{ "model": { "rank": 5451, "code": "thing-q1129737", "model_id": "vr.tr.lezgins", "name": "Lezgins", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Lezgins, assess evidence about their communities and circumstances, and support accurate representation without assigning ethnicity to individuals.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1129737/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Lezgins in Dagestan", "Lezgins in Uzbekistan" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1129737", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1129737", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:24:04Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.3, "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: 01a08844-7be5-77e2-baa1-166c9b28239e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Lezgins\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 registe", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.3, "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: 01a08844-7be0-7563-8bdd-2d5247e2642d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Lezgins\nRegistry id: vr.tr.lezgins\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q1129737", "registryId": "vr.tr.lezgins", "name": "Lezgins", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1129737/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.lezgins", "name": "Lezgins", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Lezgins, assess evidence about their communities and circumstances, and support accurate representation without assigning ethnicity to individuals.", "definition": "Lezgins are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group whose traditional homeland lies in southern Dagestan, in the Russian Federation, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and whose heritage language is Lezgian.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Lezgins as a registered ethnic collective, including community identification, geographic distribution, language relationships, cultural continuity and representation; it distinguishes the people from the Lezgin language and the broader Lezgic linguistic grouping.", "in_scope": [ "Collective names, self-identification and historically variable uses of the name Lezgin", "Lezgin communities in Dagestan, Azerbaijan and diaspora settings", "Relationships between ethnic identification, Lezgin language use and multilingualism", "Locally and historically situated cultural practices and community institutions", "Population evidence, public representation and community circumstances" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual identity profiles or automated ethnicity classification", "The grammar and complete linguistic description of the Lezgin language", "Separate ethnic collectives whose languages belong to the broader Lezgic grouping", "General models of Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Russia or their governments", "Religions, dances and other cultural forms treated independently of their relationships to Lezgin communities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether a reference identifies the Lezgin people, the Lezgin language or a linguistic grouping; these referents are not interchangeable.", "Check historical uses of Lezgin and related spellings against the source's intended population before equating them with the contemporary collective.", "Distinguish ethnic identification from citizenship or residence: a geographic or national label alone does not establish Lezgin identity.", "Do not identify someone as Lezgin solely through language, surname, religion or participation in a regional cultural practice.", "Require evidence of a specifically Lezgin association before treating a practice shared across the Caucasus as distinctive to Lezgins." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Collective designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Name, spelling, language, self-designation or external designation, period and intended referent", "why_it_matters": "Prevents spelling variants and historically broader labels from silently changing the population being described." }, { "name": "Basis of identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-identification, community account, census response, administrative assignment or scholarly classification", "why_it_matters": "Separates expressed identity from classifications imposed by a source." }, { "name": "Community location", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community to settlement, region or country, with date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Locates statements about Lezgins without treating all communities as sharing identical circumstances." }, { "name": "Reported population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons; requires date, geographic coverage, identification criterion and source", "why_it_matters": "Makes population figures interpretable and prevents incompatible counts from being combined." }, { "name": "Relationship to Lezgin language", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reported proficiency, use, heritage affiliation or learning, by community and context", "why_it_matters": "Allows ethnic identification and language competence to vary independently." }, { "name": "Intergenerational language transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Source-reported pattern by locality, generation, setting and observation date; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of language continuity without projecting one locality's experience onto all Lezgins." }, { "name": "Cultural association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community to practice, institution or heritage expression, with attribution, period and shared associations", "why_it_matters": "Records cultural connections without asserting exclusive ownership or universal participation." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organisation or speaker to named constituency, mandate basis, jurisdiction and period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single organisation's position from being presented as the view of all Lezgins." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate references to Lezgins from references to the Lezgin language or broader Lezgic categories.", "Compare population accounts while retaining their dates, boundaries and identification methods.", "Locate evidence about particular Lezgin communities and identify where generalisation is unsupported.", "Assess documented language transmission and access to relevant education or cultural resources.", "Attribute cultural and political claims to their speakers and stated constituencies.", "Prepare sourced descriptions that preserve disagreement and avoid inferring individual ethnicity." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lezgin-identification-and-boundaries", "name": "Lezgin identification and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which collective a name or classification denotes and how that identification was made.", "rationale": "References to people, language and broader historical or linguistic categories can otherwise be conflated.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-historical-referents", "name": "Names and historical referents", "description": "Connects designations to their documented meanings in particular languages and periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-requires-context", "name": "Designation requires context", "description": "Record the source's spelling, date and intended population before normalising a designation to Lezgins.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which self-designations, external names and transliterations does this source use for Lezgins?", "kind": "definition", "id": "designation-requires-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does its use of Lezgin denote the contemporary ethnic collective or a broader historical population?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-requires-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ethnicity-language-and-classification", "name": "Ethnicity, language and classification", "description": "Separates collective identification from linguistic affiliation and externally assigned categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-basis-must-be-explicit", "name": "Identification basis must be explicit", "description": "Keep self-identification, census categories and linguistic classifications distinguishable rather than using one as proof of another.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the Lezgin identification self-reported, administratively assigned or supplied by a researcher?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identification-basis-must-be-explicit-q01" }, { "text": "Has the source included other Lezgic-speaking peoples under Lezgins, and what evidence supports that boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identification-basis-must-be-explicit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "communities-population-and-mobility", "name": "Communities, population and mobility", "description": "Organises evidence about Lezgin settlement, population and connections across places.", "rationale": "Accounts concerning Dagestan, Azerbaijan and diaspora communities need explicit geographic and temporal boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "settlement-and-community-connections", "name": "Settlement and community connections", "description": "Distinguishes settlement histories, current residence and documented ties between communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-geography-is-time-specific", "name": "Community geography is time specific", "description": "Record where a community is described, when the description applies and whether it concerns residence, origin or ongoing connections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which settlements or regions in Dagestan, Azerbaijan or elsewhere does the evidence identify as having Lezgin communities, and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-geography-is-time-specific-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes historical settlement, recent migration and continuing cross-border or diaspora connections?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-geography-is-time-specific-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-counts-and-comparability", "name": "Population counts and comparability", "description": "Makes census and estimate boundaries visible before comparison or aggregation.", "findings": [ { "id": "counts-depend-on-identification-rules", "name": "Counts depend on identification rules", "description": "Retain the counted category and method alongside every population figure; ethnic identification and language reporting must remain separate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this figure count people identifying as Lezgin, Lezgin speakers or another defined population?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counts-depend-on-identification-rules-q01" }, { "text": "Can these figures be compared or combined without overlapping populations or mismatched dates, territories and census categories?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counts-depend-on-identification-rules-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lezgin-language-and-transmission", "name": "Lezgin language and transmission", "description": "Models how Lezgin communities relate to language use, learning and transmission.", "rationale": "Language is a relevant community relationship, but competence, everyday use and ethnic identification require separate evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-use-and-multilingual-contexts", "name": "Language use and multilingual contexts", "description": "Records locally evidenced patterns of Lezgin and other language use.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-varies-by-context", "name": "Language use varies by context", "description": "Describe reported language practices by generation and setting without treating multilingualism or reduced Lezgin use as loss of ethnic identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are Lezgin, Russian, Azerbaijani or other languages reportedly used in this community's homes, schools, workplaces and public life?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-varies-by-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish speaking proficiency, literacy, heritage affiliation and frequency of use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "language-use-varies-by-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "learning-and-intergenerational-continuity", "name": "Learning and intergenerational continuity", "description": "Examines access to language learning and evidence of transmission between generations.", "findings": [ { "id": "transmission-assessment-needs-local-evidence", "name": "Transmission assessment needs local evidence", "description": "Assess continuity through documented family, educational and media practices in a specified community and period.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows children acquiring and using Lezgin in the locality under discussion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "transmission-assessment-needs-local-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally available schools, teaching materials or media could support a requested Lezgin-language learning activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "transmission-assessment-needs-local-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-life-and-public-representation", "name": "Cultural life and public representation", "description": "Connects cultural expressions and institutions to specific Lezgin communities and accountable claims.", "rationale": "Shared regional traditions and competing representative claims must not be converted into uniform attributes or positions of all Lezgins.", "layers": [ { "id": "heritage-and-local-variation", "name": "Heritage and local variation", "description": "Documents cultural associations while preserving variation, change and connections with neighbouring peoples.", "findings": [ { "id": "heritage-attribution-is-not-exclusivity", "name": "Heritage attribution is not exclusivity", "description": "Record who associates a practice with Lezgins, where it is practised and whether its name or regional distribution invites misleading attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Lezgin community or source documents this oral tradition, celebration, religious practice or artistic expression?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "heritage-attribution-is-not-exclusivity-q01" }, { "text": "For a term such as lezginka, does the evidence establish a particular Lezgin practice or a wider regional form whose name alone cannot establish ownership?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "heritage-attribution-is-not-exclusivity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-claims-and-community-circumstances", "name": "Institutions, claims and community circumstances", "description": "Attributes representation and reports of community conditions to specific actors, jurisdictions and dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "public-claims-require-attribution", "name": "Public claims require attribution", "description": "Keep organisational positions, community testimony and independently documented circumstances separate when describing Lezgin interests or concerns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who makes this claim on behalf of Lezgins, which constituency do they claim to represent and how is that mandate evidenced?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "public-claims-require-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What dated, jurisdiction-specific evidence should an agent consult before describing language access, cultural participation or cross-border constraints affecting a Lezgin community?", "kind": "action", "id": "public-claims-require-attribution-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 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web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "lez", "note": "Identifies the Lezgian language, not the ethnic group or every language spoken by its members." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Lezgins 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": [ "Ethnic self-identification and community affiliation.", "Census and demographic classification, with categories varying by country and period.", "Heritage-language education, publishing and cultural preservation.", "Historical, linguistic and ethnographic research on the eastern Caucasus." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Lezgins 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 ethnic identity with language proficiency, citizenship or religious affiliation.", "Treating all speakers of languages in the Lezgic branch as ethnic Lezgins.", "Reading historical uses of the name as if they always had the narrower modern ethnic meaning.", "Combining population counts from different census years or incompatible classification systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Lezgins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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access across communities?", "Which cultural descriptions are supported by community accounts, and which remain disputed, overgeneralised or shared with neighbouring peoples?", "Which institutions have evidenced mandates to represent particular Lezgin constituencies, and what disagreements or unrepresented perspectives remain?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "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. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "Lezgins in Dagestan", "Lezgins in Uzbekistan" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 Lezgins from another, and a Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins.", "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 Lezgins and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Lezgins, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Lezgins sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins.", "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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 Lezgins is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Lezgins, 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 Lezgins, 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 Lezgins 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 } } } }