machinery of state
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a machinery of state, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
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6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one machinery of state from another, and a machinery of state from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a machinery of state sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a machinery of state from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a machinery of state passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a machinery of state between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a machinery of state, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a machinery of state is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
People, roles and responsibility Who stands in what relation to a machinery of state.
Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.
Roles and parties
The roles that exist around a machinery of state and who fills them.
Role assignments and their validity
Who holds which role over a machinery of state, from when, and on whose authority.
- What identifies and describes a role over a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a role over a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a role over a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Ownership and accountability
Who answers for a machinery of state and who may decide about it.
Accountability and decision rights
Where responsibility for a machinery of state sits when something goes wrong.
- What identifies and describes responsibility for a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Legal identity and mandate What machinery of state is in law and what it exists to do.
Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.
Legal form and registration
Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.
Registration and identifiers
What names this body unambiguously in law.
- What legal form does machinery of state take, in which register, under which identifier? definition
- What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not? boundary
Mandate and governing instrument
The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.
Mandate and its source
What it may do, and the instrument that says so.
- What is the mandate of machinery of state, and which founding or governing instrument grants it? provenance
- What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it? action
Governance, membership and decision rights Who decides in machinery of state and who belongs to it.
Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.
Decision rights
Bodies, offices and what each may bind.
Who may bind the organisation
The offices that can commit it and their limits.
- Which bodies or offices of machinery of state may take which decisions, and up to what limit? definition
- What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office? provenance
Membership and affiliation
Who counts as part of it and on what terms.
Membership and its evidence
Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.
- What kinds of membership or affiliation does machinery of state have, and how does each begin and end? definition
- What may a member do in its name, and what may they not? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a machinery of state came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a machinery of state and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a machinery of state is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a machinery of state, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a machinery of state, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- organisation or institution
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
What it is Derived, awaiting review
A social thing registered under SOC.ORG. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
Why it exists Derived, awaiting review
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a machinery of state, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 7 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
May
- observe it, measure it, record its state
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Links to other meta-models Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Made of: a social arrangement between people
- 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.
Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review
- Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- observed and measured
Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Context of use required Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 7 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- 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 machinery of state, and on what evidence are they told apart?
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a machinery of state is known, and what must it refuse?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry, generated draft (pass 1) · not researched
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