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whose spouse has died, including its evidence, temporal boundaries, contextual recognition and self-identification; it does not model an occupation or the whole person.", "in_scope": [ "The deceased-spouse relationship through which widowhood is identified", "Personal, social and institutional uses of the term widow", "Evidence and uncertainty concerning the marriage and spouse's death", "Changes in widow identification or recognition over time", "Expressed support preferences and widowhood-related administrative needs" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's complete identity, biography or capabilities", "The deceased spouse's full biography and medical cause of death", "Marriage and partnership systems as a whole", "Estate administration, inheritance rules and benefit schemes themselves", "Clinical assessment or treatment of grief and mental health" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The relevant relationship ended through the spouse's death; separation, divorce or an unexplained absence alone does not establish widowhood.", "Widow is conventionally a gendered term for a woman whose spouse died; the person's preferred description and an institution's terminology must be recorded separately.", "Bereavement alone is insufficient: the death of a parent, child or friend does not establish the spouse relationship required by this sense.", "Widowhood identifies a relationship-derived status, not employment, a qualification or an assigned set of duties.", "Historical widowhood, current self-identification and current administrative classification can differ, particularly after another marriage." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Widow identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "self-identifies as widow | declines label | another preferred term | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Guides respectful language without treating institutional classification as personal identity." }, { "name": "Deceased-spouse relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the 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applicable." }, { "name": "Subsequent relationship context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no subsequent relationship reported | partnered | remarried | other reported context | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows context-specific reassessment without automatically erasing historical widowhood or personal identification." }, { "name": "Requested assistance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "administrative | practical | financial information | social connection | bereavement support | none requested | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Bases assistance on expressed needs rather than stereotypes about widows." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a widowhood assertion together with its source, date and recognition context.", "Distinguish historical widowhood from current personal identification and administrative status.", "Identify missing evidence for a named administrative purpose without declaring eligibility.", "Offer relevant information or referrals according to the person's stated priorities.", "Reassess a context-specific classification when relevant circumstances or rules change.", "Use the person's preferred terminology and obtain permission before sharing widowhood-related information." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "widowhood-boundaries", "name": "Widowhood boundaries", "description": "Establishes which sense of widow is being used and which relationship supports it.", "rationale": "The term combines a spouse-death relationship with gendered and context-dependent usage.", "layers": [ { "id": "term-and-identification", "name": "Term and identification", "description": "Separates the conventional term from personal identification and institutional labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "widow-term-fit", "name": "Fit of the term widow", "description": "Record who applies the term and whether the person prefers it; do not infer preferred language from records alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does widow describe the person's own identification, another person's description or an institutional classification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "widow-term-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What term does the person want the agent to use?", "kind": "action", "id": "widow-term-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualifying-spouse-relationship", "name": "Qualifying spouse relationship", "description": "Locates widowhood in a particular relationship rather than bereavement generally.", "findings": [ { "id": "marriage-at-death", "name": "Marriage at the spouse's death", "description": "Identify the marriage or claimed spouse relationship and any unresolved boundary concerning its recognition at the time of death.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which deceased spouse and marriage does this widowhood assertion concern?", "kind": "definition", "id": "marriage-at-death-q01" }, { "text": "Was the relationship recognised as a marriage in the context being assessed, and are divorce, separation or partnership distinctions relevant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "marriage-at-death-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "widowhood-evidence", "name": "Widowhood evidence", "description": "Records the basis for asserting the spouse's death and the relevant relationship.", "rationale": "A personal account and evidence required for a formal decision serve different purposes and should remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "death-basis", "name": "Basis for the spouse's death", "description": "Captures how the death is known and whether a formal determination is involved.", "findings": [ { "id": "death-assertion-provenance", "name": "Death assertion provenance", "description": "Preserve the source and uncertainty of the death assertion, including distinctions between a reported death, missing-person situation and formal determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source supports the assertion that the spouse has died, and when was it obtained?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "death-assertion-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "Is the spouse's death established for the intended purpose, or is disappearance or a pending determination being mistaken for death?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "death-assertion-provenance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relationship-basis", "name": "Basis for the marriage", "description": "Captures evidence linking the person to the deceased as a spouse.", "findings": [ { "id": "marriage-evidence-fit", "name": "Marriage evidence for the intended use", "description": "Record relevant relationship evidence and unresolved discrepancies without imposing documentation requirements on personal self-identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What account or record supports the marriage relationship to this deceased person?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "marriage-evidence-fit-q01" }, { "text": "For the specific requested process, what additional relationship evidence does the responsible institution require?", "kind": "action", "id": "marriage-evidence-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "widowhood-over-time", "name": "Widowhood over time", "description": "Separates the history of spouse loss from changing labels and classifications.", "rationale": "Remarriage, delayed recognition and repeated spouse losses require more than one undated widow flag.", "layers": [ { "id": "spouse-loss-chronology", "name": "Spouse-loss chronology", "description": "Associates relevant dates with the particular marriage and death.", "findings": [ { "id": "widowhood-dates", "name": "Event and recognition dates", "description": "Keep the death date, date of learning about the death and effective date of formal recognition distinct where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the spouse's death date, and how precise or certain is it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "widowhood-dates-q01" }, { "text": "Does the date used by the relevant institution differ from the death date or the date the person learned of it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "widowhood-dates-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "later-relationships", "name": "Later relationships", "description": "Handles later partnership or marriage without rewriting the person's history.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-after-relationship-change", "name": "Status after relationship change", "description": "Evaluate current classification separately from historical widowhood and continued self-identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has a later marriage or partnership occurred that is relevant to the classification being considered?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "status-after-relationship-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which current label or institutional decision requires reassessment, while preserving the earlier spouse-loss history?", "kind": "action", "id": "status-after-relationship-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contextual-recognition-and-processes", "name": "Contextual recognition and processes", "description": "Connects widowhood to specific institutions and administrative requests without supplying universal legal conclusions.", "rationale": "The label alone cannot establish inheritance, pension, benefit or other process outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognising-context", "name": "Recognising context", "description": "Identifies whose definition or decision matters for a particular purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-specific-recognition", "name": "Purpose-specific recognition", "description": "Attach formal recognition to its institution, jurisdiction, purpose and applicable date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which institution, jurisdiction and process are using the term widow in this case?", "kind": "definition", "id": "purpose-specific-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "What current authoritative rule or recorded decision supports that institution's classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "purpose-specific-recognition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "administrative-next-steps", "name": "Administrative next steps", "description": "Identifies actionable requests and routes substantive decisions to the responsible process.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-versus-entitlement", "name": "Status versus entitlement", "description": "Distinguish widow recognition from eligibility decisions and from authority to act for the deceased or the estate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the intended action require a separate eligibility assessment, estate appointment or other authority beyond widow status?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "status-versus-entitlement-q01" }, { "text": "What verified application, evidence request or referral would advance the person's stated administrative goal?", "kind": "action", "id": "status-versus-entitlement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "agency-and-support", "name": "Agency and support", "description": "Makes widowhood-related assistance responsive to the person's preferences and circumstances.", "rationale": "Widow status does not establish grief intensity, dependency, vulnerability or willingness to receive help.", "layers": [ { "id": "expressed-bereavement-needs", "name": "Expressed bereavement needs", "description": "Records needs reported by the person without treating widowhood as a diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-without-assumed-grief", "name": "Support without assumed grief", "description": "Ask about desired help and relevant practical changes; leave clinical conclusions to an appropriate assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What effects of the spouse's death does the person report, and which do they want assistance with?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "support-without-assumed-grief-q01" }, { "text": "Which practical, social or bereavement-support options would the person like to explore, if any?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-without-assumed-grief-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disclosure-and-social-expectations", "name": "Disclosure and social expectations", "description": "Separates the person's choices from expectations imposed on widows by others.", "findings": [ { "id": "widowhood-disclosure-and-choice", "name": "Widowhood disclosure and choice", "description": "Record relevant mourning expectations, restrictions or pressures as reported circumstances, and respect the person's preferences concerning disclosure and participation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are widowhood-related customs or expectations being described as the person's choices, others' expectations or a reported source of pressure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "widowhood-disclosure-and-choice-q01" }, { "text": "Who, if anyone, may be told about the person's widowhood or contacted to assist them, and for what purpose?", "kind": "action", "id": "widowhood-disclosure-and-choice-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": [ "This covers the human family-status sense, not figurative uses or other names containing widow.", "Remarriage conventionally changes current marital status, but a person may still describe herself as having been widowed.", "Legal recognition and entitlements require jurisdiction-specific research; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of widow 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": [ "Recording widowed marital status in censuses and demographic surveys.", "Identifying potentially eligible applicants for survivor pensions or benefits.", "Describing family relationships in genealogy.", "Organising bereavement support and studying the social consequences of spousal death." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of widow this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Time since spouse's death", "typical_range": "No universal typical range", "unit": "years" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of 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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": [ "Queen dowager of France", "war widows", "dowager" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 68 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 widow from another, and a widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow 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 widow is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow 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 widow between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow.", "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 widow and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a widow, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a widow sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow.", "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 widow 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 widow is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a widow, 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 widow, 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 widow 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 } } } }