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since the mid-2000s - through which the centre appoints a governor, stations line departments, and groups districts for civil, security, fiscal and statistical administration.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the province as a first-order territorial administrative unit of Afghanistan, including its identity, extent, constituent districts, administrative seat, governance relationships and province-level operating conditions, while distinguishing formal administrative claims from observed control.", "in_scope": [ "Provincial identity, multilingual names, identifiers and historical continuity", "Provincial boundaries, constituent districts and administrative seat, with effective dates", "Province-level administrative responsibilities and relationships with national and district authorities", "Differences between asserted jurisdiction, effective control and practical administrative reach", "Province-level population, service access and operating conditions relevant to agent decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Afghanistan's national sovereignty, diplomatic recognition and nationwide constitutional order", "Internal administration of individual districts, municipalities and settlements", "Personal histories and attributes of governors or other officeholders", "Internal organisation of armed groups, ministries or humanitarian organisations", "Detailed management of individual roads, border crossings, hospitals or infrastructure assets", "Cultural or historical regions whose extents do not coincide with an administrative province" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The entity is identified as a first-order administrative subdivision of Afghanistan in a dated administrative source, rather than merely as a geographic region.", "A city sharing the province's name is represented separately; the provincial seat is a relationship and does not define the province's full extent.", "Its constituent districts are subordinate territorial units, rather than alternative names for the province.", "A historical region or former province is not treated as the current province without evidence establishing continuity and the relevant period.", "An operational zone or territory under an actor's control is not treated as a province merely because it overlaps provincial territory." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Provincial names and aliases", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attested Dari and Pashto names, Latin-script variants and historical names, each tagged by language and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition across sources without confusing the province with its capital or a historical region." }, { "name": "Administrative identifiers", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identifier with issuing scheme, source and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Allows reliable matching between administrative records, maps and operational datasets." }, { "name": "Administrative lifecycle", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported as existing, proposed, renamed, divided, merged or abolished; dated and source-qualified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical or proposed administrative arrangements from being mistaken for operative ones." }, { "name": "Territorial extent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated boundary representation with source, precision and unresolved disagreements", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a place or activity falls within the province under the selected administrative reference." }, { "name": "Constituent districts", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "District membership with effective dates and disputed or unverified assignments", "why_it_matters": "Supports aggregation and routing while exposing incompatible district arrangements." }, { "name": "Administrative seat", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Designated provincial seat and separately recorded operating location, if different", "why_it_matters": "Identifies where provincial administration is designated to sit and where it can actually be reached." }, { "name": "Administrative authority and reach", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Authority or actor linked to function, locality, period and evidence of mandate or practical control", "why_it_matters": "Separates province-level jurisdiction from the ability to implement decisions." }, { "name": "Resident population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference date, boundary version, estimation method and treatment of displaced and mobile populations", "why_it_matters": "Provides a qualified denominator for needs assessment and service coverage." }, { "name": "Provincial access conditions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Open, conditional, disrupted, inaccessible or unknown, specified by route, locality, activity and time", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a province-wide label from hiding local or seasonal barriers to an intended action." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an Afghan province name or identifier against dated administrative references.", "Determine whether a settlement, district or project location belongs to the province, retaining boundary uncertainty.", "Aggregate district-level observations only when their dates, boundaries and population definitions are compatible.", "Route a province-level request to the evidenced responsible office and identify additional approvals needed for the specific activity.", "Assess whether a proposed provincial operation is feasible given local access, administrative reach and service conditions.", "Compare provincial conditions across periods while accounting for boundary changes and evidence gaps." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-3166-2-af", "title": "ISO 3166-2:AF - Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions, Afghanistan", "url": "https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AF", "what_it_supports": "Stable three-letter subdivision codes for the 34 provinces as first-order units of AF.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "cia-factbook-af", "title": "Afghanistan - The World Factbook", "url": "https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/afghanistan/", "what_it_supports": "Current count of 34 provinces as the country's administrative divisions and the appointed-governor model.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "nsia-pop", "title": "Estimated Population of Afghanistan (provincial tables in NSIA statistical yearbooks)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official estimated population and related indicators published by province in the absence of a completed post-1979 census." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "provincial-identity", "name": "Provincial identity", "description": "Establishes which Afghan administrative province is being represented and during which period.", "rationale": "Multilingual names, shared city names and historical administrative changes can otherwise produce false matches.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "Connects attested names and identifiers to the provincial entity.", "findings": [ { "id": "province-name-resolution", "name": "Province name resolution", "description": "Record source-attested names in relevant scripts and transliterations, separating provincial names from names of cities and broader regions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Dari, Pashto and Latin-script forms identify this province, and which are aliases rather than separate entities?", "kind": "definition", "id": "province-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated sources and identifier schemes establish that these names refer to the same province?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "province-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "administrative-continuity", "name": "Administrative continuity", "description": "Tracks the province's existence and continuity through administrative changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "province-lifecycle", "name": "Province lifecycle", "description": "Record creation, renaming, division, merger or abolition only where evidence distinguishes an announced change from an implemented arrangement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the province's administrative status for the period being modelled?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "province-lifecycle-q01" }, { "text": "Did a reported administrative change preserve this province's identity or create a predecessor-successor relationship?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "province-lifecycle-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territory-and-districts", "name": "Territory and districts", "description": "Defines the province's dated territorial extent and district composition.", "rationale": "Provincial membership and totals depend on which administrative boundaries and district arrangements a source uses.", "layers": [ { "id": "provincial-extent", "name": "Provincial extent", "description": "Distinguishes administrative boundary evidence from mapping approximations and control boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-reference", "name": "Boundary reference", "description": "Record the selected provincial boundary, its date and precision, and competing representations that affect location assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated boundary reference is being used to determine whether a location lies in this Afghan province?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "boundary-reference-q01" }, { "text": "Where do available boundary representations disagree sufficiently to change district, settlement or project assignment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "boundary-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "district-composition", "name": "District composition", "description": "Establishes district membership without silently combining incompatible administrative versions.", "findings": [ { "id": "district-membership", "name": "District membership", "description": "Record constituent districts with membership dates and distinguish proposed districts from those evidenced as operating.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which districts belong to the province in the selected reference period, and which assignments remain contested or unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "district-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes each district's inclusion and whether a reported creation or transfer took effect?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "district-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provincial-administration", "name": "Provincial administration", "description": "Locates provincial administration and distinguishes responsibilities, authority claims and practical reach.", "rationale": "A provincial label alone does not establish which office can decide an issue or carry out a decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "seat-and-responsibilities", "name": "Seat and responsibilities", "description": "Links the province to its administrative seat and relevant provincial offices.", "findings": [ { "id": "administrative-routing", "name": "Administrative routing", "description": "Record the designated seat, operating locations and evidenced division of responsibility among provincial offices, national bodies and district administrations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which settlement is the designated provincial seat, and is provincial administration operating there during the relevant period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "administrative-routing-q01" }, { "text": "For the intended activity, which decisions belong to provincial offices and which require national or district involvement?", "kind": "action", "id": "administrative-routing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-effective-reach", "name": "Authority and effective reach", "description": "Separates asserted jurisdiction from observed ability to administer particular functions and places.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-administrative-reach", "name": "Functional administrative reach", "description": "Record who claims responsibility and who demonstrably performs the relevant administrative function, qualified by location and time.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authorities or actors claim and exercise responsibility for the relevant function within this province?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "functional-administrative-reach-q01" }, { "text": "In which districts or localities is implementation by the provincial administration evidenced, constrained or unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functional-administrative-reach-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-and-service-conditions", "name": "Population and service conditions", "description": "Represents provincial needs and service access through qualified population and coverage evidence.", "rationale": "Province-level assessments can mislead when population estimates, displacement and district coverage refer to different populations or boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-reference", "name": "Population reference", "description": "Establishes who is included in provincial population estimates.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-denominator", "name": "Population denominator", "description": "Record population estimates with their dates, methods, territorial coverage and treatment of displaced, returning and mobile populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What population estimate is usable for this province, and what are its reference date, method and uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-denominator-q01" }, { "text": "How does the estimate account for displaced residents, returnees and seasonally mobile populations, including Kuchi populations where relevant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "population-denominator-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-access", "name": "Service access", "description": "Captures province-level service conditions while retaining meaningful differences within the province.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-coverage-and-exclusion", "name": "Service coverage and exclusion", "description": "Record access to relevant services by district and population group, distinguishing facility presence from actual availability and accessibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What share of the relevant provincial population can access the required service, using which definition of access?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "service-coverage-and-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which districts or population groups face evidenced barriers because of distance, cost, eligibility restrictions or service interruption?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "service-coverage-and-exclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provincial-action-conditions", "name": "Provincial action conditions", "description": "Connects provincial geography and administration to the feasibility of a specific intended activity.", "rationale": "An agent must evaluate the locality, season and responsible authorities before treating a provincial operation as feasible.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-and-operational-access", "name": "Physical and operational access", "description": "Relates access within the province to routes, terrain, weather and observed disruptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "locality-specific-access", "name": "Locality-specific access", "description": "Record route and locality access for the intended activity, including evidenced seasonal closures, hazard impacts and security-related disruption.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which routes connect the provincial seat to the target districts, and what dated evidence establishes their usability for the intended transport?", "kind": "action", "id": "locality-specific-access-q01" }, { "text": "Where and when do snow, flooding, landslides, other hazards or security conditions constrain the proposed activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "locality-specific-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-authorisation", "name": "Activity authorisation", "description": "Identifies the administrative requirements applicable to a concrete provincial activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-and-coordination", "name": "Permission and coordination", "description": "Record evidenced permission and coordination requirements for the activity, including their issuer, scope, validity and limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which permissions or coordination steps apply to this activity in the specified districts, and which offices issue or confirm them?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-and-coordination-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes that a provincial approval covers the intended activity, places and dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-and-coordination-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "The thirty-four current first-order wilayat of the post-2004 administrative map", "Kabul as capital province, with a dense municipal overlay distinct from the rest of the province", "Provinces created by late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century splits (including Nuristan, Khost, Panjshir and Daykundi)", "Larger pre-1964 royal-era provinces later subdivided", "Border provinces that include a segment of the international frontier", "Proposed or locally asserted provinces that were never gazetted nationwide", "The same territorial units under Republic-appointed versus Islamic Emirate-appointed governors" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 3166-2", "value_or_pattern": "AF-XXX (three-letter code; e.g. AF-KAB Kabul, AF-KAN Kandahar, AF-HER Herat, AF-BAL Balkh)", "note": "International subdivision codes for the 34 provinces." }, { "scheme": "UN OCHA P-code (COD-AB Afghanistan)", "value_or_pattern": "AF## (two-digit province code; e.g. AF01 for Kabul in the common operational dataset)", "note": "Humanitarian and statistical matching key; district p-codes nest under the province code." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q171882", "note": "Class item 'province of Afghanistan'; each province is a separate instance." }, { "scheme": "Geonames", "value_or_pattern": "feature 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and district organisation.", "Islamic Emirate decrees appointing and dismissing provincial governors - de facto administration since August 2021, using the inherited 34-unit map.", "UN OCHA Afghanistan Common Operational Dataset (administrative boundaries) - UN OCHA; operational boundary and p-code standard for aid, not a domestic statute." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "National identity, civil registration and many aid beneficiary lists record province of residence as the first geographic field.", "Line ministries, police and (under the Republic) provincial councils were organised one-per-province, with the governor as the centre's main local counterpart.", "Humanitarian clusters, vaccination campaigns, conflict incident datasets (e.g. UNAMA, ACLED) and NSIA statistical tables are routinely aggregated to province.", "Provincial capitals are the usual sites of prisons, referral hospitals, university branches and inter-district markets.", "Security and access reporting treats the province as the default unit even when control actually varies district by district." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Number of first-order provinces in the current map", "typical_range": "34 (fixed count since the 2004 Panjshir and Daykundi splits; not a range)", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "Land area of a province", "typical_range": "about 1800 (Kapisa) to about 58000 (Helmand)", "unit": "km²" }, { "quantity": "Estimated resident population of a province", "typical_range": "about 0.15 million (Nuristan) to about 5-6 million (Kabul); NSIA estimates, not census counts", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Constituent districts per province", "typical_range": "about 4 to about 22", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Contested or dual administration: a named province can have a governor in the capital while large districts are run by a rival force.", "Boundary disputes after splits (especially highland and desert edges) leave villages and grazing land in two competing jurisdictions.", "No completed national census since 1979, so provincial population, budget shares and aid targeting rest on estimates that can be politically inflated.", "Appointed governors with little local acceptance, producing parallel informal power (commanders, tribal shuras) that do not match the map.", "Insecurity or winter closure of mountain districts makes the province a hollow statistical unit: the capital is reachable, the hinterland is not.", "Confusing English spellings and dual Dari/Pashto names cause mis-joins in databases (Wardak/Maidan Wardak, Nimruz/Nimroz, Jowzjan/Jawzjan, Helmand/Hilmand)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Official names exist in Dari and Pashto; English romanisation is not standardised across government, UN and media lists.", "Islamic Emirate usage often prefers 'wilayat' over English 'province'.", "Kabul is treated in practice as city-plus-province; smaller highland provinces (Panjshir, Nuristan, Kapisa) function more like a cluster of valleys.", "Pakistani, Iranian and Tajik sources map Afghan wilayat onto their own first-order vocabulary (province, ostān, viloyat), which implies a different scale and legal status.", "Border provinces along the Durand Line are described differently in Afghan and Pakistani administrative speech; the line itself is not treated as settled in Afghan official usage." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of province of Afghanistan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "District (woleswālī) of Afghanistan", "difference": "A district is the second-order unit; a province contains several districts and has a governor, whereas a district has a district governor (woleswāl) subordinate to the province." }, { "name": "Municipality (shahrwālī)", "difference": "A municipality is an urban local-government overlay for a city; it is not a first-order territorial unit and may sit inside a province (Kabul city inside Kabul province is the usual test)." }, { "name": "Unofficial region or zone (north, south-east, former ISAF regional commands, UN regions)", "difference": "A region is a grouping of several provinces used for logistics or military command; it has no standing in the 34-unit legal map." }, { "name": "Province of Pakistan (e.g. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan)", "difference": "Homonymous first-order units of another state, far larger, with a federal constitutional status Afghan wilayat lack; the test is ISO country prefix (PK- vs AF-) and which capital appoints the executive." }, { "name": "Afghanistan (the state)", "difference": "The province is a part of the state; it has no separate international personality, treaty capacity or ISO 3166-1 code." }, { "name": "Historical first-order units of the monarchy (pre-1964 provinces / ḥukūmat-i aʿlā)", "difference": "Same English word, different map and count; identify by date of the gazetteer - if the list is not the current 34, it is the older layer." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them 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Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 62 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 province of Afghanistan from another, and a province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a province of Afghanistan is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at geographic scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a province of Afghanistan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a province of Afghanistan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a province of Afghanistan is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a province of Afghanistan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a province of Afghanistan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a province of Afghanistan is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a province of Afghanistan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a province of Afghanistan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 province of Afghanistan is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan is carried, installed or relocated.", "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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a province of Afghanistan and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a province of Afghanistan is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a province of Afghanistan performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a province of Afghanistan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a province of Afghanistan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a province of Afghanistan.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a province of Afghanistan at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a province of Afghanistan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a province of Afghanistan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-geometry", "name": "Extent, geometry and naming", "description": "Where province of Afghanistan is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.", "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry", "name": "Geometry and reference system", "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-record", "name": "Geometry, precision and frame", "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.", "questions": [ { "id": "geometry-record-q01", "text": "What geometry describes province of Afghanistan, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "geometry-record-q02", "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names", "name": "Names and endonyms", "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.", "findings": [ { "id": "naming-record", "name": "Names and who uses them", "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.", "questions": [ { "id": "naming-record-q01", "text": "By what names is province of Afghanistan known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "naming-record-q02", "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-access", "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access", "description": "What province of Afghanistan sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.", "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.", "layers": [ { "id": "containment", "name": "Administrative containment", "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-record", "name": "Containing units and effective dates", "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.", "questions": [ { "id": "containment-record-q01", "text": "Which administrative units contain province of Afghanistan, and since when does each containment hold?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "containment-record-q02", "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access and permitted use", "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and their source", "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "Who may enter or use province of Afghanistan, under what conditions, and by whose rule?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan 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 province of Afghanistan is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan, 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 province of Afghanistan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }