{ "model": { "rank": 6556, "code": "thing-q48343", "model_id": "vr.tr.varangians", "name": "Varangians", "purpose": "Enable an agent to assess historically situated claims about Varangians, distinguish collective identity from service roles, and determine which identifications or comparisons the evidence supports.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q48343/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q48343", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48343", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:59:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08865-470b-7de3-bef4-49d9acdb3734\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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recruitment later included substantial numbers from England.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identification and interpretation of Varangians as a historical collective designation, including its contextual meanings, attributed membership, mobility and service relations; it does not presume a single ethnicity, occupation or institution.", "in_scope": [ "Attested uses of the designation Varangians and their historical contexts", "Individuals and groups identified as Varangians, with the basis and uncertainty of each attribution", "Relationships among collective identity, geographic origin and military or other service", "Movement, settlement and changing affiliations where evidence connects them to Varangians", "Boundaries between Varangians, Rus, Vikings and the Varangian Guard" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Comprehensive histories of Vikings, Rus or Scandinavian populations", "The complete organisation and operational history of the Varangian Guard", "Full biographies of individuals associated with Varangians", "General histories of Byzantine institutions or medieval trade", "Modern organisations, fictional groups or reenactment identities using the name" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An identification requires an attested designation or an explicit scholarly attribution; presumed Scandinavian origin alone is insufficient.", "A reference to Varangians must be interpreted in its particular period, location and source rather than assigned one timeless meaning.", "Membership in a named guard formation must be recorded separately from attribution to the broader collective designation.", "Viking activity, a Rus affiliation or a shared material culture does not automatically establish Varangian identity.", "The model distinguishes the historical subject from a modern reconstruction or appropriation of its name." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Designation basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "direct source designation | scholarly attribution | disputed attribution | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates explicit naming from interpretation and prevents inferred identity from becoming an unqualified fact." }, { "name": "Attestation context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "source passage, original term, language, author or compiler, audience and referent", "why_it_matters": "Allows the meaning of Varangians to be evaluated within the source that uses it." }, { "name": "Temporal extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "date or date interval, calendar, precision and uncertainty; distinguish referent date from source date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents meanings and affiliations from different periods being treated as simultaneous." }, { "name": "Geographic association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "place linked as attributed origin, observed presence, route, settlement or service location", "why_it_matters": "Keeps birthplace, movement and employment geography from being conflated." }, { "name": "Referent scale", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual | travelling group | service contingent | community | broad collective | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether evidence supports an individual identification or a claim about a larger population." }, { "name": "Service affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "named patron, ruler or institution; capacity, dates and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates identity attribution from a particular employment or allegiance." }, { "name": "Guard association", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "explicitly attested | inferred | disputed | not established | explicitly excluded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents every Varangian attribution from being interpreted as Varangian Guard membership." }, { "name": "Interpretive agreement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "convergent evidence | competing interpretations | single-source attribution | insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may make a qualified identification or must preserve alternatives." } ], "affordances": [ "Evaluate a proposed Varangian identification against its wording, date, context and attribution basis.", "Compare uses of the designation across sources without assuming they identify identical populations.", "Trace evidenced movements and affiliations while preserving uncertain links.", "Separate a collective attribution from a military role or claimed Guard membership.", "Produce a qualified account that exposes disputed identifications and evidential gaps." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "designation-and-meaning", "name": "Designation and meaning", "description": "Establish what the name denotes in each historical or scholarly use.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so interpretation must begin with contextual uses rather than an assumed occupational category.", "layers": [ { "id": "attested-terminology", "name": "Attested terminology", "description": "Record source wording and the interpretive steps connecting it to the registry label.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-term-and-referent", "name": "Source term and referent", "description": "Require evidence for the original designation and the people or group it describes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact source term is translated or interpreted as Varangians, and whom does the passage identify?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-term-and-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which passage, edition and translation support this reading?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-term-and-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contextual-meaning", "name": "Contextual meaning", "description": "Distinguish the possible senses of the designation without forcing them into one definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-in-context", "name": "Meaning in context", "description": "Assess whether a particular use indicates origin, affiliation, service, a broader collective or an unresolved combination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does Varangians mean in this passage, and which contextual details support that interpretation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "Would substituting Vikings, Rus or Varangian Guard change the passage's referent or claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-in-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-collective-boundaries", "name": "Membership and collective boundaries", "description": "Evaluate who is included and whether the evidence supports a coherent collective.", "rationale": "Attribution to Varangians must not silently turn geographic origin, objects or service into proof of ethnicity or membership.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-to-people", "name": "Attribution to people", "description": "Separate explicit naming from modern identification of individuals or groups.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-inclusion", "name": "Basis of inclusion", "description": "Make the reasoning behind each proposed inclusion reviewable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this person or group explicitly called Varangian, or is the identification inferred from names, origin, activities or associations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would be needed before accepting an inference based only on a personal name or an attributed Scandinavian origin?", "kind": "action", "id": "basis-of-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlap-and-continuity", "name": "Overlap and continuity", "description": "Assess relationships with adjacent designations and claims of continuity between groups.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-group-boundaries", "name": "Supported group boundaries", "description": "Preserve overlaps and distinctions without treating historical labels as mutually exclusive or interchangeable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish this Varangian referent from Rus, Vikings or a named local population, or allow overlapping affiliations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-group-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "What supports treating differently dated Varangian references as the same continuing group rather than separate uses of a name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-group-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mobility-and-local-presence", "name": "Mobility and local presence", "description": "Connect Varangian attributions to evidenced journeys, routes and places of residence.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish documented presence from reconstructed movement and avoid deriving identity directly from material distribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "journeys-and-connections", "name": "Journeys and connections", "description": "Evaluate proposed movements between places and the activities associated with them.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-movement", "name": "Evidenced movement", "description": "Require support for both a journey and its attribution to Varangians.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated evidence connects an identified Varangian person or group to the proposed departure, destination or intermediate location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the route are directly supported, reconstructed or unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidenced-movement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "residence-and-material-evidence", "name": "Residence and material evidence", "description": "Distinguish temporary presence, settlement and interpretations of archaeological evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-place-based-identification", "name": "Limits of place-based identification", "description": "Assess what local evidence can establish about presence without equating artefacts with collective identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a visit, a service posting and sustained residence at this location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-place-based-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What independently supports identifying the people associated with these finds as Varangians?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "limits-of-place-based-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-institutional-affiliation", "name": "Service and institutional affiliation", "description": "Represent attributed activities, patrons and institutional relationships.", "rationale": "The batch's occupation guidance must not reduce Varangians to a modern occupation or collapse the collective into the Varangian Guard.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-patrons", "name": "Roles and patrons", "description": "Attach specific duties and allegiances to supported cases rather than the whole collective.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-service-relationship", "name": "Attested service relationship", "description": "Identify who served whom, in what capacity and during which interval.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source establishes the patron, duties and duration of this person's or contingent's service?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-service-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify describing the relationship as paid service, personal allegiance, institutional membership or something else?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-service-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "varangian-guard-boundary", "name": "Varangian Guard boundary", "description": "Keep a relationship to the named institution distinct from the broader designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "guard-membership-test", "name": "Guard membership test", "description": "Require case-specific evidence before assigning Guard membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishes membership in the Varangian Guard rather than another contingent or an unspecified service relationship?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "guard-membership-test-q01" }, { "text": "Should this claim link to a separate Guard institution model, remain a qualified association or be withheld pending evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "guard-membership-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-reconstruction", "name": "Evidence and reconstruction", "description": "Control how textual, material and scholarly evidence supports Varangian identifications.", "rationale": "A usable model must expose retrospective terminology, dependent accounts and competing interpretations before agents generalise from them.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-distance-and-dependence", "name": "Source distance and dependence", "description": "Evaluate the relationship between an account and the people or events it describes.", "findings": [ { "id": "attestation-weight", "name": "Attestation weight", "description": "Record temporal distance, transmission and dependence when assessing a Varangian attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "How far apart are the described events, the account's composition and the surviving witness used here?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attestation-weight-q01" }, { "text": "Are apparently corroborating Varangian references independent, or do they repeat a shared account or modern interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attestation-weight-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualified-agent-conclusions", "name": "Qualified agent conclusions", "description": "Define what may be asserted when meanings or identifications remain disputed.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-identification-strength", "name": "Permitted identification strength", "description": "Match the wording and scope of an agent's conclusion to the evidence supporting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which competing interpretations of this Varangian attribution must remain visible, and what evidence separates them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-identification-strength-q01" }, { "text": "May the agent state the identification directly, attribute it to a source or scholar, or leave it unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-identification-strength-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry supplies no sense: check whether the intended entry covers the broader historical designation or specifically the Byzantine guardsmen.", "The relationship between Varangians, Scandinavians and early Rus requires attention to contested interpretations and the terminology of individual 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"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Varangians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In eastern European contexts, the designation concerns northern newcomers involved in trade, warfare and rulership.", "In Byzantine contexts, it is particularly associated with imperial military service.", "English recruitment became important in the Byzantine guard after the Norman Conquest of England." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Varangians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled 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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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, by which method, and when was 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[ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Varangians 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 Varangians 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 Varangians is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians 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 Varangians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians.", "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 Varangians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Varangians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Varangians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians.", "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 Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Varangians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Varangians, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Varangians, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Varangians 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 Varangians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Varangians, 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 Varangians, 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 Varangians 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 } } } }