{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T11:18:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.4, "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: 01a09556-7766-72d0-9976-61080de8827c\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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the registry's intended coverage of other meanings remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Official microregion names, identifiers and regionalization editions", "Dated municipal membership and containment within mesoregions and federation units", "Boundary geometry, coordinate reference system and publishing authority", "Historical classification status and relationships to replacement regional units", "Compatibility of statistical observations with a specified microregion extent" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Municipal government powers, services and legal organization", "Individual residents and population dynamics", "Full models of mesoregions, federation units and immediate geographic regions", "State-created legal microregions for shared public functions, pending registry scope clarification", "Informal cultural, ecological or economic areas merely described as microregions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An instance must have evidence identifying it as a microregion in a specified IBGE regionalization, rather than merely being a small region.", "Its identity depends on its classification edition and official identifier; a matching place name alone is insufficient.", "Its extent is established through documented municipal membership and an associated territorial reference date.", "Membership in a statistical regionalization does not by itself establish a regional government or governing powers.", "An immediate geographic region must be represented as a related unit in a different classification, rather than assumed to be the same microregion under a new name." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Regionalization identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Publishing authority, regionalization title and edition", "why_it_matters": "Separates geographic microregions from earlier homogeneous microregions and other uses of the term." }, { "name": "Official name and code", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Portuguese official name and authority-issued identifier stored as text; sourced aliases", "why_it_matters": "Supports reliable recognition without confusing namesakes or losing identifier formatting." }, { "name": "Municipal composition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Member municipality identifiers with territorial reference date", "why_it_matters": "Determines which territory and observations belong to the microregion." }, { "name": "Regional containment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Parent mesoregion and federation unit in the same classification edition", "why_it_matters": "Allows hierarchy checks and correctly scoped aggregation." }, { "name": "Boundary representation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Geometry artifact, publisher, release, reference date, CRS and scale or resolution", "why_it_matters": "Makes spatial operations reproducible and identifies the authority behind the represented boundary." }, { "name": "Territorial area", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Square kilometres, with boundary version and calculation or publication method", "why_it_matters": "Supports density calculations while exposing differences between boundary editions." }, { "name": "Classification and dataset status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Historical classification; retained analytical geography; status unverified for the selected dataset", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes replacement of a regionalization from continued use in statistical releases." }, { "name": "Cross-classification correspondence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Target regional identifiers, correspondence method, reference dates and overlap weights where supported", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unsupported one-to-one conversion to newer regional units." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a name or code to a microregion in a specified classification edition.", "Retrieve and validate its dated municipal membership and regional parents.", "Map its documented extent or derive a boundary from compatible municipal geometries.", "Aggregate compatible municipal observations using the indicator's aggregation rules.", "Compare historical microregions with newer regional units using documented correspondences.", "Flag analyses that mix territorial editions or imply unsupported governing authority." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Use microregions in statistics with the dated municipal composition from the national statistics institute.", "Note that the institute replaced microregions with immediate geographic regions in 2017." ], "must_not": [ "Treat a microregion as a level of government with its own authority or officials.", "Mix microregion boundaries from different years without saying so.", "Use statistical regions to profile or stigmatize the people who live there." ], "requires_human": [ "Using microregion data to allocate public funds or services." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Statistics shape policy and investment; errors fall on the people of the regions concerned.", "Regional data can reinforce stereotypes about poorer areas." ], "affected_parties": [ "Residents", "Researchers and planners", "Municipal authorities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The national statistics institute of Brazil defined and maintains the historical divisions.", "master_systems": [ "National statistics institute territorial division records" ] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Outdated boundaries producing wrong comparisons over time." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Brazilian microregions are encountered in historical census tables, economic statistics and regional research.", "They support analysis of groups of municipalities within a state, provided that the municipal membership and reference date match the dataset." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Division of Brazil into Geographic Mesoregions and Microregions, issued by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, defines the historical statistical classification." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "A statistical microregion has no intrinsic visible boundary, so identification requires an authoritative map or municipal membership record." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q682944: microregion of Brazil", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q682944", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Microregions of Brazil", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microregions_of_Brazil", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "microregion-identity", "name": "Microregion identity", "description": "Recognize the particular Brazilian regional unit and the meaning of microregion being used.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and the term alone does not establish classification or institutional status.", "layers": [ { "id": "regionalization-membership", "name": "Regionalization membership", "description": "Anchor recognition to an official classification and edition.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-qualified-identity", "name": "Classification-qualified identity", "description": "Record the scheme explicitly: IBGE distinguishes homogeneous microregions from geographic microregions in its regionalization history. [IBGE regional divisions](https://www.ibge.gov.br/geociencias/cartas-e-mapas/redes-geograficas/15778-divisoes-regionais-do-brasil.html?lang=pt-BR).", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source identify this unit as a microrregião geográfica, a microrregião homogênea or another kind of microregion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-qualified-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which IBGE publication and classification edition establish this instance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-qualified-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names-and-institutional-meaning", "name": "Names and institutional meaning", "description": "Separate geographic identity from namesakes and unsupported legal interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "official-name-code-and-role", "name": "Official name, code and role", "description": "Require a sourced name-code pairing and separate evidence for any asserted legal powers; external gazetteer matches remain secondary identifiers.", "questions": [ { "text": "What official Portuguese name and identifier identify this unit in the chosen edition, and which aliases are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "official-name-code-and-role-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record concern an IBGE statistical region or a separately constituted legal or service region with a similar name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "official-name-code-and-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "municipal-territory", "name": "Municipal territory", "description": "Establish which municipalities constitute the microregion and how their territory is represented.", "rationale": "Membership and geometry must agree at a stated territorial date before an agent can assign places or calculate spatial measures.", "layers": [ { "id": "membership-and-containment", "name": "Membership and containment", "description": "Record the constituent municipalities and regional hierarchy together.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-municipal-roster", "name": "Dated municipal roster", "description": "Treat municipal membership as a dated, authority-backed roster; preserve the associated mesoregion and federation-unit relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which municipality codes belong to this microregion at the selected territorial reference date?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-municipal-roster-q01" }, { "text": "Which mesoregion and federation unit contain it in that same edition, and does every member satisfy those relationships?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-municipal-roster-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "published-spatial-extent", "name": "Published spatial extent", "description": "Tie maps and measurements to an identifiable boundary artifact.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-backed-geometry", "name": "Authority-backed geometry", "description": "Record the boundary publisher, territorial date, CRS and level of generalization; distinguish a published microregion geometry from an agent-derived union of municipalities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which boundary release represents this microregion, and what CRS, territorial date and scale or resolution does it declare?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-backed-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "Does its geometry agree with the dated municipal roster, and how are discrepancies between releases documented?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-backed-geometry-q02" }, { "text": "What area results from the selected geometry and calculation method, and how does it compare with any published area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "authority-backed-geometry-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regionalization-change", "name": "Regionalization change", "description": "Represent historical validity and relationships to subsequent regional classifications.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a classification transition from a renamed unit or a universal cutoff in dataset availability.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-and-publication-status", "name": "Historical and publication status", "description": "Track classification history separately from the geographies retained by particular publications.", "findings": [ { "id": "replacement-with-continued-use", "name": "Replacement with continued use", "description": "IBGE introduced immediate geographic regions to replace microregions, while retaining microregion tabulations for comparison in the 2017 Agricultural Census. Record status per statistical product. [IBGE on retained census geographies](https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-agencia-de-noticias/noticias/28635-ibge-inclui-recortes-territoriais-mesorregiao-e-microrregiao-nos-dados-do-censo-agro-2017).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documents establish adoption and replacement of the classification used by this instance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "replacement-with-continued-use-q01" }, { "text": "Does the selected statistical release retain microregions, and which territorial edition does it use?", "kind": "action", "id": "replacement-with-continued-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "correspondence-to-other-regions", "name": "Correspondence to other regions", "description": "Describe relationships across regionalizations without assuming equivalent extents.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-crosswalk", "name": "Evidence-based crosswalk", "description": "Require explicit correspondence evidence before mapping a historical microregion to immediate geographic regions or earlier regional units.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which target regions overlap this microregion when both are compared on a compatible municipal or spatial basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-based-crosswalk-q01" }, { "text": "Is the correspondence officially supplied or derived, and what dates, weights and unmatched territory does the method report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-based-crosswalk-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "microregion-analysis", "name": "Microregion analysis", "description": "Determine when microregion-based assignment, aggregation and comparison are defensible.", "rationale": "A recognized regional unit can still be unsuitable for an analysis because its territorial basis or statistical meaning differs from the observations.", "layers": [ { "id": "observation-compatibility", "name": "Observation compatibility", "description": "Check temporal and territorial alignment before assigning or combining observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "compatible-regional-aggregation", "name": "Compatible regional aggregation", "description": "Record whether observations are already published for the microregion or derived from municipalities, and preserve indicator-specific aggregation rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the observations and municipal roster use compatible territorial dates, including any municipality creations or boundary changes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "compatible-regional-aggregation-q01" }, { "text": "Can this indicator be summed, or must a rate, mean or index be recomputed from compatible components?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compatible-regional-aggregation-q02" }, { "text": "What missing, suppressed or incompatible municipal values prevent a defensible microregion result?", "kind": "action", "id": "compatible-regional-aggregation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-release", "name": "Interpretation and release", "description": "Constrain conclusions and label outputs according to the regional geography actually used.", "findings": [ { "id": "historically-explicit-output", "name": "Historically explicit output", "description": "Present microregion results with their classification and territorial basis; require additional evidence for claims about present-day functional regions or governing authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the intended task require historical comparability, a particular published statistical geography or a present-day regional relationship?", "kind": "action", "id": "historically-explicit-output-q01" }, { "text": "What classification edition, territorial date and transformation notes must accompany the map or table to make its extent unambiguous?", "kind": "action", "id": "historically-explicit-output-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 label is interpreted here as the historical IBGE statistical category; no sense was supplied to exclude its distinct legal usage.", "Verify the code, municipality membership, and boundary vintage for any particular microregion.", "This description is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "IBGE microregion code", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric identifier in IBGE's historical territorial classification", "note": "Identifies a statistical microregion; municipality codes and codes for the newer geographic regions identify different units." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "IBGE's 1989 division of Brazil into geographic mesoregions and microregions.", "IBGE's 2017 division into immediate and intermediate geographic regions, which superseded the mesoregion and microregion framework." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil 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": [ "Aggregation and comparison of historical census and socioeconomic statistics.", "Analysis of local production systems and economic relationships between municipalities.", "Regional planning and historical geographic research.", "Mapping historical indicators using a consistent territorial classification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Territorial area", "typical_range": "Varies by microregion and boundary reference date", "unit": "km²" }, { "quantity": "Resident population", "typical_range": "Varies by microregion and census reference date", "unit": "persons" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil 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": [ "Treating a statistical microregion as an autonomous level of government.", "Assuming historical microregions correspond one-to-one with the geographic regions introduced in 2017.", "Comparing statistics across changing municipal boundaries without territorial harmonization.", "Confusing IBGE statistical microregions with microregions instituted by states for shared public functions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil 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": [ "Microregions vary substantially in area, population, number of municipalities, and productive organization.", "Their boundaries reflect regional settlement and economic relationships rather than a uniform size threshold." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil 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": "Municipality of Brazil", "difference": "A municipality is a local governmental unit; an IBGE microregion groups municipalities for statistical regionalization." }, { "name": "Mesoregion of Brazil", "difference": "A mesoregion is the larger historical IBGE grouping containing microregions." }, { "name": "Immediate geographic region of Brazil", "difference": "An immediate geographic region belongs to IBGE's 2017 framework and is organized around nearby urban centers and everyday service relationships." }, { "name": "State-instituted microregion", "difference": "A state-instituted microregion serves legally defined shared public functions and need not coincide with an IBGE statistical microregion." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of microregion of Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend only IBGE geographic microregions, or also homogeneous microregions and legally constituted microregions?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept and therefore provide the authoritative model to link?", "Which official code lists, municipal rosters and boundary releases should serve as reference editions for instance recognition?", "What official correspondences exist between microregions and immediate geographic regions, and where would derived crosswalks be necessary?", "How should instance identity persist across documented name, code, municipal membership or boundary changes?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }