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Standards determine the content and structure of such a claim and allow a third party to assess the veracity of thereof.
Ontology (What are the 'things' that the system should know about? | )
| Attributes (What are the defining properties or characteristics of each 'thing'?) | Epistemology (How will the system get information about these things and their attributes?) | Semiology (How will each of the things be represented in the system?) | |||
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Agents |
| Agent asserts their identity | Digital signature Demonstration of control (challenge-response) | ||||
Activities |
* An audit is a special type of activity | PDDs MRs | |||||
States |
| PDDs MRsIndicators delivered via PDDs and MRs | |||||
State changes | MRs |
Someone or something gathers data
- observes a phenomenon using some instrument
Someone or something presents data as a claim
Someone or something evaluates the claim
An audit (the process / action of verifying an impact claim)
- unique identifier
- auditor ID
- impact claim ID
- date
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Impact claims made by agents | |||
Indicators |
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Standards |
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An indicator
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Someone or something gathers data
- observes a phenomenon using some instrument
Someone or something presents data as a claim
Someone or something evaluates the claim
An impact claim (a state change claim)
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