{ "model": { "rank": 4726, "code": "thing-q172365", "model_id": "vr.tr.san-people", "name": "San people", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise the communities referred to as San people, assess the evidence behind descriptions of them, and identify appropriate community authority for proposed actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q172365/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "ǀXam people", "ǃKung people" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q172365", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172365", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:52:14Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.3, "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: 01a087f0-690b-7d60-b53d-ae6c1c98ef57\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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livelihoods.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective referent of vr.tr.san-people and the distinctions needed to describe its constituent communities without treating San identity, language, livelihood, territory or representation as uniform.", "in_scope": [ "Community self-identification, preferred names and the contextual use of San", "Relationships among named communities and the registry's collective entry", "Community-specific languages, territories, histories and contemporary livelihoods", "Collective representation, priorities and authority to authorise engagement", "Provenance, access conditions and permitted uses of community knowledge" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Personal records or inferred ethnicity of individual people", "Full linguistic descriptions of particular languages", "Administrative models of countries, settlements or protected areas", "Operational records of representative organisations", "Complete legal cases, land-title systems or research-project protocols" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether San is a community-accepted designation, an external classification or a disputed label in the specific context.", "Distinguish the registry's collective referent from a particular named community; evidence about one community does not establish a property of all San people.", "Do not establish San identity from language, appearance, genetic ancestry, residence or livelihood alone.", "Check the documented relationship to labels such as Khoisan rather than treating overlapping classifications as synonyms.", "Distinguish living communities and their present circumstances from archaeological populations or historical representations." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Community naming and identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-designation; accepted umbrella designation; external designation; contested designation; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which names an agent can use and whose identification the description represents." }, { "name": "Evidence applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claim linked to a named community, place, period and source", "why_it_matters": "Prevents local or historical observations from becoming universal claims about San people." }, { "name": "Language relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-linked language names, varieties, usage contexts and dates", "why_it_matters": "Keeps language affiliation distinct from collective identity and accommodates multilingualism." }, { "name": "Territorial relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Current residence; historical association; seasonal use; cultural significance; asserted claim; recognised right", "why_it_matters": "Separates different relationships to land without treating residence as proof of ownership or belonging." }, { "name": "Livelihood configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Community-described activities and combinations, qualified by location and period", "why_it_matters": "Avoids making any single subsistence practice a condition of San identity." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented; limited; contested; expired; unknown, with constituency and decision scope", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who may speak or decide for a particular community and purpose." }, { "name": "Knowledge-use permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Publicly shareable; permission required; restricted; withdrawn; unknown, with authorising party and conditions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes access to information from permission to reproduce or use it." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a source's use of San to the relevant community, place and period.", "Compare community-specific accounts while preserving disagreements and limits of coverage.", "Identify appropriate representatives and knowledge custodians for a proposed engagement.", "Describe contemporary circumstances without using traditional practices as authenticity tests.", "Check whether proposed publication, research or reuse has the necessary community-specific authorisation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-collective-boundaries", "name": "Identity and collective boundaries", "description": "Establish how San and related community names are used and what the registry entry includes.", "rationale": "A collective entry must preserve differences in identification rather than impose a single membership test.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-self-identification", "name": "Names and self-identification", "description": "Record preferred names and the authority and context behind each designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-use-of-san", "name": "Contextual use of San", "description": "Record who uses the designation San, for whom, and whether the people described accept that usage.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the community describe itself, and in which contexts does it accept or reject the designation San?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-use-of-san-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied each name, when was it recorded, and does its source distinguish self-identification from external classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-use-of-san-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "umbrella-and-community-boundaries", "name": "Umbrella and community boundaries", "description": "Distinguish the collective entry from named communities and neighbouring classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-collective-attribution", "name": "Limits of collective attribution", "description": "Qualify the inclusion of named communities and prevent evidence from being transferred across classification boundaries without support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which communities does this source include under San, and where is that inclusion uncertain or disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-collective-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "How does the source distinguish San from Khoisan and other labels it uses?", "kind": "definition", "id": "limits-of-collective-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territories-and-historical-change", "name": "Territories and historical change", "description": "Describe community-specific relationships to places and changes in those relationships.", "rationale": "Accounts of San people need to distinguish present residence, historical association and land rights rather than collapse them into a distribution map.", "layers": [ { "id": "place-and-land-relationships", "name": "Place and land relationships", "description": "Record the meaning, evidence and sensitivity of community relationships to particular places.", "findings": [ { "id": "territorial-relationship-types", "name": "Territorial relationship types", "description": "Separate residence, resource use, cultural association, claims and recognised rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each named San community and place, is the relationship current residence, historical association, resource use, cultural significance or a land claim?", "kind": "definition", "id": "territorial-relationship-types-q01" }, { "text": "Which community accounts and documentary sources support the relationship, and which location details require restricted access?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "territorial-relationship-types-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-historical-trajectories", "name": "Community historical trajectories", "description": "Connect dated accounts of continuity and change to the communities concerned.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-changes-in-place-and-access", "name": "Documented changes in place and access", "description": "Record evidenced changes in settlement, mobility or access without assuming one shared history.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in residence, mobility or land access are documented for this community, and during which periods?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-changes-in-place-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "Where do community histories and administrative accounts disagree about the causes or consequences of those changes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-changes-in-place-and-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "languages-and-knowledge-authority", "name": "Languages and knowledge authority", "description": "Record language relationships and community authority over cultural knowledge and its use.", "rationale": "The model must not equate San with a single language or treat accessible cultural material as freely reusable.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-language-relationships", "name": "Community language relationships", "description": "Describe language use at the community level while keeping linguistic classification separate.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-without-identity-tests", "name": "Language use without identity tests", "description": "Record community-reported language names, multilingual practices and transmission without making fluency a membership requirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which languages and varieties does the community name, and in which settings and generations are they used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "language-use-without-identity-tests-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports any assessment of language transmission, and when and among whom was it collected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-without-identity-tests-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-knowledge-and-permissions", "name": "Cultural knowledge and permissions", "description": "Identify custodians and conditions governing stories, images, practices and other knowledge.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-for-knowledge-reuse", "name": "Authority for knowledge reuse", "description": "Attach community-specific attribution and permission conditions to knowledge proposed for recording or reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may authorise the recording, translation or reuse of this community's knowledge, and what limits apply to that authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-for-knowledge-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "What permission, attribution, compensation or access restrictions apply to the proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-for-knowledge-reuse-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "livelihoods-and-present-circumstances", "name": "Livelihoods and present circumstances", "description": "Represent contemporary activities and community-defined priorities with explicit dates and coverage.", "rationale": "A model of San people must support descriptions of present lives without reducing identity to a historical livelihood category.", "layers": [ { "id": "livelihood-diversity-and-change", "name": "Livelihood diversity and change", "description": "Record locally evidenced combinations of activities and the conditions shaping them.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-specific-livelihood-account", "name": "Community-specific livelihood account", "description": "Distinguish observed livelihoods from stereotypes and from claims about collective identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which livelihood activities does this community currently report, and how do they vary by season, location or household?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "community-specific-livelihood-account-q01" }, { "text": "Does a description of San people incorrectly make hunting and gathering, mobility or rural residence a requirement of belonging?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-specific-livelihood-account-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-defined-priorities", "name": "Community-defined priorities", "description": "Record priorities and assessments expressed by the affected community.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-assessments-of-current-circumstances", "name": "Dated assessments of current circumstances", "description": "Keep evidence of current circumstances tied to the population studied and the priorities people express.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which concerns and desired changes does the community identify, and whose perspectives are missing from that account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-assessments-of-current-circumstances-q01" }, { "text": "What population, date, method and uncertainty underlie any reported indicator of access to services or material conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-assessments-of-current-circumstances-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-authorised-engagement", "name": "Representation and authorised engagement", "description": "Establish who can represent particular communities and authorise specific proposed activities.", "rationale": "A collective San designation cannot itself supply a representative or a mandate for research, publication or intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "representative-constituencies", "name": "Representative constituencies", "description": "Distinguish communities from organisations and verify the scope of representative claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-mandate", "name": "Bounded representative mandate", "description": "Record the constituency, decision scope and current standing of each claimed representative.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which San communities does this person or organisation claim to represent, and how is that mandate established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q01" }, { "text": "For which decisions is the mandate valid, and is it disputed by anyone within the stated constituency?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "engagement-and-consent", "name": "Engagement and consent", "description": "Connect proposed activities to applicable community decision processes and documented conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-specific-engagement-authorisation", "name": "Community-specific engagement authorisation", "description": "Determine the authority and process needed for an activity without substituting organisational endorsement for all required permissions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What community protocols and applicable requirements govern this proposed research, publication, visit or commercial use?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-specific-engagement-authorisation-q01" }, { "text": "Whose collective and individual permissions are required, and how will scope, benefit sharing and changes to permission be recorded?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-specific-engagement-authorisation-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 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"Gǁana", "Haiǁom" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of San people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Community self-identification and collective representation, where the term San is accepted.", "Recognition and documentation of Indigenous histories, languages and cultural heritage.", "Advocacy concerning land, resource access and participation in decisions affecting communities.", "Ethnographic and historical comparison that preserves distinctions between named communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of San people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating San peoples as a single homogeneous ethnicity or language community.", "Portraying contemporary people exclusively as hunter-gatherers or as unchanged remnants of prehistory.", "Using externally imposed names without checking community preferences; both San and Bushmen have contested usage.", "Conflating linguistic affiliation, genetic ancestry, livelihood and self-identified ethnicity.", "Dispossession, discrimination and exclusion from ancestral lands or resources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of San people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Communities live across southern Africa, notably Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, with others in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.", "Languages spoken by San communities belong to several distinct language families; San does not name one language.", "Community names, livelihoods, preferred collective labels and relationships with state institutions vary across localities and national borders." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of San people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Khoekhoe peoples", "difference": "Distinct southern African peoples historically associated especially with pastoralism; historical livelihood differences alone do not determine present-day identity." }, { "name": "Khoisan", "difference": "A broader, contested umbrella term commonly grouping Khoekhoe and San peoples; it does not establish a single ethnicity or demonstrated language family." }, { "name": "Juǀʼhoansi", "difference": "A particular people commonly included under San, rather than a synonym for all San peoples." }, { "name": "Hunter-gatherers", "difference": "A livelihood category found worldwide, rather than an ethnic designation; San identity does not require practising that livelihood." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of San people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which named communities and preferred self-designations should this registry entry explicitly cover, and where is use of San disputed?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this collective referent, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which community-authored or community-endorsed sources can substantiate language, territorial and historical accounts at the required granularity?", "Which representative mandates and engagement protocols are current, and precisely which communities and activities do they cover?", "What comparable contemporary evidence is available without generalising from one community or exposing restricted knowledge and sensitive locations?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 San people, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise the communities referred to as San people, assess the evidence behind descriptions of them, and identify appropriate community authority for proposed actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: ǀXam people, ǃKung people.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 73 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 San people, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "ǀXam people", "ǃKung people" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one San people from another, and a San people from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a San people sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a San people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a San people 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 San people 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 San people is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a San people, 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 San people, 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 San people 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 San people 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 San people, 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 San people, 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 San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a San people passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a San people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a San people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a San people is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a San people.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a San people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a San people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a San people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a San people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a San people 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 San people.", "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 San people 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 San people, 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 San people 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 San people, 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 San people, 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 San people came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a San people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a San people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a San people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a San people, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a San people, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a San people 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 } } } }