{ "model": { "rank": 6754, "code": "thing-q213040", "model_id": "vr.tr.abazins", "name": "Abazins", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Abazins, assess evidence about their communities and cultural continuity, and support appropriately authorised documentation without assigning ethnic identity to individuals.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q213040/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q213040", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213040", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:26:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.5, "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: 01a0887d-3d62-7a62-aa71-45c143c07055\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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states and administrative territories where Abazins live", "General models of ethnicity, citizenship, religion or nationality" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether a reference denotes the Abazin people, the Abaza language, a locality or an organisation bearing a related name.", "Check whether a source explicitly distinguishes Abazins from Abkhazians or uses an umbrella designation; do not assume equivalence from similar names.", "Check the language, period and community context of 'Abazin', 'Abaza' and related spellings before treating them as interchangeable labels.", "Treat ethnicity, language use, citizenship and residence as separate attributes: none alone establishes Abazin identification.", "Check whether a claim concerns the collective people, a particular settlement, a diaspora community or a subgroup before generalising it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Designation and referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source spelling, language, transliteration, 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historical homeland claims, present residence and diaspora affiliation." }, { "name": "Reported population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference year, geographic coverage, counting method and identity category", "why_it_matters": "Prevents comparison of incompatible census categories or substitution of speaker counts for ethnic population." }, { "name": "Abaza language relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-reported use, learning, transmission or heritage affiliation, qualified by place and date", "why_it_matters": "Records language continuity without making language proficiency a membership test." }, { "name": "Cultural transmission evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented active transmission, interrupted transmission, revitalisation activity, disputed assessment or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to identify supported preservation needs without declaring an entire culture static or disappearing." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Institution, constituency, selection basis, remit and period of mandate", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a community organisation's stated role from authority to speak for all Abazins." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate Abazin-related names in documents while preserving unresolved equivalences.", "Compare population reports only after aligning dates, territories and identity definitions.", "Trace documented connections among settlements and diaspora communities without inferring individual ethnicity.", "Identify community-specific evidence of Abaza language transmission and cultural preservation needs.", "Locate relevant community institutions and verify their mandate before seeking consultation.", "Prepare attributed summaries or preservation proposals that respect community permissions and contested accounts." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "abazin-identity-and-names", "name": "Abazin identity and names", "description": "Resolve what Abazin-related labels denote and how communities and sources establish their boundaries.", "rationale": "Confusion among people names, language names and neighbouring identities would undermine every subsequent claim.", "layers": [ { "id": "designations-and-reference", "name": "Designations and reference", "description": "Track names as situated usage rather than unconditional synonyms.", "findings": [ { "id": "abazin-abaza-name-resolution", "name": "Abazin and Abaza name resolution", "description": "Record the referent of each designation, retaining its original language, source and historical context.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which self-designations and external names refer to Abazins in each documented language and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "abazin-abaza-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "When a source uses 'Abaza', does it mean the people, their language or a broader historical grouping?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "abazin-abaza-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-and-internal-identities", "name": "Neighbouring and internal identities", "description": "Represent distinctions and overlaps without imposing a single classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-boundaries-and-subgroups", "name": "Identity boundaries and subgroups", "description": "Document source-specific distinctions from Abkhazians and Circassians, together with any community-recognised internal groupings.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do Abazin community sources distinguish their identity from Abkhazian and Circassian identities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-boundaries-and-subgroups-q01" }, { "text": "Which internal group names are documented, and are they ethnic, territorial, genealogical or linguistic classifications?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-boundaries-and-subgroups-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "abazin-settlement-and-diaspora", "name": "Abazin settlement and diaspora", "description": "Situate Abazin communities through documented settlement histories, movement and continuing connections.", "rationale": "Present residence, historical attachment and diaspora affiliation answer different questions and require separate evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-and-current-settlements", "name": "Historical and current settlements", "description": "Connect community locations to periods and geographic boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "settlement-continuity", "name": "Settlement continuity", "description": "Record evidence for Abazin communities in named places, distinguishing historical presence from contemporary residence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which settlements and regions have documented Abazin communities, and for which periods?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "settlement-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "How have place-name changes and administrative boundary changes affected comparisons of these communities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "settlement-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-diaspora-connections", "name": "Movement and diaspora connections", "description": "Track evidenced migration histories and community-maintained relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-formation-and-affiliation", "name": "Diaspora formation and affiliation", "description": "Keep migration events, their reported circumstances and present diaspora identification distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document the formation of particular Abazin diaspora communities, and how do their accounts differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-formation-and-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Which contemporary organisations or community accounts substantiate continuing links between diaspora communities and places of origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-formation-and-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "abaza-language-and-cultural-transmission", "name": "Abaza language and cultural transmission", "description": "Describe how particular Abazin communities maintain, adapt and transmit language and cultural knowledge.", "rationale": "Language affiliation and cultural practice matter to collective continuity but must not become compulsory tests of Abazin identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-use-and-learning", "name": "Language use and learning", "description": "Assess Abaza language relationships at the community level.", "findings": [ { "id": "abaza-transmission-evidence", "name": "Abaza transmission evidence", "description": "Separate heritage affiliation, proficiency, everyday use and intergenerational learning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes Abaza heritage affiliation from speaking proficiency and household use in each community?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "abaza-transmission-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which community-validated teaching resources, varieties and writing conventions should a language-support activity use?", "kind": "action", "id": "abaza-transmission-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-practice-and-custodianship", "name": "Cultural practice and custodianship", "description": "Record situated practices and the people or institutions authorised to explain or share them.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-attributed-cultural-knowledge", "name": "Community-attributed cultural knowledge", "description": "Attribute oral traditions, performance, ceremonies and other documented practices to specific communities and custodians.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices do Abazin participants identify as significant, and how do these vary by locality, generation or diaspora setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-attributed-cultural-knowledge-q01" }, { "text": "What permission and attribution are required before recording, translating or republishing particular cultural materials?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-attributed-cultural-knowledge-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "abazin-population-and-classification", "name": "Abazin population and classification", "description": "Evaluate demographic evidence and the categories through which Abazins are counted.", "rationale": "Ethnic identification, ancestry and language statistics can produce different totals that must not be presented as interchangeable.", "layers": [ { "id": "enumeration-basis", "name": "Enumeration basis", "description": "Record exactly whom each population estimate counts.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-count-definition", "name": "Population count definition", "description": "Attach population figures to dates, territories, category wording and collection methods.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does each reported Abazin population count measure self-identified ethnicity, ancestry, household classification or another criterion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-count-definition-q01" }, { "text": "What are the original publication, reference date and geographic coverage for each figure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-count-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparability-and-gaps", "name": "Comparability and gaps", "description": "Identify where categories, coverage or methods prevent defensible comparisons.", "findings": [ { "id": "abazin-count-comparability", "name": "Abazin count comparability", "description": "Assess whether figures separate Abazins consistently and whether diaspora estimates overlap other counts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which enumerations list Abazins separately, and which combine them with another category or omit a usable distinction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "abazin-count-comparability-q01" }, { "text": "Which figures can be compared or aggregated without mixing speaker counts, identity counts or overlapping populations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "abazin-count-comparability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "abazin-representation-and-authorised-action", "name": "Abazin representation and authorised action", "description": "Identify accountable community interlocutors and establish the scope of permissible documentation or support.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence of constituency and consent before presenting an institution's position as collective or acting on community knowledge.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions-and-mandates", "name": "Institutions and mandates", "description": "Distinguish cultural, educational, civic and diaspora organisations by their actual remit.", "findings": [ { "id": "representative-authority", "name": "Representative authority", "description": "Record an organisation's relationship to Abazin constituencies without assuming universal representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which institutions identify an Abazin constituency, and what evidence establishes their remit and selection process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Does a stated position represent members, one locality, a diaspora network or a broader 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"evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Abazins 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": [ "Tapanta", "Ashkharua" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Abazins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "abq", "note": "Identifies the Abaza language, not the ethnic group or every member's language." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Abazins from another, and a Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins 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 Abazins is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins 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 Abazins between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins.", "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 Abazins and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Abazins, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Abazins sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins.", "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 Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 Abazins is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Abazins, 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 Abazins, 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 Abazins 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 } } } }