{ "model": { "rank": 4636, "code": "thing-q172717", "model_id": "vr.tr.avars", "name": "Avars", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Avars, assess evidence about the community and its circumstances, and choose appropriate descriptive or engagement actions without conflating peoples sharing the name.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q172717/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q172717", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172717", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:40:25Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.6, "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: 01a087e5-830d-7210-aee0-6cc2fc0670a4\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Caucasian ethnic community associated with Dagestan, pending confirmation of the registry's upstream identifier; distinguish this sense from Pannonian Avars, as separated in the [Avar disambiguation reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar).", "in_scope": [ "Resolution of the Avars ethnonym and the registry's intended referent", "Collective identification, community boundaries and source-specific classifications", "Relationships to languages, settlements and diaspora communities", "Dated population evidence and changes in enumeration categories", "Cultural continuity and the scope of community representation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Pannonian Avars and their historical confederation under this provisional interpretation", "Avar language grammar and linguistic classification as standalone subjects", "Individual biographies and inferred ethnicity of identifiable people", "Complete histories of Dagestan or states containing Avar communities", "Historical polities treated as equivalent to the ethnic community", "Occupation classifications, professional qualifications and licensing" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reference must identify the Caucasian community through contextual or identifier evidence; the word Avars alone does not settle the referent.", "An ethnic population count must identify its classification rule; a count of Avar-language speakers is not automatically interchangeable with it.", "Residence in Dagestan does not by itself establish Avar identification, and residence elsewhere does not exclude it.", "A historical polity's subjects, an organisation's members and an ethnic community require separate boundaries.", "A source's umbrella classification must be distinguished from the identities used by the communities it includes." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved | provisionally Caucasian Avars | confirmed Caucasian Avars | conflicting referent", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether evidence can safely be attached to vr.tr.avars." }, { "name": "Ethnonym usage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attested name, script, language, date and self-designation or external designation", "why_it_matters": "Supports matching names without treating every similar label as an equivalent identity." }, { "name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-identification | census classification | community attribution | scholarly attribution | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis and limits of an Avar affiliation claim explicit." }, { "name": "Community inclusion boundary", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community linked as included, separately enumerated, overlapping or disputed, with source and date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incompatible umbrella categories from being silently merged." }, { "name": "Population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference date, territory, enumeration category, method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison only where the counted populations are compatible." }, { "name": "Language relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-to-language relationship specifying reported use, proficiency, transmission or institutional role", "why_it_matters": "Separates ethnic identification from language practice." }, { "name": "Settlement relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-to-place relationship with period, geographic scale and residence or migration evidence", "why_it_matters": "Describes distribution without converting presence into exclusive territorial entitlement." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented and scoped | self-asserted | disputed | expired | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whose participation or endorsement an organisation can credibly claim." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an Avars reference using identifiers, geography, period and source context.", "Compare population reports after checking their territorial and community boundaries.", "Trace community relationships to languages and places without assigning ethnicity to individuals.", "Flag unsupported equivalences between Caucasian Avars, Pannonian Avars and historical polities.", "Prepare community-specific research or consultation questions grounded in documented representation.", "Identify contradictory or missing evidence that prevents a confident catalogue assertion." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "avars-referent-and-names", "name": "Avars referent and names", "description": "Resolve which people the registry names and how their names function across sources.", "rationale": "The bare ethnonym leaves a consequential ambiguity that must be settled before attaching community evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense-resolution", "name": "Registry sense resolution", "description": "Connect vr.tr.avars to an 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and external names are attested for the community, in which scripts and languages?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-community-names-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources establish that each name refers to the same community rather than a polity, language or homonymous people?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-community-names-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "avar-community-boundaries", "name": "Avar community boundaries", "description": "Describe affiliation and aggregation without imposing a single identity rule.", "rationale": "Avar identification and external population classifications may operate at different levels.", "layers": [ { "id": "identification-and-attribution", "name": "Identification and attribution", "description": "Distinguish community identification from labels applied by administrations or researchers.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-avar-affiliation", "name": "Basis of Avar affiliation", "description": "Record how a source establishes affiliation rather than infer it from language, residence or ancestry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this account use self-identification, an administrative category or an author's attribution to define Avars?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-avar-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "How does the source handle multiple identities or disagreement with the category it assigns?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-avar-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "umbrella-and-local-identities", "name": "Umbrella and local identities", "description": "Examine whether named communities are aggregated under Avars in each source.", "findings": [ { "id": "andi-and-tsez-classification", "name": "Andi and Tsez classification", "description": "Investigate whether and how a source relates Andi and Tsez communities to its Avar category; leave inclusion unresolved until checked.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source enumerate Andi or Tsez communities separately or include them within an Avar total?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "andi-and-tsez-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What community testimony or classification documentation supports that treatment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "andi-and-tsez-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "avar-population-and-settlement", "name": "Avar population and settlement", "description": "Make distribution and demographic evidence comparable across places and periods.", "rationale": "Counts and maps can misrepresent Avar communities when enumeration rules, migration or geographic scales are hidden.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-enumeration", "name": "Population enumeration", "description": "Qualify each count by the population and procedure it actually represents.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-avar-counts", "name": "Comparable Avar counts", "description": "Keep ethnic enumeration, language counts and broader aggregation categories distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What date, territory, question wording and inclusion rules produced this Avar population figure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-avar-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Could a difference between two figures reflect changed classification or coverage rather than demographic change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-avar-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "settlement-and-mobility", "name": "Settlement and mobility", "description": "Represent local settlements and dispersed communities through dated evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-community-presence", "name": "Dated community presence", "description": "Separate documented residence, historical association and migration accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document Avar community presence in each locality, and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-community-presence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence describe continuous residence, migration, seasonal movement or a diaspora association?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dated-community-presence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "avar-language-and-cultural-continuity", "name": "Avar language and cultural continuity", "description": "Record community-specific language relationships and evidence of cultural transmission.", "rationale": "Neither language competence nor a selected cultural practice should become a universal test of Avar identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-use-and-transmission", "name": "Language use and transmission", "description": "Connect language evidence to particular communities, generations and settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "avar-language-relationship", "name": "Avar language relationship", "description": "Distinguish ethnic identification, reported mother tongue, actual use and intergenerational transmission.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence measure Avar-language identification, proficiency, household use or transmission to children?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "avar-language-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Which locality, generation and social setting does the language claim cover?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "avar-language-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-cultural-practices", "name": "Situated cultural practices", "description": "Attach cultural descriptions to the communities and periods for which they are supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-community-variation", "name": "Practice and community variation", "description": "Record documented religious, oral, literary or customary practices without treating them as compulsory identity markers.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who documents or practises this tradition, and which Avar community and period does the account concern?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-community-variation-q01" }, { "text": "What variation or disagreement limits describing this practice as shared across Avars?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practice-and-community-variation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "avar-history-and-representation", "name": "Avar history and representation", "description": "Qualify historical continuity claims and present-day claims to speak for Avar communities.", "rationale": "Shared names, historical political membership and organisational visibility do not independently establish collective continuity or representative authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-continuity-claims", "name": "Historical continuity claims", "description": "Assess proposed relationships between the community, historical populations and political formations.", "findings": [ { "id": "people-and-polity-separation", "name": "People and polity separation", "description": "Require evidence for continuity across historical labels and distinguish political subjects from ethnic membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects a historical population or polity labelled Avar to the community intended by this registry entry?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "people-and-polity-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the claim concern political rule, cultural association, naming continuity or population continuity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "people-and-polity-separation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-representation", "name": "Community representation", "description": "Identify the actual constituency and mandate of organisations or spokespersons.", "findings": [ { "id": "scoped-representative-authority", "name": "Scoped representative authority", "description": "Treat representation of a locality, association or diaspora network as a bounded claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Avar constituency authorised this representative, through what process and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scoped-representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "For a proposed consultation, whose participation is needed beyond this representative's documented constituency?", "kind": "action", "id": "scoped-representative-authority-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 registry records no sense: verify whether it intends modern Caucasian Avars or early medieval Pannonian Avars.", "This description uses the modern Caucasian sense and is based on recall, without consulted sources.", "Population figures and the inclusion of smaller related peoples require a specified census, year and classification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Avars this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "ava", "note": "Identifies the Avar language, not the ethnic group." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Avars 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": [ "Ethnic self-identification and census classification.", "Ethnographic, linguistic and historical study.", "Preservation and transmission of Avar language and cultural traditions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Avars 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": [ "Confusing modern Caucasian Avars with the early medieval Avars of the Carpathian Basin.", "Treating ethnic identification, language proficiency, citizenship and religion as interchangeable.", "Assuming that census categories consistently distinguish Avars from smaller related communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Avars this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled 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does not necessarily imply proficiency." }, { "name": "Andic and Tsezic peoples", "difference": "Related communities with distinct languages and identities, sometimes grouped with Avars in administrative or census classifications." }, { "name": "Dagestanis", "difference": "A broader regional designation encompassing numerous ethnic peoples, including Avars." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Avars this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the upstream identifier for vr.tr.avars confirm Caucasian Avars, or must this provisional draft be replaced with a Pannonian Avars model?", "Which source-specific classifications include Andi or Tsez communities under Avars, and how do those communities describe their own relationship?", "Which population sources offer comparable dates, territorial coverage and ethnic enumeration rules?", "What community-grounded evidence establishes variation in language transmission and cultural practice across localities and generations?", "Which historical continuity claims and contemporary representative mandates remain disputed or insufficiently documented?" ], "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 Avars, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Avars, assess evidence about the community and its circumstances, and choose appropriate descriptive or engagement actions without conflating peoples sharing the name.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "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 Avars, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 73 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 Avars from another, and a Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars 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 Avars is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars 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 Avars between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars.", "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 Avars and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Avars, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Avars sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars.", "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 Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 Avars is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Avars, 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 Avars, 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 Avars 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 } } } }