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as a territory, administrative jurisdiction or system of government", "Catalan as a language system, including its grammar and linguistic classification", "Individual people's biographies, citizenship records or inferred ethnic profiles", "Political parties, independence campaigns and constitutional proposals as separate organisations or projects", "The complete population of any territory regardless of identification", "Neighbouring collective identities treated as automatically included within Catalans" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A record concerns Catalan collective identification or participation, rather than merely an address in Catalonia.", "Catalan language use is recorded separately from Catalan identification; neither is used as an automatic substitute for the other.", "The subject is people or a community, rather than the territory of Catalonia, its government or the Catalan language.", "Spanish, French or other citizenship and additional identities can be recorded 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"Makes linguistic participation visible without turning proficiency into a membership test." }, { "name": "Territorial attachment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named place linked through residence, origin, ancestry, cultural affiliation or diaspora activity", "why_it_matters": "Separates geographic connection from identity and supports communities outside an assumed territorial centre." }, { "name": "Overlapping identification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Additional identities explicitly reported alongside Catalan identification, with context and date", "why_it_matters": "Preserves plural belonging without imposing exclusivity or an identity hierarchy." }, { "name": "Intergenerational transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Continuing, expanding, disrupted, being renewed, mixed or unknown within a specified community and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of cultural continuity using evidence about particular practices and communities." }, { "name": "Reported identification prevalence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count or percentage with survey wording, denominator, geography, date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison only where definitions and population coverage are compatible." }, { "name": "Representation basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Electoral mandate, membership mandate, explicit delegation, self-appointed claim, disputed claim or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Limits whose views an institution or spokesperson may credibly be taken to represent." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare definitions of Catalans across sources while preserving disagreements and attribution.", "Describe a community's Catalan identification, linguistic participation and territorial connections using appropriately authorised evidence.", "Assess changes in Catalan language and cultural transmission within a specified population and period.", "Identify relevant cultural or community interlocutors and check the reach of their representative mandates.", "Evaluate whether a proposed language, education or heritage action addresses documented community priorities.", "Flag unsupported equations between Catalan identity, ancestry, residence, citizenship and political preference." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata-q179888", "title": "Catalans (Q179888)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179888", "what_it_supports": "Canonical item for the people as an ethnic/national group, with identifiers, autonyms, and links to language and territory.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "estatut-2006", "title": "Estatut d'autonomia de Catalunya (Ley Orgánica 6/2006, de 19 de julio)", "url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2006-13087", "what_it_supports": "Spanish organic law defining Catalonia as a nationality, Catalan as the language of Catalonia, and the institutional scope of the Generalitat.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "constitucion-1978", "title": "Constitución Española de 1978, artículo 2 y título VIII", "url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1978-31229", "what_it_supports": "The Spanish constitutional frame that recognises nationalities and regions inside the indissoluble Spanish nation, which is how Catalans are legally situated in Spain.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "idescat-eulp", "title": "Enquesta d'usos lingüístics de la població / population and language statistics", "url": "https://www.idescat.cat/", "what_it_supports": "Official counts of residents of Catalonia and of Catalan knowledge and habitual use, which are the usual operational measures of the community.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ecrml", "title": "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages", "url": "https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-charter-regional-or-minority-languages", "what_it_supports": "Council of Europe instrument under which Catalan is protected in Spain (and treated as a regional language in France), separating language rights from state nationality.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "andorra-const-1993", "title": "Constitució del Principat d'Andorra (1993), article 2", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Makes Catalan the sole official state language of Andorra, while Andorran nationality remains a separate civic status from Catalan identity in Spain." }, { "id": "britannica-catalan", "title": "Catalan (people) / Catalonia", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard encyclopaedic account of Catalans as a people of north-eastern Iberia, their language, and the distinction from the Spanish state nationality." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "catalan-identification-and-boundaries", "name": "Catalan identification and boundaries", "description": "Records what Catalans means in a particular account and how that account establishes belonging.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so an agent must preserve competing meanings rather than impose a single membership rule.", "layers": [ { "id": "meanings-of-catalan", "name": "Meanings of Catalan", "description": "Separates cultural, civic, ethnic and national uses of the collective name.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-identity-definition", "name": "Situated identity definition", "description": "Record the meaning assigned to Catalans by a named source in a specified context, without promoting it to a universal definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of Catalans describe cultural affiliation, civic belonging, ethnicity, nationality or a combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-identity-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied this definition, when, and for which community or purpose?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-identity-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "belonging-and-overlap", "name": "Belonging and overlap", "description": "Captures self-identification, external attribution and additional identities independently.", "findings": [ { "id": "nonexclusive-belonging", "name": "Nonexclusive belonging", "description": "Record explicit identification and disagreement about labels without inferring belonging from names, ancestry or location.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is Catalan identification self-reported, attributed by others or contested by the people described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nonexclusive-belonging-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional identities are expressed alongside Catalan identification, and does the source allow multiple answers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonexclusive-belonging-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "catalan-language-and-participation", "name": "Catalan language and participation", "description": "Records how Catalan and other languages relate to belonging and everyday community participation.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish linguistic practice from identity while recognising language-related needs and priorities.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-repertoires", "name": "Language repertoires", "description": "Describes language knowledge and use within explicitly bounded communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-without-identity-substitution", "name": "Language use without identity substitution", "description": "Record Catalan comprehension, speaking, reading and writing separately from identification and from use of other languages.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are Catalan proficiency and actual use measured across home, education, work and community settings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-without-identity-substitution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish Catalan speakers from people who identify as Catalan?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "language-use-without-identity-substitution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-access-and-choice", "name": "Language access and choice", "description": "Captures opportunities and preferences for participation through Catalan.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-language-needs", "name": "Participation language needs", "description": "Record expressed language preferences and barriers to learning or using Catalan without assuming a uniform preference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented barriers affect this community's ability to learn or use Catalan in its relevant settings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "participation-language-needs-q01" }, { "text": "Would Catalan-language provision, multilingual provision or another response best match the participants' stated needs?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-language-needs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territorial-attachments-and-diaspora", "name": "Territorial attachments and diaspora", "description": "Records the places and cross-border relationships through which Catalan belonging is expressed.", "rationale": "Residence, jurisdiction, language geography and identity boundaries must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "places-and-identity-boundaries", "name": "Places and identity boundaries", "description": "Links collective identification to named places without treating territorial categories as membership rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "territorial-reference-frame", "name": "Territorial reference frame", "description": "Record whether an account refers to administrative Catalonia, another named locality or a broader cultural geography, preserving its terminology.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which territory does this source use when describing Catalans, and how is that territory defined?", "kind": "definition", "id": "territorial-reference-frame-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account distinguish Catalan identification from residence and from other identities in Catalan-speaking areas?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "territorial-reference-frame-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diaspora-and-mobility", "name": "Diaspora and mobility", "description": "Captures maintained, changed or newly developed Catalan affiliations across migration.", "findings": [ { "id": "diaspora-affiliation", "name": "Diaspora affiliation", "description": "Record how communities outside their stated place of origin describe and sustain Catalan connections, without treating descent as sufficient evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What self-descriptions and community activities support describing this group as a Catalan diaspora community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Which relationships with places, associations or language networks remain active, and during what period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diaspora-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-continuity-and-renewal", "name": "Cultural continuity and renewal", "description": "Records practices and memories that participants connect to Catalan belonging and how these are transmitted or revised.", "rationale": "A useful model assesses living cultural continuity without reducing Catalans to a fixed list of traditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "practices-and-meaning", "name": "Practices and meaning", "description": "Connects specific cultural activities to their participants' interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-cultural-significance", "name": "Attributed cultural significance", "description": "Record which festivals, literary activities, performing traditions or other practices a community explicitly associates with Catalan identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specific practices do participants describe as meaningful to their Catalan belonging?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-cultural-significance-q01" }, { "text": "Who makes that association, and is it shared, localised or disputed within the community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-cultural-significance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-change", "name": "Transmission and change", "description": "Assesses how Catalan-associated practices, language and memories reach new participants and generations.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-evidence", "name": "Continuity evidence", "description": "Record evidence of transmission, interruption and renewal for named practices instead of assigning a single health score to Catalans.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows whether younger generations and newcomers can learn and participate in these practices?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which community-supported actions could address a documented interruption or support an emerging form of participation?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-collective-action", "name": "Representation and collective action", "description": "Records who speaks for which Catalan constituencies and how proposed actions relate to their expressed priorities.", "rationale": "An agent must not mistake a government, association or political movement for the voice of all Catalans.", "layers": [ { "id": "representatives-and-constituencies", "name": "Representatives and constituencies", "description": "Bounds institutional and individual claims to speak for Catalans.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-mandate", "name": "Bounded representative mandate", "description": "Record the constituency, basis and duration of a representative claim, distinguishing territorial office from cultural or membership representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "By what mandate does this organisation or person claim to represent a Catalan constituency?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q01" }, { "text": "Which residents, members or communities fall within that mandate, and whose views remain unrepresented?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "priorities-and-authorised-action", "name": "Priorities and authorised action", "description": "Connects proposed interventions to expressed needs, jurisdiction and authorisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-independent-political-position", "name": "Identity-independent 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"stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Catalans 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 Catalans 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 Catalans, 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 Catalans, 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 Catalans 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 Catalans from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Catalans, 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 Catalans, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", 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"method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Catalans 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 Catalans is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Catalans, 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 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