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Polish identity.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective identity, affiliations, geographic connections, cultural transmission and representation of Kashubians under vr.tr.kashubians; it treats the entry as a community rather than assuming the legal personality or unified governance of an organisation.", "in_scope": [ "Kashubian self-identification and its relationship to other identities", "Community connections to Kashubia, migration destinations and diaspora networks", "The role of Kashubian language use and transmission in community continuity", "Cultural practices, collective memory and intergenerational participation", "Community representation, institutional relationships and conditions affecting participation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Kashubian language's full grammar, lexicon and linguistic classification", "Kashubia's physical geography and administrative geography as independent subjects", "Individual biographies, ancestry records and inferred ethnicity", "The internal governance and legal records of particular Kashubian associations", "Polish national history except where directly relevant to Kashubian community experience" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a community of people identifying or being described as Kashubian, rather than the Kashubian language or Kashubia as a place.", "Residence in Kashubia alone does not establish Kashubian affiliation, and residence elsewhere does not exclude it.", "Kashubian language competence and Kashubian self-identification are recorded separately rather than treated as interchangeable membership tests.", "Kashubian and Polish affiliations are allowed to coexist where people describe themselves that way.", "An association claiming to represent Kashubians is distinguished from the wider community and must have a separately evidenced mandate." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity description", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed self-descriptions; multiple 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and survey definition", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of language participation without making fluency a condition of belonging." }, { "name": "Intergenerational transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Evidence of continuity, expansion, interruption or revitalisation, specified by practice, locality, generation and date", "why_it_matters": "Identifies which aspects of cultural continuity require support and avoids assigning one condition to the entire community." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organisation or spokesperson linked to constituency, mandate basis, remit, period and documented limits", "why_it_matters": "Allows engagement with accountable representatives without assuming that any one body speaks for all Kashubians." }, { "name": "Recognition and provision", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Source-verified legal or administrative category and associated provisions, with jurisdiction and effective date", "why_it_matters": "Separates community identity from legal categories and establishes what provisions actually apply." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare accounts of Kashubian identity while preserving attribution, date and disagreement.", "Assess population and language-use evidence using compatible definitions and geographic coverage.", "Map documented relationships among Kashubian communities, Kashubia and diaspora networks.", "Identify locally evidenced needs for language learning, cultural transmission or community participation.", "Locate appropriate community interlocutors and verify the limits of their representative mandates.", "Evaluate proposed documentation or cultural-support activities against community preferences, consent and applicable provisions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-belonging", "name": "Identity and belonging", "description": "How Kashubian affiliation is expressed, attributed and distinguished from neighbouring 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"membership-boundaries", "name": "Membership boundaries", "description": "Distinctions among identification, language competence, ancestry and residence.", "findings": [ { "id": "affiliation-evidence", "name": "Affiliation evidence", "description": "Keep the basis of each community description explicit; do not infer an individual's ethnicity from a name, location or linguistic behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is Kashubian affiliation self-reported, attributed by a source or defined through an institutional counting rule?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "affiliation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How does the account distinguish Kashubians from all residents of Kashubia and from all speakers or learners of Kashubian?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "affiliation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kashubia-and-dispersed-communities", "name": "Kashubia and dispersed communities", "description": "Territorial connections, population evidence and relationships maintained across migration.", "rationale": "A model needs to connect Kashubians to Kashubia without making a territorial boundary the boundary of the community.", "layers": [ { "id": "territorial-and-population-evidence", "name": "Territorial and population evidence", "description": "The geographic coverage and counting conventions behind descriptions of Kashubian communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-community-counts", "name": "Comparable community counts", "description": "Attach a reference area, date and identification criterion to every population figure or distribution claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which definition of Kashubia or administrative areas does this account use when locating Kashubian communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-community-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Does the population figure count Kashubian identification, language use, ancestry or another criterion, and can multiple responses be included?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-community-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "migration-and-continuing-connections", "name": "Migration and continuing connections", "description": "Evidence of Kashubian affiliation and community relationships outside the region.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-affiliation", "name": "Diaspora affiliation", "description": "Distinguish documented Kashubian diaspora participation from ancestry claims or broad accounts of Polish migration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document Kashubian self-identification or organised cultural participation in the proposed diaspora locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "What continuing relationships with communities in Kashubia are evidenced through exchanges, family networks, language activity or shared institutions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-continuity", "name": "Language and cultural continuity", "description": "How Kashubian language participation, cultural practices and collective memory are sustained or changed.", "rationale": "Community continuity cannot be assessed through population counts alone or reduced to a single test of language fluency.", "layers": [ { "id": "kashubian-language-participation", "name": "Kashubian language participation", "description": "Use, learning and transmission of Kashubian within community life.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-and-transmission", "name": "Language use and transmission", "description": "Separate understanding, speaking, literacy, learning and use across generations and settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes competence in Kashubian from its actual use in households, education, media and community activities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-and-transmission-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally identified barriers or opportunities should guide support for intergenerational transmission and new learners?", "kind": "action", "id": "language-use-and-transmission-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "practices-and-collective-memory", "name": "Practices and collective memory", "description": "Community-attributed traditions, contemporary cultural activity and accounts of shared experience.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-cultural-practices", "name": "Situated cultural practices", "description": "Describe cultural practices through their participants, settings and histories rather than presenting them as universal Kashubian traits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices and historical experiences do consulted communities identify as significant to Kashubian belonging, and where do accounts differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-cultural-practices-q01" }, { "text": "Who should be consulted before documenting, translating, reproducing or publicly presenting the relevant cultural material?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-cultural-practices-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-public-conditions", "name": "Representation and public conditions", "description": "Representative relationships, legal recognition and practical access to community-relevant provisions.", "rationale": "Agents need to distinguish cultural affiliation, organisational authority and legal entitlements before acting on behalf of or in relation to Kashubians.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-representation", "name": "Community representation", "description": "How associations, institutions and spokespersons relate to particular Kashubian constituencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-authority", "name": "Bounded representative authority", "description": "Record who a representative speaks for, on what basis and for which decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What membership, election, consultation or other evidence supports the claimed representative mandate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which Kashubian localities, generations, diaspora 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"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Kashubians 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": [ "The historical core lies in Kashubia, within Pomerania in northern Poland.", "Local Kashubian speech varieties and cultural traditions differ across the region.", "Diaspora communities, including those in Canada and the United States, have distinct migration histories and patterns of language retention." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Kashubians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled 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}, "openQuestions": [ "Which community-authored and scholarly sources should ground the registry definition while preserving differences in ethnic, regional and national self-description?", "What are the latest comparable population and language-use figures, and how do their questions and treatment of multiple identifications affect interpretation?", "Which geographic definitions of Kashubia and which diaspora communities are adequately supported for inclusion?", "What current legal categories and provisions apply, and how consistently are they implemented across relevant localities?", "Which sources and consultation partners adequately capture variation across generations, local communities, language participation and representative organisations?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from 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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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Kashubians 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians.", "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 Kashubians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Kashubians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Kashubians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 Kashubians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Kashubians, 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 Kashubians, 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 Kashubians 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 } } } }