parent organization/unit
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a parent organization/unit, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Derived, awaiting review
5 bundles · 10 layers · 12 findings · 34 questions
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one parent organization/unit from another, and a parent organization/unit from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a parent organization/unit sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a parent organization/unit from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a parent organization/unit passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a parent organization/unit between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a parent organization/unit, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a parent organization/unit is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
People, roles and responsibility Who stands in what relation to a parent organization/unit.
Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.
Roles and parties
The roles that exist around a parent organization/unit and who fills them.
Role assignments and their validity
Who holds which role over a parent organization/unit, from when, and on whose authority.
- What identifies and describes a role over a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a role over a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a role over a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Ownership and accountability
Who answers for a parent organization/unit and who may decide about it.
Accountability and decision rights
Where responsibility for a parent organization/unit sits when something goes wrong.
- What identifies and describes responsibility for a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Definition, dimension and realisation What parent organization/unit is defined as and how it is realised in practice.
A unit is not the quantity it measures, and its definition has a history that older data still depends on.
Definition and dimension
The defining relation and the quantity it measures.
Definition, body and date
What defines it now, and what defined it before.
- How is parent organization/unit defined, by which body, and since when? definition
- What was the previous definition, and what data still depends on it? provenance
Conversion and compatibility
Relations to other units, exact or approximate.
Conversions and their exactness
Factors, and whether each is exact by definition.
- What conversions relate parent organization/unit to other units, and which are exact by definition? measurement
- Where does rounding a conversion change a decision, and how should that be recorded? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a parent organization/unit came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a parent organization/unit and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a parent organization/unit is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a parent organization/unit, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a parent organization/unit, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- unit, quantity or measure
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Also called
- record label group
What it is Derived, awaiting review
A social thing registered under SOC.ORG. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
Why it exists Derived, awaiting review
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a parent organization/unit, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: record label group.
- 1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.
- Described in 26 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
May
- observe it, measure it, record its state
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Links to other meta-models Derived, awaiting review
related
- record label group - covers: 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.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Made of: a social arrangement between people
- 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.
Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review
- Nothing to see: a unit is a convention. What is seen is an instrument reading in it.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- observed and measured
Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Context of use required Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 26 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.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- 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 parent organization/unit, and on what evidence are they told apart?
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a parent organization/unit is known, and what must it refuse?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry, generated draft (pass 1) · not researched
Built from: models/draft_model.php, wikidata
Generated by rule from registry facets. No source was read; every derived section awaits the research pass.