Public Authority / Institution
Describe a public institution and its source-qualified legal competence, institutional structure and accountability context.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
6 bundles · 12 layers · 12 findings · 36 questions
Institutional identity Public institution institutional identity.
Identity and recognition
Authored institutional-record design for identity and recognition. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Identity and recognition record
Authored institutional-record design for identity and recognition. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which authoritative institution identifier and official names identify this body across languages and name changes? identity
- What evidence distinguishes this institution from similarly named offices, buildings or websites? evidence
- Which asserted legal-personality status and public-body classification apply under which dated jurisdictional definition? classification
Institutional scope and boundaries
Authored institutional-record design for institutional scope and boundaries. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Institutional scope and boundaries record
Authored institutional-record design for institutional scope and boundaries. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which governmental level, parent relationships and separate institutional units are evidenced? relationship
- Which administrative and statistical classifications describe the institution without determining its powers? classification
- Which apparent duplicates or predecessor records require unresolved identity decisions rather than automatic merges? quality
Foundation and competence Public institution foundation and competence.
Establishment and legal basis
Authored institutional-record design for establishment and legal basis. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Establishment and legal basis record
Authored institutional-record design for establishment and legal basis. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which legislation, charter or other authorized framework established this institution and when did it take effect? provenance
- Which instrument provisions define its purpose, duties and limitations, including uncertain interpretations? authority
- Which amendments, repeals or contested sources alter the asserted institutional basis over time? lifecycle
Competence jurisdiction and delegation
Authored institutional-record design for competence jurisdiction and delegation. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Competence jurisdiction and delegation record
Authored institutional-record design for competence jurisdiction and delegation. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal limits qualify each asserted competence? constraint
- Which delegated powers name a delegator, recipient, legal basis and limits without confusing delegation with reporting? authority
- What evidence or authorized interpretation is still missing before relying on the institution's power in a concrete matter? evidence
Governance and institutional relationships Public institution governance and institutional relationships.
Organs posts and representation
Authored institutional-record design for organs posts and representation. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Organs posts and representation record
Authored institutional-record design for organs posts and representation. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which governing organs, organizational units and posts belong to this institution during the relevant period? composition
- Which appointment or representation references distinguish a post from its current holder and authorized actions? relationship
- Which vacancies, acting appointments or competing claims require explicit uncertainty instead of inferred representation? exception
Oversight and resources
Authored institutional-record design for oversight and resources. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Oversight and resources record
Authored institutional-record design for oversight and resources. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which bodies supervise, sponsor, audit or receive reports from this institution under distinct mandates? relationship
- Which budget, funding and resource masters are referenced without equating financing with legal control? ownership
- Which independence guarantees and control assessments coexist under their respective definitions? classification
Functions services and public interface Public institution functions services and public interface.
Functions and delivery responsibility
Authored institutional-record design for functions and delivery responsibility. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Functions and delivery responsibility record
Authored institutional-record design for functions and delivery responsibility. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which public functions and service references are attributed to the institution by authoritative sources? definition
- Which services are delivered directly or by another provider while responsibility remains separately recorded? authority
- Which service status, eligibility or output details belong to referenced service models rather than institution identity? composition
Locations and contact channels
Authored institutional-record design for locations and contact channels. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Locations and contact channels record
Authored institutional-record design for locations and contact channels. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which official sites, contact points and accessible channels are associated with the institution? spatial
- Which service territory or jurisdiction differs from office location or correspondence address? spatial
- How are contact authenticity, availability and publication permission checked without initiating contact? validation
Accountability and information custody Public institution accountability and information custody.
Decisions reports and transparency
Authored institutional-record design for decisions reports and transparency. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Decisions reports and transparency record
Authored institutional-record design for decisions reports and transparency. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which decision registers, reports, publication schemes and oversight records are authoritative references? evidence
- What information is proactively publishable under which policy, with what exclusions and review dates? access
- Which complaint or review routes are available without assuming that every institution uses the same procedure? process
Provenance correction and custody
Authored institutional-record design for provenance correction and custody. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Provenance correction and custody record
Authored institutional-record design for provenance correction and custody. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which source, steward and effective time support each material institutional assertion? provenance
- How are conflicting mandate or identity claims corrected without overwriting source history? quality
- Which access, retention, legal-hold and custody policies govern institutional evidence and retirement of local copies? retention
Institutional change and interoperability Public institution institutional change and interoperability.
Reorganization and succession
Authored institutional-record design for reorganization and succession. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Reorganization and succession record
Authored institutional-record design for reorganization and succession. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which establishment, merger, split, transfer or abolition event changed the institution's identity or responsibilities? event
- Which instrument and effective dates link predecessor and successor institutions without treating renaming as automatic replacement? temporal
- Where do unresolved obligations, service responsibilities and records custody pass according to explicit evidence? relationship
Mapping and acceptance
Authored institutional-record design for mapping and acceptance. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
Mapping and acceptance record
Authored institutional-record design for mapping and acceptance. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.
- Which pinned organization or service vocabulary maps the institutional record and with what semantic limits? interoperability
- Which lost authority, time, identity or disclosure qualifiers make a projection unacceptable? constraint
- Which executable tests and legal-profile reviews remain necessary before operational reliance? validation
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- entity
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.POL.AUT
- Domain
- SOC.POL.AUT
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- publicauthorityinstitutionsoc.pol.aut
What it is Filled
One public institution, potentially lacking separate legal personality, with evidenced identity, basis, competence, relationships and institutional changes. Classification is not proof of powers.
In scope
- Institution identity, classifications, legal basis and bounded competence assertions
- Organs, oversight, service responsibility and public contact references
- Transparency, evidence custody, succession and loss-aware mappings
Out of scope
- A sovereign state, individual officeholder, building or full service catalogue
- Legal advice, automatic power inference, policy enforcement or government decision execution
- Private personnel, case files and complete financial or statutory instrument masters
Why it exists Filled
Describe a public institution and its source-qualified legal competence, institutional structure and accountability context.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A public institution, which may lack separate legal personality, not the state as a whole.
- Differs from an officeholder: the institution persists when people change.
- Differs from a public service, which the institution provides or oversees.
- Its competence comes from a legal basis, not from its name or classification.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer legal powers from a website, name or funding.
- Present the agent as acting for the institution.
- Give legal advice about the institution's decisions.
- Fabricate missing legal basis or competence.
- Treat publicly available data as free to redistribute without checking terms.
Only with a human decision
- Asserting disputed competence.
- Publishing official institutional data.
May
- Resolve an institution and its legal basis.
- Link services to responsible institutions.
- Record institutional changes such as mergers with evidence.
- Direct people to official contact points.
Moral aspects Filled
- Citizens rely on accurate institutional data to exercise rights and meet obligations.
- Impersonating public institutions can defraud people.
- Transparency and accountability of public bodies should be supported, not obscured.
Who is affected
- Citizens and residents
- Public officials and staff
- Oversight bodies and journalists
Owners Filled
Steward
Declare institution-record steward distinct from the institution and its legal authorities.
Roles
- Dimension owner
- Delegates local memory scope, not government powers.
- Institution steward
- Maintains attributed identity and mandate references.
- Contributor
- Supplies authorized source references and uncertainty.
- Reviewer
- Checks boundary, profile and interpretation limits.
- Custodian
- Enforces access, disclosure and retention policies.
Links to other meta-models Filled
aligned
- WM-ORG-001 - Candidate general organization alignment, not ratified inheritance.
- https://semiceu.github.io/CPOV/releases/2.1.1/ - Institution fields with sector-specific limits.
- https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/ - Posts, sites and changes, without legal-power entailment.
- https://semiceu.github.io/CPSV-AP/releases/3.2.0/ - Referenced service responsibility, not a full service model.
neighbor
- Organization - Public institutional specialization is conceptual; registry parent WM-ORG-001 is not a ratified inherited schema.
- Public service - Responsible institution and delivery provider differ; service details stay referenced.
- Post and officeholder - Institution persists through vacancies; a post and its current holder have distinct records.
- Statistical sector - Statistical public control does not decide independence or legal competence.
- Site - Address or office presence is not institutional identity or jurisdiction.
parent
- WM-ORG-001
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Master-system qualified institution identifier
- Governed global institution URI
- Dimension-issued UUID
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- A public institution has an official name, a legal basis, a parent government level and official identifiers.
- Confused with private contractors delivering services, officeholders, buildings and websites.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Resolve institution reference: Proposed local record operation: resolve institution reference. Execution adapter is not implemented.
- Record institutional basis: Proposed local record operation: record institutional basis. Execution adapter is not implemented.
- Link service responsibility: Proposed local record operation: link service responsibility. Execution adapter is not implemented.
- Record institutional change: Proposed local record operation: record institutional change. Execution adapter is not implemented.
- Record publication scope: Proposed local record operation: record publication scope. Execution adapter is not implemented.
- Export allowed projection: Proposed local record operation: export allowed projection. Execution adapter is not implemented.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- People directed to wrong or defunct authorities.
- Impersonation scams using institutional identity.
- Decisions based on assumed powers.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- EU Core Public Organisation Vocabulary.
- Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile.
- W3C Organization Ontology.
- UN Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG).
- ISO 3166 country and subdivision codes.
Context of use required Filled
- UK administrative/statistical/FOI examples are bounded and do not define all public institutions worldwide.
Sources Filled
- Core Public Organisation Vocabulary - European Union SEMIC
- The Organization Ontology - W3C
- Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile - European Union SEMIC
- Public bodies - UK Cabinet Office
- Statistical classification to the public sector - Office for National Statistics
- Publication schemes: a guide - Information Commissioner Office
Open questions
- Independent review and exact source/license/profile verification.
- Concrete legal instruments and bounded competence/succession mappings.
- Executable nested fields, negative tests and ratified composition.
- Both providers timed out once; no independent external review.
- Selected clauses only; full dated-pin/update/license and jurisdiction-profile verification pending.
- No concrete institution-specific legal instrument or universal competence interpretation supplied.
- No executable nested schemas, legal inference engine, succession/custody transfer or round-trip adapter.
- Empty relation ledger; proposed composition has not been ratified.
Machine files
Provenance
world-models research · reviewable-draft
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