{ "model": { "rank": 3178, "code": "thing-q129962", "model_id": "vr.tr.zulu-people", "name": "Zulu people", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Zulu people, assess the scope and evidence of claims about them, and support culturally informed actions without treating a diverse people as a single political actor.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q129962/", "tier": 2, "score": 90, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 90, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q129962", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129962", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:03:47Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c2d-8a0e-7041-885a-a9fa9a4d6d56\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Zulu people\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 546 things:\n# Batch 003: 1001 regi", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 73.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c2d-8a13-7863-b799-aa9969e017aa\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Zulu people\nRegistry id: vr.tr.zulu-people\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q129962", "registryId": "vr.tr.zulu-people", "name": "Zulu people", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q129962/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.zulu-people", "name": "Zulu people", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Zulu people, assess the scope and evidence of claims about them, and support culturally informed actions without treating a diverse people as a single political actor.", "definition": "The Zulu people are a Southern African ethnic group historically associated with the Zulu kingdom and present-day KwaZulu-Natal, whose identities draw on isiZulu, shared histories, kinship and cultural traditions.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Zulu people as a collective cultural and historical identity, including self-identification, community diversity, relationships to isiZulu and places, historical continuity, and context-specific representation; it does not determine any individual's ethnicity.", "in_scope": [ "Zulu collective identity, self-designations, and context-dependent membership descriptions", "Relationships among Zulu identification, isiZulu use, family histories, and community participation", "Geographic distribution and connections to KwaZulu-Natal, other places of residence, and diaspora settings", "Historical changes in the meaning and organisation of Zulu identity", "Living cultural practices and the authority to describe, represent, or share them" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The isiZulu language as a linguistic system", "Individual people, their personal records, and inferred ethnic classifications", "The historical Zulu kingdom or contemporary royal institutions as separately constituted entities", "KwaZulu-Natal and other territories as administrative or geographic entities", "Political parties, citizenship categories, and South African society as a whole" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reference concerns Zulu collective identity rather than merely the ability to speak isiZulu; language use alone does not establish ethnicity.", "The referent is a people, rather than a kingdom, royal household, political party, or organisation claiming to represent them.", "A geographic reference distinguishes identification as Zulu from residence in KwaZulu-Natal; neither category should automatically substitute for the other.", "A historical reference specifies whether 'Zulu' names a particular polity, its subjects, or a broader cultural identity at that time.", "Descriptions allow variation among Zulu-identifying people rather than using a single custom, surname, appearance, or political allegiance as a membership test." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-identification; attributed identification; institutional classification; historical designation; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Separates a person's or community's own description from classifications imposed by researchers, administrations, or other observers." }, { "name": "Relationship to isiZulu", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "First language; home language; additional language; heritage association; other reported relationship; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports analysis of language and identity without equating isiZulu speakers with Zulu people." }, { "name": "Place relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Current residence; place of origin; family connection; cultural association; migration destination, with named place and date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes residence from historical or cultural connections, including connections to KwaZulu-Natal." }, { "name": "Historical referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contemporary collective identity; historical community; kingdom subjects; externally assigned population category; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents sources from different periods from being treated as if they describe an unchanged population." }, { "name": "Population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference year, geography, identification criterion, source, and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes counts interpretable and prevents home-language statistics from silently becoming ethnic population estimates." }, { "name": "Representative authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named institution or person, represented constituency, subject matter, jurisdiction, mandate basis, and applicable period", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to assess who can speak or act on a particular issue without assuming universal authority over Zulu people." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate references to Zulu people, isiZulu, the Zulu kingdom, and royal institutions.", "Compare population descriptions while preserving their identification criteria, dates, and geographic coverage.", "Connect accounts of Zulu history and living culture to named sources and the communities they describe.", "Identify appropriate interlocutors for a specific cultural or community engagement and verify the scope of their authority.", "Flag unsupported generalisations, proxy-based ethnic assignments, and claims that erase disagreement or variation.", "Determine whether proposed reuse of a particular cultural account or recording requires further consultation or permission." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "zulu-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Zulu identity and boundaries", "description": "How Zulu collective identity is named and described without turning cultural associations into compulsory membership criteria.", "rationale": "The registry names a people; agents must distinguish that referent from language populations, political subjects, and externally assigned categories.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-identification", "name": "Names and identification", "description": "Self-designations, translated labels, and the basis on which sources identify a community as Zulu.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-context", "name": "Identification context", "description": "Record who uses a designation such as Zulu or amaZulu, for whom, and in which linguistic and historical setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the communities addressed by this model use Zulu and amaZulu, and what differences of context or meaning should an agent preserve?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identification-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does a source report self-identification, an administrative classification, or an observer's attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identification-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-affiliation-boundaries", "name": "Language and affiliation boundaries", "description": "Relationships to isiZulu, family affiliations, and wider cultural categories without making any one relationship decisive.", "findings": [ { "id": "non-equivalent-identity-signals", "name": "Non-equivalent identity signals", "description": "Keep language use, family or clan affiliation, and collective identification distinct when describing Zulu communities.", "questions": [ { "text": "When does a source use isiZulu home language as a proxy for Zulu identification, and what population does that choice omit or include?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "non-equivalent-identity-signals-q01" }, { "text": "How do consulted communities describe relationships among Zulu identity, clan affiliations, and broader Nguni identifications?", "kind": "definition", "id": "non-equivalent-identity-signals-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "places-mobility-and-population", "name": "Places, mobility, and population", "description": "Where Zulu-identifying communities live, how they describe connections to places, and what available population measures actually count.", "rationale": "An agent must not reduce Zulu people to residents of one province or present a language count as an ethnic census.", "layers": [ { "id": "place-connections", "name": "Place connections", "description": "Differentiate residence, origin, family connection, and cultural association with KwaZulu-Natal and other places.", "findings": [ { "id": "geographic-scope-and-mobility", "name": "Geographic scope and mobility", "description": "Describe the geographic coverage of each community account and how migration affects its interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish the communities' connections to KwaZulu-Natal, and do those connections concern residence, origin, family history, or cultural association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "geographic-scope-and-mobility-q01" }, { "text": "Which Zulu-identifying communities outside KwaZulu-Natal must be included for the intended use, and how will their inclusion be established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "geographic-scope-and-mobility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-evidence", "name": "Population evidence", "description": "Interpret counts and estimates through their actual questions, coverage, and reference periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "counting-criteria", "name": "Counting criteria", "description": "Attach an explicit counted category to every estimate associated with Zulu people.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed estimate count self-identified Zulu people, isiZulu home-language speakers, or another category, and for which year and territory?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "Are differences between two estimates attributable to population change, geographic coverage, or a change in the identification question?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-criteria-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-identity-and-institutions", "name": "Historical identity and institutions", "description": "Changes in Zulu collective identity and its relationships to historical polities, administrative categories, and representative institutions.", "rationale": "Continuity of a name does not establish an unchanged population, political structure, or representative mandate.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-referents", "name": "Historical referents", "description": "Locate historical uses of Zulu within their period and distinguish political membership from cultural identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "people-and-polity-over-time", "name": "People and polity over time", "description": "Specify how a historical account relates its named population to the Zulu kingdom and to later understandings of Zulu identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "In this historical source, does Zulu refer to a particular community, subjects of the Zulu kingdom, or a broader identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "people-and-polity-over-time-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources support the proposed account of how kingdom formation, colonial administration, and apartheid-era classification affected the use of Zulu identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "people-and-polity-over-time-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-relationships", "name": "Institutional relationships", "description": "Relationships to royal, traditional, civic, and political institutions with explicit limits on representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representation", "name": "Bounded representation", "description": "Treat claims to represent Zulu people as claims with a constituency, subject, period, and evidential basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the documented scope of a royal or traditional institution's authority on the specific issue being considered?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Whose participation or consultation is needed before treating an institutional statement as the position of the affected Zulu community?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-culture-and-engagement", "name": "Living culture and engagement", "description": "Community-specific cultural expression, variation, and conditions for respectful interpretation and reuse.", "rationale": "Descriptions of Zulu culture must remain attributable and situated, while agents need practical guidance for engaging with particular people and materials.", "layers": [ { "id": "situated-cultural-practices", "name": "Situated cultural practices", "description": "Describe practices in their community, period, and setting, including differences in participation and interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-context-and-variation", "name": "Practice context and variation", "description": "Investigate accounts of practices such as izibongo praise poetry or beadwork without treating them as universal attributes of Zulu people.", "questions": [ { "text": "For an account of izibongo or beadwork, which practitioners, community, period, and setting support the description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-context-and-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Which meanings or practices are described as specifically Zulu in this account, and which are shared, disputed, or variable across communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practice-context-and-variation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-custody-and-use", "name": "Knowledge custody and use", "description": "Identify who provided cultural knowledge and what conditions apply to a proposed use of specific materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "consultation-and-reuse", "name": "Consultation and reuse", "description": "Assess attribution, permission, and consultation for particular recordings, narratives, ceremonies, or cultural expressions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who supplied or recorded this Zulu cultural account, and what evidence identifies its creator, custodian, or authorised interpreter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "consultation-and-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "Before reproducing a praise poem, ceremony recording, or explanation of beadwork, what permissions, attribution, or community consultation apply to this material and intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "consultation-and-reuse-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Population estimates require checking whether a source counts ethnic self-identification, home language or another criterion.", "No ethnic-group identifier is supplied; ISO language codes identify isiZulu rather than the Zulu people.", "The batch's occupation-or-role framing does not apply to this ethnic group." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Zulu people 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": [ "Self-identification and the expression of cultural belonging.", "Historical research on the Zulu kingdom and Southern African societies.", "Preservation and transmission of oral histories, genealogies and cultural practices." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Zulu people 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": [ "Equating everyone who speaks isiZulu with Zulu ethnic identification.", "Treating Zulu people as culturally, religiously or politically uniform.", "Conflating an ethnic group with the historical Zulu kingdom or its monarchy.", "Reducing contemporary Zulu life to stereotypes about warfare or historical customs.", "Presenting ethnicity as a biological classification with fixed boundaries." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Zulu people 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": [ "KwaZulu-Natal is the principal historical homeland, but Zulu communities also live elsewhere in South Africa and abroad.", "Language use, cultural practices and relationships to traditional institutions vary across localities, generations and urban and rural settings." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Zulu people 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": "isiZulu", "difference": "A language; speaking it does not by itself establish a person's ethnic identification." }, { "name": "Zulu kingdom", "difference": "A historical political entity; the Zulu people are an ethnic group whose existence extends beyond that state's boundaries and period." }, { "name": "KwaZulu-Natal", "difference": "A South African province with residents of multiple ethnic identities, rather than an ethnic group." }, { "name": "Nguni peoples", "difference": "A broader grouping of related Southern African peoples that includes the Zulu." }, { "name": "Zulu monarch", "difference": "An institutional role held by an individual, rather than the people collectively." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Zulu people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which community-authored and scholarly sources should establish the working definition of Zulu people while preserving differences in self-identification?", "What population evidence directly measures Zulu identification rather than isiZulu use, and how comparable are its geographic and temporal categories?", "Which historical transitions require separate treatment to avoid projecting contemporary Zulu identity onto earlier communities or kingdom subjects?", "How should the model document overlapping or contested representative mandates among royal, traditional, civic, and other institutions?", "Which cultural examples and engagement protocols can be substantiated through named practitioners or communities, including contemporary and diaspora perspectives?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "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 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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 Zulu people, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Zulu people, assess the scope and evidence of claims about them, and support culturally informed actions without treating a diverse people as a single political actor.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 90 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 Zulu people, 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 90 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 Zulu people from another, and a Zulu people from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Zulu people sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Zulu people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Zulu people 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 Zulu people 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 Zulu people is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Zulu people, 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people 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 Zulu people 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Zulu people passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Zulu people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Zulu people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Zulu people is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Zulu people.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Zulu people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Zulu people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Zulu people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Zulu people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Zulu people 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 Zulu people.", "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 Zulu people 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people, 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 Zulu people came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Zulu people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Zulu people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Zulu people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Zulu people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Zulu people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Zulu people 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 } } } }