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nationality (даргинцы) while speaking a cluster of related lects that are not all mutually intelligible.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective identity represented by vr.tr.dargins, including naming, community boundaries, settlement connections, language relationships, cultural transmission and representation; it records contextual evidence rather than determining any person's ethnicity.", "in_scope": [ "Dargin collective names, self-descriptions and externally assigned classifications", "Relationships between umbrella Dargin identification and locally specific identities", "Historical settlement connections, migration and present community distribution", "Relationships between Dargin identification, language use and cultural transmission", "Community institutions, representation and authority for proposed activities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual biographies, ancestry records and personal ethnicity determinations", "Grammars, dictionaries and linguistic classification owned by language models", "Dagestan's territorial administration, citizenship and government structure", "Other ethnic groups, including Avars, Laks, Kumyks and Lezgins", "Individual religious institutions, craft objects and heritage sites" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether 'Dargin' or 'Dargwa' denotes a people, a language or an administrative classification in the specific source; a language record alone does not identify the collective referent.", "Require evidence specifically identifying Dargins rather than equating them with all Dagestanis or all inhabitants of a Dargin-associated locality.", "Distinguish ethnic identification from Russian citizenship, residence, religious affiliation and language proficiency; none independently establishes Dargin identity.", "When Kaitag or Kubachi appears, preserve the source's local and umbrella classifications separately rather than automatically equating or separating them; historical official aggregation is documented by [Minority Rights Group](https://minorityrights.org/communities/dargins/).", "Recognise that a Dargin community reference can concern people outside historically associated settlements; birthplace or current residence is not a necessary identity test." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Ethnonym context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded spelling and script; self-designation, translation, external designation or administrative label; dated context", "why_it_matters": "Prevents Dargin and Dargwa references from being merged across people, language and classification contexts." }, { "name": "Local-to-umbrella identification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named local community linked to Dargin identification as affirmed, administratively grouped, disputed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Preserves local identity without silently treating an umbrella classification as universal agreement." }, { "name": "Settlement connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-to-place relationship: historical association, current residence, migration origin or diaspora connection; period and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates historical association from present population and territorial ownership claims." }, { "name": "Reported population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons; reference date, territory, enumeration category, inclusion rules and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes Dargin population estimates comparable only when their boundaries and methods align." }, { "name": "Language repertoire", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community-to-named-language-or-variety links; comprehension, speaking, literacy and use domain", "why_it_matters": "Avoids substituting an umbrella language label for the language actually used by a community." }, { "name": "Intergenerational transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Locally evidenced continuity, reduced transmission, revitalisation, mixed evidence or unknown; by practice and cohort", "why_it_matters": "Supports specific continuity assessments without assigning one condition to all Dargins." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person or institution linked to a defined constituency, activity, mandate basis and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Establishes who may authorise a particular collaboration without assuming authority over the entire ethnic group." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve Dargin-related names to this registry entry while preserving language and local-identity distinctions.", "Compare population reports after checking dates, territories and treatment of locally named groups.", "Identify suitable language varieties and community reviewers for a specified audience.", "Assess locally evidenced changes in language and cultural transmission.", "Find relevant community institutions and verify their mandate for a proposed activity.", "Prepare attributed community descriptions and route disputed classifications for review." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wiki-dargins", "title": "Dargins", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dargins", "what_it_supports": "Ethnic identification, Dagestan geography, subgroup names, religion, and census-order of magnitude.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ethnologue-dar", "title": "Dargwa", "url": "https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dar", "what_it_supports": "ISO 639-3 language code dar and treatment of Dargwa as a named lect cluster.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "rosstat-census", "title": "All-Russian Population Census, national composition tables (2010 and 2021)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official Russian count of Dargins as a census nationality and their rank among Dagestani peoples." }, { "id": "wixman-1984", "title": "The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Soviet-era ethnographic distinction of Dargins, Kubachins, and Kaitags as named groups." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dargin-identity-boundaries", "name": "Dargin identity boundaries", "description": "Record what Dargin identification means in each community, source and historical setting.", "rationale": "Dargin umbrella identification and locally specific classifications must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "ethnonyms-and-referents", "name": "Ethnonyms and referents", "description": "Distinguish names for the people from names for languages and official categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-name-resolution", "name": "Contextual name resolution", "description": "Require evidence of the intended referent before linking a name to vr.tr.dargins.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this occurrence of Dargin, Dargwa or a local-script name refer to the people, a language or an enumeration category?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Who used this designation, in which language and period, and was it a self-description or an external label?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-and-umbrella-identities", "name": "Local and umbrella identities", "description": "Preserve relationships among Dargin identification and specifically named local communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-without-erasure", "name": "Classification without erasure", "description": "Record how a source relates identities such as Kaitag or Kubachi to Dargins without treating that relationship as timeless or unanimous.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the relevant community affirm a Dargin umbrella identity, a distinct identity, both, or another description?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-without-erasure-q01" }, { "text": "Does inclusion under Dargins come from community testimony, a census rule or a scholarly classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-without-erasure-q02" }, { "text": "Can the relationship be represented within this entry without creating an unsupported registry split?", "kind": "action", "id": "classification-without-erasure-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "settlement-and-enumeration", "name": "Settlement and enumeration", "description": "Connect Dargin communities to places and population evidence without conflating historical settlement, current residence and ethnic identification.", "rationale": "Assessing distribution and demographic change requires consistent geographic and classification boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "settlement-and-mobility", "name": "Settlement and mobility", "description": "Describe specific community connections within Dagestan and elsewhere.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-community-place-links", "name": "Dated community-place links", "description": "Distinguish historical settlement associations, subsequent movement and present community networks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence links this Dargin community to the named settlement, and for what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-community-place-links-q01" }, { "text": "Does the place reference describe historical origin, current residence, seasonal presence or a diaspora connection?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-community-place-links-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-comparability", "name": "Population comparability", "description": "Make Dargin population reports interpretable across territories and enumeration systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "counting-category-consistency", "name": "Counting category consistency", "description": "Require category definitions before interpreting differences between reported totals as demographic change.", "questions": [ { "text": "What date, territory, identification method and treatment of non-response define this Dargin population count?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-category-consistency-q01" }, { "text": "Were Kaitag, Kubachi or other locally named identities included consistently in the counts being compared?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "counting-category-consistency-q02" }, { "text": "How much of the reported change can be attributed to migration or enumeration changes rather than population growth or decline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-category-consistency-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dargin-language-relationships", "name": "Dargin language relationships", "description": "Record the languages and varieties relevant to particular Dargin communities and communication tasks.", "rationale": "A Dargwa label does not by itself establish a shared practical communication medium; classification variation is described in [Dargwa language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dargwa_language).", "layers": [ { "id": "local-and-literary-repertoires", "name": "Local and literary repertoires", "description": "Separate locally used speech varieties, literary usage and additional languages.", "findings": [ { "id": "audience-language-fit", "name": "Audience language fit", "description": "Identify the actual repertoire required for a community-facing activity without using language as an ethnicity test.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which named variety or varieties does the intended Dargin audience use, and how do speakers name them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "audience-language-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes comprehension and literacy in the proposed literary Dargwa, local-variety or Russian materials?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "audience-language-fit-q02" }, { "text": "Which local speaker or language specialist should review the proposed communication?", "kind": "action", "id": "audience-language-fit-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-transmission", "name": "Language transmission", "description": "Assess language continuity by locality, generation and use domain.", "findings": [ { "id": "domain-specific-continuity", "name": "Domain-specific continuity", "description": "Keep home use, schooling, public communication and literacy distinct when assessing continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Dargin-associated varieties are used by children, parents and older speakers in this locality, and in which settings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "domain-specific-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What locally requested educational or documentation activity would address the evidenced transmission gap?", "kind": "action", "id": "domain-specific-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-heritage-and-continuity", "name": "Local heritage and continuity", "description": "Record community-attributed practices and their transmission without presenting a local tradition as universal to Dargins.", "rationale": "Cultural descriptions need locality, practitioner attribution and evidence of present significance.", "layers": [ { "id": "practice-attribution", "name": "Practice attribution", "description": "Locate the social ownership and relevance of named traditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "locality-specific-heritage", "name": "Locality-specific heritage", "description": "Require precise attribution when evaluating references to Kubachi crafts, Kaitag textiles or other proposed Dargin heritage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practitioners and sources associate the named practice with a particular locality and with Dargin identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locality-specific-heritage-q01" }, { "text": "Is the practice locally specific, shared with neighbouring peoples or claimed more broadly, and who makes that distinction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "locality-specific-heritage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-documentation", "name": "Transmission and documentation", "description": "Assess how a locally attributed practice continues and what documentation its custodians permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "living-practice-and-access", "name": "Living practice and access", "description": "Distinguish active practice, teaching, revival and archival survival while recording conditions for documentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who currently practises and teaches this tradition, and what evidence shows continuity or interruption?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "living-practice-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "What attribution, access conditions and permissions do the relevant practitioners require for recording or reuse?", "kind": "action", "id": "living-practice-and-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dargin-representation-and-engagement", "name": "Dargin representation and engagement", "description": "Establish which institutions and community participants are relevant to a specific Dargin-focused activity.", "rationale": "Local, cultural, religious and diaspora roles may have different constituencies and cannot establish universal representation.", "layers": [ { "id": "constituencies-and-mandates", "name": "Constituencies and mandates", "description": "Identify the people and activities covered by a representative claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-authority", "name": "Bounded representative authority", "description": "Attach each claim to represent Dargins to a verifiable constituency and purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Dargin locality, association, diaspora network or participant group does this representative actually serve?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What appointment, election, membership rule or community endorsement establishes the mandate and its duration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-facing-decisions", "name": "Community-facing decisions", "description": "Translate identity and representation evidence into appropriately scoped collaboration.", "findings": [ { "id": "review-before-community-attribution", "name": "Review before community attribution", "description": "Determine whose review is needed before presenting materials or activities as representing a Dargin community.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which affected local identities, language users and practitioners should review this proposed Dargin-facing activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "review-before-community-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What approval permits the proposed attribution, and how will disagreement or a request for correction be recorded?", "kind": "action", "id": "review-before-community-attribution-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Akusha-Urakhi Dargins (basis of literary Dargwa)", "Tsudakhar Dargins", "Sirkha (Sirkhin) Dargins", "Urakhi and related northern lect communities", "Kaitags (Qaytaq), historically a distinct principality", "Kubachins (self-name Ugbugan), often enumerated separately", "Itsari and other southern Dargwa lect communities", "Chirag" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q269830", "note": "Item for the Dargin people as an ethnic group; confirm against the current sitelink before reuse." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "dar", "note": "Dargwa language, not a people code; the usual language identifier attached to this group." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-2/B", "value_or_pattern": "dar", "note": "Bibliographic language code for Dargwa." }, { "scheme": "Russian census nationality name", "value_or_pattern": "даргинцы", "note": "Rosstat ethnic nomenclature used in federal censuses." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 639-3:2007 language identifier dar (ISO / SIL International)", "Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan - Dargwa is one of the written languages used in republican education and media alongside Russian", "All-Russian Population Census ethnic classification (Federal State Statistics Service, Rosstat)", "Federal Law No. 74-FZ of 17 June 1996 On National-Cultural Autonomy (Russian Federation)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Core rural population in Akushinsky, Dakhadayevsky, Kaytagsky, Levashinsky, Sergokalinsky and adjoining districts of Dagestan", "Second-largest (after Avars) indigenous nationality of the Republic of Dagestan in recent Russian censuses", "Literary Dargwa used in local schooling, newspapers, and radio where the Akusha-based standard is taught", "Kubachi known internationally as a goldsmithing and silversmithing centre; Kaitag historically associated with embroidered textiles", "Substantial out-migration to Makhachkala, Stavropol Krai, and other Russian cities, where Russian is the main public language" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Census population in the Russian Federation", "typical_range": "about 590000-630000 (2010-2021 enumerations)", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Share of the Republic of Dagestan population", "typical_range": "16-17", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Elevation of traditional mountain auls", "typical_range": "1000-2000", "unit": "m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Treating many poorly interintelligible lects as one school language, which sidelines southern and Kubachi/Kaitag speech", "Shift to Russian among urban and lowland youth, with weakening intergenerational transmission of local lects", "Depopulation of highland villages and loss of craft and land-use knowledge", "Ethnic patronage and land or resource competition inside Dagestan's multiethnic political order", "Residual North Caucasus security risk affecting movement, investment, and return to mountain districts" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English Dargins / Dargin versus language-name Dargwa; Russian даргинцы; self-name Dargan / Dargi", "Kubachins and Kaitags are folded into Dargins in some censuses and listed as separate peoples in older Soviet ethnography", "Lowland and urban Dargins are typically more Russian-speaking than highland aul communities", "Literary Dargwa is Akusha-based and is not equally accepted as a standard by all southern lect communities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Avars", "difference": "Avar-Andic branch, not Dargwa; Avar (self-name MagIarulal) is the highland lingua franca of western Dagestan." }, { "name": "Laks", "difference": "Separate Nakh-Daghestanian branch (Lak); core territory is Laksky/Kulinsky, west of Dargin lands." }, { "name": "Lezgins", "difference": "Lezgic branch; concentrated in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan, not the Dargwa highlands." }, { "name": "Kumyks", "difference": "Turkic-speaking lowland neighbours of the Caspian plain, not a Caucasian language group." }, { "name": "Chechens", "difference": "Nakh branch, centred in Chechnya; related at family level but a different republic, language, and political history." }, { "name": "Kubachins as a separate people", "difference": "Same Dargwa branch and often the same census umbrella; separation is by self-name (Ugbugan), the Kubachi lect, and the specialised craft town of Kubachi." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Dargins this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which contemporary community sources establish preferred Dargin self-designations and their spellings across local varieties?", "How do Kaitag, Kubachi and other locally named communities describe their relationship to Dargin identity today, and where do descriptions differ?", "Which population series provide sufficiently explicit category and territorial definitions for defensible comparisons?", "What locality-level evidence establishes language comprehension, literacy and intergenerational transmission rather than relying on umbrella Dargwa statistics?", "Which current institutions have verifiable mandates for particular Dargin communities, and what consultation is needed beyond those institutions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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. 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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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins 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 Dargins is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins 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 Dargins between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins.", "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 Dargins and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Dargins, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Dargins sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins.", "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 Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins came 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Dargins 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 Dargins is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Dargins, 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 Dargins, 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 Dargins 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 } } } }