{ "model": { "rank": 3439, "code": "thing-q933163", "model_id": "vr.tr.rutulians", "name": "Rutulians", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise records about the Rutul people, assess evidence about their communities and act without conflating ethnicity, language, citizenship or residence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q933163/", "tier": 2, "score": 86, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 86, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q933163", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q933163", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:45:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.2, "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: 01a07c53-815d-77d0-a65e-6dd9599b08de\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Rutulians\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 546 things:\n# Batch 003: 1001 regist", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 85, "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: 01a07c53-816a-7a33-a0bf-4248367626b7\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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This model owns evidence-qualified descriptions of collective identity and community circumstances. The contemporary sense is documented in [Rutul people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutul_people); the ancient Italian homonym is documented separately in [Rutuli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutuli).", "in_scope": [ "Rutul ethnonyms, self-designations and resolution of the registry's intended referent", "Community identification and relationships across Dagestan, Azerbaijan and diaspora settings", "Rutul population estimates with dates, geographic coverage and classification methods", "Relationships between Rutul identity, language use and cultural transmission", "Community institutions, representation and evidence of community priorities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The ancient Rutuli of Latium and their portrayal in the Aeneid", "The Rutul language's full grammar and linguistic classification", "Individual biographies, citizenship records and inferred personal ethnicity", "Administrative models of Rutul settlements, districts, Russia or Azerbaijan", "General models of neighbouring peoples or Northeast Caucasian populations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reference to Dagestan, Azerbaijan or Rutul-speaking communities supports the contemporary Rutul sense; Ardea, Turnus or ancient Latium supports the excluded ancient sense.", "A record must concern an identified Rutul community or collective identity; residence in a place named Rutul alone does not establish ethnic membership.", "Rutul language use and Rutul ethnic identification must be recorded separately; neither automatically establishes the other.", "Shared regional practices or linguistic relationships do not justify merging Rutul communities with neighbouring peoples.", "Russian or Azerbaijani citizenship identifies a legal relationship, not a substitute for Rutul identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "contemporary Rutul people | ancient Rutuli | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "The English label is ambiguous and the registry supplies no definition." }, { "name": "Ethnonym usage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "name form, language, script, self-designation or external designation, source and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports matching records without treating every similar spelling as the same people." }, { "name": "Community geography", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "community linked to settlement or region, with residence, origin or diaspora relationship and date", "why_it_matters": "Separates historical association from present residence and administrative boundaries." }, { "name": "Reported population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "persons; accompanied by reference year, territory, enumeration basis and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incompatible census counts and estimates from becoming a misleading total." }, { "name": "Language repertoire", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "community or surveyed population linked to languages, proficiency, use domains and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Allows multilingualism and language shift to be described without redefining ethnic membership." }, { "name": "Cultural transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented practice, participating locality and generations, transmission setting, unknown where unstudied", "why_it_matters": "Avoids presenting locally documented practices as universal or timeless." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "institution or spokesperson linked to constituency, mandate basis, scope and dates", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a community organisation's position from a claim about all Rutulians." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a Rutulian reference and flag records that cannot yet be assigned to this registry entry.", "Compare population reports after aligning dates, territories and ethnic versus linguistic categories.", "Connect locality-specific accounts of Rutul communities while preserving differences across borders.", "Identify gaps in evidence about language transmission and community-requested cultural support.", "Find documented community organisations and assess whom they are authorised to represent.", "Prepare attributed community summaries that expose uncertainty and avoid inferring an individual's ethnicity." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "rutul-identity-and-names", "name": "Rutul identity and names", "description": "Establish which people the registry denotes and how their names function across sources.", "rationale": "The label Rutulians can denote two unrelated peoples, making referent resolution a prerequisite.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Resolve the contemporary Caucasian sense against the ancient Italian homonym.", "findings": [ { "id": "rutulian-referent", "name": "Rutulian referent", "description": "Require an upstream identifier or contextual evidence before treating the provisional contemporary interpretation as settled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which upstream entity and import record produced vr.tr.rutulians?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rutulian-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Does that entity denote the Rutul people of the Caucasus or the ancient Rutuli of Latium?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rutulian-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ethnonyms-and-membership", "name": "Ethnonyms and membership", "description": "Record names and identification practices without turning them into automatic membership rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-rutul-designations", "name": "Contextual Rutul designations", "description": "Distinguish community self-designations, translated labels and administrative classifications by locality and period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which self-designations and spellings are documented by Rutul community sources in each relevant language?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-rutul-designations-q01" }, { "text": "Does a source establish self-identification, external classification or only residence in a Rutul-named locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-rutul-designations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rutul-community-geography", "name": "Rutul community geography", "description": "Describe settlement relationships, cross-border connections and migration at a stated time.", "rationale": "A model spanning Dagestan and Azerbaijan must separate community geography from state and district boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "settlement-associations", "name": "Settlement associations", "description": "Locate documented communities without assigning ethnic identity to every resident.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-community-locations", "name": "Dated community locations", "description": "Treat each association between a Rutul community and a settlement as a sourced, time-bounded claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which settlements in Dagestan and Azerbaijan have documented Rutul communities, and for which periods?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-community-locations-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence describe a community's presence, a population majority or a historical association?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-community-locations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "migration-and-connections", "name": "Migration and connections", "description": "Track evidence of movement and relationships between communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-residence-distinction", "name": "Origin and residence distinction", "description": "Keep ancestral locality, present residence and documented community participation distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects a reported diaspora community to particular Rutul localities or organisations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-residence-distinction-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent connect origin and destination records without counting migrants twice?", "kind": "action", "id": "origin-residence-distinction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rutul-population-evidence", "name": "Rutul population evidence", "description": "Make counts and estimates interpretable across jurisdictions and enumeration methods.", "rationale": "Ethnic population, language-speaker counts and locality populations answer different questions.", "layers": [ { "id": "enumeration-categories", "name": "Enumeration categories", "description": "Identify what a reported Rutul count actually measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "counted-rutul-population", "name": "Counted Rutul population", "description": "Attach the original enumeration category, territorial coverage and reference date to every figure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this figure count self-declared Rutul ethnicity, Rutul speakers or residents of selected settlements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counted-rutul-population-q01" }, { "text": "Which census table or study supplies the figure, and how were missing or multiple identities handled?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "counted-rutul-population-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cross-border-comparability", "name": "Cross-border comparability", "description": "Assess whether reports from different places and dates can support comparison or aggregation.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-rutul-estimates", "name": "Comparable Rutul estimates", "description": "Permit totals and trends only when differences in coverage, categories and methods have been addressed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the available Russian and Azerbaijani figures comparable in reference year and identification method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-rutul-estimates-q01" }, { "text": "Should an agent report separate figures, an uncertainty range or no combined estimate given the documented gaps?", "kind": "action", "id": "comparable-rutul-estimates-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rutul-language-and-transmission", "name": "Rutul language and transmission", "description": "Describe community language use and the transmission of locally documented practices.", "rationale": "Ethnic continuity cannot be reduced to speaking Rutul or maintaining one presumed set of customs.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-use-settings", "name": "Language use settings", "description": "Record Rutul and other language use by setting, locality and generation.", "findings": [ { "id": "rutul-community-repertoires", "name": "Rutul community repertoires", "description": "Require local evidence for home, school, public and digital language use instead of assigning a uniform repertoire.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which languages are used in each documented community setting, and how does use vary by generation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rutul-community-repertoires-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish ethnic identification, first language, proficiency and everyday use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rutul-community-repertoires-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intergenerational-practices", "name": "Intergenerational practices", "description": "Identify how particular communities sustain, adapt or discontinue documented practices.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-attested-transmission", "name": "Locally attested transmission", "description": "Attach accounts of oral traditions, religious life and other practices to the communities and periods actually studied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices and transmission settings are attested by community accounts or field research, and where?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locally-attested-transmission-q01" }, { "text": "Which language or cultural resources do the communities concerned identify as priorities for support?", "kind": "action", "id": "locally-attested-transmission-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rutul-representation-and-engagement", "name": "Rutul representation and engagement", "description": "Assess institutions, attributed collective claims and appropriate community engagement.", "rationale": "No organisation or spokesperson should be presumed to speak for all Rutul communities across jurisdictions.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions-and-mandates", "name": "Institutions and mandates", "description": "Identify organisations and the constituencies they demonstrably serve.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-authority", "name": "Bounded representative authority", "description": "Record institutional purpose and representative authority separately from broad claims to represent the people.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented organisations serve Rutul communities, and what constituencies and activities do they specify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a spokesperson's mandate, geographic reach and period of authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-representative-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-claims-and-actions", "name": "Community claims and actions", "description": "Preserve attribution and local differences when translating community evidence into proposed action.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-rutul-priorities", "name": "Attributed Rutul priorities", "description": "Keep requests and positions attached to their issuers, avoiding unsupported claims of collective agreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who expressed a reported Rutul community priority, when, and on behalf of which constituency?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-rutul-priorities-q01" }, { "text": "Whose participation or permission is needed before an agent republishes community material or initiates a proposed project?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-rutul-priorities-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 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schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "rut", "note": "Identifies the Rutul language, not the ethnic group or an individual's ethnicity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Rutulians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Ethnic self-identification and community affiliation.", "Population classification in censuses and ethnographic studies.", "Rutul language documentation and cultural heritage preservation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Rutulians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Confusing the Rutul people of the Caucasus with the ancient Rutuli of Italy, also called Rutulians.", "Treating ethnicity, language proficiency and citizenship as interchangeable.", "Equating counts of Rutul speakers with counts of people identifying as Rutul." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Rutulians 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": [ "Communities are found across the present-day border between Russia's Republic of Dagestan and Azerbaijan.", "Rutul speech varies locally; dialect affiliation should not automatically be treated as a separate ethnic identity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Rutulians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Rutuli", "difference": "An ancient people of Latium in Italy; they are historically and geographically distinct from the Caucasian Rutul people." }, { "name": "Rutul language", "difference": "A language associated with the people; speaking it and identifying as Rutul are different attributes." }, { "name": "Lezgins", "difference": "A distinct Caucasian ethnic group traditionally associated with Lezgian; membership in the broader Lezgic linguistic branch does not make Rutulians Lezgins." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Rutulians this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's upstream identifier confirm the contemporary Rutul people, or must this draft be replaced with a model of the ancient Rutuli?", "Which community-validated self-designations and transliterations should be recorded as aliases without merging distinct referents?", "Which primary demographic sources provide comparable coverage of Rutul communities in Russia, Azerbaijan and diaspora locations?", "What recent locality-specific evidence establishes language transmission and cultural priorities without generalising across all Rutul communities?", "Which institutions currently have documented mandates to represent particular Rutul constituencies, and where are perspectives disputed or unrepresented?" ], 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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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Rutulians, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise records about the Rutul people, assess evidence about their communities and act without conflating ethnicity, language, citizenship or residence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 86 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Rutulians, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 86 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Rutulians from another, and a Rutulians from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, by which method, and when was it 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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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians.", "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 Rutulians and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Rutulians, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Rutulians sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians.", "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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 Rutulians is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Rutulians, 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 Rutulians, 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 Rutulians 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 } } } }