Public Office & Official

Findings

Catalogue-native findings must describe the information grouped by each layer. This legacy version does not declare them separately.

Questions & artifacts

Questions, artifact requirements and serial naming rules are required by Vercy vNext; they remain unassigned in this reference version.

Dimension & namespace

• REFERENCE `world.person` (P1): every holder, appointee and witness resolves to a person
• REFERENCE `world.publicOffice` (A11): offices are positioned within branch bodies
• REFERENCE `world.lawmaking` (A10): establishment, empowerment and abolition trace to enactments
• REFERENCE `world.election` (A13): elected offices are filled by mandate grants issued there
• REFERENCE `world.registryMandate` (A12): the office register operates as a mandated public register
• MIX-IN `world.auditTrail` (S4): appointments, tenures and declarations carry append-only provenance
• imports: w3c-org (EXTEND): posts, roles and memberships as the structural backbone of office and tenure
• imports: cpsv (ALIGN): public organization and service vocabulary
• imports: popolo (ALIGN): person, post and membership interchange with civic data consumers

Canon, patches & standards

• REFERENCE `world.person` (P1): every holder, appointee and witness resolves to a person
• REFERENCE `world.publicOffice` (A11): offices are positioned within branch bodies
• REFERENCE `world.lawmaking` (A10): establishment, empowerment and abolition trace to enactments
• REFERENCE `world.election` (A13): elected offices are filled by mandate grants issued there
• REFERENCE `world.registryMandate` (A12): the office register operates as a mandated public register
• MIX-IN `world.auditTrail` (S4): appointments, tenures and declarations carry append-only provenance
• imports: w3c-org (EXTEND): posts, roles and memberships as the structural backbone of office and tenure
• imports: cpsv (ALIGN): public organization and service vocabulary
• imports: popolo (ALIGN): person, post and membership interchange with civic data consumers

Artifact formats & serial data

Format-independent core. Concrete artifact formats and naming prefixes are not declared in this legacy version.

Policies & accepted processes

• `publicOfficeDirectory`: open access to the register of offices and current holders, public per the A12 mandate
• `holderAttestation`: verification that a given person held a given office at a given time
• `declarationDisclosure`: scoped access to declarations, graded by the visibility class set in integrity rules

Read / add / edit / delete

CRUD procedures and interface bindings are not declared in this legacy version.

Ownership, roles & access

The appointing authority for each office family acts as registrar of this model; the register itself is public per its A12 mandate. Declarations and other graded layers are opened only by owner grant through S1 ownership and S2 access rules.

Objects

• `office`: a durable position of public authority; key attributes: title, establishingActRef, bodyRef, seatCount, status
• `officeholder`: one person's holding of an office over an interval; key attributes: personRef, officeRef, start, end, basis
• `appointment`: the act that fills an office; key attributes: appointingAuthorityRef, appointeeRef, instrument, effectiveOn
• `oath`: the sworn assumption of duties; key attributes: text, swornOn, witnessRef
• `declaration`: a periodic asset or interest declaration; key attributes: period, filedOn, scope, visibilityClass
• `delegation`: a temporary transfer of specific powers between offices; key attributes: fromOfficeRef, toOfficeRef, scope, validity
• `vacancy`: an interval in which an office is unfilled; key attributes: officeRef, cause, start, end, actingArrangement

Relationships

• `office` -> establishedBy -> `enactmentRef` (N:1): offices are created and abolished by enacted law recorded in A10
• `office` -> belongsTo -> `governmentBodyRef` (N:1): each office sits within a branch body of A2
• `officeholder` -> holds -> `office` (N:1): a tenure record binds one office at a time
• `officeholder` -> identifies -> `personRef` (N:1): the holder resolves to a person in P1
• `appointment` -> fills -> `office` (N:1): an appointment act seats a person into one office
• `declaration` -> filedBy -> `officeholder` (N:1): accountability filings attach to a specific tenure
• `delegation` -> delegatesFrom -> `office` (N:1): delegated powers trace back to the delegating office

Events

• `officeEstablished`: a new office was created by enactment
• `appointmentMade`: an appointing authority issued an instrument filling an office
• `oathTaken`: a holder formally assumed the duties of office
• `tenureStarted`: a person's holding of an office became effective
• `tenureEnded`: a tenure ended by expiry, resignation, removal or death
• `declarationFiled`: a holder filed an asset or interest declaration
• `delegationGranted`: specific powers were temporarily delegated to another office
• `officeAbolished`: an office ceased to exist

Projections

• `whoHoldsWhat`: current offices and their holders; omits history, declarations and delegations
• `officeHistory`: the full succession timeline of one office; omits declaration content
• `integrityDossier`: declarations and integrity findings for oversight bodies; omits unrelated tenure detail