multi-party system
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.
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.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Purpose and description
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a multi-party system, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
A social thing registered under SOC.ORG. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
It can be observed and measured.
Distinguishing features
Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
Physical character
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.
How it is recognised
Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body.
Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions.
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one multi-party system from another, and a multi-party system 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 multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a multi-party system 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 multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a multi-party system 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 multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a multi-party system from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a multi-party system 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 multi-party system between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a multi-party system, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a multi-party system is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
People, roles and responsibility Who stands in what relation to a multi-party system.
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 multi-party system and who fills them.
Role assignments and their validity
Who holds which role over a multi-party system, from when, and on whose authority.
- What identifies and describes a role over a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a role over a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a role over a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
Ownership and accountability
Who answers for a multi-party system and who may decide about it.
Accountability and decision rights
Where responsibility for a multi-party system sits when something goes wrong.
- What identifies and describes responsibility for a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
Legal identity and mandate What multi-party system is in law and what it exists to do.
Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.
Legal form and registration
Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.
Registration and identifiers
What names this body unambiguously in law.
- What legal form does multi-party system take, in which register, under which identifier? definition
- What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not? boundary
Mandate and governing instrument
The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.
Mandate and its source
What it may do, and the instrument that says so.
- What is the mandate of multi-party system, and which founding or governing instrument grants it? provenance
- What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it? action
Governance, membership and decision rights Who decides in multi-party system and who belongs to it.
Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.
Decision rights
Bodies, offices and what each may bind.
Who may bind the organisation
The offices that can commit it and their limits.
- Which bodies or offices of multi-party system may take which decisions, and up to what limit? definition
- What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office? provenance
Membership and affiliation
Who counts as part of it and on what terms.
Membership and its evidence
Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.
- What kinds of membership or affiliation does multi-party system have, and how does each begin and end? definition
- What may a member do in its name, and what may they not? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a multi-party system 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 multi-party system and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a multi-party system 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 multi-party system is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a multi-party system, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a multi-party system, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a multi-party system is known, and what must it refuse? action
What the second pass must settle
- 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 multi-party system, and on what evidence are they told apart?