{ "model": { "rank": 3070, "code": "thing-q31230", "model_id": "vr.tr.chechens", "name": "Chechens", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Chechens as a people, describe situated communities and cultural continuity, and determine appropriate actions without treating ethnicity as citizenship, political allegiance or individual behaviour.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q31230/", "tier": 2, "score": 91, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Chechens in Central Asia", "Chechens in Jordan" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 91, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q31230", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31230", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:33:29Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00269212, "turns": 1, "seconds": 31.2, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 104.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c48-440a-7513-bf38-11fcfb61f388\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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large diaspora in the Middle East and Europe.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective identity denoted by vr.tr.chechens and the evidence needed to describe its boundaries, internal diversity, cultural transmission and community representation; it does not assign ethnicity to individuals.", "in_scope": [ "Chechen collective self-identification, naming and contested identity boundaries", "Use and transmission of the Chechen language and community-defined cultural practices", "Relationships among Chechen communities, ancestral places, migration histories and diaspora settings", "Context-specific significance of kinship, teip affiliation and other community ties", "Collective representation, evidence quality and permissions for using community knowledge" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The territory, government and administrative institutions of the Chechen Republic", "Russian or other citizenship, nationality law and immigration status", "Individual identity records, inferred ethnicity and personal risk profiles", "Specific religious institutions, doctrines and a person's religious observance", "Political movements, armed organisations and responsibility for particular conflicts", "A complete grammar or dictionary of the Chechen language" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether 'Chechen' denotes a people or community identity rather than residence in, or administration of, the Chechen Republic.", "Check whether the reference specifically identifies Chechens rather than using a broader category such as North Caucasian or Vainakh, or referring to Ingush people.", "Distinguish Chechen community identification from Chechen-language proficiency: neither language use nor language loss alone settles membership.", "Distinguish collective identification from citizenship, religion, surname, appearance or political allegiance; none of these alone establishes that someone is Chechen.", "Check whether a statement concerns Chechens collectively, a named local or diaspora community, or an organisation claiming to speak for them." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity designation and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded name or endonym; self-description, community attribution, external classification or disputed attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates the identity people claim from labels assigned by observers." }, { "name": "Community setting", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community linked to a locality or diaspora setting, with period and source", "why_it_matters": "Prevents observations about one Chechen community from becoming claims about all Chechens." }, { "name": "Chechen-language transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Community-reported domains of use and intergenerational transmission; mixed, contested or unknown where appropriate", "why_it_matters": "Supports language and cultural continuity work without making fluency a membership requirement." }, { "name": "Population estimate and counting basis", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with date, geography, source, uncertainty and whether the count uses self-identification, ancestry, language or another criterion", "why_it_matters": "Makes estimates interpretable and prevents incompatible counts from being combined." }, { "name": "Community affiliation significance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Locally described role of family, teip, village or association ties; applicable, not applicable, disputed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows relevant social ties to be described without assuming a uniform or compulsory affiliation system." }, { "name": "Practice transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For a named practice: reported as transmitted, changing, revived, interrupted, contested or undocumented in a specified community", "why_it_matters": "Treats culture as situated and changing rather than as a fixed checklist." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named body or speaker linked to a constituency, subject, mandate basis and period; disputed or unverified when necessary", "why_it_matters": "Determines whose views a statement or consultation can legitimately represent." }, { "name": "Knowledge-use permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Publicly shareable, permission required, restricted, withdrawn or unknown, with attribution conditions", "why_it_matters": "Guides whether community testimony, recordings and cultural material may be stored, translated or redistributed." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate references to Chechens from references to territory, citizenship, language or political organisations.", "Compare sourced descriptions of particular Chechen communities while preserving differences in place, generation and evidence.", "Identify community-stated needs for Chechen-language access and cultural transmission support.", "Locate relevant community interlocutors and verify the limits 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names a people, while everyday uses of 'Chechen' can also denote language, territory or institutional affiliation.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-attribution", "name": "Names and attribution", "description": "Records identity terms with their speakers, languages and contexts.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-chechen-designation", "name": "Situated Chechen designation", "description": "Record the exact designation and distinguish self-description from an externally assigned label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which name or endonym is used, in which language, and what collective does the speaker intend it to denote?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-chechen-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied this designation, when, and is it self-description, external classification or a contested attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-chechen-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-identities", "name": "Neighbouring identities", "description": "Separates Chechen identification from related peoples, umbrella terms and administrative categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "specificity-of-collective-reference", "name": "Specificity of collective reference", "description": "Require explicit evidence before treating a broader regional label or a territorial designation as a reference to Chechens.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this reference mean Chechens specifically, Ingush people, a Vainakh grouping or a wider North Caucasian population?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "specificity-of-collective-reference-q01" }, { "text": "Does 'Chechen' here describe collective identity, residence, language, citizenship or an institution?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specificity-of-collective-reference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-transmission", "name": "Chechen language and cultural transmission", "description": "Describes how named communities use language and pass on practices they identify as Chechen.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence of continuity and change without using language proficiency or cultural performance to police identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "chechen-language-use", "name": "Chechen-language use", "description": "Examines language use by setting and generation, including multilingual contexts.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-domains-and-access", "name": "Language domains and access", "description": "Record where Chechen is used and which language or writing preferences a particular task should accommodate.", "questions": [ { "text": "In this community, how is Chechen used across generations in homes, education, public life and digital communication?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-domains-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "Which language, writing convention and translation support do the intended participants request?", "kind": "action", "id": "language-domains-and-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-defined-practices", "name": "Community-defined practices", "description": "Documents practices through situated accounts rather than a universal inventory of ethnic traits.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-continuity-and-variation", "name": "Practice continuity and variation", "description": "Record how participants describe the transmission and variation of named oral, artistic, commemorative or social practices.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices do participants identify as meaningful to their Chechen identity, and whose accounts support that description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-continuity-and-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Where do accounts differ by locality, generation, diaspora setting or religious interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practice-continuity-and-variation-q02" }, { "text": "What permission and attribution are required to record, translate or share this practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "practice-continuity-and-variation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-ties-and-social-belonging", "name": "Community ties and social belonging", "description": "Describes the locally reported significance of kinship, teip, village and associational ties.", "rationale": "Such ties may matter to a Chechen community account, but their meaning and relevance must be established rather than presumed.", "layers": [ { "id": "kinship-and-teip-context", "name": "Kinship and teip context", "description": "Captures community explanations of affiliation without constructing compulsory genealogies.", "findings": [ { "id": "affiliation-meaning-and-limits", "name": "Affiliation meaning and limits", "description": "Record what an affiliation means in the setting under study and where participants dispute its significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do participants define teip or other kinship affiliations in this setting, and what role do they say these have today?", "kind": "definition", "id": "affiliation-meaning-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Would recording this affiliation serve the task, and can it be omitted or described collectively instead of identifying people?", "kind": "action", "id": "affiliation-meaning-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "belonging-across-social-settings", "name": "Belonging across social settings", "description": "Examines how community participation relates to village ties, associations and changing family circumstances.", "findings": [ { "id": "plural-paths-of-participation", "name": "Plural paths of participation", "description": "Preserve accounts of belonging that do not fit a single ancestry, language or affiliation test.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do participants describe Chechen belonging in mixed families, dispersed communities or situations where affiliation knowledge is unavailable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plural-paths-of-participation-q01" }, { "text": "Which village networks or associations support participation, and what evidence establishes their actual role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "plural-paths-of-participation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "homeland-dispersal-and-memory", "name": "Homeland, dispersal and memory", "description": "Relates situated Chechen communities to places, movement histories and collective remembrance.", "rationale": "A territorial snapshot cannot adequately describe communities whose accounts may involve ancestral places, displacement, migration and return.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-geographies", "name": "Community geographies", "description": "Distinguishes current location, ancestral attachment and diaspora connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "place-relations-and-counts", "name": "Place relations and counts", "description": "Record different relationships to place separately and qualify any population estimate by its counting method.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which places does this community identify as current residence, ancestral home or a centre of continuing community connection?", "kind": "relation", "id": "place-relations-and-counts-q01" }, { "text": "What population estimate is available, for which date and geography, and does it count identity, ancestry, language or residence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "place-relations-and-counts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-remembrance", "name": "Movement and remembrance", "description": "Separates documented events from personal testimony and present-day commemorative interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-experience-and-present-meaning", "name": "Historical experience and present meaning", "description": "Record how a community relates to deportation, displacement, migration or return without assuming a shared experience or political conclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish the events and movements described, and which statements are testimony or later interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-experience-and-present-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "How do participants connect remembrance of the 1944 deportation or other identified events to current community life, and where do their accounts differ?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-experience-and-present-meaning-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-permitted-use", "name": "Representation and permitted use", "description": "Defines whose account is being used, what it can support and which actions it authorises.", "rationale": "Statements by officials, organisations or individual Chechens cannot automatically stand for the entire people.", "layers": [ { "id": "voices-and-mandates", "name": "Voices and mandates", "description": "Evaluates the constituency and limits of people or organisations presented as community representatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-authority", "name": "Bounded representative authority", "description": "Attach any representative claim to an identified constituency, subject and basis of authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Chechen community or constituency does this speaker claim to represent, and how was that mandate established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Does the claim concern a cultural association, diaspora network, religious body or government office, and how far may it be generalised?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-to-action", "name": "Evidence to action", "description": "Connects qualified community knowledge to a specific requested action and its permissions.", "findings": [ { "id": "appropriate-community-information-use", "name": "Appropriate community information use", "description": "Use Chechen community information for the stated purpose while preserving attribution, uncertainty and individual autonomy.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence support this particular translation, consultation or cultural documentation task, and whose permission is needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "appropriate-community-information-use-q01" }, { "text": "Would the proposed action improperly turn a collective account into an inference about a person's ethnicity, beliefs, loyalty or behaviour?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "appropriate-community-information-use-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": [ "Chechens of the Chechen Republic (Nokhchiy of Ichkeria/Chechnya 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens 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 Chechens is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens 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 Chechens between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens.", "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 Chechens and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Chechens, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Chechens sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens.", "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 Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 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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 Chechens 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 Chechens is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Chechens, 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 Chechens, 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 Chechens 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 } } } }