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"https://ver.cy/models/thing/people/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.people", "name": "people", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a specified plurality of human beings, assess their collective circumstances without erasing individual differences, and identify justified ways to engage with them.", "definition": "(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identification, composition, relationships, shared circumstances and actionable understanding of human beings considered collectively, whether or not they form an organised or self-identifying group.", "in_scope": [ "The criterion, context and time that determine which human beings are included", "The number and composition of the people, with uncertainty and relevant internal differences", "Relationships, interactions and any evidenced sense of belonging among those included", "Shared circumstances, expressed needs and differences in how conditions affect members", "Collective expression, representation and the limits of authority to act for members", "Conditions for appropriate contact, participation and assistance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "An individual person's identity, biography or personal case record", "An organisation's legal identity, governance structure, assets and operations", "A household's domestic arrangements and shared household resources", "A settlement or territory's geographic boundaries, infrastructure and administration", "An event's programme, venue and operational lifecycle", "A statistical dataset's schema, sampling implementation and processing pipeline" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is multiple human beings considered together; a single human being belongs to a person model.", "An inclusion criterion can identify who is being discussed even when the people have no shared name, mutual awareness or collective identity.", "The referent remains the human beings themselves when an associated organisation, place, event or dataset is removed from the description.", "Shared membership does not by itself establish a common intention, spokesperson or capacity for coordinated action.", "A category description alone is insufficient to establish the circumstances of the actual people included under that description." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Basis of inclusion", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicit criteria such as presence, relationship, activity, self-identification or a stated selection rule", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which people the model concerns and prevents unnoticed changes in its referent." }, { "name": "Number of people", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons; exact count, estimated range or unknown, with reference time", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition, capacity planning and interpretation of aggregate observations." }, { "name": "Membership continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Fixed for a reference period, changing, intermittently observed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether successive observations concern the same people." }, { "name": "Relevant internal composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Task-relevant subgroups and their known or estimated sizes; overlaps and unknowns explicit", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a collective description from concealing differences that change an appropriate action." }, { "name": "Mutual connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed or reported interaction, relationship or interdependence; none established or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a connected group from people grouped solely by an observer." }, { "name": "Shared identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Expressed by all consulted, some consulted, disputed, not investigated or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates members' own identification from an externally applied label." }, { "name": "Collective circumstances", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated descriptions of shared conditions, affected subsets and unresolved variation", "why_it_matters": "Grounds judgments of the people's situation without attributing one condition to every member." }, { "name": "Representation mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Representative, people represented, authorisation basis, permitted topics, duration and known objections", "why_it_matters": "Limits which statements and decisions may be treated as authorised on behalf of others." }, { "name": "Participation coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number or proportion consulted or participating, with denominator and unknown coverage", "why_it_matters": "Shows whose views informed a judgment and whose views remain unrepresented." }, { "name": "Engagement requirements", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Evidenced language, accessibility, communication, privacy and support requirements", "why_it_matters": "Makes proposed engagement practicable for the people affected." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and describe the people included at a stated time while recording uncertain boundaries.", "Estimate their number and relevant composition using evidence appropriate to the task.", "Compare collective circumstances over time while accounting for membership changes.", "Seek views through suitable channels and record participation, disagreement and missing voices.", "Check a representative's mandate before relying on a statement or accepting a collective decision.", "Propose or coordinate assistance and participation within evidenced authority and applicable constraints." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "collective-reference", "name": "Collective reference", "description": "Establishes which human beings are being considered together and whether that reference remains stable.", "rationale": "People can be grouped by an observer without constituting a named or organised body, so the model needs an explicit basis for collective reference.", "layers": [ { "id": "inclusion-and-labels", "name": "Inclusion and labels", "description": "Defines the inclusion criterion and the origin of the collective description.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-and-membership-rule", "name": "Referent and membership rule", "description": "Record the rule identifying the people, the context in which it applies and whether the label comes from members or an external observer.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which human beings qualify for inclusion, and which nearby cases do not?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-and-membership-rule-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the collective label and inclusion rule, and have members endorsed or disputed them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "referent-and-membership-rule-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-through-change", "name": "Continuity through change", "description": "Distinguishes changes among the people from changes in which people are included.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-over-time", "name": "Membership over time", "description": "Record the reference period, known arrivals and departures, and the basis for treating observations as referring to the same collective.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this description follow the same human beings or whoever meets the criterion at each observation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "membership-over-time-q01" }, { "text": "What membership changes limit comparisons between the recorded periods?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "membership-over-time-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "numbers-and-differences", "name": "Numbers and differences", "description": "Describes how many people are included and which internal differences matter to the intended judgment.", "rationale": "An aggregate count or typical profile can hide absent people, overlapping memberships and materially different needs.", "layers": [ { "id": "enumeration-and-coverage", "name": "Enumeration and coverage", "description": "Records the extent and reliability of knowledge about the number of people.", "findings": [ { "id": "count-and-visibility", "name": "Count and visibility", "description": "Record a dated count or estimate, its method, and people potentially missed or counted more than once.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many people meet the inclusion criterion at the reference time, and what is the uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "count-and-visibility-q01" }, { "text": "How was the count obtained, and which people might that method miss or count repeatedly?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "count-and-visibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relevant-variation", "name": "Relevant variation", "description": "Captures internal differences that affect interpretation or action without treating subgroup labels as personal profiles.", "findings": [ { "id": "subgroups-and-distributions", "name": "Subgroups and distributions", "description": "Record evidenced, task-relevant variation, subgroup overlap and gaps that make a collective average inadequate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which differences among these people would change the proposed action or its expected effects?", "kind": "action", "id": "subgroups-and-distributions-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence describes those differences, including overlapping subgroups and people whose circumstances are unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "subgroups-and-distributions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "connections-and-belonging", "name": "Connections and belonging", "description": "Separates being described together from knowing, identifying with or coordinating with one another.", "rationale": "The registry definition permits any plurality of humans; cohesion and shared identity must therefore be established separately.", "layers": [ { "id": "relationships-and-interaction", "name": "Relationships and interaction", "description": "Describes actual connections among the people and the limits of those connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-human-connections", "name": "Evidenced human connections", "description": "Record observed or reported relationships, interactions and dependencies, including disconnected subsets where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "What connects these people beyond their inclusion under the same description?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidenced-human-connections-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations or member accounts establish those connections, and which subsets do they cover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-human-connections-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-and-coordination", "name": "Identity and coordination", "description": "Distinguishes expressed belonging from demonstrated ability to act together.", "findings": [ { "id": "belonging-and-joint-action", "name": "Belonging and joint action", "description": "Record members' expressions of belonging and evidence of coordination separately, preserving disagreement and limited participation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people express a shared identity or purpose, and whose position is different or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "belonging-and-joint-action-q01" }, { "text": "What joint action has been demonstrated or explicitly agreed, and who actually participates?", "kind": "action", "id": "belonging-and-joint-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "circumstances-and-needs", "name": "Circumstances and needs", "description": "Records the people's current situation, its uneven effects and what they say would improve it.", "rationale": "Judging the state of people requires attention to lived conditions and expressed needs rather than treating group membership as an explanation.", "layers": [ { "id": "shared-and-uneven-conditions", "name": "Shared and uneven conditions", "description": "Identifies circumstances affecting the people and variation in exposure or consequences.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-and-affected-people", "name": "Conditions and affected people", "description": "Record dated evidence of relevant conditions, the people affected and whether changes reflect circumstances or changing membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which relevant conditions are shared, and how many people experience each condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditions-and-affected-people-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates a change in people's circumstances from a change in who was observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditions-and-affected-people-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "priorities-and-capacities", "name": "Priorities and capacities", "description": "Connects expressed needs with existing abilities, support relationships and competing priorities.", "findings": [ { "id": "expressed-needs-and-available-support", "name": "Expressed needs and available support", "description": "Record what consulted people request, what they can undertake themselves and where support or priorities differ.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which needs and priorities were expressed by which people, and which were inferred by others?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expressed-needs-and-available-support-q01" }, { "text": "What support or joint activity do the affected people want, and what capacities or constraints shape its feasibility?", "kind": "action", "id": "expressed-needs-and-available-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "voice-and-permitted-engagement", "name": "Voice and permitted engagement", "description": "Establishes whose statements can guide action and how affected people can participate, decline or challenge it.", "rationale": "A plurality of people is not automatically a single decision-maker, and one member's participation does not establish authority over others.", "layers": [ { "id": "representation-and-disagreement", "name": "Representation and disagreement", "description": "Records mandates, consultation coverage and differences that limit claims of collective agreement.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-to-speak-or-decide", "name": "Authority to speak or decide", "description": "Record who is authorised to speak or decide for whom, on which matters and for how long, alongside objections and unrepresented views.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes each representative's mandate, its scope and the people it covers?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-to-speak-or-decide-q01" }, { "text": "Whose agreement, objection or absence prevents the proposed decision from being attributed to the whole collective?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-to-speak-or-decide-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-participation", "name": "Contact and participation", "description": "Makes engagement responsive to access requirements, individual choices and the authority needed for the proposed action.", "findings": [ { "id": "engagement-conditions", "name": "Engagement conditions", "description": "Record suitable contact methods, evidenced participation requirements, applicable permissions and ways for affected people to decline or challenge engagement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which communication methods and accommodations allow the affected people to understand and participate in this action?", "kind": "action", "id": "engagement-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What authorisation does the action require, and how can individual people decline participation or challenge how they are represented?", "kind": "action", "id": "engagement-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this broad collective-human concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Where does the registry place the boundary between generic people and more specific populations, crowds, communities or social groups?", "What continuity rule should distinguish the same collective with changing membership from a newly defined collective?", "What evidence and coverage thresholds are needed before describing a condition, preference or decision as collective?", "Which context-specific requirements govern sensitive attributes, engagement with children, representation and permission for the intended agent actions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a people, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: peoples, age group, age bracket, cohort, ancients, aged, elderly, young, youth, baffled, blind, blood.", "122 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a people, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "peoples", "age group", "age bracket", "cohort", "ancients", "aged", "elderly", "young", "youth", "baffled", "blind", "blood" ] } ], "standing": "122 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one people from another, and a people from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a people sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a people passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a people is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a people.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What people is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does people take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of people, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in people and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of people may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does people have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a people came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }