Entities

Verification Record

An act of a human or an automated rule confirming, or un-confirming, a Knowledge Item's accuracy at a point in time.

Volume

One or more per Knowledge Item, accumulating over its lifetime

Retention

Full history retained — the sequence of verifications is itself evidence of a content item's trustworthiness over time

Entity attributes7
  • verification_record_id
  • knowledge_item_id
  • verified_by
  • Automated content verify/unverify decisions must be marked as machine-made, distinguishable from a human verifier's decision, even though both produce the same 'verified' status field.
  • outcome
  • basis
  • recorded_at
Entity relationships1
Entity lifecycle

Not yet researched

Only the control-bearing entities were modelled for lifecycle. Defensible as a starting point, but it does leave the entity model uneven, and this is incompleteness rather than a finding.

Glossary links1