{ "model": { "rank": 3981, "code": "thing-q105405", "model_id": "vr.tr.cherokee-q105405", "name": "Cherokee", "purpose": "Enable an agent to represent a Cherokee person's stated identity, documented political affiliations and relevant community relationships without treating ancestry, citizenship and cultural participation as interchangeable.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q105405/", "tier": 2, "score": 79, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 79, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q105405", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105405", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:12:45Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08795-2d00-7ba1-8602-1717576328a3\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cherokee\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registe", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 70.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08795-2d12-7c93-bf4d-30098cdc34a9\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Cherokee\nRegistry id: vr.tr.cherokee\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q105405", "registryId": "vr.tr.cherokee", "name": "Cherokee", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q105405/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cherokee", "name": "Cherokee", "purpose": "Enable an agent to represent a Cherokee person's stated identity, documented political affiliations and relevant community relationships without treating ancestry, citizenship and cultural participation as interchangeable.", "definition": "The Cherokee are an Indigenous people whose ancestral homelands lie in the southeastern region of what is now the United States and whose communities include several distinct tribal nations.", "scope_statement": "This draft interprets Cherokee in SOC / SOC.PER as a person identified as Cherokee; it owns the evidence, context and permissions needed to describe that identity, while leaving the registry's intended person-versus-people sense explicitly unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "A person's self-identification as Cherokee and the context in which it is recorded", "Citizenship or enrollment relationships with a specifically identified Cherokee nation", "Cherokee ancestry claims and their documented provenance", "Community relationships, language participation and cultural connections when voluntarily disclosed", "Consent, uncertainty and restrictions governing identity information" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Cherokee nations as governments, sovereign political entities or organizations", "The Cherokee people collectively as a historical and social entity", "Cherokee languages, writing systems and linguistic resources as independent things", "An authoritative genealogy or automated determination of eligibility for citizenship", "Vehicles, products or other things branded Cherokee", "An occupation, qualification or employment role" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent must be a person in a Cherokee identity context, rather than a nation, language, product or place sharing the name.", "Self-identification, documented ancestry and citizenship must remain separately describable; evidence of one does not automatically establish the others.", "A citizenship claim must identify the particular nation and the authority supporting that claim; a generic Cherokee label is insufficient.", "Language proficiency, cultural participation, residence, appearance and surname must not function as automatic tests of Cherokee identity.", "An agent must distinguish a person's own account from labels assigned by historical records, researchers or third parties." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity assertion context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-described; authorized representative account; historical record attribution; third-party attribution; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Shows whose description is being represented without converting an attributed label into the person's own statement." }, { "name": "Named Cherokee political affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person to specifically identified nation, with relationship type, source and applicable date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents distinct political affiliations from collapsing into an undifferentiated Cherokee membership." }, { "name": "Citizenship claim evidence state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not provided; person-reported; supported by authorized documentation; disputed; historical; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates available evidence from the nation's authority to determine citizenship." }, { "name": "Ancestry claim provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claim linked to family testimony, identified records or other attributed evidence", "why_it_matters": "Allows an ancestry statement to be investigated without presenting it as citizenship or community recognition." }, { "name": "Cherokee community connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community and voluntarily described relationship, with time and attribution", "why_it_matters": "Represents lived connections without making residence or participation compulsory identity criteria." }, { "name": "Cherokee language relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person-described language or variety; learning, speaking, understanding, reading or writing relationship; not disclosed", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate language assistance without treating fluency or syllabary literacy as proof of identity." }, { "name": "Identity information permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Purpose-specific consent, audience restrictions, retention limits and withdrawal status", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether sensitive identity and family information may be collected, linked or shared." } ], "affordances": [ "Describe a person's Cherokee identity using their preferred wording while preserving attribution and uncertainty.", "Link a documented citizenship relationship to the appropriate Cherokee nation and its authoritative process.", "Separate ancestry, self-identification and political affiliation when comparing conflicting records.", "Support requested language or community-resource referrals using voluntarily supplied preferences.", "Correct, restrict or remove identity assertions according to authorization and provenance.", "Identify when a requested eligibility decision must be referred to the relevant nation or program authority." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cherokee-identity-and-referent", "name": "Cherokee identity and referent", "description": "Establish what Cherokee denotes in this record and whose identity statement is being represented.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and its person-domain placement must not silently turn a collective name into an occupation or a universal membership category.", "layers": [ { "id": "person-sense-boundary", "name": "Person sense boundary", "description": "Separate the proposed person sense from neighboring collective, political, linguistic and branded senses.", "findings": [ { "id": "cherokee-referent-resolution", "name": "Cherokee referent resolution", "description": "Record the evidence supporting a person-level interpretation before applying this model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry record identify a Cherokee person, the Cherokee people collectively, or another sense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cherokee-referent-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which source identifier or surrounding registry context supports the selected sense?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cherokee-referent-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-voice-and-wording", "name": "Identity voice and wording", "description": "Preserve the person's wording and distinguish it from externally assigned descriptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-cherokee-description", "name": "Attributed Cherokee description", "description": "Treat each Cherokee identity description as a contextual assertion with an identifiable speaker or source.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the person describe their Cherokee identity, and which wording do they authorize for this use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-cherokee-description-q01" }, { "text": "Was the Cherokee label supplied by the person, a family member, an institution or a historical record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-cherokee-description-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cherokee-citizenship-and-authority", "name": "Cherokee citizenship and authority", "description": "Represent nation-specific political relationships separately from broader Cherokee identity.", "rationale": "An agent needs a named authority and a defined relationship before it can use a citizenship assertion in an administrative decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "nation-specific-relationship", "name": "Nation-specific relationship", "description": "Identify the political entity and the exact relationship asserted.", "findings": [ { "id": "named-citizenship-assertion", "name": "Named citizenship assertion", "description": "Attach citizenship or enrollment assertions to a particular nation rather than to Cherokee as an undifferentiated label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Cherokee nation is named, and what term does that nation use for the asserted relationship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "named-citizenship-assertion-q01" }, { "text": "What authorized evidence supports the relationship, and for what date is it applicable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "named-citizenship-assertion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-authority", "name": "Decision authority", "description": "Distinguish describing a claim from determining citizenship or eligibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "authoritative-determination-boundary", "name": "Authoritative determination boundary", "description": "Route determinations to the relevant authority and avoid deriving them from ancestry narratives or cultural indicators.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which office or authority may confirm this particular Cherokee citizenship relationship?", "kind": "action", "id": "authoritative-determination-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested action concern citizenship itself, an application, or eligibility for a separate program?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authoritative-determination-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cherokee-ancestry-and-records", "name": "Cherokee ancestry and records", "description": "Handle family narratives and documentary connections without promoting them into unsupported identity determinations.", "rationale": "Cherokee ancestry claims require explicit provenance, careful person matching and separation from present political relationships.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-connection-evidence", "name": "Family connection evidence", "description": "Describe claimed family connections and the evidence available for each link.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-ancestry-chain", "name": "Attributed ancestry chain", "description": "Keep family testimony, documentary links and unresolved gaps distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which claimed ancestor or family connection underlies the Cherokee ancestry statement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-ancestry-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Which links are supported by identified records, which by attributed testimony, and which remain unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-ancestry-chain-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-record-interpretation", "name": "Historical record interpretation", "description": "Interpret records in their original administrative and historical context.", "findings": [ { "id": "record-purpose-and-person-match", "name": "Record purpose and person match", "description": "Require contextual interpretation of rolls, censuses and related records before associating them with a person.", "questions": [ { "text": "For what purpose, population and period was the cited Cherokee-related roll or other record created?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "record-purpose-and-person-match-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the recorded person from namesakes, spelling variants or unrelated families?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "record-purpose-and-person-match-q02" }, { "text": "What does the relevant authority say this record can establish for the present request?", "kind": "action", "id": "record-purpose-and-person-match-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cherokee-community-and-language", "name": "Cherokee community and language", "description": "Represent voluntarily described community and language relationships as dimensions of a person's life.", "rationale": "These connections can guide useful assistance, but must not become authenticity scores or prerequisites for recording identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-place-and-continuity", "name": "Community, place and continuity", "description": "Capture named community connections across residence changes and family histories.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-community-connection", "name": "Situated community connection", "description": "Allow local, distant and historical Cherokee community connections to be described without assuming residence determines belonging.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Cherokee communities does the person identify a connection with, and how do they describe that relationship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-community-connection-q01" }, { "text": "If relevant and voluntarily disclosed, how have relocation, removal histories or later migration shaped that connection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-community-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-participation", "name": "Language and cultural participation", "description": "Identify requested language support and the limits of recording cultural knowledge.", "findings": [ { "id": "cherokee-language-support", "name": "Cherokee language support", "description": "Describe speaking, understanding and syllabary use separately, using the person's own account and intended task.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Cherokee language variety and spoken or written form does the person want to use or learn?", "kind": "action", "id": "cherokee-language-support-q01" }, { "text": "For the requested task, what speaking, understanding, reading or syllabary-writing support does the person report needing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cherokee-language-support-q02" }, { "text": "Which cultural or language material requires permission from someone other than the person before it can be recorded or shared?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cherokee-language-support-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cherokee-information-use-and-contestation", "name": "Cherokee information use and contestation", "description": "Govern collection, disclosure and correction of sensitive Cherokee identity information.", "rationale": "An agent must support useful actions without exposing family information or resolving contested belonging through its own inference.", "layers": [ { "id": "purpose-and-disclosure", "name": "Purpose and disclosure", "description": "Tie access to identity evidence to a specific authorized task.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimum-necessary-identity-evidence", "name": "Minimum necessary identity evidence", "description": "Record only the Cherokee identity or affiliation information needed for the agreed purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why does this task require Cherokee identity or citizenship information, and which details are actually necessary?", "kind": "action", "id": "minimum-necessary-identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Who may access or receive citizenship documentation, family connections or community information under the applicable permissions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "minimum-necessary-identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disagreement-and-correction", "name": "Disagreement and correction", "description": "Preserve competing assertions with attribution and provide a route for correction.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-identity-assertions", "name": "Unresolved identity assertions", "description": "Represent disagreement without treating the agent as an arbiter of Cherokee identity or citizenship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the sources disagree about self-identification, ancestry, citizenship or community relationships, and which exact claim is contested?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unresolved-identity-assertions-q01" }, { "text": "Who can correct the underlying record or provide an authoritative response for the disputed relationship?", "kind": "action", "id": "unresolved-identity-assertions-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": [ "With no recorded sense, this entry interprets Cherokee as the people, not the language, a particular tribal nation or a commercial name.", "The three named tribal nations are political entities, not ethnic subtypes; kinds is therefore left empty.", "This is recalled knowledge without source consultation; current recognition status, citizenship rules and population figures require verification with the relevant tribal authorities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Cherokee 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": [ "Identification of a people and their shared historical and cultural connections.", "Context for studying Indigenous sovereignty, displacement, community continuity and language revitalization.", "Description of cultural heritage, with attribution to particular Cherokee communities where appropriate." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Cherokee 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": [ "Conflating the Cherokee people with a single tribal government.", "Treating self-reported ancestry, cultural identity and tribal citizenship as interchangeable.", "Presenting Cherokee communities as exclusively historical rather than contemporary.", "Generalizing one community's practices or traditions to all Cherokee people." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Cherokee 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": [ "Oklahoma is home to the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.", "Western North Carolina is home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.", "Cherokee people also live outside these tribal communities; residence alone does not establish citizenship or identity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Cherokee this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Cherokee Nation", "difference": "A particular sovereign tribal nation and political institution, rather than the Cherokee people collectively." }, { "name": "Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians", "difference": "A distinct Cherokee tribal nation based in North Carolina, rather than a synonym for all Cherokee people." }, { "name": "United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma", "difference": "A distinct Cherokee tribal nation in Oklahoma, rather than another name for the Cherokee Nation." }, { "name": "Cherokee language", "difference": "An Iroquoian language associated with the people; a language and its speakers are different registry subjects." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Cherokee this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.cherokee denote a Cherokee person or the Cherokee people collectively, and does an existing world model already own that sense?", "Which Cherokee nations and community entities must this registry connect to, using their own current names and relationship terminology?", "Which authoritative sources establish the relevant nation-specific citizenship processes and the permitted uses of historical records?", "How should the model represent historically contested citizenship and belonging, including Cherokee Freedmen contexts, without conflating ancestry, race and political status?", "Which community-specific protocols should govern language resources, cultural knowledge and identity-data sharing for the intended deployment?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 Cherokee, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to represent a Cherokee person's stated identity, documented political affiliations and relevant community relationships without treating ancestry, citizenship and cultural participation as interchangeable.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 79 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 Cherokee, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 79 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 Cherokee from another, and a Cherokee 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Cherokee is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Cherokee is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Cherokee, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Cherokee, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Cherokee is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Cherokee moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Cherokee, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Cherokee, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Cherokee 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Cherokee 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee.", "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 Cherokee and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Cherokee, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Cherokee sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Cherokee.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does Cherokee require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses Cherokee, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What Cherokee actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define Cherokee, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Cherokee, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Cherokee 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 Cherokee and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Cherokee, 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 Cherokee, 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 Cherokee is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }