{ "model": { "rank": 4386, "code": "thing-q173491", "model_id": "vr.tr.tamil-q173491", "name": "Tamil", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a person's stated Tamil identity, preserve its context and uncertainty, and decide when that identity is relevant to an interaction.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q173491/", "tier": 2, "score": 76, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Tamil sexual minorities" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 76, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q173491", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173491", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:06:21Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18, "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: 01a087c6-89e3-7ee2-bf4b-baa37efa925c\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Tamil\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registered", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 51.3, "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: 01a087c6-89cd-79f1-b42c-f399377dfae3\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Tamil\nRegistry id: vr.tr.tamil\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q173491", "registryId": "vr.tr.tamil", "name": "Tamil", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q173491/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.tamil", "name": "Tamil", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a person's stated Tamil identity, preserve its context and uncertainty, and decide when that identity is relevant to an interaction.", "definition": "A Tamil is a person belonging to the Tamil ethnolinguistic people, historically associated with Tamil-speaking regions of southern India and Sri Lanka and with communities elsewhere.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally interprets Tamil in SOC / SOC.PER as a person identifying as Tamil, and owns the contextual identity designation rather than the person's complete record, the Tamil language, or Tamil people as a collective.", "in_scope": [ "A person's self-description as Tamil and the meaning they attach to it", "Distinctions between Tamil identity, Tamil language use, ancestry, residence and citizenship", "Family, community and cultural connections reported as relevant to Tamil identity", "Provenance, temporal context and disclosure preferences for the identity designation", "Limits on actions and personalisation based on Tamil identity" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Tamil language grammar, script, vocabulary and translation resources", "Tamil populations, demographic statistics and collective histories", "Citizenship, immigration status and geographic entities", "Religious affiliations and political organisations as independent entities", "Occupation definitions, professional qualifications and employment records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The record concerns a person described as Tamil; a language resource or collective population requires a neighbouring model.", "Tamil language proficiency alone does not establish that the person identifies as Tamil.", "Residence, birthplace, citizenship, surname or appearance alone does not establish Tamil identity.", "A person's own Tamil identification is distinguished from an attribution made by a document, institution or another person.", "Tamil identity can coexist with other identities; the model does not require an exclusive ethnic or national category." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Tamil identity designation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "self-described; externally attributed; disputed; unknown; declined to state", "why_it_matters": "Separates a person's identification from assumptions or classifications imposed by others." }, { "name": "Meaning of Tamil in this record", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "ethnic; cultural; linguistic; familial; multiple; unspecified, with the person's wording retained", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating every use of Tamil as the same kind of affiliation." }, { "name": "Tamil language relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to separately stated language use, proficiency and communication preferences; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports suitable communication without making language ability a membership test." }, { "name": "Reported Tamil connections", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Optional person-reported connections to family, communities, places or cultural practices", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the person's relevant context without requiring a prescribed ancestry or cultural practice." }, { "name": "Designation provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Speaker or source, original wording, date, context and any subsequent correction", "why_it_matters": "Makes competing or outdated descriptions distinguishable." }, { "name": "Permitted identity use", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Purpose-specific use and disclosure preferences; unspecified; withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Helps an agent decide whether Tamil identity should be used or disclosed in the present interaction." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a person's Tamil self-description in their own terms when relevant to the task.", "Separate self-identification from externally assigned Tamil labels.", "Link explicitly stated Tamil communication preferences to a language model.", "Represent Tamil identity alongside other identities without forcing exclusivity.", "Correct or contextualise a Tamil designation while retaining appropriate provenance.", "Offer Tamil-related language or cultural options based on expressed preferences." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tamil-sense-and-identification", "name": "Tamil sense and identification", "description": "Establishes whether Tamil denotes a person's identity and whose description it is.", "rationale": "The bare registry name can denote a language, a collective or a person, and the domain assignment alone does not settle its meaning.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Bounds the provisional person-level interpretation of Tamil.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-level-tamil-designation", "name": "Person-level Tamil designation", "description": "The draft requires confirmation that the registered thing concerns a Tamil person rather than the language or the collective.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry record define Tamil as a person, a people, a language or another sense?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-level-tamil-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Which neighbouring model owns Tamil language or collective identity if this entry owns the person-level designation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "person-level-tamil-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-voice", "name": "Identity voice", "description": "Preserves who uses the Tamil label and how the person understands it.", "findings": [ { "id": "self-description-and-attribution", "name": "Self-description and attribution", "description": "A self-description, an administrative classification and another person's attribution are recorded as distinct claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe themselves as Tamil, and what wording and meaning do they use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "self-description-and-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the Tamil designation, in what context, and has the person confirmed or disputed it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "self-description-and-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tamil-language-and-cultural-relationship", "name": "Tamil language and cultural relationship", "description": "Connects Tamil identity to individually reported language preferences and cultural participation.", "rationale": "An agent needs useful communication context without assuming that Tamil identity guarantees Tamil proficiency or particular cultural practices.", "layers": [ { "id": "tamil-communication", "name": "Tamil communication", "description": "Separates Tamil identity from language ability and preferred communication.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-preference-without-membership-test", "name": "Language preference without a membership test", "description": "Spoken and written Tamil preferences belong to the person's language relationship and are not conditions for recognising identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What spoken or written Tamil support, if any, does the person request for this task?", "kind": "action", "id": "language-preference-without-membership-test-q01" }, { "text": "Which Tamil abilities are self-reported or assessed, and which remain unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-preference-without-membership-test-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tamil-cultural-participation", "name": "Tamil cultural participation", "description": "Represents cultural connections only to the extent the person supplies or requests them.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-defined-cultural-relevance", "name": "Person-defined cultural relevance", "description": "Tamil literature, arts, observances or other practices may be linked when relevant, without making participation compulsory or universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices or cultural connections does the person consider relevant to their Tamil identity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-defined-cultural-relevance-q01" }, { "text": "Has the person requested Tamil cultural options, or would offering them rely solely on an identity assumption?", "kind": "action", "id": "person-defined-cultural-relevance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tamil-belonging-and-intersecting-identities", "name": "Tamil belonging and intersecting identities", "description": "Situates Tamil identification among reported family, community, geographic and other affiliations.", "rationale": "Tamil identification must not be reduced to a single country, ancestry requirement, religion or political position.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-community-and-place", "name": "Family, community and place", "description": "Captures optional connections that the person regards as meaningful to being Tamil.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-connections-without-geographic-inference", "name": "Reported connections without geographic inference", "description": "Family histories, community affiliations and place connections retain their stated meaning; none independently establishes Tamil identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which family, community or place connections does the person explicitly associate with being Tamil?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reported-connections-without-geographic-inference-q01" }, { "text": "Are birthplace, residence or citizenship being incorrectly used as substitutes for Tamil self-identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reported-connections-without-geographic-inference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coexisting-affiliations", "name": "Coexisting affiliations", "description": "Allows Tamil identity to coexist with other descriptions without imposing a hierarchy.", "findings": [ { "id": "no-implied-religion-nationality-or-politics", "name": "No implied religion, nationality or politics", "description": "The Tamil designation does not populate a person's religion, citizenship, political allegiance or exclusive identity category.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which additional or combined identity descriptions does the person want represented alongside Tamil?", "kind": "definition", "id": "no-implied-religion-nationality-or-politics-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed conclusions about religion, nationality or politics lack separately supplied evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "no-implied-religion-nationality-or-politics-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tamil-designation-use-and-revision", "name": "Tamil designation use and revision", "description": "Governs the contextual use, disclosure and correction of a person's Tamil designation.", "rationale": "An agent must know when Tamil identity helps the task and when a stale, unwanted or unsupported label would misrepresent the person.", "layers": [ { "id": "contextual-use", "name": "Contextual use", "description": "Connects the Tamil designation to a stated purpose and appropriate interaction choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-bound-personalisation", "name": "Purpose-bound personalisation", "description": "Tamil-related personalisation depends on relevant expressed preferences rather than identity-based assumptions about needs or behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "What concrete task requires the Tamil designation, and what use or disclosure has the person agreed to?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-bound-personalisation-q01" }, { "text": "Can the task be completed using a directly stated language or cultural preference without collecting Tamil identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "purpose-bound-personalisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "correction-and-context-history", "name": "Correction and context history", "description": "Handles revised wording, disagreement and context-specific descriptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "revisable-tamil-description", "name": "Revisable Tamil description", "description": "A Tamil designation can be corrected, qualified or withdrawn without treating earlier external classifications as decisive.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was this Tamil designation recorded, and does its source or context limit its present use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "revisable-tamil-description-q01" }, { "text": "What should be corrected, restricted or removed if the person disputes the label or changes their disclosure preference?", "kind": "action", "id": "revisable-tamil-description-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 person or ethnolinguistic sense is inferred from SOC.PER; the registry records no explicit sense.", "The listed kinds are overlapping geographical community labels, not an exhaustive or exclusive classification.", "Indian Tamil can mean a Tamil from India or a particular historical community in Sri Lanka; intended usage must be checked." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Tamil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Indian Tamils", "Sri Lankan Tamils", "Malaysian Tamils", "Singaporean Tamils" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Tamil 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": [ "Self-identification in cultural and community life", "Ethnicity reporting in censuses and demographic research where relevant categories are collected", "Study of migration, diaspora communities and Tamil cultural traditions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Tamil 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": [ "Conflating Tamil ethnicity with Tamil-language proficiency", "Inferring ethnicity solely from a person's name, birthplace or citizenship", "Treating Tamils as a single religious, national or political community", "Overlooking differences between self-identification and externally assigned census categories" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Tamil 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": [ "In India, Tamil identity is strongly associated with Tamil Nadu but also occurs in communities beyond that state.", "In Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Tamils, also called Hill Country or Malaiyaha Tamils, are historically distinguishable communities; terminology and self-identification vary.", "Diaspora communities differ in migration history, citizenship and language retention." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Tamil 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": "Tamil language", "difference": "The language is a linguistic system; a Tamil in this sense is a person with an ethnolinguistic identity." }, { "name": "Tamil speaker", "difference": "Speaking Tamil describes language ability and does not by itself establish Tamil ethnic identity." }, { "name": "Resident of Tamil Nadu", "difference": "Residence is geographical; residents need not be Tamil, and Tamils can live elsewhere." }, { "name": "Indian", "difference": "Indian can denote nationality or broader origin; Tamil identity crosses national boundaries." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Tamil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating record behind vr.tr.tamil confirm a Tamil person or ethnic identity sense, rather than the Tamil language or Tamil people collectively?", "Does an existing world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which Tamil self-descriptions and context-specific community terms should be supported, based on researched sources and consultation?", "What source evidence explains the SOC.PER placement and the batch's occupation-or-role context, which this draft does not treat as evidence that Tamil is an occupation?", "Which concrete agent tasks justify recording Tamil identity, and what task-specific correction, retention and disclosure requirements apply?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "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 Tamil, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a person's stated Tamil identity, preserve its context and uncertainty, and decide when that identity is relevant to an interaction.", "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: Tamil sexual minorities.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 76 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 Tamil, 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": [ "Tamil sexual minorities" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 76 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Tamil from another, and a Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil.", "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 Tamil and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Tamil, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Tamil sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil.", "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 Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 Tamil is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Tamil, 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 Tamil, 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 Tamil 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 } } } }