Public Administration Domain Ontology

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TITLE: Public Administration Domain Ontology
VERSION: 1.0
SOURCE_URL: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/domain-ontologies/legal-government-domains/public-administration-domain-ontology.html
STATUS: Domain-based ontology draft; source page not independently verified.
AUTHORS: Mark Higgins — Sky (Recursive AI)
PROJECT: Kireth Semantic Library

DOMAIN:
  id: public_administration
  parent: legal_government_domains
  definition: Study and practice of implementing public policy, administering public programmes, managing public resources and delivering public services within legal and institutional frameworks.

TYPED_ENTITIES:
  PublicAuthority: organisation
  GovernmentDepartment: PublicAuthority
  PublicAgency: PublicAuthority
  LocalAuthority: PublicAuthority
  CivilServant: person
  PublicOfficial: person
  Citizen: person
  ServiceUser: person
  PublicPolicy: policy
  Regulation: legal_instrument
  AdministrativeDecision: decision
  PublicProgramme: programme
  PublicService: service
  PublicBudget: financial_plan
  PublicExpenditure: financial_transaction
  ProcurementContract: contract
  AdministrativeProcedure: process
  PublicRecord: document
  PerformanceIndicator: metric
  Complaint: case
  Appeal: case
  OversightBody: organisation
  Audit: review
  Jurisdiction: legal_scope

RELATIONSHIPS:
  PublicAuthority IMPLEMENTS PublicPolicy
  PublicAuthority ADMINISTERS PublicProgramme
  PublicAgency DELIVERS PublicService
  PublicOfficial ACTS_ON_BEHALF_OF PublicAuthority
  AdministrativeDecision ISSUED_BY PublicAuthority
  AdministrativeDecision GOVERNED_BY Regulation
  PublicService SERVES ServiceUser
  PublicProgramme FUNDED_BY PublicBudget
  PublicExpenditure CHARGED_TO PublicBudget
  ProcurementContract AWARDED_BY PublicAuthority
  AdministrativeProcedure PRODUCES AdministrativeDecision
  AdministrativeDecision SUBJECT_TO Appeal
  Complaint CONCERNS PublicService
  OversightBody REVIEWS PublicAuthority
  Audit ASSESSES PublicExpenditure
  PerformanceIndicator MEASURES PublicProgramme
  PublicAuthority OPERATES_WITHIN Jurisdiction

CONSTRAINTS:
  C1: Administrative authority must be traceable to a valid legal or delegated power.
  C2: A public decision must retain its applicable jurisdiction, date, authority and legal basis.
  C3: A public expenditure claim must reference an authorised budget or appropriation where applicable.
  C4: Policy goals, implementation actions and measured outcomes are distinct entity types.
  C5: Allegations, audit findings and legally established conclusions must not be conflated.
  C6: Personal data in public records must be handled according to applicable law.

INFERENCE_RULES:
  R1: IF agency DELIVERS service AND service SERVES user THEN agency HAS_SERVICE_RELATIONSHIP_WITH user; not necessarily a direct contractual relationship.
  R2: IF decision ISSUED_BY authority AND authority OPERATES_WITHIN jurisdiction THEN decision MAY_BE_WITHIN jurisdiction, subject to statutory competence and delegated powers.
  R3: IF programme FUNDED_BY budget AND expenditure CHARGED_TO budget THEN expenditure MAY_SUPPORT programme; require transaction-level evidence before confirming allocation.
  R4: IF decision SUBJECT_TO appeal THEN decision IS_REVIEWABLE, subject to applicable procedure and time limits.
  R5: IF indicator MEASURES programme THEN indicator IS_EVIDENCE_ABOUT programme, not proof of causation or effectiveness.
  R6: IF oversight body REVIEWS authority THEN create ACCOUNTABILITY_LINK with scope and date of review.

REASONING_MODEL:
  inputs: [entity, relationship, jurisdiction, legal_basis, time_period, evidence, source]
  operations: [type_check, relationship_validation, temporal_validation, jurisdiction_check, provenance_trace, constraint_evaluation, qualified_inference]
  outputs: [validated_claim, inferred_relationship, uncertainty, conflict, evidence_trace]

CONFIDENCE:
  range: [0.0, 1.0]
  basis: [source_reliability, evidence_directness, temporal_relevance, jurisdictional_fit, corroboration]
  policy: Confidence expresses evidence strength, not legal validity; no unsupported numerical scores.

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE:
  public_administration: [government_administration, administration_of_public_affairs]
  public_agency: [administrative_agency, government_agency]
  public_service_delivery: [delivery_of_public_services]
  note: Synonyms are context-sensitive; never collapse distinct legal institutions or jurisdictions.

PROVENANCE:
  required_fields: [source_uri, source_type, author_or_issuer, publication_date, access_date, jurisdiction, evidence_excerpt_or_identifier]
  source_page: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/domain-ontologies/legal-government-domains/public-administration-domain-ontology.html
  verification: Source page content not checked; draft developed from domain concepts.

FLOW_HASH:
  algorithm: SHA-256
  input: Canonical UTF-8 serialisation of ontology content, excluding computed hash field.
  status: Compute on publication or ingestion; no hash claimed here.

UPDATE_MODEL:
  triggers: [legislation_change, policy_revision, administrative_reorganisation, new_evidence, taxonomy_update]
  actions: [revalidate_entities, recheck_jurisdiction, preserve_prior_version, recalculate_confidence, regenerate_flow_hash]
  versioning: Append change log with effective dates and provenance.

AI_CONSUMPTION:
  format: text/plain; UTF-8
  mode: typed_semantic_flow
  requirements: [preserve_provenance, distinguish_fact_from_inference, apply_constraints, expose_uncertainty, avoid_unsupported_legal_conclusions]
  downstream_uses: [semantic_search, knowledge_graph_ingestion, public_policy_analysis, administrative_process_modelling, accountable_AI_retrieval]

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