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"name": "Arts", "description": "Arts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Romani artists and cultural institutions do sources highlight?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is culture presented without stereotypes?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Equality.", "rationale": "Rights are protected.", "layers": [ { "id": "discrimination", "name": "Discrimination", "description": "Reporting.", "findings": [ { "id": "discrimination-finding", "name": "Discrimination", "description": "Discrimination.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can discrimination be reported here?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which equality body handles it?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organisations", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Advocacy.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisations-finding", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Organisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Romani-led organisations work on this issue?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can they be contacted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should subgroups be separate entries?", "How should self-designations be recorded?", "How should alias lists be filtered for slurs?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Sinti", "Manush", "Roma in Serbia", "Romani people in Australia", "Romani people in Spain", "Romani people in Portugal", "Romani people in Abruzzo", "Romani people in Italy", "Romani people in Brazil", "Romani people in Sweden", "Romani people in Czechoslovakia", "Romani people in Burgenland" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 141 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 63 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Romani people from another, and a Romani people from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Romani people 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 Romani people, 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 Romani people, 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 Romani people 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 Romani people 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 Romani people, 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 Romani 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