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"This model owns confession as informational content in INF.MED: a statement or narrative in which a speaker presents themselves as responsible for wrongdoing, including its attribution, communicative context, versions and handling constraints; the registry's intended sense remains to be confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "The acts, omissions or intentions the speaker acknowledges and the responsibility they claim", "The distinction between the confessing voice, actual speaker, author, recorder and editor", "Confessional statements and narratives in oral, written, audiovisual or digital expression", "The circumstances of elicitation, intended audience and subsequent circulation", "Retractions, corrections, translations, excerpts and competing versions", "Evidence, uncertainty and restrictions relevant to interpreting or sharing the confession" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The underlying wrongdoing, offence or disputed event itself", "Religious sacraments, rituals, absolution and institutional doctrine as practices", "Interrogation procedures, judicial proceedings and determinations of guilt", "Apologies, testimony and autobiographies that do not acknowledge personal wrongdoing", "Confessions of faith understood as declarations of belief", "Physical carriers, recording equipment and storage systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The speaker acknowledges their own involvement or responsibility; an accusation solely against someone else does not qualify.", "The acknowledged conduct is presented as wrongful, culpable or a breach of an identified norm; personal disclosure alone is insufficient.", "Acknowledgement can occur without remorse, an apology or a request for forgiveness; these must be recorded separately.", "A communication can be classified as a confession while its truth, voluntariness or attribution remains disputed.", "A fictional confessional narrator does not establish that the author committed the narrated conduct." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": 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available independent evidence; partly corroborated; corroborated; contradicted; mixed, recorded per claim", "why_it_matters": "Separates the existence of a confession from support for its contents." }, { "name": "Audience and handling authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Intended recipients, actual recipients and documented permissions or restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes disclosure to a particular listener from permission for wider circulation." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify passages that acknowledge personal wrongdoing and separate them from denials, excuses and accusations.", "Map each acknowledgement to the attributed speaker, conduct and claimed degree of responsibility.", "Compare recordings, transcripts, translations and edits for changes in confessional meaning.", "Assess claim support and elicitation uncertainty without inferring guilt from the confession alone.", "Track corrections and retractions while preserving the history of what was said.", "Prepare an attributed summary or redacted excerpt within established handling permissions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "confessional-meaning", "name": "Confessional meaning", "description": "Identifies the acknowledgement that makes this communication a confession.", "rationale": "A confession must be distinguished from mere disclosure, accusation, apology and declarations of belief.", "layers": [ { "id": "acknowledged-wrongdoing", "name": "Acknowledged wrongdoing", "description": "Connects the speaker's words to conduct and its asserted wrongfulness.", "findings": [ { "id": "conduct-and-norm", "name": "Conduct and norm", "description": "Record what the speaker acknowledges and whose norm makes it wrongful, preserving ambiguity where the norm is inferred.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact act, omission or intention does the speaker acknowledge as their own?", "kind": "definition", "id": "conduct-and-norm-q01" }, { "text": "Does the speaker present it 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"Conditions of speaking", "description": "Records prompts, inducements, pressures and opportunities to review the attributed statement.", "findings": [ { "id": "elicitation-and-adoption", "name": "Elicitation and adoption", "description": "Identify how the confession was elicited and whether the attributed speaker adopted the words presented as theirs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What questions, promises, threats or other pressures are documented, alleged or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "elicitation-and-adoption-q01" }, { "text": "Did the speaker compose, approve or subsequently dispute the wording attributed to them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "elicitation-and-adoption-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims-and-revisions", "name": "Claims and revisions", "description": "Tracks support for confessed claims and changes in the speaker's position.", "rationale": "A confession's existence, the accuracy of its claims and the speaker's continuing endorsement are separate matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-level-support", "name": "Claim-level support", "description": "Relates individual acknowledgements to available corroboration and contradiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "independent-evidence", "name": "Independent evidence", "description": "Assess each material claim against evidence while identifying sources that merely repeat the confession.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which confessed claims have independent supporting or conflicting evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "independent-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which apparent corroborations derive from this confession or information supplied to the speaker?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "independent-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualification-and-retraction", "name": "Qualification and retraction", "description": "Preserves changes to what the speaker acknowledges without overwriting earlier statements.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-claim-history", "name": "Dated claim history", "description": "Link 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"Meaning-preserving lineage", "description": "Link recordings, transcripts, translations and edited publications, identifying alterations that affect responsibility or qualification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recording, manuscript or other expression is the basis for this version, and what transformations connect them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "meaning-preserving-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Have omissions, punctuation, translation or editing changed the apparent scope or certainty of the acknowledgement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-preserving-lineage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recipients-and-reuse", "name": "Recipients and reuse", "description": "Records intended disclosure, subsequent distribution and evidence of authority for proposed uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-handling", "name": "Permitted handling", "description": "Distinguish the original audience from later recipients and document applicable confidentiality, consent and reuse constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "To whom was the confession addressed, and what confidentiality expectations or restrictions were recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-handling-q01" }, { "text": "What documented authority supports the proposed quotation, sharing or publication of this expression?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-handling-q02" }, { "text": "Can a permitted summary omit identifying details about third parties while preserving the scope of the acknowledgement?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-handling-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 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"evidence": [ "Autobiographical confession", "Religious or spiritual confession", "Fictional confession" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of confession this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISBN", "value_or_pattern": "13 digits, beginning with 978 or 979", "note": "May identify a separately published edition and format; does not identify confession as a literary form or the underlying work independently of its publication." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of confession this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards 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"questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of confession this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating a fictional narrator's admissions as statements by the author", "Assuming that a confessional presentation guarantees factual accuracy", "Overlooking selective disclosure, retrospective distortion or self-justification", "Conflating the literary form with a legal admission or a religious practice", "Disclosure of sensitive information about identifiable people" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of confession this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": 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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 confession, 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 confession, 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 confession 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 confession, 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 confession, 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 confession 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 confession 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 confession, 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 confession, by which method, and when was 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[ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a confession 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 confession 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 confession between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a confession, 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 confession, 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 confession 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 confession, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a confession 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 confession, 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 confession, 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 confession is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a confession says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a confession contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a confession, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a confession, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a confession is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a confession and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a confession, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a confession, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a confession is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of confession a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For confession, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of confession exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made confession and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to confession, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in confession, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a confession 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 confession and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a confession, 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 confession, 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 confession 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 confession is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a confession, 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 confession, 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 confession is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }