{ "model": { "rank": 4522, "code": "thing-q170143", "model_id": "vr.tr.banat", "name": "Banat", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Banat as a historical region, interpret its changing territorial and institutional context, and route location-dependent actions to the appropriate authorities.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170143/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170143", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170143", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:25:44Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087d7-f755-7231-9e92-bb4f37d2375b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Banat\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.ORG\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 72.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087d7-f767-7d10-8a09-bd5ab0e40c23\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Banat\nRegistry id: vr.tr.banat\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q170143", "registryId": "vr.tr.banat", "name": "Banat", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q170143/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.banat", "name": "Banat", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Banat as a historical region, interpret its changing territorial and institutional context, and route location-dependent actions to the appropriate authorities.", "definition": "Banat most commonly denotes a historical and geographical region of southeastern Europe, broadly bounded by the Mureș, Tisza and Danube rivers and the Southern Carpathians, now divided among Romania, Serbia and Hungary.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, source-qualified extent, historical continuity and jurisdictional relationships of Banat, registry vr.tr.banat, whose underlying identifier Q170143 denotes a geographical and historical region; the supplied SOC.ORG classification requires review rather than an invented organisational identity. [Wikidata: Banat](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170143)", "in_scope": [ "Banat's regional identity and multilingual name resolution", "Source-specific regional boundaries and settlement inclusion", "Relationships between the whole region and its Romanian, Serbian and Hungarian portions", "Historical administrations and territorial changes as dated relationships", "Regional affiliation and comparable demographic observations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Banate as a general class of territory governed by a ban", "Separate historical states and administrative entities with Banat in their names", "National and municipal governments as organisations with their own mandates", "Individual ethnic communities, languages and diaspora organisations", "Detailed models of rivers, terrain, infrastructure and individual settlements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Resolve the registry entry through Q170143 before interpreting its SOC.ORG label as evidence of an organisation.", "Require an explicit whole-region or country-portion qualifier when a source uses Banat.", "Distinguish a historical regional extent from the territory administered by a particular Banat-named institution during a specified period.", "Treat settlement inclusion, cultural affiliation and administrative jurisdiction as separate tests.", "Do not infer a common government, legal personality or membership register from a shared regional name." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Regional referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole historical region | country portion | historical administrative referent | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents records about different Banat referents from being merged." }, { "name": "Boundary interpretation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "source-linked geometry or textual boundary, with reference period", "why_it_matters": "Makes inclusion decisions reproducible without assuming one timeless polygon." }, { "name": "Territorial coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "km², conditional on boundary interpretation and calculation method", "why_it_matters": "Prevents area figures for different extents from appearing directly comparable." }, { "name": "Settlement inclusion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "included | excluded | boundary-dependent | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports cautious classification of places described as being in Banat." }, { "name": "Administrative affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "territorial portion → governing entity, qualified by date and function", "why_it_matters": "Routes an action to an institution with relevant authority." }, { "name": "Regional name usage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "name → language, script, source, period and referent", "why_it_matters": "Supports multilingual retrieval without treating every similar name as equivalent." }, { "name": "Population observation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "persons, with census date, included units and coverage limitations", "why_it_matters": "Makes regional totals auditable across administrative boundaries." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a Banat reference to the whole region, a territorial portion or a separate historical institution.", "Assess whether a settlement belongs to a specified interpretation of Banat.", "Compare maps and descriptions while exposing boundary disagreements.", "Trace the administrative affiliation of a place through dated territorial changes.", "Route an administrative inquiry through the relevant territorial authority.", "Aggregate regional observations only when geographical coverage and measurement definitions align." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "banat-identity", "name": "Banat identity", "description": "Resolve the registered historical region and separate it from namesakes and administrative senses.", "rationale": "The registry's organisational classification conflicts with its underlying regional referent.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-referent", "name": "Registry referent", "description": "Anchor the model to the thing actually identified by the registry.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-identity-anchor", "name": "Regional identity anchor", "description": "Record the identifier evidence supporting the regional interpretation and retain the classification discrepancy for review.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry's Q170143 mapping remain the authoritative identity anchor for vr.tr.banat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-identity-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "Which catalogue classification represents a historical region without implying corporate governance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-identity-anchor-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names-and-senses", "name": "Names and senses", "description": "Separate multilingual regional names, shortened references and names of distinct institutions.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-name-resolution", "name": "Qualified name resolution", "description": "Associate each attested name with its language, period and intended territorial referent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish the regional equivalence of each recorded spelling or translation of Banat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "When does Banat denote the whole region, one country's portion or a particular historical administration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-extent", "name": "Regional extent", "description": "Represent Banat's geographical extent through explicit boundary interpretations.", "rationale": "Regional inclusion cannot safely be derived from a modern administrative name alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "boundary-evidence", "name": "Boundary evidence", "description": "Preserve the maps and textual descriptions defining each interpretation of Banat.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-definition", "name": "Extent definition", "description": "Treat a boundary as a sourced interpretation with a date, scale and stated uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which map or geographical description defines the Banat extent used for this task?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "extent-definition-q01" }, { "text": "How does that source resolve river margins, upland limits and disputed edge settlements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "extent-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "places-and-area", "name": "Places and area", "description": "Derive settlement inclusion and area from the selected regional extent.", "findings": [ { "id": "inclusion-and-coverage", "name": "Inclusion and coverage", "description": "Distinguish settlements within the selected boundary from administrative units that only partly overlap it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this settlement included under the selected Banat boundary, and do other documented interpretations disagree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "inclusion-and-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "What area results from that boundary, using which projection and treatment of partial administrative units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "inclusion-and-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-territorial-continuity", "name": "Historical territorial continuity", "description": "Connect the regional referent to successive administrations and territorial changes.", "rationale": "A persistent regional name does not establish continuity of government, borders or legal identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-administrations", "name": "Historical administrations", "description": "Relate historical political entities to the portions of Banat they administered.", "findings": [ { "id": "administration-region-overlap", "name": "Administration and region overlap", "description": "Keep institutional existence and jurisdiction separate from the continuing regional identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which historical administration governed the location in question during the requested period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "administration-region-overlap-q01" }, { "text": "How did its jurisdiction differ from the Banat regional extent used by this model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "administration-region-overlap-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "partition-and-transition", "name": "Partition and transition", "description": "Represent dated transfers, divisions and implementation uncertainties.", "findings": [ { "id": "territorial-change-evidence", "name": "Territorial change evidence", "description": "Record the affected territory and distinguish proclaimed, legally effective and implemented changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instruments and maps establish each division or transfer affecting Banat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "territorial-change-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Did proclamation, legal effect and actual administration begin on different dates?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "territorial-change-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territorial-authority-routing", "name": "Territorial authority routing", "description": "Connect locations within Banat to authorities responsible for specific actions.", "rationale": "The regional label alone cannot identify who can issue a permit, maintain a register or answer an administrative request.", "layers": [ { "id": "country-portions", "name": "Country portions", "description": "Represent the region's country portions and their overlap with administrative units.", "findings": [ { "id": "portion-to-administration", "name": "Portion to administration", "description": "Map a selected location to dated national and subnational units without equating those units with Banat.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which country and subnational units contain this Banat location at the relevant date?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "portion-to-administration-q01" }, { "text": "Which official territorial register verifies those affiliations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "portion-to-administration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-specific-competence", "name": "Action-specific competence", "description": "Determine authority from location and requested function.", "findings": [ { "id": "competent-institution", "name": "Competent institution", "description": "Require an evidenced mandate before treating a Banat-named body as an authorised decision-maker.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which institution is competent for the requested action at this location?", "kind": "action", "id": "competent-institution-q01" }, { "text": "Does a body using Banat in its name have a relevant territorial mandate or only a cultural or promotional role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competent-institution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-affiliation-and-observation", "name": "Regional affiliation and observation", "description": "Represent cultural affiliation and population evidence without confusing them with territorial authority.", "rationale": "Regional identity and statistical coverage require separate evidence and may extend across different boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "cultural-affiliation", "name": "Cultural affiliation", "description": "Record source-specific expressions of belonging to Banat.", "findings": [ { "id": "affiliation-without-membership", "name": "Affiliation without membership", "description": "Separate self-described regional affiliation, scholarly classification and residence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who describes this community, institution or practice as Banat-associated, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "affiliation-without-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Does that affiliation describe residence, historical origin, cultural practice or diaspora connection?", "kind": "definition", "id": "affiliation-without-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparable-regional-statistics", "name": "Comparable regional statistics", "description": "Assess whether observations from different territorial portions can support a regional statement.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-aggregation-basis", "name": "Population aggregation basis", "description": "Bind each total to a boundary, date, included units and compatible population definitions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which census units and dates cover the selected Banat extent, and which include territory outside it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-aggregation-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Can these observations be combined without incompatible definitions, omitted areas or double counting?", "kind": "action", "id": "population-aggregation-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The geographical sense is supplied from recall; the registry provides no sense, and SOC.ORG does not fit it clearly.", "Check the originating registry record before treating this description as identification of the intended thing.", "Historical boundaries and administrative uses of the name vary by period; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Banat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Regional identification in historical, geographical and cultural studies.", "Description of cultural heritage and communities across modern national borders." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Banat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating the historical region as a single present-day administrative jurisdiction.", "Confusing the region with a particular historical administration bearing its name.", "Assigning an organisational identity based solely on the SOC.ORG domain code." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Banat 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": [ "Romanian Banat, Serbian Banat and the small Hungarian portion belong to different national administrative systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Banat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Banate", "difference": "A banate is a territory governed by a ban; Banat is also the proper name of this particular historical region." }, { "name": "Banat of Temeswar", "difference": "The Banat of Temeswar was a historical Habsburg administrative territory; the geographical region is not restricted to that administration or its lifespan." }, { "name": "Vojvodina", "difference": "Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia containing the Serbian portion of Banat alongside other historical regions." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Banat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should vr.tr.banat be reclassified from SOC.ORG to a regional category while preserving its existing identity?", "Which authoritative geographical sources should define the default regional extent, and which alternative extents must remain available?", "Which existing catalogue models already cover Banat or its historical administrations and therefore require links instead of duplicate publications?", "Which instruments and implementation records establish the chronology and precise boundaries of territorial divisions affecting Banat?", "Can a defensible population series be assembled across its country portions despite changing boundaries and incompatible census dates or definitions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Banat, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Banat as a historical region, interpret its changing territorial and institutional context, and route location-dependent actions to the appropriate authorities.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 74 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Banat, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 74 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 Banat from another, and a Banat 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 Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Banat 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 Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat.", "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 Banat and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Banat, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Banat sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat 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 Banat and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 Banat is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Banat, 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 Banat, 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 Banat 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 } } } }