{ "model": { "rank": 4568, "code": "thing-q191356", "model_id": "vr.tr.icelanders", "name": "Icelanders", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Icelanders, distinguish civic, cultural and ancestral senses, and use evidence about individuals or populations without treating group membership as a uniform personal trait.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q191356/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Svalbarðsætt" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q191356", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191356", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:31:30Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087dd-5587-7531-85c2-a41844617b17\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Icelanders\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 regi", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 65.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087dd-5594-7960-968c-4e7bd5e8ae34\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Icelanders\nRegistry id: vr.tr.icelanders\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCo" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q191356", "registryId": "vr.tr.icelanders", "name": "Icelanders", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q191356/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.icelanders", "name": "Icelanders", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Icelanders, distinguish civic, cultural and ancestral senses, and use evidence about individuals or populations without treating group membership as a uniform personal trait.", "definition": "Icelanders are people identified with Iceland through nationality or ethnocultural affiliation, with citizenship, ancestry, language and self-identification providing related but non-equivalent bases for membership.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the interpretation and evidenced attribution of the collective label Icelanders under vr.tr.icelanders, including its civic, ethnocultural and diaspora senses, while leaving their equivalence unresolved where the registry provides no definition.", "in_scope": [ "The intended meaning of Icelanders in a particular record or task", "Self-identification and externally attributed Icelandic affiliation", "Connections to Iceland through citizenship, residence, upbringing, family history or community participation", "Icelandic language and cultural participation as contextual relations rather than compulsory membership tests", "Population descriptions with explicit inclusion rules, dates and geographic coverage", "Evidence, disagreement and limits on actions based on Icelandic affiliation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Iceland as a territory, state or physical environment", "The Icelandic language as a linguistic system", "Citizenship legislation and immigration procedures as legal models", "Individual biographies beyond their relevant affiliation evidence", "Icelandic institutions, cultural works and historical events as independently modelled things", "Occupations, personality traits or biological characteristics purportedly shared by Icelanders" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is people associated with Iceland, rather than Iceland itself, its government or the Icelandic language.", "A civic use identifies a citizenship relation; an ethnocultural use identifies a different affiliation that must have its own evidence.", "Residence or birth in Iceland alone does not establish which sense of Icelanders a source intends.", "A person living outside Iceland may fall within a stated diaspora or citizenship scope; current location alone cannot exclude them.", "Icelandic names, language use or family connections are contextual evidence and cannot independently establish a person's preferred identification." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual affiliation | defined population | collective identity | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a statement about a population from becoming an unsupported statement about each person." }, { "name": "Intended Icelanders sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "civic | ethnocultural | ancestral | diaspora | mixed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Makes the inclusion rule explicit when the same label carries different meanings." }, { "name": "Affiliation assertion basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-description | administrative record | attributed by a named source | historical classification | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a person's identification from labels assigned by others." }, { "name": "Citizenship connection to Iceland", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "documented citizenship relation with source and applicable date | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports a civic interpretation without using ancestry or residence as a substitute." }, { "name": "Life-course connection to Iceland", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "birth | upbringing | past residence | current residence | family connection; each dated where possible", "why_it_matters": "Separates distinct connections that may support different descriptions of belonging." }, { "name": "Icelandic language relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "self-reported or assessed proficiency, use, learning or heritage relationship; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports communication choices without making language competence a condition of Icelandic identity." }, { "name": "Icelandic community participation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "named community, association or practice with participation context and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Records concrete cultural connections without assuming that all Icelanders participate." }, { "name": "Affiliation assertion status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | ambiguous | disputed | superseded | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows conflicting descriptions and changes over time to remain visible." }, { "name": "Population count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "persons, with inclusion rule, reference date, geographic coverage and source", "why_it_matters": "Prevents counts of residents, citizens and people reporting Icelandic ancestry from being interchanged." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate whether Icelanders means citizens, an ethnocultural collective or a specifically defined diaspora population.", "Record a person's stated Icelandic affiliation alongside other affiliations without imposing exclusivity.", "Compare population descriptions only after checking their citizenship, residence, ancestry and date criteria.", "Select Icelandic-language communication when supported by an expressed preference or relevant evidence.", "Identify missing evidence before using Icelandic affiliation in an eligibility or representation decision.", "Preserve conflicting historical and contemporary descriptions with their sources and temporal scope." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "icelanders-meaning-and-membership", "name": "Icelanders meaning and membership", "description": "Establishes what the label Icelanders denotes in the current context.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, so an agent must not silently collapse civic and ethnocultural meanings.", "layers": [ { "id": "civic-and-cultural-senses", "name": "Civic and cultural senses", "description": "Separates citizenship-based references from cultural or ancestral references.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-inclusion-basis", "name": "Explicit inclusion basis", "description": "Record the source's membership criterion before interpreting a reference to Icelanders.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Icelanders here mean Icelandic citizens, people identifying culturally as Icelandic, people of Icelandic ancestry, or a stated combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-inclusion-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Would the source include an Icelandic citizen living abroad and a resident of Iceland without Icelandic citizenship on the same basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-inclusion-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "self-identification-and-attribution", "name": "Self-identification and attribution", "description": "Keeps a person's account of belonging distinct from classifications made by institutions or observers.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-icelandic-affiliation", "name": "Attributed Icelandic affiliation", "description": "Treat each affiliation statement as an assertion with an author, context and date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who described this person or group as Icelandic, and was that description self-reported?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-icelandic-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "How should a conflicting or multiple national identification be preserved without replacing it with a single Icelanders label?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-icelandic-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "connections-to-iceland", "name": "Connections to Iceland", "description": "Describes the distinct relations through which people are connected to Iceland.", "rationale": "Citizenship, birthplace, residence and family history answer different questions about Icelandic affiliation.", "layers": [ { "id": "citizenship-and-life-course", "name": "Citizenship and life course", "description": "Records civic status separately from where a person was born, grew up or lives.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-iceland-connections", "name": "Dated Iceland connections", "description": "Record each relevant connection independently and avoid substituting one connection for another.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which connections to Iceland are documented: citizenship, birth, upbringing, previous residence or current residence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-iceland-connections-q01" }, { "text": "At the date relevant to this task, which documented connection satisfies the stated inclusion rule?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-iceland-connections-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ancestry-and-diaspora", "name": "Ancestry and diaspora", "description": "Describes Icelandic family and community connections outside Iceland without assuming inherited identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-affiliation-basis", "name": "Diaspora affiliation basis", "description": "Keep family descent, migration history and present community identification as distinct evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the diaspora description rest on migration from Iceland, family ancestry, current citizenship or participation in an Icelandic community?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports this connection, and does the person or community use an Icelandic identification today?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-participation", "name": "Language and cultural participation", "description": "Records specific relationships to Icelandic language and culture.", "rationale": "Cultural context can help an agent communicate and interpret records, but must not become a universal test of who counts as Icelandic.", "layers": [ { "id": "icelandic-language-relationship", "name": "Icelandic language relationship", "description": "Separates language ability, habitual use and communication preference.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-evidence-and-preference", "name": "Language evidence and preference", "description": "Establish language needs directly rather than deriving them from Icelandic affiliation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence describes this person's ability to understand, speak, read or write Icelandic?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-evidence-and-preference-q01" }, { "text": "Has the person requested Icelandic communication, and what language should be used when preference is unknown?", "kind": "action", "id": "language-evidence-and-preference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specific-cultural-connections", "name": "Specific cultural connections", "description": "Records participation in named Icelandic practices, communities or cultural activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-without-membership-tests", "name": "Participation without membership tests", "description": "Represent cultural participation as a contextual connection rather than proof or disproof of Icelandic identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Icelandic practice, community or activity is relevant, and what source establishes the person's relationship to it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "participation-without-membership-tests-q01" }, { "text": "Is the description incorrectly treating a language, naming pattern, religion or tradition as mandatory for all Icelanders?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participation-without-membership-tests-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-and-historical-context", "name": "Population and historical context", "description": "Makes aggregate and historical references to Icelanders interpretable.", "rationale": "Population totals and historical labels depend on inclusion criteria that may differ across sources and periods.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-denominators", "name": "Population denominators", "description": "Identifies exactly who is counted in statistics labelled Icelanders.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-icelanders-counts", "name": "Comparable Icelanders counts", "description": "Attach the counted population, geographic coverage and reference date to every aggregate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this count cover Iceland's residents, Icelandic citizens worldwide, self-identified Icelanders or people reporting Icelandic ancestry?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-icelanders-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Do the sources use compatible inclusion rules and reference dates before their totals are compared or combined?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-icelanders-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-labels", "name": "Historical labels", "description": "Keeps period-specific descriptions distinct from present-day categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "historically-situated-affiliation", "name": "Historically situated affiliation", "description": "Record whether Icelanders is a contemporary source label or a later analytical description.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the Icelanders label used by people in the period being described or applied by a later author?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historically-situated-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Would applying a present-day citizenship or identity criterion distort the historical population under discussion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historically-situated-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-permitted-use", "name": "Representation and permitted use", "description": "Connects evidence about Icelandic affiliation to the specific action an agent is considering.", "rationale": "A collective identity label does not establish authority to represent Icelanders or determine an individual's eligibility.", "layers": [ { "id": "collective-representation", "name": "Collective representation", "description": "Distinguishes personal viewpoints, community mandates and population evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "scope-of-speaking-for-icelanders", "name": "Scope of speaking for Icelanders", "description": "Record the actual constituency and basis behind a claim to speak for Icelanders.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the speaker represent a named Icelandic organisation, a surveyed population, a diaspora community or only their own view?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scope-of-speaking-for-icelanders-q01" }, { "text": "What mandate or research method supports extending this statement to the Icelanders population being discussed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scope-of-speaking-for-icelanders-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-specific-evidence", "name": "Action-specific evidence", "description": "Requires the relevant criterion to be established before affiliation informs a decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "affiliation-is-not-eligibility", "name": "Affiliation is not eligibility", "description": "Use the actual rule and necessary evidence for the proposed action, rather than treating Icelanders as an eligibility shortcut.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this action require Icelandic citizenship, residence in Iceland, language preference, community membership or another explicit criterion?", "kind": "action", "id": "affiliation-is-not-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is needed before the Icelanders label can support this decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "affiliation-is-not-eligibility-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 is recorded; establish whether the registry intends an ethnic group, a citizen population or a broader national identity.", "Any population estimate requires a date, geographic scope and explicit membership criteria.", "This description is based on recall; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Icelanders 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": [ "Icelanders in the citizenship sense", "Ethnic Icelanders", "Diaspora Icelanders" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Icelanders 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": [ "Describing national and cultural identity", "Studying migration, settlement and diaspora communities", "Classifying populations in demographic research when membership criteria are explicit", "Studying Icelandic language, literature and cultural traditions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Icelanders this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating citizenship, ethnicity, birthplace and residence as interchangeable", "Assuming that all Icelanders share the same ancestry, language proficiency or cultural practices", "Inferring an individual's identity from a name or appearance", "Comparing population counts that use different membership criteria" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Icelanders this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In Iceland, national belonging and legal citizenship can overlap without being identical.", "Diaspora usage, including in Canada and the United States, may emphasize Icelandic ancestry or cultural affiliation without implying Icelandic citizenship." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Icelanders this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Residents of Iceland", "difference": "Residence describes where someone lives; residents need not be Icelandic citizens or identify as Icelanders." }, { "name": "Icelandic citizens", "difference": "Citizenship is a legal status; the broader ethnocultural sense of Icelanders can include people without that status." }, { "name": "Icelandic speakers", "difference": "Language proficiency does not establish citizenship or ethnic identity, and some Icelanders do not speak Icelandic." }, { "name": "People of Icelandic descent", "difference": "Descent describes ancestry and does not necessarily imply present cultural affiliation or self-identification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Icelanders this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which sense did the registry's originating source intend for Icelanders: civic, ethnocultural, ancestral or a broader collective?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring vr.tr.icelanders to link to it?", "Which authoritative statistical sources distinguish Icelandic citizenship, residence, ancestry and self-identification, and how do their inclusion rules differ?", "How do people and organisations in Icelandic diaspora communities describe membership across generations and multiple affiliations?", "Which historical periods and source vocabularies require separate interpretation to avoid imposing present-day meanings of Icelanders?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Icelanders, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Icelanders, distinguish civic, cultural and ancestral senses, and use evidence about individuals or populations without treating group membership as a uniform personal trait.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Svalbarðsætt.", "1 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 Icelanders, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Svalbarðsætt" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 74 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 Icelanders from another, and a Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Icelanders is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Icelanders is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders.", "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 Icelanders and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Icelanders, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Icelanders sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders.", "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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 Icelanders is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Icelanders, 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 Icelanders, 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 Icelanders 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 } } } }