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through nineteenth-century Russian conquest and forced displacement.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Circassians as a registered collective people, including the boundaries of that designation, community diversity, cultural continuity, historical displacement and contemporary representation; it does not treat the people as a single organisation or infer individual ethnicity.", "in_scope": [ "Contextual meanings of Circassian and related self-designations, including Adyghe", "Relations among Circassian communities, subgroup identities and external classifications", "Language use, cultural transmission and community-defined heritage", "Homeland and diaspora relationships, displacement narratives and historical evidence", "Community representation, priorities and consent for engagement" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual biographies, citizenship records and inferred personal ethnicity", "Full linguistic descriptions of languages associated with Circassian communities", "Governance and operations of particular Circassian organisations", "Complete histories of Caucasian wars, states or empires", "Territorial administration and individual immigration or legal claims" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether Circassian identifies a people, a language label, a geographic association or a historical administrative category in the source.", "Require explicit evidence for an asserted relationship between Circassians and a named subgroup; neither merge all North Caucasian peoples nor split the registry entry automatically.", "Distinguish collective Circassian identity from citizenship, residence and ancestry, none of which alone establishes individual identification.", "Separate a community's self-description from labels assigned by censuses, governments, scholars or neighbouring populations.", "Distinguish an organisation speaking about Circassians from evidence that it represents a specified Circassian constituency." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Designation 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"affordances": [ "Disambiguate Circassian references and connect related designations without silently equating them.", "Compare population and language evidence using explicit geographic, temporal and definitional limits.", "Trace attributed accounts of displacement and homeland connections while retaining disagreements.", "Identify community-specific language and heritage priorities from documented requests.", "Locate appropriate community interlocutors and verify their mandate before proposing engagement.", "Flag unsupported generalisations, sensitive identity data and restrictions on cultural reuse." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "circassian-identity-and-names", "name": "Circassian identity and names", "description": "Establish what Circassians denotes in each context and how associated identities relate to the registry entry.", "rationale": "Recognition fails if Circassian, Adyghe, subgroup names and administrative labels are assumed to be exact 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"named-community-affiliations", "name": "Named community affiliations", "description": "Assess relationships involving names such as Kabardian and Shapsug without assuming every source uses the same boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the named communities describe their relationship to Circassian identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "named-community-affiliations-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence supports representing a name as an internal affiliation, an overlapping category or a separate neighbouring referent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "named-community-affiliations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "homeland-diaspora-and-population", "name": "Homeland, diaspora and population", "description": "Locate Circassian communities and assess population evidence without collapsing residence into identity.", "rationale": "A useful Circassian model must connect dispersed communities while preserving local definitions and circumstances.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-geographies", "name": "Community geographies", "description": "Record place relationships and the meanings communities attach to homeland and diaspora.", "findings": [ { "id": "homeland-and-settlement-connections", "name": "Homeland and settlement connections", "description": "Distinguish historical place associations, present settlement and continuing community connections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which places does a specified Circassian community identify as homeland or diaspora settlement, and for what period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "homeland-and-settlement-connections-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence documents family, cultural or institutional connections between those places?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "homeland-and-settlement-connections-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-evidence", "name": "Population evidence", "description": "Make Circassian counts comparable only where their inclusion rules permit it.", "findings": [ { "id": "counting-circassian-populations", "name": "Counting Circassian populations", "description": "Attach definitions, coverage and uncertainty to each estimate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this count measure declared Circassian ethnicity, ancestry, language use or a combination, and for which date and territory?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-circassian-populations-q01" }, { "text": "Could separate subgroup categories, unrecorded identities or overlapping estimates cause omission or double counting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "counting-circassian-populations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-continuity", "name": "Language and cultural continuity", "description": "Assess community-defined language and cultural practices through transmission, variation and access.", "rationale": "Cultural support requires evidence about particular Circassian communities rather than a fixed checklist of ethnic traits.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-identification-and-transmission", "name": "Language identification and transmission", "description": "Connect local language names and use patterns to appropriate linguistic models.", "findings": [ { "id": "adyghe-kabardian-language-contexts", "name": "Adyghe and Kabardian language contexts", "description": "Record how sources and communities distinguish language varieties, teaching standards and proficiency.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the community name its language or variety, and how does that usage relate to labels such as Adyghe and Kabardian?", "kind": "definition", "id": "adyghe-kabardian-language-contexts-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence describes use and transmission across generations, households, education and community activities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adyghe-kabardian-language-contexts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "heritage-practice-and-access", "name": "Heritage practice and access", "description": "Represent living practices through their practitioners, local meanings and sharing conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "khabze-and-community-heritage", "name": "Khabze and community heritage", "description": "Investigate references to Khabze and other named traditions without making observance a test of Circassian identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does Khabze mean to the community or source concerned, and which differences in interpretation are documented?", "kind": "definition", "id": "khabze-and-community-heritage-q01" }, { "text": "Who may authorise recording, translating or reusing the specific practice, performance or heritage material?", "kind": "action", "id": "khabze-and-community-heritage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "displacement-history-and-memory", "name": "Displacement history and memory", "description": "Relate historical evidence, displacement accounts and remembrance without conflating their evidentiary roles.", "rationale": "Circassian historical narratives require careful handling of event descriptions, population-loss estimates and contested terminology.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-events-and-displacement", "name": "Historical events and displacement", "description": "Build attributed accounts of events associated with Circassian displacement.", "findings": [ { "id": "nineteenth-century-displacement-evidence", "name": "Nineteenth-century displacement evidence", "description": "Investigate events and routes through dated sources while preserving uncertainty about scale and causation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document nineteenth-century expulsions, flight, mortality and resettlement involving Circassians, and which locations and dates do they cover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nineteenth-century-displacement-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How were reported displacement and mortality figures derived, and what uncertainty or gaps remain?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nineteenth-century-displacement-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "commemoration-and-recognition", "name": "Commemoration and recognition", "description": "Separate remembrance practices from scholarly characterisations and formal recognition acts.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-terminology-and-remembrance", "name": "Historical terminology and remembrance", "description": "Attribute descriptions such as genocide and record the scope of any recognition claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who characterises which events as genocide or uses another term, and what evidence or formal act supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-terminology-and-remembrance-q01" }, { "text": "What meanings do particular Circassian communities give to commemorations, including references to 21 May?", "kind": "definition", "id": "historical-terminology-and-remembrance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-community-engagement", "name": "Representation and community engagement", "description": "Establish who can speak for particular constituencies and what actions communities seek or permit.", "rationale": "An agent must engage 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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 Circassians 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 Circassians from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians 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 Circassians is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians 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 Circassians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Circassians 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians.", "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 Circassians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Circassians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Circassians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians.", "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 Circassians 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 Circassians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Circassians, 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 Circassians, 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 Circassians 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 } } } }