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incorporated into the Frankish realm.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Saxons as a historically situated collective identity and associated communities, provisionally centred on the continental historical sense; it treats the SOC.ORG assignment as a classification to review, not evidence that Saxons constituted a single formal organisation.", "in_scope": [ "Uses of the Saxon name, with their dates, speakers, referents and evidential basis", "Communities identified as Saxon and the changing grounds for that identification", "Geographic presence, mobility and settlement claims tied to particular periods", "Political affiliations, leadership and relationships among Saxon communities", "Evidence for cultural, linguistic and religious affiliations and their changes" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Anglo-Saxons as a complete standalone population model", "Saxony and other territories as geographic or administrative entities", "Individual Saxon rulers, named polities and dynasties as independently modelled entities", "Saxon languages as linguistic systems", "Modern organisations, brands or teams called Saxons", "Individual ancestry or ethnicity inferred solely from surnames, residence or genetic results" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A qualifying identification specifies which people a source calls Saxons and in what period; an unqualified name match is insufficient.", "The referent is a population or collective identity, rather than a territory, language, dynasty or incorporated organisation.", "Continental Saxons, Saxon groups associated with Britain and later Saxon identities are explicitly distinguished before relationships are asserted.", "Shared artefacts, language or location provide evidence to evaluate, rather than automatically establishing Saxon membership.", "Claims of collective leadership or action identify participating communities instead of presuming a single enduring Saxon state." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Historical sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "continental historical population; Britain-associated group; later historical identity; modern identity; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents distinct uses of Saxons from being merged through their shared name." }, { "name": "Attested period", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "calendar date or date interval, with precision and uncertainty recorded", "why_it_matters": "Limits each identity, location or political claim to the period its evidence supports." }, { "name": "Basis of Saxon identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-identification; contemporary external attribution; later textual attribution; scholarly interpretation; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Separates a community's identity claims from labels imposed or reconstructed by others." }, { "name": "Geographic association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "community linked to a dated place or region as settlement, activity, origin claim or destination", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes settlement evidence from temporary activity and retrospective homeland narratives." }, { "name": "Political affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "dated association with a leader, community, coalition or polity, including contested affiliation", "why_it_matters": "Allows political relationships to change without assuming that population identity changes in the same way." }, { "name": "Cultural or linguistic attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "dated, sourced association with a language variety, practice, religious affiliation or material assemblage", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without making any single cultural trait a necessary ethnic test." }, { "name": "Claim assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed; supported within stated limits; contested; insufficient evidence; superseded", "why_it_matters": "Makes uncertainty attach to individual claims rather than assigning blanket certainty to the collective." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate references to Saxons by period, place and source usage.", "Compare competing identifications of a community as Saxon while preserving their evidence and uncertainty.", "Trace proposed settlement and migration relationships without assuming population replacement.", "Reconstruct dated political affiliations and determine the limits of claims about collective Saxon action.", "Link related population, territory, language and polity models without treating them as equivalent.", "Flag unsupported continuity, ancestry or cultural-membership assertions for review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saxon-name-and-identity", "name": "Saxon name and identity", "description": "Establishes what a particular use of Saxons denotes and whose identification it represents.", "rationale": "The shared name cannot by itself establish a single population across periods and locations.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-referents", "name": "Historical 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a community.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who identifies this community as Saxon, and how close is that testimony to the people and events described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounds-for-saxon-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Is membership being inferred from language, artefacts or location, and what independent evidence supports that inference?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grounds-for-saxon-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saxon-geography-and-mobility", "name": "Saxon geography and mobility", "description": "Records dated spatial associations and evaluates movements attributed to Saxon communities.", "rationale": "A model must distinguish where Saxons are attested from proposed origins, routes and later territorial naming.", "layers": [ { "id": "dated-spatial-presence", "name": "Dated spatial presence", "description": "Locates specific communities or activities without projecting modern Saxony onto earlier references.", "findings": [ { "id": "presence-and-place-meaning", "name": "Presence and place meaning", "description": "Record whether a spatial claim concerns residence, activity, political control or a retrospective association.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence places a Saxon community here, and does it establish settlement, temporary activity or political control?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "presence-and-place-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "What date range and geographic precision can this association support?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "presence-and-place-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-local-continuity", "name": "Movement and local continuity", "description": "Evaluates migration accounts alongside evidence of continuity and interaction with existing populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "saxon-movement-claim", "name": "Saxon movement claim", "description": "Represent a proposed movement as a bounded claim about particular people, origins, destinations and dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence supports the proposed movement, and which parts of the route or chronology remain inferred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "saxon-movement-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish migration from exchange, changing labels or adoption of cultural practices?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "saxon-movement-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saxon-political-relations", "name": "Saxon political relations", "description": "Models community organisation, leadership and external relationships at an explicitly dated scale.", "rationale": "Treating Saxons as one organisation would conceal uncertainty about authority, participation and political unity.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-and-authority", "name": "Community and authority", "description": "Identifies the communities and authority relationships supported by particular accounts.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-collective-authority", "name": "Limits of collective authority", "description": "Record the reach of a leader or assembly without extending it automatically to all people called Saxons.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Saxon communities are evidenced as recognising this leader or decision-making body?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "limits-of-collective-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source describe local authority, a temporary coalition or a wider political structure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "limits-of-collective-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-relations-and-incorporation", "name": "External relations and incorporation", "description": "Tracks conflict, alliance and incorporation claims without equating political submission with disappearance of identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-political-transition", "name": "Dated political transition", "description": "Attach changes in political position to identified communities and distinguish claimed outcomes from demonstrated effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which communities participated in the reported conflict, agreement or incorporation, and whose account establishes this?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-political-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would justify updating political affiliation while retaining, qualifying or ending a Saxon identity claim?", "kind": "action", "id": "dated-political-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saxon-cultural-evidence-and-continuity", "name": "Saxon cultural evidence and continuity", "description": "Assesses cultural associations and claims connecting historical Saxons to later identities.", "rationale": "Cultural similarity and inherited names require interpretation before they can support ethnic identification or continuity.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-practice-and-religion", "name": "Language, practice and religion", "description": "Records variation in attributed language, material practices and religious affiliations.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-cultural-attribution", "name": "Bounded cultural attribution", "description": "Limit cultural claims to the communities, contexts and periods actually evidenced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence connects this language variety, burial practice, artefact assemblage or religious affiliation to a particular Saxon community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-cultural-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Is the trait also found among neighbouring populations, and what limits does that place on using it to identify Saxons?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-cultural-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "later-saxon-identities", "name": "Later Saxon identities", "description": "Separates continuity of people, political institutions, territorial names and retrospective heritage claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-versus-name-reuse", "name": "Continuity versus name reuse", "description": "Treat proposed connections to later Saxon identities as relationships requiring their own evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports this claimed connection: population continuity, institutional succession, territorial naming or retrospective identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-versus-name-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "Should the later referent be linked as a related identity, treated as name reuse or retained within this model's scope?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-versus-name-reuse-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense should be checked: this description covers the historical Germanic peoples, not modern Saxony's inhabitants or Transylvanian Saxons.", "SOC.ORG is an imperfect classification: the Saxons were not a single institution with uniform membership, governance or legal identity.", "Origins, ethnic boundaries and the scale of migration require research; this account is recalled knowledge without consulted sources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Saxons this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Historical study of migration and settlement in post-Roman Britain.", "Study of continental Saxon society, Christianisation and incorporation into the Carolingian realm.", "Interpretation of historical texts, place names and archaeological evidence relating to Saxon identities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Saxons this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating the Saxons as a single centrally governed organisation or a modern nation.", "Assuming that archaeological objects establish the ethnic identity of their users.", "Conflating continental Saxons, Saxon communities in Britain and later populations bearing the Saxon name.", "Treating accounts written by outsiders or conquerors as neutral descriptions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Saxons this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Continental Saxon history centres on northern Germany and its incorporation into the Frankish realm.", "In Britain, Saxon identities are associated particularly with kingdoms such as Wessex, Sussex and Essex.", "Later uses of the name in Saxony and among Transylvanian Saxons refer to historically distinct territorial or community identities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Saxons this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them 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registry provides no definition or disambiguating source?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover that sense, requiring a registry link rather than a separate publication?", "Should SOC.ORG be retained for a historical collective identity, or does the registry offer a more appropriate classification?", "Which sources and scholarly interpretations can establish defensible temporal and geographic limits for the intended Saxon referent?", "Where should the boundary fall between this entry, Anglo-Saxons and later populations called Saxon, without imposing unsupported continuity or splitting the registry prematurely?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 Saxons, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify historically situated Saxon communities, assess evidence for their identity and relationships, and avoid conflating them with later populations or institutions bearing the Saxon name.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 Saxons, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "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": [], "standing": "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Saxons from another, and a Saxons 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Saxons 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons.", "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 Saxons and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Saxons, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Saxons sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons 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 Saxons and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 Saxons is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Saxons, 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 Saxons, 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 Saxons 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 } } } }