{ "model": { "rank": 4257, "code": "thing-q178630", "model_id": "vr.tr.portuguese-q178630", "name": "Portuguese", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and represent a Portuguese person's stated or documented connection to Portugal while distinguishing citizenship, cultural identification, ancestry and residence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q178630/", "tier": 2, "score": 77, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Portuguese in Japan", "Portuguese in France" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 77, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q178630", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178630", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:48:59Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.3, "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: 01a087b6-9a27-70c3-ab65-be5b6077e591\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Portuguese\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 regis", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 53.9, "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: 01a087b6-9a38-7683-9148-d32e48a5de71\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Portuguese\nRegistry id: vr.tr.portuguese\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCo" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q178630", "registryId": "vr.tr.portuguese", "name": "Portuguese", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q178630/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.portuguese", "name": "Portuguese", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and represent a Portuguese person's stated or documented connection to Portugal while distinguishing citizenship, cultural identification, ancestry and residence.", "definition": "In the SOC.PER sense, a Portuguese person is someone identified with Portugal through nationality, ancestry or cultural affiliation, with the relevant criterion needing to be specified.", "scope_statement": "This draft interprets Portuguese as a person descriptor, provisionally following SOC / SOC.PER, and owns the evidence, meaning and context of that descriptor without treating it as an occupation or the Portuguese language.", "in_scope": [ "The intended person-related meaning of Portuguese in a record", "Explicitly recorded Portuguese citizenship and its evidential status", "Self-described Portuguese cultural or national identification", "Reported family, birthplace and residence connections to Portugal", "Context, time and permission governing use of the descriptor" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Portuguese as a language, including its grammar and varieties", "Portugal as a state, territory or jurisdiction", "Portuguese citizenship law and individual eligibility determinations", "Portuguese occupations, professional qualifications and employment roles", "Portuguese culture, history and diaspora populations as collective subjects", "Language proficiency, ethnicity or legal rights inferred from the label alone" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The descriptor applies to a person; a record about a language, product or organisation needs another sense.", "A Portuguese citizenship assertion explicitly concerns citizenship; speaking Portuguese or living in Portugal does not establish that assertion.", "Portuguese cultural identification records the person's expressed affiliation and does not automatically assert citizenship.", "A connection to a Portuguese-speaking country other than Portugal does not by itself justify identifying a person as Portuguese.", "A Portuguese birthplace, surname or family connection is recorded as its own relation rather than substituted for the person's identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Meaning of Portuguese", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "citizenship descriptor | self-described national identity | cultural affiliation | ancestry descriptor | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines what the label actually asserts and which evidence can support it." }, { "name": "Portuguese citizenship assertion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported | supported by reviewed evidence | disputed | explicitly denied | unknown; dated where possible", "why_it_matters": "Separates a citizenship claim from cultural affiliation and prevents missing evidence from being interpreted as absence." }, { "name": "Self-described Portuguese identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "affirmed | qualified | declined | not recorded; retain the person's wording", "why_it_matters": "Preserves how the person identifies without imposing a categorical identity." }, { "name": "Connection to Portugal", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "citizenship | birth | current residence | former residence | family connection | self-described affiliation", "why_it_matters": "Keeps distinct connections from being collapsed into a single nationality label." }, { "name": "Additional stated affiliations", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Other explicitly recorded national or cultural affiliations, with their meanings", "why_it_matters": "Allows Portuguese identification to coexist with other identities without assuming exclusivity." }, { "name": "Assertion provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "person's statement | reviewed document | attributed third-party statement | imported registry value", "why_it_matters": "Shows who supplied the descriptor and the limits of the available support." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "current as reported | historical | superseded | undated; associated date or interval", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an old citizenship, residence or identity statement from silently becoming a current claim." }, { "name": "Permitted use of the descriptor", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared purpose, audience and any recorded restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate display and reuse of potentially sensitive personal information." } ], "affordances": [ "Clarify whether Portuguese denotes citizenship, self-identification, ancestry or another person-related connection.", "Record a Portuguese identification in the person's own terms with attribution and date.", "Keep citizenship evidence separate from birthplace, residence and Portuguese-language ability.", "Represent Portuguese identification alongside other explicitly stated affiliations.", "Flag ambiguous or conflicting assertions for clarification without choosing an identity for the person.", "Correct, qualify or suppress the descriptor when the record's evidence or permitted use changes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "portuguese-person-sense", "name": "Portuguese as a person descriptor", "description": "Establishes what Portuguese means in this registry entry and each use of it.", "rationale": "The bare name can denote a language or several person-related connections, while the supplied domain only provisionally resolves the ambiguity.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Resolves the registry-level referent before treating the entry as a person descriptor.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-sense-confirmation", "name": "Person sense confirmation", "description": "The SOC / SOC.PER placement supports a provisional person interpretation; the missing definition leaves its exact meaning unsettled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating record define Portuguese as a person, a population, a nationality descriptor or the language?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-sense-confirmation-q01" }, { "text": "Which original identifier or source description supports the SOC / SOC.PER placement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-sense-confirmation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assertion-meaning", "name": "Assertion meaning", "description": "Distinguishes the meanings carried by Portuguese when attached to a person.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-connection-type", "name": "Explicit connection type", "description": "A use of Portuguese should identify whether it asserts citizenship, personal affiliation or ancestry, allowing unresolved wording to remain unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the speaker or source mean by calling this person Portuguese?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-connection-type-q01" }, { "text": "Is the source asserting citizenship, cultural identification or only a connection to Portugal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-connection-type-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "portuguese-citizenship-assertions", "name": "Portuguese citizenship assertions", "description": "Represents attributed citizenship claims and the evidence reviewed for them.", "rationale": "Portuguese citizenship must remain distinguishable from residence, language and cultural identity without turning this model into a citizenship eligibility system.", "layers": [ { "id": "citizenship-evidence", "name": "Citizenship evidence", "description": "Captures what supports a Portuguese citizenship assertion and what was actually checked.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-evidence-review", "name": "Bounded evidence review", "description": "Evidence records should state their origin and review limits rather than treating every nationality field as verified citizenship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who supplied the Portuguese citizenship assertion, and what supporting evidence was actually reviewed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-evidence-review-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence explicitly address citizenship, or does it only record birth, residence or another connection to Portugal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-evidence-review-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "citizenship-time-and-coexistence", "name": "Citizenship time and coexistence", "description": "Keeps dated Portuguese citizenship assertions separate from other recorded citizenships and unresolved changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-nonexclusive-assertion", "name": "Dated, nonexclusive assertion", "description": "The record should preserve the applicable date and additional citizenship assertions without inferring exclusivity or a legal outcome.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what date was the Portuguese citizenship assertion made or supported, and is a later change recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-nonexclusive-assertion-q01" }, { "text": "Are other citizenships explicitly recorded, and has any source incorrectly treated Portuguese as an exclusive label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-nonexclusive-assertion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "portuguese-identification-and-connections", "name": "Portuguese identification and connections", "description": "Represents personal identification and specific connections to Portugal without merging them.", "rationale": "Portuguese affiliation may be expressed through identity or family connection, and neither should be replaced by assumptions about citizenship or place of residence.", "layers": [ { "id": "self-identification", "name": "Self-identification", "description": "Preserves a person's chosen description and any contextual qualifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-chosen-wording", "name": "Person-chosen wording", "description": "Portuguese identification should retain the person's wording, including combined affiliations and qualifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe themselves as Portuguese, and what exact meaning or qualification do they give?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-chosen-wording-q01" }, { "text": "Was the identification supplied by the person or attributed to them by someone else?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-chosen-wording-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-family-and-language-boundaries", "name": "Place, family and language boundaries", "description": "Separates relations to Portugal from Portuguese identity and Portuguese-language use.", "findings": [ { "id": "connections-without-identity-inference", "name": "Connections without identity inference", "description": "Birthplace, residence, family connections and language ability should remain distinct assertions, each with its own provenance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which connections to Portugal are explicitly reported, and which are merely inferred from a surname, language or location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "connections-without-identity-inference-q01" }, { "text": "Has residence in Portugal or participation in a Portuguese-speaking community been mistaken for Portuguese citizenship or self-identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "connections-without-identity-inference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "responsible-use-of-portuguese-descriptor", "name": "Use and correction of the Portuguese descriptor", "description": "Guides how an agent displays, reuses and revises this personal descriptor.", "rationale": "An ambiguous Portuguese label can produce unsupported assumptions about language, identity or entitlement unless its use remains tied to its stated meaning.", "layers": [ { "id": "purpose-bound-use", "name": "Purpose-bound use", "description": "Connects use of Portuguese identification to the actual task and recorded permissions.", "findings": [ { "id": "descriptor-use-boundaries", "name": "Descriptor use boundaries", "description": "An agent should establish why the Portuguese descriptor is relevant and avoid using it as a substitute for directly requested preferences or independently assessed status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why does this task need the person's Portuguese identification, and what audience or reuse restrictions are recorded?", "kind": "action", "id": "descriptor-use-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent ask for language preference or consult a separate eligibility process instead of deriving either from Portuguese identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "descriptor-use-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ambiguity-and-correction", "name": "Ambiguity and correction", "description": "Handles incompatible labels, outdated assertions and requests to change how the person is represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-aware-reconciliation", "name": "Meaning-aware reconciliation", "description": "Apparently conflicting Portuguese labels should first be checked for differences in meaning and date before any assertion is replaced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the conflicting records concern the same claim, or does one describe citizenship while another describes cultural identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-aware-reconciliation-q01" }, { "text": "What clarification or correction is needed, and which displays or dependent records should be updated?", "kind": "action", "id": "meaning-aware-reconciliation-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 label has no recorded sense; the person interpretation is inferred from SOC.PER and should be checked against the registry's source record.", "The supplied occupation-or-role batch context does not fit the usual meanings of Portuguese.", "A researcher should establish whether the entry denotes citizenship, ethnic or cultural identity, ancestry, or the Portuguese people collectively." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Portuguese 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": [ "Describing national or cultural identity.", "Studying migration, ancestry and diaspora communities.", "Recording self-reported identity in demographic research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Portuguese 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 citizenship, ancestry, birthplace, residence and self-identification.", "Assuming that speaking Portuguese makes someone Portuguese.", "Treating Portuguese identity as an occupation or professional role.", "Inferring an individual's identity from a name or appearance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Portuguese 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": [ "Identity in Portugal and in diaspora communities can differ in its emphasis on citizenship, ancestry, language and cultural participation.", "Azorean and Madeiran regional identities can coexist with Portuguese national identity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Portuguese 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": "Portuguese language", "difference": "A language rather than a person or national identity." }, { "name": "Portuguese citizen", "difference": "Specifies legal nationality; ancestry or cultural affiliation alone does not establish citizenship." }, { "name": "Resident of Portugal", "difference": "Specifies residence, which does not establish Portuguese nationality or identity." }, { "name": "Portuguese speaker", "difference": "Specifies linguistic ability, which can belong to people of many nationalities." }, { "name": "Person of Portuguese descent", "difference": "Specifies ancestry without necessarily establishing citizenship or self-identification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Portuguese this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's originating source intend Portuguese citizens, Portuguese people as a collective, individual cultural identification or the Portuguese language?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this sense, requiring a link instead of a separate publication?", "Should the confirmed registry sense own both citizenship and cultural identification, or reference one through a neighbouring model?", "Which authoritative sources and review procedures should support Portuguese citizenship assertions for the intended application?", "What application-specific rules govern collecting, displaying, retaining and correcting Portuguese identity information?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "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 Portuguese, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and represent a Portuguese person's stated or documented connection to Portugal while distinguishing citizenship, cultural identification, ancestry and residence.", "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: Portuguese in Japan, Portuguese in France.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 77 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 Portuguese, 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": [ "Portuguese in Japan", "Portuguese in France" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 77 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 Portuguese from another, and a Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese.", "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 Portuguese and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Portuguese, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Portuguese sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese.", "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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 Portuguese is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Portuguese, 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 Portuguese, 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 Portuguese 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 } } } }