{ "model": { "rank": 5400, "code": "thing-q203494", "model_id": "vr.tr.caravan", "name": "caravan", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a caravan as an organised travelling group, assess its collective readiness and continuity, and identify actions permitted by its travel arrangements.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q203494/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "camel train" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.caravan", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q203494", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203494", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:17:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.4, "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: 01a0883e-97f5-74e3-8534-64e3527f4817\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: caravan\nRegistry id: vr.tr.caravan\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q203494", "registryId": "vr.tr.caravan", "name": "caravan", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q203494/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.caravan", "name": "caravan", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a caravan as an organised travelling group, assess its collective readiness and continuity, and identify actions permitted by its travel arrangements.", "definition": "A caravan is a group of people travelling together, often with pack animals or vehicles, for mutual support, protection or coordinated transport, particularly over long distances.", "scope_statement": "This model owns caravan in the SOC.ORG sense: a group of travellers coordinating a shared journey, potentially with animals or vehicles, for purposes such as trade, pilgrimage, migration or mutual support; this sense remains provisional because the registry records no definition.", "in_scope": [ "The shared journey and conditions that make participants one caravan", "Participant membership, joining, departure and subgroup relationships", "Leadership, agreements and authority over collective travel decisions", "Coordination of routes, stages, halts and regrouping", "Collective readiness, shared support and journey completion" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Caravan as a towable dwelling or recreational vehicle", "Physical specifications and maintenance histories of individual vehicles or pack animals", "Individual travellers' biographies and personal possessions", "Commodity specifications, sales contracts and ownership of cargo", "Roads, settlements, campsites and border authorities as independent entities", "A permanent transport business or sponsoring institution beyond its relationship to the travelling group" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Participants recognise a shared journey and coordinate movement; simultaneous use of the same road alone does not establish a caravan.", "The referent is a travelling collective, rather than a single vehicle or mobile dwelling.", "Membership can include travellers and their associated transport units without requiring incorporation, employment or a permanent institution.", "A halt or temporary separation can preserve caravan identity when participants retain an agreed intention and means to continue together.", "The boundary with convoy is potentially overlapping and must be recorded from the group's context and terminology rather than inferred solely from vehicle type." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Journey purpose", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Trade, pilgrimage, migration, tourism, mutual support, mixed, other or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Purpose informs participation rules, destinations and acceptable changes to the journey." }, { "name": "Participation relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Traveller or subgroup linked as confirmed participant, provisional participant, temporarily separated or departed", "why_it_matters": "An agent needs an explicit membership boundary to distinguish missing participants from unrelated travellers." }, { "name": "Participant count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of people, with observation time and treatment of temporarily separated participants", "why_it_matters": "Headcounts support regrouping and assessment of shared travel requirements." }, { "name": "Transport composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "On foot, pack animals, riding animals, vehicles or mixed; specify types when known", "why_it_matters": "The combination constrains viable routes, pace and stopping arrangements." }, { "name": "Collective decision authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named leader, guide, council, participant agreement or other arrangement, with decision scope", "why_it_matters": "Guiding a route does not necessarily confer authority to admit members, allocate supplies or alter destinations." }, { "name": "Journey state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assembling, travelling, halted, regrouping, suspended, completed, dispersed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "The same observed lack of movement can signify a routine halt, a disruption or the end of the collective." }, { "name": "Next regrouping commitment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Agreed place, time or triggering condition, participating subgroups and confirmation status", "why_it_matters": "A caravan may remain coordinated without every participant staying physically adjacent." }, { "name": "Shared support coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Adequate, constrained, unavailable or unassessed for each agreed support obligation and upcoming stage", "why_it_matters": "Collective readiness depends on what support has actually been promised and can be provided." } ], "affordances": [ "Determine whether a traveller or subgroup belongs to the caravan using recorded participation agreements.", "Assess readiness for the next stage against member confirmations, transport constraints and agreed support.", "Propose a departure, halt or regrouping arrangement for approval by the appropriate participants or leaders.", "Identify separated participants and initiate authorised contact or assistance procedures.", "Record an agreed admission, departure, split or reunion while preserving caravan identity history.", "Determine whether the journey has ended and which collective obligations remain unresolved." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "shared-journey-and-membership", "name": "Shared journey and membership", "description": "Establishes which travelling collective is being described and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "A caravan cannot be identified reliably from proximity or a list of vehicles alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "journey-basis", "name": "Journey basis", "description": "Captures the shared undertaking that brings the caravan into existence.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-travelling-together", "name": "Basis for travelling together", "description": "Record the declared purpose, intended journey extent and evidence that participants undertake coordinated travel.", "questions": [ { "text": "What shared journey or purpose makes these travellers a caravan?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-travelling-together-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account or agreement establishes that they are travelling as one group?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-travelling-together-q02" }, { "text": "Does the name refer to this travelling group, a recurring expedition or an individual dwelling vehicle?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-travelling-together-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-boundary", "name": "Participation boundary", "description": "Distinguishes members, associated subgroups and people merely travelling nearby.", "findings": [ { "id": "joining-and-leaving", "name": "Joining and leaving", "description": "Record how participation begins and ends, including temporary accompaniment and membership for only part of the route.", "questions": [ { "text": "What acknowledgement or agreement makes a traveller or subgroup a participant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "joining-and-leaving-q01" }, { "text": "Who may accept a new participant, and what must be settled before that participant joins?", "kind": "action", "id": "joining-and-leaving-q02" }, { "text": "How is a planned departure distinguished from an unplanned separation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "joining-and-leaving-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-travel-agreements", "name": "Authority and travel agreements", "description": "Captures who can make decisions for the caravan and what participants have agreed to do.", "rationale": "A temporary travelling collective may coordinate effectively without the legal structure or standing hierarchy of a permanent organisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "leadership-and-consent", "name": "Leadership and consent", "description": "Separates route expertise, operational leadership and participant decision rights.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-over-movement", "name": "Authority over movement", "description": "Record who can propose or approve departures, route changes, halts and emergency movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who can approve departure or a route change, and which decisions require participant agreement?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-over-movement-q01" }, { "text": "What appointment, custom or explicit agreement establishes that authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-over-movement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participant-obligations", "name": "Participant obligations", "description": "Captures commitments that support travelling together.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-contributions-and-assistance", "name": "Agreed contributions and assistance", "description": "Record any agreed contributions, mutual assistance duties and limits on the use of participants' resources.", "questions": [ { "text": "What contributions or assistance have participants agreed to provide during the journey?", "kind": "definition", "id": "agreed-contributions-and-assistance-q01" }, { "text": "Who may commit shared resources or request additional contributions when conditions change?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-contributions-and-assistance-q02" }, { "text": "Which resources remain private even though their owners travel with the caravan?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "agreed-contributions-and-assistance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coordinated-movement", "name": "Coordinated movement", "description": "Describes how participants advance through the journey and retain coordination across halts and separation.", "rationale": "The caravan's operating state depends on collective movement commitments, rather than the location of a single representative traveller.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-halts", "name": "Stages and halts", "description": "Relates the next journey stage to the group's actual composition and constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-stage-feasibility", "name": "Next stage feasibility", "description": "Record the intended next stop, departure conditions and constraints imposed by participating people, animals and vehicles.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the next agreed stop, and what conditions must be met before departure?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-stage-feasibility-q01" }, { "text": "What distance, expected travel time and pace limits apply to this stage for the participating transport types?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "next-stage-feasibility-q02" }, { "text": "Which participant or transport constraints could make the proposed stage infeasible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "next-stage-feasibility-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cohesion-and-regrouping", "name": "Cohesion and regrouping", "description": "Captures how the caravan remains one coordinated group when dispersed.", "findings": [ { "id": "separation-and-contact", "name": "Separation and contact", "description": "Record expected separations, contact arrangements and conditions for regrouping or initiating assistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which participants are temporarily separated, and when was their status last confirmed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "separation-and-contact-q01" }, { "text": "What meeting point, signal or contact arrangement governs their return?", "kind": "action", "id": "separation-and-contact-q02" }, { "text": "What missed check-in or other condition triggers an agreed response?", "kind": "action", "id": "separation-and-contact-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-readiness-and-continuity", "name": "Shared readiness and continuity", "description": "Assesses support for continued travel and records changes to the caravan's collective existence.", "rationale": "Travel readiness and caravan identity can change independently: a group can remain a caravan while unable to proceed.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-for-continuation", "name": "Support for continuation", "description": "Tracks whether agreed collective support can sustain the upcoming stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-gaps", "name": "Support gaps", "description": "Record available shared support, its intended beneficiaries and shortfalls affecting continued travel, without assuming that supplies are pooled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which food, water, animal care, repair or other support commitments apply to the next stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "support-gaps-q01" }, { "text": "How much of each committed resource or service is available relative to the assessed requirement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "support-gaps-q02" }, { "text": "Who can approve resupply, redistribution or a delay when a support commitment cannot be met?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-gaps-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "splits-and-completion", "name": "Splits and completion", "description": "Distinguishes temporary interruption from a change or end in collective identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-of-the-caravan", "name": "Continuity of the caravan", "description": "Record whether a halt, split, reunion or arrival preserves the existing caravan, creates successor groups or ends the shared undertaking.", "questions": [ { "text": "After a split or prolonged halt, what evidence shows that participants still recognise one shared undertaking?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-of-the-caravan-q01" }, { "text": "What agreed event marks completion or dispersal of this caravan?", "kind": "definition", "id": "continuity-of-the-caravan-q02" }, { "text": "Which shared commitments must be resolved when the caravan completes its journey or disperses?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-of-the-caravan-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "The SOC.ORG domain suggests the travelling-group sense, but the registry records no explicit sense; confirm this interpretation first.", "A caravan need not be a permanent organisation or possess legal personality, 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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": [ "camel train" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 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 caravan from another, and a caravan 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 caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a caravan 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 caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan.", "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 caravan and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a caravan, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a caravan sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan 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 caravan and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 caravan is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a caravan, 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 caravan, 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 caravan 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 } } } }