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use, inferred use, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates supported recognition of a user from assumptions based on accounts or purchases." }, { "name": "Use relationship state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current, intermittent, paused, former, uncertain; evaluated over a stated period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical use from being mistaken for current involvement." }, { "name": "Purpose of use", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person's stated or explicitly inferred goals and associated tasks", "why_it_matters": "Supports assistance based on what the person is trying to accomplish." }, { "name": "Use frequency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Use episodes per stated time interval, with an episode definition", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes occasional from repeated use without assuming universal activity thresholds." }, { "name": "Participation mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Direct, assisted, mediated, mixed, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish the person using a thing from someone operating it on their behalf." }, { "name": "Task-specific capability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Independent, assistance needed, unable under current conditions, unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Guides support without assigning a single competence level to the whole person." }, { "name": "Use authority", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Permitted, conditional, disputed, prohibited, unknown for a specified action and context", "why_it_matters": "Separates evidence that use occurs from evidence that a particular action is allowed." }, { "name": "Choice over use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Voluntary, required, constrained, mixed, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Avoids interpreting continued use as preference or satisfaction." }, { "name": "Experienced outcome", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Goal achieved, partly achieved, not achieved, adverse outcome reported, unknown; multiple values may apply", "why_it_matters": "Connects support decisions to the user's results rather than activity alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Establish or revise a person's user relationship from attributed evidence of use.", "Identify the relevant task and offer assistance adapted to the person's circumstances.", "Check action-specific access conditions before facilitating use.", "Record barriers and propose accessible ways to perform the intended task.", "Compare intended and experienced outcomes to identify support needs.", "Recognise paused or ended use and update the relationship without inferring deletion of accounts or ownership." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "person-thing-use", "name": "Person-thing use", "description": "Establishes who uses what and what supports that attribution.", "rationale": "User is a relational role that cannot be established from a person or an account in isolation.", "layers": [ { "id": "role-anchor", "name": "Role anchor", "description": "Identifies the person and the object of use at the necessary granularity.", "findings": [ { "id": "anchored-use-relationship", "name": "Anchored use relationship", "description": "Record the person as user of a specified thing, distinguishing the person from identifiers and access mechanisms.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which person uses which thing, and does the relationship concern the whole thing or a particular part?", "kind": "definition", "id": "anchored-use-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available identifier represent one person, several people sharing access, or an automated process?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "anchored-use-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-attribution", "name": "Use attribution", "description": "Examines the evidence that the person actually employs the thing.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-personal-use", "name": "Evidence of personal use", "description": "Keep the basis and uncertainty of attribution explicit rather than equating registration, ownership or payment with use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or report establishes that this person used the thing, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-of-personal-use-q01" }, { "text": "Could the recorded activity instead belong to another person, shared access or automation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-of-personal-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "purpose-and-participation", "name": "Purpose and participation", "description": "Explains what the person seeks to accomplish and how they participate.", "rationale": "The same thing can serve different user purposes, and assistance depends on the user's actual involvement.", "layers": [ { "id": "goals-and-tasks", "name": "Goals and tasks", "description": "Relates use to the person's intended result.", "findings": [ { "id": "user-defined-purpose", "name": "User-defined purpose", "description": "Distinguish purposes stated by the person from purposes inferred by an agent or prescribed by a provider.", "questions": [ { "text": "What result does the person want from using this thing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "user-defined-purpose-q01" }, { "text": "Was that purpose stated by the person or inferred from activity or another party's expectations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "user-defined-purpose-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-choice", "name": "Participation and choice", "description": "Captures direct, assisted or mediated involvement and constraints on participation.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-over-use", "name": "Control over use", "description": "Record what the person does themselves, what others do for them, and whether they can choose to stop or change the means used.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts of employing the thing does the person perform, direct or receive assistance with?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "control-over-use-q01" }, { "text": "Can the person decline, stop or choose an alternative, and what constrains those choices?", "kind": "action", "id": "control-over-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-over-time", "name": "Use over time", "description": "Tracks episodes, recurrence and changes in the use relationship.", "rationale": "A past interaction or an inactive account cannot alone determine whether someone is a current user.", "layers": [ { "id": "episodes-and-recurrence", "name": "Episodes and recurrence", "description": "Defines meaningful units of use for the particular thing.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-use-episodes", "name": "Bounded use episodes", "description": "Record when use occurs with an explicit episode definition and observation window.", "questions": [ { "text": "What counts as one use episode for this thing and task?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-use-episodes-q01" }, { "text": "How often and for how long did the person use it within the observed period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-use-episodes-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relationship-transitions", "name": "Relationship transitions", "description": "Distinguishes ongoing, intermittent, paused and ended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-use-status", "name": "Current use status", "description": "Assess relationship state from contextual evidence without treating missing observations as proof that use ended.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports classifying this person's use as current, intermittent, paused or former?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "current-use-status-q01" }, { "text": "What confirmation is needed before updating the relationship to ended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-use-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capability-and-access", "name": "Capability and access", "description": "Determines whether and under what conditions the person can carry out intended use.", "rationale": "Practical ability and permission are separate conditions, and both can vary by task.", "layers": [ { "id": "usable-task-conditions", "name": "Usable task conditions", "description": "Captures task-specific skills, barriers and assistance requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "capability-in-context", "name": "Capability in context", "description": "Assess the interaction between the person's capabilities, the task and the conditions of use rather than attributing every difficulty to the person.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which intended tasks can the person complete independently under the present conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capability-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "What instruction, adaptation or assistance would address the barriers they encounter?", "kind": "action", "id": "capability-in-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "permission-and-responsibility", "name": "Permission and responsibility", "description": "Relates specific proposed uses to applicable authority and obligations.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-specific-authority", "name": "Action-specific authority", "description": "Record the basis and limits of permission separately from actual use, account access and ownership.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rule, agreement or responsible party establishes permission for this person to perform the proposed use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "action-specific-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which conditions or responsibilities must be satisfied before an agent assists with that action?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-specific-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "outcomes-and-user-support", "name": "Outcomes and user support", "description": "Connects use to experienced results and appropriate follow-up.", "rationale": "Activity alone does not show that use served the person's purpose or that continued use is desirable.", "layers": [ { "id": "experienced-results", "name": "Experienced results", "description": "Assesses task outcomes and the person's account of their experience.", "findings": [ { "id": "goal-attainment-and-burden", "name": "Goal attainment and burden", "description": "Record whether use achieved the intended result and what effort, difficulty or adverse effects the person experienced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the person achieve their intended result, and what evidence supports that assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "goal-attainment-and-burden-q01" }, { "text": "What benefits, burdens or adverse effects does the person report, separately from observed activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "goal-attainment-and-burden-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-adjustment", "name": "Support and adjustment", "description": "Identifies appropriate assistance or changes in how use proceeds.", "findings": [ { "id": "user-directed-next-step", "name": "User-directed next step", "description": "Relate proposed assistance to the person's purpose, preferences, authority and unresolved barriers.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would guidance, an adaptation, another means of meeting the goal or stopping use best address the person's stated need?", "kind": "action", "id": "user-directed-next-step-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed steps may the agent take under existing authority, and which require the person's decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "user-directed-next-step-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": [ "This covers the general person-who-uses sense, not specifically a computer 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all users have the same abilities, experience, goals, or conditions of use.", "Attributing difficulties solely to user error without examining design, instructions, or context.", "Assuming use establishes permission or competence." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of user 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": "person", "difference": "Person identifies the individual; user identifies that individual through a relationship of use to something." }, { "name": "customer", "difference": "A customer purchases or obtains goods or services; a user makes use of them, whether or not they are the customer." }, { "name": "owner", "difference": "An owner holds ownership rights; a user may use something owned by someone else." }, { "name": "operator", "difference": "An operator runs or controls equipment or a system; use need not involve operating or controlling it." }, { "name": "end user", "difference": "An end user uses the resulting product or service for its intended practical purpose; user also covers other relationships of use." }, { "name": "user account", "difference": "A user account is a system record or access identity, not the person who uses the system." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of user this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the general person-thing use relationship, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Where should the boundary of use fall for passive consumption, indirect beneficiaries and people whose representatives operate a thing for them?", "How should prospective and first-time users be represented before evidence of actual use exists?", "Which thing-specific criteria should distinguish current, intermittent and former use when activity is sparse or unobservable?", "What minimum evidence can establish and support a person's use relationship without collecting unnecessary identity or behavioural data?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "consumer", "alcoholic", "alky", "dipsomaniac", "boozer", "lush", "soaker", "souse", "bar fly", "bargain hunter", "beer drinker", "ale drinker" ] } ], "standing": "74 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 user from another, and a user 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 user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user 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 user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user 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 user between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a user 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 user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user.", "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 user and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a user, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a user sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user.", "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 user 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 user, 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 user 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 user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a user, 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 user, 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 user 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 user is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a user, 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 user, 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 user is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }