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"This model covers scholarship in the sense of an educational funding award, including its governing scheme and individual award instances; this sense is provisional because the registry supplies no definition and assigns PHY / PHY.OBJ.", "in_scope": [ "Educational purpose, sponsor, administrator, and governing award terms", "Eligibility conditions, selection criteria, and application requirements", "Funding amount, covered costs, duration, and payment arrangements", "Individual award acceptance, use, renewal, suspension, and termination", "Recipient obligations and interactions with other educational funding" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Scholarship as scholarly inquiry, learning, or a body of academic work", "Student loans and their lending arrangements", "Employment contracts and wages for teaching or research services", "Admission decisions and academic programme design", "The recipient's complete educational or financial record", "Administration of the sponsor's underlying endowment or charitable organisation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its stated purpose is to support education or study; an unrestricted prize requires a separate boundary decision.", "Its terms must distinguish an award from borrowing, including whether repayment arises only under specified exceptional conditions.", "Its terms must distinguish educational support from compensation for required employment services, even when teaching or research is involved.", "A scholarship scheme defines repeatable award rules, while an individual scholarship award identifies a recipient, award period, and applicable terms.", "Eligibility and selection must be read from the scheme: the name alone does not establish whether support is based on merit, financial need, affiliation, or another criterion." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Record level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "scholarship scheme | award round | individual award", "why_it_matters": "Prevents scheme rules, application opportunities, 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"why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to estimate support without confusing a cap, a recurring payment, and a total award." }, { "name": "Covered educational costs", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Scheme-defined coverage of tuition, living costs, travel, materials, or other specified expenses", "why_it_matters": "Determines which costs the award can meet and which remain unfunded." }, { "name": "Support duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Months, academic terms, or academic years, with start and end dates", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the funding horizon and whether later support depends on renewal." }, { "name": "Individual award status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "offered | accepted | active | suspended | completed | declined | withdrawn | terminated", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an offer from active support and identifies available next actions." }, { "name": "Other-funding compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Permitted, restricted, offsetting, or unresolved relationships with other awards and support", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incompatible combinations and overstatement of total available support." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare a candidate's circumstances with explicit eligibility conditions and flag missing evidence.", "Prepare an application checklist and schedule from the relevant award round.", "Estimate covered costs and remaining funding needs using stated limits and payment dates.", "Explain an offer's acceptance conditions, recipient obligations, and unresolved terms.", "Track authorised payments, continuation evidence, and renewal deadlines.", "Identify changes in study or funding that require notification or an administrator's decision." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "award-identity-and-authority", "name": "Award identity and authority", "description": "Establishes the scholarship's educational purpose, record level, and authoritative terms.", "rationale": "An 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"governing-award-terms", "name": "Governing award terms", "description": "Identifies the responsible bodies and documents governing the relevant award period.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-and-terms-version", "name": "Authority and terms version", "description": "Record the sponsor and administrator, the applicable terms, and how conflicting or amended documents are resolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body issues the award, which administers it, and where are their authoritative terms recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-and-terms-version-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated terms apply to this round or recipient, and who can resolve a conflict between the offer letter and published scheme rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-and-terms-version-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "eligibility-and-selection", "name": "Eligibility and selection", "description": "Captures who may apply, what evidence is required, and how awards are allocated.", "rationale": "Meeting entry conditions does not necessarily establish entitlement to an award.", "layers": [ { "id": "candidate-and-study-eligibility", "name": "Candidate and study eligibility", "description": "Separates candidate conditions from restrictions on the supported educational activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-conditions-and-evidence", "name": "Qualifying conditions and evidence", "description": "Record mandatory conditions, their assessment dates, acceptable evidence, and any explicitly permitted exceptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which candidate circumstances and study characteristics must qualify, and at what date must each condition hold?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualifying-conditions-and-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes each condition, and who may approve an exception when the rules permit one?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualifying-conditions-and-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "application-and-allocation", "name": "Application and 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which expenses are covered or when support becomes available.", "layers": [ { "id": "covered-costs-and-value", "name": "Covered costs and value", "description": "Expresses support in relation to eligible expenses, currencies, periods, and limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "award-calculation-and-funding-gap", "name": "Award calculation and funding gap", "description": "Record how support is calculated, which expenses qualify, and the basis for estimating uncovered costs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What amount, fee percentage, waiver, or non-cash support is provided, in which currency and for which period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "award-calculation-and-funding-gap-q01" }, { "text": "Which costs are excluded or capped, and how do changes in tuition, study load, or eligible expenses affect coverage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "award-calculation-and-funding-gap-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "payment-and-other-support", "name": "Payment and other support", "description": "Connects payment 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"recipient-commitments-and-continuation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "study-changes-and-award-closure", "name": "Study changes and award closure", "description": "Handles interruptions, transfers, withdrawal, completion, and any resulting funding adjustments.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-reporting-and-exit-consequences", "name": "Change reporting and exit consequences", "description": "Record reportable changes, available decisions, and the explicit basis for suspension, termination, or recovery of funds.", "questions": [ { "text": "What must happen if the recipient defers, changes institution or programme, interrupts study, or withdraws?", "kind": "action", "id": "change-reporting-and-exit-consequences-q01" }, { "text": "Which terms determine final entitlement, possible repayment, and any review or appeal route after suspension or termination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "change-reporting-and-exit-consequences-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": [ "No sense was recorded; this response provisionally selects the educational financial award sense.", "PHY.OBJ appears inconsistent with this sense: a scholarship is an institutional award, not a physical object.", "Eligibility, permissible expenses, renewal, repayment and applicable regulation must be checked against the particular award and jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of scholarship 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": [ "Merit-based scholarship", "Need-based scholarship", "Athletic scholarship", "Subject-specific scholarship", "Institutional scholarship", "Scholarship for a specified community or demographic group" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of scholarship 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": [ "Paying tuition and educational fees", "Supporting 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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 scholarship, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify an educational scholarship, assess a candidate's fit and an award's state, and determine appropriate application, payment, and renewal actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Zois scholarship, government and politics tourism, fellowship grant, Free table, studentship, literary scholarship, Hendrik de Vriesstipendium, athletic scholarship, Chevening Scholarship, Hathaway scholarship, Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation, Root-Tilden Scholarship.", "13 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 74 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 scholarship, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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": [ "Nothing to see. 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Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Zois scholarship", "government and politics tourism", "fellowship grant", "Free table", "studentship", "literary scholarship", "Hendrik de Vriesstipendium", "athletic scholarship", "Chevening Scholarship", "Hathaway scholarship", "Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation", "Root-Tilden Scholarship" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 74 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 13 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 scholarship from another, and a scholarship 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship 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 scholarship between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a scholarship 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a scholarship proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a scholarship, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a scholarship and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a scholarship, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a scholarship, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a scholarship is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a scholarship consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a scholarship takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a scholarship, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a scholarship, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a scholarship is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What scholarship is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of scholarship are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is scholarship operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of scholarship and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of scholarship?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as scholarship?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a scholarship 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 scholarship and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 scholarship is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a scholarship, 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 scholarship, 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 scholarship 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 } } } }