{ "model": { "rank": 4452, "code": "thing-q186192", "model_id": "vr.tr.lithuanians", "name": "Lithuanians", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Lithuanians, distinguish ethnic identity from citizenship and residence, and assess community descriptions without assigning identity to individuals by inference.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q186192/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Lithuanians in Latvia" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q186192", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186192", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:15:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087ce-87ea-7dc1-a160-09d1685f36f1\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Lithuanians\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 regi", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 53.8, "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: 01a087ce-87d8-7a21-b9ce-424636172fc0\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Lithuanians\nRegistry id: vr.tr.lithuanians\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q186192", "registryId": "vr.tr.lithuanians", "name": "Lithuanians", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q186192/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.lithuanians", "name": "Lithuanians", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Lithuanians, distinguish ethnic identity from citizenship and residence, and assess community descriptions without assigning identity to individuals by inference.", "definition": "Lithuanians are a Baltic ethnic group historically associated with Lithuania, whose collective identity involves Lithuanian cultural traditions, historical memory and the Lithuanian language, without requiring every member to share a language, ancestry or citizenship.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Lithuanians as a collective ethnocultural identity, including self-identification, language relationships, historical continuity and diaspora belonging; the intended ethnic sense remains provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Lithuanian ethnic self-identification and collective belonging", "Relationships to Lithuanian language, cultural practices and intergenerational transmission", "Historically situated descriptions of Lithuanian communities", "Lithuanian diaspora affiliations and relationships with Lithuania", "Population descriptions with explicit identity criteria, dates and geographic coverage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Lithuania as a state, territory or government", "Lithuanian citizenship, passports and immigration eligibility", "All residents of Lithuania regardless of ethnic identity", "The Lithuanian language as a linguistic system", "Individual biographies and personal ethnicity profiles", "Organisations claiming to represent Lithuanians as separately governed entities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reference belongs here when it concerns Lithuanian ethnocultural belonging; a reference defined solely by passport status belongs to a citizenship model.", "Residence in Lithuania does not establish Lithuanian ethnic identity, and residence elsewhere does not exclude it.", "Speaking Lithuanian, having a Lithuanian surname or reporting Lithuanian ancestry does not independently establish a person's self-identification.", "A reference to Lithuania's population must specify whether it includes every resident or only people identified as ethnically Lithuanian.", "Historical uses of 'Lithuanian' require their contemporary territorial and political meaning to be checked before being mapped to the present ethnocultural sense." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Meaning of Lithuanian in the record", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Ethnic identity; citizenship; residence; historical political affiliation; mixed usage; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents records about different populations from being treated as descriptions of the same collective." }, { "name": "Basis of identity attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-identification; census response; community description; scholarly classification; external attribution; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes the evidence for a description visible and prevents external classifications from replacing expressed identity." }, { "name": "Relationship to Lithuanian language", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reported first language, home language, learned language, heritage language or other relationship; date and population specified", "why_it_matters": "Supports analysis of language transmission without treating fluency as an ethnic membership requirement." }, { "name": "Community geography", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named locality or region, country of residence, relationship to Lithuania and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes communities in Lithuania from diaspora contexts without assuming a single experience." }, { "name": "Reported population size", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference date, geographic coverage, inclusion criteria and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison only when estimates count compatible populations." }, { "name": "Intergenerational cultural transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented for a named practice and community; reported interruption; revitalisation activity; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Describes particular community conditions without declaring Lithuanian culture uniformly preserved or lost." }, { "name": "Representation mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named organisation or speaker, represented constituency, mandate basis and period", "why_it_matters": "Separates a documented community voice from an unsupported claim to speak for all Lithuanians." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate references to Lithuanians in census tables, historical texts and community accounts.", "Compare Lithuanian population estimates after checking geography, identity criteria and reference dates.", "Record Lithuanian language and cultural transmission needs reported by specific communities.", "Connect diaspora community descriptions to documented migration histories and relationships with Lithuania.", "Identify appropriately mandated community sources for consultation.", "Flag unsupported identity inference, universal cultural claims and incompatible historical classifications." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lithuanian-identity-boundaries", "name": "Lithuanian identity boundaries", "description": "Separates Lithuanian ethnocultural belonging from citizenship, residence and identity assigned by others.", "rationale": "The registry name can denote different populations, and an agent must resolve the intended sense before using a record.", "layers": [ { "id": "ethnic-and-civic-senses", "name": "Ethnic and civic senses", "description": "Determines which meaning of Lithuanian a source uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-in-context", "name": "Meaning in context", "description": "Record whether a reference concerns ethnic Lithuanians, Lithuanian citizens, Lithuania's residents or an unresolved combination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this source define Lithuanians through ethnic identification, citizenship, residence or another criterion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "Would this record include a Lithuanian citizen who identifies with another ethnicity or an ethnic Lithuanian living abroad?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-in-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "expressed-and-attributed-belonging", "name": "Expressed and attributed belonging", "description": "Preserves the distinction between expressed Lithuanian identity and classifications imposed by a source.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Identity evidence", "description": "Document who supplied the identity description and whether mixed, multiple or changing identifications were permitted.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is Lithuanian belonging self-reported, described by a community or attributed by an external observer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the recording method allow Lithuanian identity alongside another identity, or force a single answer?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lithuanian-language-and-cultural-transmission", "name": "Lithuanian language and cultural transmission", "description": "Records how particular Lithuanian communities describe language use, cultural participation and transmission.", "rationale": "Language and cultural practice can illuminate belonging, but neither should become a compulsory test of Lithuanian identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-relationships", "name": "Language relationships", "description": "Distinguishes Lithuanian heritage affiliation, language use and language proficiency.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-without-membership-tests", "name": "Language use without membership tests", "description": "Keep evidence about Lithuanian language use separate from evidence about ethnic identification, including multilingual and diaspora settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source measure Lithuanian as a first language, home language, heritage language or demonstrated proficiency?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-without-membership-tests-q01" }, { "text": "How does it describe people who identify as Lithuanian but use another language in daily life?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "language-use-without-membership-tests-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-cultural-practices", "name": "Situated cultural practices", "description": "Locates cultural practices within named Lithuanian communities and periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-transmission-evidence", "name": "Practice and transmission evidence", "description": "Record community-described practices, their participants and how they are taught, avoiding assumptions of universal participation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Lithuanian community documents this practice, and does it describe the practice as local, regional, religious, national or diasporic?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-transmission-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What support for teaching or maintaining this practice does that community actually request?", "kind": "action", "id": "practice-and-transmission-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-continuity-and-diaspora", "name": "Historical continuity and diaspora", "description": "Tracks changing uses of Lithuanian identity and geographically dispersed community relationships.", "rationale": "Historical political labels and present diaspora affiliations cannot safely be collapsed into a timeless population category.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-name-interpretation", "name": "Historical name interpretation", "description": "Interprets historical Lithuanian labels in their own political, territorial and linguistic settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-category-mapping", "name": "Historical category mapping", "description": "Require evidence before equating a historical Lithuanian designation with contemporary ethnic identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "In a source referring to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or another historical setting, what did 'Lithuanian' designate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "historical-category-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports or limits mapping that historical designation onto the present registry entry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-category-mapping-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diaspora-community-relationships", "name": "Diaspora community relationships", "description": "Describes Lithuanian communities abroad through documented histories and present affiliations.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-belonging-and-connections", "name": "Diaspora belonging and connections", "description": "Record migration context, generational descriptions and community-maintained relationships without presuming citizenship or an intention to return.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which migration histories and generations does this Lithuanian diaspora community's account cover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-belonging-and-connections-q01" }, { "text": "Which relationships with Lithuania or other Lithuanian communities are currently documented, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-belonging-and-connections-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-evidence-and-community-voice", "name": "Population evidence and community voice", "description": "Makes demographic descriptions comparable and claims of collective representation assessable.", "rationale": "An agent needs explicit counting rules and accountable sources before describing Lithuanians collectively or choosing whom to consult.", "layers": [ { "id": "demographic-coverage", "name": "Demographic coverage", "description": "Tests whether counts and estimates refer to compatible Lithuanian populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-population-counts", "name": "Comparable population counts", "description": "Attach identity questions, geographic coverage, reference dates and estimation methods to every population figure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this figure count ethnic self-identification, Lithuanian ancestry, Lithuanian citizenship or another explicitly defined population?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-population-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Can this figure be combined with another estimate without double-counting migrants or mixing incompatible identity criteria?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-population-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-consultation", "name": "Representation and consultation", "description": "Identifies the actual constituencies represented by Lithuanian community organisations and speakers.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-community-mandates", "name": "Bounded community mandates", "description": "Treat statements as attributable to their speakers and constituencies, with explicit limits on broader generalisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Lithuanian constituency authorised this organisation or speaker, through what process and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-community-mandates-q01" }, { "text": "Whose perspectives within the relevant Lithuanian community still need to be consulted before acting on this statement?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-community-mandates-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 unspecified registry sense is interpreted as the ethnic group; the word can also refer to Lithuanian citizens.", "The listed kinds are regional ethnographic identities, not exhaustive or mutually exclusive categories; Samogitian identity may also be asserted separately.", "This is recalled knowledge without source consultation; population figures and formal classification codes are intentionally omitted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Lithuanians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Aukštaitians", "Samogitians", "Dzūkians", "Suvalkians", "Lithuania Minor Lithuanians (Lietuvininkai)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Lithuanians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Self-identification in censuses and demographic research", "Historical and ethnographic research", "Cultural heritage preservation", "Diaspora community organisation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Lithuanians 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 Lithuanian ethnicity with Lithuanian citizenship or residence", "Treating language proficiency, surname or ancestry as a definitive test of ethnic identity", "Assuming uniform religious beliefs, political views or cultural practices", "Comparing population counts that use different definitions of ethnicity, ancestry or nationality" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Lithuanians 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": [ "Regional ethnographic identities include Aukštaitian, Samogitian, Dzūkian and Suvalkian traditions; their boundaries do not map perfectly onto dialect divisions.", "Lithuania Minor Lithuanians have a distinct historical association with former Prussian territories and Lutheran traditions.", "Diaspora communities vary in language retention, migration history and relationships with Lithuania." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Lithuanians 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": "Lithuanian citizens", "difference": "Citizenship is legal membership of a state; Lithuanian ethnicity can include noncitizens and does not encompass all Lithuanian citizens." }, { "name": "Residents of Lithuania", "difference": "Residence describes where someone lives, regardless of ethnicity or citizenship." }, { "name": "Lithuanian speakers", "difference": "Language use does not establish ethnic identity, and some ethnic Lithuanians do not speak Lithuanian." }, { "name": "Latvians", "difference": "Latvians are a distinct Baltic ethnic group associated with Latvian language and historical traditions." }, { "name": "Balts", "difference": "Balts is a broader ethnolinguistic grouping that includes Lithuanians, Latvians and historical Baltic peoples." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Lithuanians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Lithuanians specifically as an ethnic collective, or as a broader demonym covering Lithuanian citizens?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this collective and therefore supply the authoritative model?", "How should regional identifications, including Samogitian identification, be represented without assuming either equivalence or exclusion?", "Which demographic sources provide sufficiently compatible identity criteria to compare Lithuanian populations across Lithuania and diaspora countries?", "Which historical labels and community organisations have adequately documented meanings or mandates for inclusion in a researched publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Lithuanians, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Lithuanians, distinguish ethnic identity from citizenship and residence, and assess community descriptions without assigning identity to individuals by inference.", "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: Lithuanians in Latvia.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 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 Lithuanians, 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": [ "Lithuanians in Latvia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Lithuanians from another, and a Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians.", "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 Lithuanians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Lithuanians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Lithuanians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians.", "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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 Lithuanians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians, 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 Lithuanians 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 } } } }