpriseData governance
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- EM-XCT-02authoritystewardshipmastershipsource-prioritywrite-grants
- Also called
- EM-XCT-02, Enterprise data accountability, Fact Authority, Stewardship and source precedence
What it is Filled
A companion profile for a Company Dimension that states, per fact scope, who is accountable, who stewards it, which source takes precedence, who may write, and which conflicts between sources remain open.
Why it exists Filled
EM-XCT-02: explicit fact accountability, stewardship, source precedence, write grants and retained conflicts in a Company Dimension. Bounded original companion contract.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Says who is accountable for each kind of fact and which source wins when sources disagree.
- Keeps conflicts between sources as records instead of resolving them silently.
- Grants write access per fact scope, separate from read access.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Overwrite a fact from a source that does not hold the write grant.
- Resolve a conflict by picking the newest value without a precedence rule.
- Infer ownership from who last edited a value.
Only with a human decision
- Changing source precedence for a fact scope.
- Granting or revoking write authority.
May
- Look up the accountable owner and precedence for a fact.
- Record a conflict between two sources with both values.
Moral aspects Filled
- Clear accountability lets people correct wrong facts about them.
- Hidden precedence rules can let one system silently override another team's truth.
Who is affected
- Employees and contractors whose actions or data appear in company records
- Customers, suppliers and partners named in company records
- Auditors, regulators and courts that rely on the record later
Owners Filled
Steward
The data governance council assigns fact accountability; each fact scope names its own accountable owner.
Master systems
- Data governance catalogue
- Systems of record per fact scope
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- WM-XCT-001 - 0.3.0-research.1
- WM-XCT-002 - 0.3.0-research.1
- WM-XCT-012 - 0.3.0-research.1
aligned
- vr.wm-xct-001
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Fact scope ID.
- Grant ID per writer and scope.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: it has no physical body to measure.
Recognition optional Filled
- A fact authority entry names a fact scope, an accountable owner, steward, source precedence and write grants.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Look up accountability, evaluate precedence, record and retain conflicts, issue and revoke write grants.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Two systems both believing they are master.
- Orphaned facts with no accountable owner.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- DAMA-DMBOK data governance roles.
- RACI accountability matrices.
Context of use required Filled
- Any Company Dimension that merges facts from more than one system.
Sources Filled
- Research record EM-XCT-02: independent provider studies, audits and reconciled findings - Evidence behind the release; claims in the card trace to it.
- Enterprise Fact Authority 0.1.0 specification - Normative release, digest sha256:cf027b56d01f23e39c15ad49a728967e45e7fb8d2b34137b6bb532536f35f582
Open questions
- Use the pinned companion schema/validator and trusted-host binding. Native outer validation alone does not enforce nested semantics. Consult the released adoption limits.
Machine files
Provenance
enterprise research · reviewable-draft
Built from: models/wm-xct-001-ownership-stewardship/profiles/enterprise-fact-authority/0.1.0/spec.json, models/enterprise-fact-authority/catalogue-entry.json, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/enterprise-fact-authority.json