{ "model": { "rank": 6316, "code": "thing-q19109", "model_id": "vr.tr.montenegrins", "name": "Montenegrins", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Montenegrins, assess how collective identity is expressed and evidenced, and determine appropriate actions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, residence or political allegiance.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q19109/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Montenegrins in Serbia" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q19109", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19109", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:45:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0066249, "turns": 1, "seconds": 37.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 75.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c1d-0635-77e0-9466-1a8379b0c6f1\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Montenegrins\nRegistry id: vr.tr.montenegrins\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q19109", "registryId": "vr.tr.montenegrins", "name": "Montenegrins", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q19109/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.montenegrins", "name": "Montenegrins", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Montenegrins, assess how collective identity is expressed and evidenced, and determine appropriate actions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, residence or political allegiance.", "definition": "Montenegrins are a South Slavic people historically formed in the highland polities of present-day Montenegro, whose modern identity is defined in census and legal practice as a nationality distinct from Serbs while remaining closely related in language, Orthodox church history, and kinship.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Montenegrins as a named collective identity, including self-identification, membership boundaries, collective continuity and claims to representation; the registry's intended ethnic, national or civic meaning remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Explicit identification as Montenegrin, including overlapping identities and changes in identification", "Distinctions between Montenegrin ethnic or national identity, Montenegro citizenship and residence", "Community-specific expressions of language, cultural practice and historical belonging", "Diaspora identification and relationships with Montenegro", "Evidence and limits of claims made about or on behalf of Montenegrins" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Montenegro as a sovereign state, territory or government", "Citizenship law, passports and individual immigration cases", "The Montenegrin language as an independent linguistic system", "Individual biographies and personal ancestry records", "Political parties, religious institutions and diaspora associations as organisations", "Serbs and other neighbouring collective identities as independently modelled populations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether 'Montenegrins' denotes a self-identified ethnic or national collective, citizens of Montenegro, residents or another explicitly defined population before treating references as equivalent.", "Require explicit identity evidence before interpreting Montenegro citizenship, birthplace, surname or ancestry as Montenegrin collective identification.", "When a source relates Montenegrin and Serbian identification, preserve its stated relationship and attribution rather than assuming equivalence or mutual exclusion.", "Distinguish identifying as Montenegrin abroad from merely having migrated from Montenegro.", "Treat language choice, religious affiliation and political preferences as separately evidenced characteristics rather than membership tests." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Meaning of Montenegrin in context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Ethnic; national; civic; geographic; mixed; unspecified, retaining the source's wording", "why_it_matters": "Determines which population a claim concerns and prevents incompatible meanings from being merged." }, { "name": "Basis of identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicit self-identification; attributed identification; administrative classification; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates expressed belonging from labels assigned by institutions or observers." }, { "name": "Relationship to Montenegro", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Citizenship, residence, birthplace, ancestry or community connection, each separately evidenced", "why_it_matters": "Allows connections to Montenegro to be described without treating them as interchangeable identity credentials." }, { "name": "Relationship to other identities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Co-identification; context-dependent identification; explicit distinction; contested relationship; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Preserves how people and communities describe Montenegrin belonging alongside other identities." }, { "name": "Population estimate under a stated definition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons or percentage, with date, geography, population universe, question wording and collection method", "why_it_matters": "Makes counts interpretable and prevents comparisons between different identity or citizenship categories." }, { "name": "Reported language identification and use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-reported language names, use contexts and multilingual combinations", "why_it_matters": "Supports communication decisions without making language a proxy for ethnicity." }, { "name": "Evidence coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current for the stated purpose; dated; partial; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether available evidence can support a present claim about the specified collective." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named representative, represented constituency, authorisation basis, subject and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Limits whose views an agent may attribute to Montenegrins collectively." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate whether a reference concerns Montenegrin identity, Montenegro citizenship or residence.", "Record explicitly expressed Montenegrin belonging and overlapping identities without inferring sensitive attributes.", "Compare population claims only after checking their definitions, dates and geographic coverage.", "Select communication language from expressed preferences rather than assumed ethnic membership.", "Identify relevant community interlocutors and verify the limits of their representative mandates.", "Flag unsupported generalisations and request evidence or clarification before acting on them." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-1", "title": "Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Montenegro 2023", "url": "https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1732&pageid=1732", "what_it_supports": "Official ethnic self-declaration counts, language, and religion for the resident population of Montenegro.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "montenegrin-identity-boundaries", "name": "Montenegrin identity boundaries", "description": "Distinguish the meanings and membership claims attached to the name Montenegrins.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so an agent must establish the referent before combining evidence or taking action.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-and-civic-reference", "name": "Identity and civic reference", "description": "Separate collective identification from legal or geographic connections to Montenegro.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-of-montenegrins", "name": "Meaning of Montenegrins", "description": "Record what the term denotes in the specific source or task without imposing a single meaning across contexts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Montenegrins mean an ethnic or national identity, citizens of Montenegro, residents or another explicitly defined group here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-of-montenegrins-q01" }, { "text": "Which citizenship, residence or ancestry cases fall outside this particular use of Montenegrins?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-of-montenegrins-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "self-identification-and-overlap", "name": "Self-identification and overlap", "description": "Preserve expressed belonging and its relationship to other identities.", "findings": [ { "id": "montenegrin-and-related-identifications", "name": "Montenegrin and related identifications", "description": "Record whether identity labels are self-expressed or attributed and how the source relates Montenegrin identification to Serbian or other identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who supplied the Montenegrin identification, when and under what options or constraints?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "montenegrin-and-related-identifications-q01" }, { "text": "Does the person or community describe Montenegrin and Serbian or other identities as overlapping, distinct or dependent on context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "montenegrin-and-related-identifications-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-and-diaspora-evidence", "name": "Population and diaspora evidence", "description": "Interpret claims about the size, distribution and geographic continuity of Montenegrin communities.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish identity counts from citizenship or migration counts and recognise the limits of evidence about communities abroad.", "layers": [ { "id": "enumeration-and-comparability", "name": "Enumeration and comparability", "description": "Qualify statistical claims by the population definition and collection conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "montenegrin-population-denominator", "name": "Montenegrin population denominator", "description": "Record what a reported count measures before using it to describe Montenegrins or infer change.", "questions": [ { "text": "What date, geography, population universe and exact identity or citizenship question produced this count of Montenegrins?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "montenegrin-population-denominator-q01" }, { "text": "Did category wording, multiple-response rules or coverage change between the counts being compared?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "montenegrin-population-denominator-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diaspora-and-homeland-connections", "name": "Diaspora and homeland connections", "description": "Describe Montenegrin identification outside Montenegro and the connections communities themselves maintain.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-belonging-basis", "name": "Diaspora belonging basis", "description": "Distinguish current Montenegrin identification from migration origin, descent and participation in a named association.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what evidence is this population abroad described as Montenegrin rather than simply originating from Montenegro?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-belonging-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which present connections to Montenegro or other Montenegrin communities do members report maintaining?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diaspora-belonging-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-culture-and-continuity", "name": "Language, culture and continuity", "description": "Record how particular Montenegrin communities express and transmit belonging without prescribing a uniform culture.", "rationale": "Language labels, practices and historical narratives may inform recognition and communication, but their relevance must be established for the community concerned.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-identification-and-practice", "name": "Language identification and practice", "description": "Separate language naming, actual use and communication preferences.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-language-repertoire", "name": "Reported language repertoire", "description": "Retain reported use of Montenegrin, Serbian or other language labels and scripts without deriving collective membership from them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language names and scripts does this Montenegrin community report using, and in which settings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reported-language-repertoire-q01" }, { "text": "What language and script should the agent use for this interaction according to the intended participants?", "kind": "action", "id": "reported-language-repertoire-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-transmission-and-historical-claims", "name": "Cultural transmission and historical claims", "description": "Locate practices and accounts of continuity within their stated community, period and evidential limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-expressions-of-belonging", "name": "Attributed expressions of belonging", "description": "Record which practices, symbols, religious connections or historical narratives a source associates with Montenegrin belonging and how broadly that association is supported.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices or narratives do the participants themselves identify as expressing or transmitting Montenegrin belonging?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-expressions-of-belonging-q01" }, { "text": "Where is the claimed connection disputed, locally specific or shared with neighbouring communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-expressions-of-belonging-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-permitted-engagement", "name": "Representation and permitted engagement", "description": "Determine whose claims can be attributed to Montenegrins and what evidence supports an agent's proposed engagement.", "rationale": "A named collective does not provide a single spokesperson, political position or permission to classify individuals.", "layers": [ { "id": "collective-voice-and-mandate", "name": "Collective voice and mandate", "description": "Bound statements and requests made in the name of Montenegrins by the actual constituency represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-to-speak-for-montenegrins", "name": "Authority to speak for Montenegrins", "description": "Distinguish a state office, association, religious institution or individual viewpoint from an evidenced mandate to represent a defined Montenegrin constituency.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who authorised this speaker or organisation to represent which Montenegrins, on what subject and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-to-speak-for-montenegrins-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent attribute this statement to the named speaker, the organisation's members or a wider evidenced constituency?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-to-speak-for-montenegrins-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-sensitive-agent-actions", "name": "Identity-sensitive agent actions", "description": "Connect the intended task to appropriate identification evidence and community engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounds-for-identity-based-action", "name": "Grounds for identity-based action", "description": "Require a task-relevant basis for recording or acting on Montenegrin identification, including how uncertainty and corrections will be handled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this task require Montenegrin collective identification, or would residence, citizenship or expressed language preference answer the operational need?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grounds-for-identity-based-action-q01" }, { "text": "What authorisation and explicit evidence support the proposed identity-related action, and how can affected participants correct the identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "grounds-for-identity-based-action-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Montenegrin citizens of Montenegrin ethnicity (self-declared in census)", "Montenegrin citizens of other declared ethnicities (Serb, Bosniak, Albanian, Croat, Muslim, Roma) living under the same civic nationality", "Diaspora Montenegrins (communities in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the United States, and Western Europe)", "Historical tribal/clan Montenegrins (bratstva and plemena of Old Montenegro, Brda, and the coastal strip)", "Montenegrin Orthodox vs. Serbian Orthodox identifiers (church affiliation as a proxy of national self-ascription)", "Muslim/Bosniak-identifying populations of Montenegrin origin in Sandžak and northern Montenegro", "Montenegrin language speakers vs. Serbian-language identifiers among the same population" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q178682", "note": "Montenegrins as an ethnic group (Q178682)." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-1 / 639-2 language codes (related)", "value_or_pattern": "cnr / cnr", "note": "Montenegrin language codes; language identity is not identical to ethnic identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Constitution of Montenegro (2007) - civic state of all citizens, with Montenegrin as official language and recognition of minority languages", "Law on Minority Rights and Freedoms (Montenegro) - protection of national minorities including Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians, Croats, Roma", "Census methodology of MONSTAT - ethnicity, mother tongue, and religion recorded by self-declaration" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Census and electoral demography in Montenegro, where ethnic self-ascription (Montenegrin vs Serb) is politically salient", "Citizenship and passport identity of the state of Montenegro (MNE)", "Church affiliation disputes (Montenegrin Orthodox Church vs Serbian Orthodox Church - Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral)", "Diaspora community organisations and dual identity in Serbia and the former Yugoslav space" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Resident population of Montenegro (2023 census)", "typical_range": "about 623,000", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Self-declared ethnic Montenegrins in Montenegro (2023 census)", "typical_range": "about 41-45% of residents (order of 256,000-280,000 depending on final published tables)", "unit": "persons or percent of resident population" }, { "quantity": "Self-declared ethnic Serbs in Montenegro (2023 census)", "typical_range": "about 32-33% of residents", "unit": "percent of resident population" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Conflation of civic Montenegrin citizenship with ethnic Montenegrin identity", "Politicised census: pressure or boycott affecting self-declaration as Montenegrin vs Serb", "Church-nation mapping treated as if it were a legal ethnic category", "Irredentist or unionist narratives that deny Montenegrin ethnicity as a distinct people" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Old Montenegro and Cetinje: stronger historical Montenegrin national narrative", "Northern and eastern municipalities and parts of the coast: higher Serb self-declaration", "Sandžak / northern Muslim-majority areas: Bosniak or Muslim identity rather than Montenegrin ethnicity", "Serbia and Republika Srpska: Montenegrin origin often recoded as Serb in everyday and official practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Serbs", "difference": "Separate census nationality in Montenegro; many share Štokavian speech and Serbian Orthodox practice, but Montenegrin ethnicity is a distinct self-ascription and state-forming identity since at least the 19th-century principality and the 2006 independence referendum." }, { "name": "Montenegrin citizens (civic nationality)", "difference": "Citizenship of Montenegro includes Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians, Croats and others; ethnic Montenegrins are only one of the declared groups." }, { "name": "Bosniaks / Muslims of Montenegro", "difference": "Distinct census categories; overlapping geography in the north (Sandžak) but different religion, party systems, and minority-rights status." }, { "name": "Albanians of Montenegro", "difference": "Albanian language and (mostly) Catholic or Muslim affiliation; concentrated in Ulcinj, Tuzi, and parts of the southeast." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Montenegrins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does 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"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 Montenegrins, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Montenegrins, assess how collective identity is expressed and evidenced, and determine appropriate actions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, residence or political allegiance.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Montenegrins in Serbia.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 61 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 Montenegrins, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "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. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "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": [ "Montenegrins in Serbia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 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 Montenegrins from another, and a Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins.", "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 Montenegrins and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Montenegrins, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Montenegrins sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Montenegrins is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Montenegrins take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Montenegrins, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Montenegrins and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Montenegrins may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Montenegrins have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 Montenegrins is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins, 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 Montenegrins 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 } } } }