{ "model": { "rank": 6655, "code": "thing-q2436423", "model_id": "vr.tr.macedonians", "name": "Macedonians", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify which population the name Macedonians denotes, record its identity and social context, and make evidence-based decisions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, geography or historical populations.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q2436423/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Macedonians of Romania", "Macedonians in Serbia" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q2436423", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2436423", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:13:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.6, "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: 01a08871-773b-7af0-9d84-0ee1b2a246e1\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Macedonians\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.ORG\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 007: 1001 reg", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 56.6, "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: 01a08871-7737-7650-a689-cf618bc20b4b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Macedonians\nRegistry id: vr.tr.macedonians\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.ORG\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q2436423", "registryId": "vr.tr.macedonians", "name": "Macedonians", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.ORG" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2436423/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.macedonians", "name": "Macedonians", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify which population the name Macedonians denotes, record its identity and social context, and make evidence-based decisions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, geography or historical populations.", "definition": "Macedonians commonly denotes a South Slavic ethnic group historically associated with the region of Macedonia, especially present-day North Macedonia, although the name also has distinct ancient, regional and civic senses.", "scope_statement": "This model provisionally owns Macedonians as a contemporary ethnic and cultural population, subject to confirmation of the registry referent, including self-identification, community continuity, cultural affiliations and representation; it does not treat the population as a single organisation.", "in_scope": [ "Disambiguation of Macedonians as an ethnic, civic, regional or historical designation", "Contemporary Macedonian ethnic self-identification and context-specific external classifications", "Community distribution in North Macedonia and diaspora settings", "Language, cultural practice and intergenerational transmission as documented affiliations", "Collective representation, recognition and contested identity claims" ], "out_of_scope": [ "North Macedonia as a state, government or citizenship system", "Macedonia as a geographic region and its territorial boundaries", "Ancient Macedonians as a historical population requiring separate treatment if independently registered", "Greek Macedonian regional identity as a distinct referent requiring explicit disambiguation", "Macedonian language grammar and linguistic classification", "Individual organisations, political parties and religious institutions as separately governed entities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An ethnic use of Macedonians requires evidence that the designation concerns ethnic identity rather than merely citizenship or residence.", "A contemporary reference must be distinguished from an ancient reference by the source's period and intended population; a shared name does not establish continuity.", "A Greek regional use must be distinguished from a contemporary ethnic Macedonian use through explicit source context rather than geographic inference alone.", "Language use, ancestry, religion and surname cannot independently establish a person's Macedonian self-identification.", "The population has no presumed single membership register, governing body or authorised spokesperson; organisations claiming to represent it require separate records." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contemporary ethnic population | civic population | regional population | historical population | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an observation belongs in this model or requires another referent." }, { "name": "Basis of identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-identification | census response | external attribution | organisational affiliation | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents externally assigned categories from being presented as personal or collective self-description." }, { "name": "Geographic and temporal context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Place, jurisdiction and date or period attached to each observation", "why_it_matters": "The meaning, recognition and distribution of the designation can vary by setting and period." }, { "name": "Reported population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference date, territory, enumeration category, method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes population figures interpretable and prevents incompatible counts from being combined." }, { "name": "Language affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named language linked through reported first language, home use, competence or heritage affiliation", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes different relationships to Macedonian and other languages without making language an ethnic membership test." }, { "name": "Intergenerational cultural transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented for a specified practice and community | disputed | insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of cultural continuity without assuming uniform practice across generations or locations." }, { "name": "Recognition context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented recognition, non-recognition, dispute or unknown status, tied to a jurisdiction, instrument and date", "why_it_matters": "Separates institutional treatment from the existence or validity of people's self-identification." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organisation or person linked to a specified constituency, mandate basis, scope and period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one association's position from being attributed to all Macedonians." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a Macedonians reference before linking records or answering questions about the population.", "Compare population observations only after checking ethnic categories, territory, dates and enumeration methods.", "Describe documented Macedonian language and cultural affiliations while preserving variation among communities.", "Identify community organisations relevant to a locality and verify the limits of their representative mandate.", "Attribute contested historical and identity claims to their sources and expose unresolved disagreements.", "Assess whether a proposed use of identity information has sufficient provenance, appropriate consent and a relevant purpose." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "macedonian-name-and-referent", "name": "Macedonian name and referent", "description": "Establishes which meaning of Macedonians a record intends before attaching population or cultural information.", "rationale": "The registry supplies a name without a definition, and conflating ethnic, civic, regional and ancient meanings would corrupt the model.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-referent", "name": "Registry referent", "description": "Resolves the intended population from the registry's underlying evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-population", "name": "Intended population", "description": "Record evidence for the intended referent; the contemporary ethnic interpretation remains provisional until verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which upstream identifier, description or source establishes what vr.tr.macedonians denotes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-population-q01" }, { "text": "Does this entry denote an ethnic population, citizens, a regional population or ancient Macedonians?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-population-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contextual-naming", "name": "Contextual naming", "description": "Preserves the context needed to interpret names and prevent incorrect equivalences.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-use-boundaries", "name": "Name-use boundaries", "description": "Attach language, speaker, period and intended meaning to names instead of treating every occurrence as an alias.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the source distinguish ethnic Macedonians from citizens of North Macedonia and Greek Macedonian regional identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "name-use-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which names are documented self-designations, translations or external labels, and in which contexts?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-use-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-and-population", "name": "Identification and population", "description": "Records how Macedonian identification is expressed and counted across resident and diaspora communities.", "rationale": "Population assessment depends on who was counted, how identity was elicited and whether citizenship or ancestry was substituted for ethnicity.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-basis", "name": "Identity basis", "description": "Separates self-identification from classifications assigned by institutions or observers.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-and-attributed-identity", "name": "Declared and attributed identity", "description": "Preserve how an identification was obtained, including multiple affiliations and non-response where reported.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was Macedonian identity self-declared, reported by another household member or assigned by an institution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-and-attributed-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Could respondents report multiple identities, decline to answer or distinguish ethnicity from nationality?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "declared-and-attributed-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-and-diaspora", "name": "Distribution and diaspora", "description": "Organises dated population observations without equating migration origin with ethnic affiliation.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-community-counts", "name": "Comparable community counts", "description": "Record territory, residence criteria and identity categories for each estimate before comparing or aggregating it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does each count measure ethnic identification, Macedonian ancestry, birthplace, citizenship or language use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-community-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Do resident and diaspora estimates overlap or use incompatible definitions of a Macedonian community?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-community-counts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-culture-and-continuity", "name": "Language, culture and continuity", "description": "Captures documented linguistic affiliations, cultural practices and accounts of continuity among Macedonian communities.", "rationale": "Cultural description must support recognition without inventing a uniform profile or turning heritage claims into proven historical descent.", "layers": [ { "id": "living-cultural-affiliations", "name": "Living cultural affiliations", "description": "Records language and cultural participation at the scale supported by evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-transmission", "name": "Practice and transmission", "description": "Describe specific practices and their transmission across generations without making them conditions of Macedonian identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Macedonian language uses and cultural practices are documented for the particular community and generation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-transmission-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence indicates that those practices are being transmitted, adapted or discontinued?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "practice-and-transmission-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-identification", "name": "Historical identification", "description": "Distinguishes historical evidence, retrospective classification and present-day narratives about collective origins.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-claims", "name": "Continuity claims", "description": "Record who advances a continuity claim, what kind of continuity is asserted and what evidence supports it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a claimed connection to earlier Macedonian populations concern names, territory, culture, political inheritance or descent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "continuity-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Which contemporary or historical sources support the claim, and where is a later identity being projected backwards?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-claims-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-representation-and-use", "name": "Recognition, representation and use", "description": "Records institutional treatment and community representation while setting boundaries on actions involving Macedonian identity.", "rationale": "A dispersed population cannot be treated as a corporation with one authority, and institutional recognition must be recorded in its specific context.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutional-recognition", "name": "Institutional recognition", "description": "Tracks how particular institutions classify or recognise Macedonian populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "jurisdiction-specific-treatment", "name": "Jurisdiction-specific treatment", "description": "Attach recognition claims to named instruments, institutions, dates and the precise category recognised.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instrument or official practice establishes the reported treatment of Macedonians in this jurisdiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "jurisdiction-specific-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "Does that treatment concern ethnicity, minority status, language, citizenship or an association?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "jurisdiction-specific-treatment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-agent-actions", "name": "Representation and agent actions", "description": "Determines whose position an agent may attribute and how identity information may be used.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-community-mandates", "name": "Bounded community mandates", "description": "Record the constituency behind a representative claim and avoid inferring individual ethnicity from population-level information.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whom does a Macedonian organisation demonstrably represent, through what mandate and for which decisions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-community-mandates-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence and consent support the proposed use of a person's Macedonian identification, and would an aggregate account suffice?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-community-mandates-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: verify the registry's intended referent before treating the modern ethnic interpretation as definitive.", "SOC.ORG should not imply that this population is a legally constituted organisation.", "This is recall only; population figures, official classification labels and contested historical claims have been omitted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Macedonians 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": [ "Ethnic self-identification in censuses, surveys and cultural life.", "Description of communities and diaspora populations.", "Historical scholarship, where ancient and modern referents must be distinguished." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Macedonians 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": [ "Conflating ethnic Macedonians with all citizens of North Macedonia.", "Treating ancient Macedonians and the modern ethnic group as an identical population or assuming an uncontested continuity.", "Conflating ethnic Macedonians with Greek Macedonians, whose designation expresses a Greek regional identity.", "Classifying an ethnic group as a single organisation with legal personality, governance or a membership register.", "Inferring an individual's ethnicity from citizenship, birthplace or language." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Macedonians 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 North Macedonia, the term can denote ethnic identity; civic references require separate attention to citizenship.", "In Greece, Macedonians can denote Greeks associated with the Greek region of Macedonia.", "In diaspora settings, ethnic identification, citizenship and ancestral region may differ." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Macedonians 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": "Citizens of North Macedonia", "difference": "Citizenship is a legal relationship with a state; ethnic Macedonian identity is not shared by every citizen and is also held by people with other citizenships." }, { "name": "Ancient Macedonians", "difference": "This denotes a population of antiquity associated with the ancient kingdom of Macedon, rather than the modern South Slavic ethnic group." }, { "name": "Greek Macedonians", "difference": "This denotes Greeks with a regional identity associated with Macedonia, rather than the modern Macedonian ethnic identity." }, { "name": "Macedonian language", "difference": "A South Slavic language is a linguistic system, not a population; language use and ethnic identification do not coincide exactly." }, { "name": "Macedonia", "difference": "A geographic region is a territory, whereas Macedonians denotes people under a specified historical, ethnic, regional or civic sense." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Macedonians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which upstream registry evidence confirms whether Macedonians means the contemporary ethnic population rather than an ancient, civic or regional population?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the confirmed referent, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which primary population sources provide comparable definitions and counts for communities in North Macedonia and diaspora settings?", "Which historical continuity claims can be supported, and which should remain explicitly attributed or unresolved?", "Which recognition instruments and representative mandates can be verified for the jurisdictions and communities included in the eventual publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "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 Macedonians, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify which population the name Macedonians denotes, record its identity and social context, and make evidence-based decisions without conflating ethnicity, citizenship, geography or historical populations.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Macedonians of Romania, Macedonians in Serbia.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 59 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 Macedonians, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "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." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. 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": [ "Macedonians of Romania", "Macedonians in Serbia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 Macedonians from another, and a Macedonians 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Macedonians 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians.", "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 Macedonians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Macedonians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Macedonians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 Macedonians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Macedonians, 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 Macedonians, 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 Macedonians 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 } } } }