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traditions, and communities both within their historical homeland and in diaspora.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective identity and differentiated communities of Tibetan people, including relationships to ancestral regions, languages, cultural practices and diaspora settings; it does not define an ethnic eligibility test or presume a single political or religious position.", "in_scope": [ "Tibetan collective self-identification, community names and externally assigned classifications", "Relationships to Tibetan ancestral regions, places of residence and diaspora settings", "Variation in Tibetan language use, cultural participation and religious affiliation", "Community continuity, migration and intergenerational transmission", "Authority to represent particular Tibetan communities and conditions for responsible use of community information" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual biographies, citizenship records and personal ethnicity profiles", "Territorial sovereignty claims and administrative boundaries as independently modelled political matters", "Tibetan languages as linguistic systems", "Tibetan Buddhism, Bon and other religious traditions as systems of belief and practice", "Specific governments, monasteries, associations and representative institutions as organisations", "Genetic ancestry classifications or biological tests of Tibetan identity" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is Tibetan people or a specified Tibetan community, rather than every resident of a territory named Tibet.", "A Tibetan identity claim is distinguished from citizenship, nationality in a legal sense and immigration status.", "Speaking a Tibetan language or practising Tibetan Buddhism is recorded as a relationship or practice, not sufficient evidence of Tibetan ethnicity.", "Identification with an ancestral Tibetan region is distinguished from current residence and from endorsement of a territorial claim.", "Claims about Tibetans collectively identify their community, period and evidence rather than treating one regional or diaspora experience as universal." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity designation and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded designation, original language, self-description or external classification, source and date", "why_it_matters": "Separates community identity from labels imposed by administrative or research categories." }, { "name": "Regional affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community relationship to named ancestral or cultural regions, including locally defined uses of U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo", "why_it_matters": "Makes regional differences visible without assuming that cultural regions coincide with administrative boundaries." }, { "name": "Residence and diaspora connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Current community location, migration context, ancestral-place connection and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes residence from 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"tibetan-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Tibetan identity and boundaries", "description": "How Tibetan identity is named, asserted and distinguished from territorial, linguistic and religious categories.", "rationale": "The registry names a people; recognition must preserve collective self-description without turning associated traits into membership tests.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-names-and-attribution", "name": "Identity names and attribution", "description": "Community names, translations and the provenance of identity designations.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-tibetan-designations", "name": "Attributed Tibetan designations", "description": "Record who uses a Tibetan identity designation, in which language and for which collective, keeping self-description distinct from external classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Tibetan or translated designation does the community use for itself, and what collective does it name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-tibetan-designations-q01" }, { "text": "Is this designation documented through community self-description, an administrative category or an outside author's interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-tibetan-designations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-adjacent-categories", "name": "Membership and adjacent categories", "description": "Boundaries between Tibetan identity and traits frequently used as proxies for it.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-without-proxy-tests", "name": "Identity without proxy tests", "description": "Keep Tibetan identification separate from citizenship, residence, religious practice and language proficiency, and leave undocumented membership claims unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the description distinguish Tibetan people from residents of Tibet, Tibetan-language speakers and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-without-proxy-tests-q01" }, { "text": "How should the agent preserve mixed or multiple identities without imposing an exclusive Tibetan or non-Tibetan classification?", "kind": "action", "id": "identity-without-proxy-tests-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regions-residence-and-diaspora", "name": "Regions, residence and diaspora", "description": "Tibetan communities' relationships to ancestral regions, current locations and migration histories.", "rationale": "A place called Tibet, a cultural region and a present-day administrative unit may refer to different geographic scopes.", "layers": [ { "id": "ancestral-and-cultural-geographies", "name": "Ancestral and cultural geographies", "description": "Named regional affiliations and the geographic meanings used by particular sources.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-tibetan-regional-scope", "name": "Explicit Tibetan regional scope", "description": "Record the source-specific meaning of Tibet and of regional labels such as U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo without silently substituting administrative boundaries.", 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"provenance", "id": "situated-diaspora-connections-q01" }, { "text": "Which ancestral-place, family, educational or cultural connections does the community consider relevant to its present identity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-diaspora-connections-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-culture-and-continuity", "name": "Language, culture and continuity", "description": "Locally documented forms of Tibetan language use, cultural participation and intergenerational continuity.", "rationale": "An agent needs to support particular community practices without presenting a uniform Tibetan language, religion or way of life.", "layers": [ { "id": "tibetan-language-repertoires", "name": "Tibetan language repertoires", "description": "Community-named languages and varieties, multilingual settings and transmission needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-by-domain", "name": "Language use by domain", "description": "Record locally meaningful language and variety names, distinguishing 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, by which 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Tibetan people is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people.", "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 Tibetan people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Tibetan people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Tibetan people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people.", "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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 Tibetan people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people, 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 Tibetan people 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 } } } }