{ "model": { "rank": 3969, "code": "thing-q142897", "model_id": "vr.tr.zaza-people", "name": "Zaza people", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise the registered Zaza people concept, assess evidence about its communities and continuity, and support research or engagement without imposing a single identity on everyone associated with it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q142897/", "tier": 2, "score": 80, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 80, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q142897", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142897", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:11:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.1, "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: 01a08793-f0a7-76d1-9286-2771ef7be71e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Zaza people\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.ORG\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 regi", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 70.1, "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: 01a08793-f0aa-7070-979f-2598a026d4a5\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Zaza people\nRegistry id: vr.tr.zaza-people\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q142897", "registryId": "vr.tr.zaza-people", "name": "Zaza people", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q142897/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.zaza-people", "name": "Zaza people", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise the registered Zaza people concept, assess evidence about its communities and continuity, and support research or engagement without imposing a single identity on everyone associated with it.", "definition": "The Zaza people are a population historically concentrated in eastern Turkey and associated with the Zazaki language, whose members variously identify as Zaza, Kurdish, or both.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.zaza-people as a historically situated people and set of communities associated with Zazaki language heritage, including attributed identities, community relationships, cultural transmission and collective representation; SOC/SOC.ORG placement does not make the people a corporate organisation.", "in_scope": [ "Zaza identification, community belonging and context-dependent relationships with Kurdish identification", "Zazaki language heritage and its transmission within families and communities", "Historical settlement, migration and diaspora relationships", "Locally documented religious, cultural and social diversity", "Population evidence, collective representation and community-supported engagement" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The complete grammar, lexicon and classification of Zazaki, which belong to a language model", "The Kurdish people as a whole or other neighbouring peoples", "The territory, government and citizenship system of Turkey", "The legal identity and governance of individual cultural associations or political parties", "Individual ethnicity inferred from names, religion, residence, ancestry or language use", "Religious doctrines and institutions beyond their documented relationships with particular communities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a people or community population, rather than the Zazaki language itself or everyone capable of speaking it.", "An identification claim records who uses 'Zaza', for whom and in what context; linguistic classification alone cannot establish ethnic identification.", "Zaza and Kurdish identifications are recorded separately and may overlap when supported by self-description, rather than being forced into mutually exclusive categories.", "Residence in an associated locality is evidence of location, not sufficient evidence of Zaza belonging.", "A Zaza association can have officers and enrolled members; the Zaza people as a whole must not be assigned those organisational properties." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity terminology and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Verbatim label; language; self-description or external attribution; locality; date; overlapping identifications", "why_it_matters": "Prevents regional terminology and competing identity claims from becoming an imposed universal definition." }, { "name": "Relationship to Zazaki", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "First language, additional language, heritage connection, no reported proficiency, or unknown; variety named by the source", "why_it_matters": "Separates language practice from belonging and makes language shift visible." }, { "name": "Community geography", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Locality and date linked through residence, historical settlement, migration origin, destination or continuing community ties", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes historical geography from current distribution and diaspora connections." }, { "name": "Population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons or households; reference year; geographic coverage; inclusion rule; method; uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents counts of speakers, self-identified people and descendants from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Intergenerational language transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Community-specific evidence of transmission, interrupted transmission, revitalisation or unknown status, with date and method", "why_it_matters": "Supports evaluation of language continuity without assigning one condition to every Zaza community." }, { "name": "Religious affiliation context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally documented or self-described affiliation, multiple affiliations, no affiliation, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports examination of Alevi, Sunni and other reported contexts without making religion a membership test." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named actor; constituency; issue; selection or authorisation process; mandate dates; documented limits", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an organisation's advocacy from authority to speak for the whole people." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve references to the registered people while preserving source terminology and disputed identity relationships.", "Compare population estimates only after aligning their dates, geography and definitions of inclusion.", "Trace documented settlement and diaspora connections without deriving personal ethnicity from location.", "Identify locally evidenced needs for Zazaki transmission, cultural documentation or access to materials.", "Find appropriate community interlocutors and establish the scope of their mandate before engagement.", "Flag unsupported generalisations and retain unresolved claims for further research." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-naming", "name": "Identity and naming", "description": "Record how Zaza belonging is named and understood by particular speakers and communities.", "rationale": "The registry supplies a label without a definition, so recognition must preserve attribution and avoid turning contested classifications into membership rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-in-context", "name": "Names in context", "description": "Distinguish names for people, language and local communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-name-use", "name": "Attributed name use", "description": "Treat Zaza, Dimli and other encountered terms as names requiring contextual evidence before declaring them equivalent registry aliases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who uses each term, in which language, locality and period, and does it denote people or speech?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-name-use-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source establish equivalence with the registered people or only a narrower local usage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-name-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlapping-identifications", "name": "Overlapping identifications", "description": "Represent the relationship between Zaza and Kurdish identification without prescribing it.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-claims-and-speakers", "name": "Identity claims and speakers", "description": "Keep self-description, scholarly classification and political advocacy distinguishable, including disagreement within communities.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the people consulted describe the relationship between their Zaza and Kurdish identities?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-claims-and-speakers-q01" }, { "text": "Whose perspective does an asserted inclusion or separation represent, and whose perspectives are absent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-claims-and-speakers-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-transmission", "name": "Language and transmission", "description": "Model community relationships with Zazaki and the conditions of its continued use.", "rationale": "Language heritage helps recognise the concept, but proficiency, linguistic classification and ethnic belonging answer different questions.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-heritage", "name": "Language heritage", "description": "Connect community records to the language while retaining distinctions between speakers and people.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-people-boundary", "name": "Language-people boundary", "description": "Dimli, also called Zaza, is described as a Northwest Iranian language; this linguistic classification does not determine an individual's identity. Source: [Encyclopaedia Iranica, Dimlī](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dimli/).", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence concern current Zazaki speakers, heritage-language families or people identifying as Zaza?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "language-people-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally named variety and language relationship does the community report?", "kind": "definition", "id": "language-people-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-access", "name": "Transmission and access", "description": "Assess language use and access to learning within particular generations and settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-continuity-evidence", "name": "Local continuity evidence", "description": "Record home use, learning opportunities and community media as separate evidence about continuity, rather than assigning vitality from a total speaker estimate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence shows children learning and using Zazaki in this community?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-continuity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which learning or documentation activities do participants want, and which varieties and writing conventions should they use?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-continuity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "settlement-mobility-and-population", "name": "Settlement, mobility and population", "description": "Relate historical places, current communities and population evidence without treating geography as ethnicity.", "rationale": "Migration and differing counting rules can produce incompatible accounts of the size and distribution of Zaza communities.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-geographies", "name": "Community geographies", "description": "Separate documented historical settlement from present residence and diaspora ties.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-place-relationships", "name": "Dated place relationships", "description": "Record locality names, administrative changes and migration connections with dates and evidence rather than drawing an undated ethnic territory.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document a Zaza community in each locality, and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-place-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Which migration routes and continuing ties connect origin communities with urban or overseas communities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-place-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "counting-and-coverage", "name": "Counting and coverage", "description": "Expose what population estimates actually count.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-population-evidence", "name": "Comparable population evidence", "description": "Keep speaker counts, identity-based estimates and ancestry-based estimates distinct, including survey omissions and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inclusion criterion, year, geographic coverage and sampling method produced this estimate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-population-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can estimates be compared without double-counting overlapping Kurdish identification or diaspora populations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-population-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-diversity-and-memory", "name": "Community diversity and memory", "description": "Capture locally grounded cultural, religious and historical accounts.", "rationale": "A single account of Zaza culture or origin would conceal differences and may elevate disputed narratives into defining facts.", "layers": [ { "id": "religious-and-cultural-contexts", "name": "Religious and cultural contexts", "description": "Examine practices and affiliations where communities document them.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-practices", "name": "Situated practices", "description": "Investigate Alevi, Sunni and other reported contexts through particular communities and practices, without assuming uniform affiliation or observance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community and source associate a practice or affiliation with Zaza life, and how widespread is the evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-practices-q01" }, { "text": "Is the practice specifically associated with that Zaza community or shared with neighbouring communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-practices-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-accounts", "name": "Historical accounts", "description": "Distinguish documentary history, oral memory and proposed origin narratives.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-with-evidence-status", "name": "History with evidence status", "description": "Preserve the source and evidential status of accounts of origins, migration and collective experience, including unresolved disagreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which claims rely on contemporary records, later oral accounts, linguistic inference or political interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "history-with-evidence-status-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would be needed before a proposed origin or migration narrative could be treated as established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "history-with-evidence-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-engagement", "name": "Representation and engagement", "description": "Identify who can participate in decisions about Zaza-related research and cultural work.", "rationale": "The people have no presumed single governing body; actionable engagement requires specific mandates and community preferences.", "layers": [ { "id": "voices-and-mandates", "name": "Voices and mandates", "description": "Link associations, researchers and community interlocutors to their actual constituencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representation", "name": "Bounded representation", "description": "Record an actor's stated role and demonstrated mandate without treating visibility or advocacy as universal representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who authorised this actor to speak, for which constituency and on which issue?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional local, religious, generational or diaspora perspectives are needed for this proposed engagement?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-representation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-directed-use", "name": "Community-directed use", "description": "Establish appropriate uses of community knowledge and identity-related information.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-use-and-correction", "name": "Agreed use and correction", "description": "Tie recording, translation and publication to contributor preferences, attribution and a way to correct misrepresentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What permission and attribution conditions apply to the Zazaki recordings, oral histories or community materials being used?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-use-and-correction-q01" }, { "text": "How can contributors correct identity labels, translations or claims about the community before and after publication?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-use-and-correction-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": [ "This describes a population and identity category, not an organisation, despite the supplied SOC.ORG domain.", "Ethnic classification and the relationship between Zaza and Kurdish identities are contested; research should distinguish external classifications from people's self-identification.", "Population totals, settlement boundaries, and patterns of language retention require verification; no sources were consulted for this recall-based description." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Zaza people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "zza", "note": "Identifies the Zaza (Zazaki) macrolanguage, not the people or an individual's ethnic identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Zaza 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 community affiliation.", "Linguistic research, language teaching, and cultural preservation.", "Historical and anthropological study of eastern Turkey and its diasporas." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Zaza 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": [ "Treating Zaza people as a formally constituted organisation with a single governing body or membership register.", "Assuming that speaking Zazaki determines whether someone identifies as Zaza, Kurdish, or both.", "Presenting population estimates as precise counts without specifying whether they measure language, ancestry, or self-identification.", "Treating religious affiliation or regional origin as uniform across the population." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Zaza 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": [ "Historical settlement includes areas around Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, and parts of Diyarbakır in eastern Turkey.", "Alevi and Sunni Muslim communities are both represented, with religious affiliation varying geographically.", "Migration has established communities in western Turkish cities and European countries, notably Germany." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Zaza 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": "Zazaki", "difference": "A language associated with the population; a language and a people are different entities, and their boundaries need not coincide." }, { "name": "Kurds", "difference": "A broader, overlapping identity: many Zaza people identify as Kurdish, while others identify as a distinct people; there is no universally accepted exclusive boundary." }, { "name": "Alevis", "difference": "A religious and cultural affiliation encompassing people of multiple linguistic backgrounds; not all Zaza people are Alevi." }, { "name": "Kurmanji-speaking communities", "difference": "Communities associated with Kurmanji rather than Zazaki; linguistic distinction does not itself establish a separate ethnic identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Zaza people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which community-authored and scholarly sources best establish the regional uses of Zaza, Dimli, Kırd and Kırmanj without conflating people, language and wider identities?", "How do Zaza and Kurdish identifications overlap or differ across localities, generations and diaspora settings, according to appropriately sampled self-description?", "Which population estimates offer transparent methods and distinguish language proficiency, self-identification and ancestry?", "What recent local evidence establishes intergenerational Zazaki transmission, learning access and community priorities?", "Which historical origin claims and claims to collective representation remain disputed, and what evidence would resolve or more accurately delimit them?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Zaza people, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise the registered Zaza people concept, assess evidence about its communities and continuity, and support research or engagement without imposing a single identity on everyone associated with it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 80 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 Zaza people, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 80 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 Zaza people from another, and a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Zaza people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Zaza people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Zaza people is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Zaza people take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Zaza people, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Zaza people and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Zaza people may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Zaza people have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Zaza 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 Zaza people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Zaza 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 Zaza 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 Zaza people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }