Targeted knowledge discovery
A decision depends on information held across organisations and public sources. A name in a search result does not reveal everything each source knows about it.
How this work runs.
One run, start to finish. A box with an accent tick is a tool acting and opens its own page; a rounded box is an artefact or a record; a diamond is a decision the work cannot pass without. A dashed line is a hand-off the suite has not mechanised yet.
- reads what the other publishes
- Nothing is sent. The next tool reads what the one before it has published, at the moment it needs it.
- updates the current record
- The record is overwritten with what is true now. The old value is replaced, not kept beside it.
A local source is scanned and corroborated, conformed into comparable records, and gated for discovery, permission and payment, whether it comes off the public record or out of a contributor’s own holdings.
Each step in the order it runs, and where one stops before the next begins.
- 01RECORDPUBLIC / THIRD-PARTY SOURCE A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Nothing in this run reaches it. Hands on to CRAWL.
- 02RECORD · personEXTERNAL CONTRIBUTOR The run passes through a person here, not around them.Nothing in this run reaches it. Hands on to SPINE, NOT MECHANISED YET.
- 03PROPOSE · toolNOT MECHANISED YET proposes a change for someone else to accept, and never makes it.Reached from EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTOR. The run parks here.
- 04RUN · toolCRAWL Verifies the source.Reached from PUBLIC / THIRD-PARTY SOURCE. Hands on to SCRIBE, HUB DATA.
- 05RUN · toolSPINE Makes the records findable, permissioned and auditable.Reached from EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTOR. Hands on to NOT MECHANISED YET.
- 06RECORDHUB DATA A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from CRAWL. Hands on to SCRIBE.
- 07RECORDNOT MECHANISED YET A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from SPINE. Hands on to SCRIBE.
- 08RUN · toolSCRIBE Renders the source into records in one shared standard shape.Reached from CRAWL, HUB DATA, NOT MECHANISED YET. Hands on to SPINE, QUERY RESULT, SPINE.
- 09RUN · toolSPINE Makes the records findable, permissioned and auditable.Reached from SCRIBE. Hands on to NOT MECHANISED YET, CONSUMER REACHES THE DATA, FORGE.
- 10RUN · toolSPINE Makes the records findable, permissioned and auditable.Reached from SCRIBE. Hands on to NOT MECHANISED YET.
- 11RECORDQUERY RESULT A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from SCRIBE. Hands on to FORGE.
- 12RUN · toolFORGE Builds the screen where a user finds the data and takes it into their own store.Reached from QUERY RESULT, SPINE. Hands on to THE USER'S OWN STORE.
- 13RECORDNOT MECHANISED YET A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from SPINE. The run parks here.
- 14RECORD · personCONSUMER REACHES THE DATA The run passes through a person here, not around them.Reached from SPINE. The run parks here.
- 15RECORDNOT MECHANISED YET A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from SPINE. The run parks here.
- 16RECORDTHE USER'S OWN STORE A record the run reads, writes or hands on.Reached from FORGE. The run parks here.
- 01picked upCRAWL PUBLIC / THIRD-PARTY SOURCE.Matter the run starts from. No member of the suite put it there.
- 02reads what the other publishesCRAWL → SCRIBE Verified sources.Nothing is sent. The next tool reads what the one before it has published, at the moment it needs it.
- 03reads what the other publishesSCRIBE → SPINE Conformed records.Nothing is sent. The next tool reads what the one before it has published, at the moment it needs it.
- 04nothing crossesSPINE NOT MECHANISED YET.This hand-off is not mechanised yet. A person notices, or nobody does.
- 05hands onSPINE → CONSUMER REACHES THE DATA hands on.A step following the one before it.
- 06updates the current recordCRAWL → SCRIBE Hub record.The record is overwritten with what is true now. The old value is replaced, not kept beside it.
- 07reads what the other publishesSCRIBE → FORGE Findable record.Nothing is sent. The next tool reads what the one before it has published, at the moment it needs it.
- 08reads what the other publishesSPINE → FORGE Who may query it.Nothing is sent. The next tool reads what the one before it has published, at the moment it needs it.
- 09parks hereFORGE THE USER'S OWN STORE.The user acquires it.Nothing later in this run reads it, so this is where that branch of the run stops.
- 10hands onEXTERNAL CONTRIBUTOR → SPINE hands on.A step following the one before it.
- 11nothing crossesSPINE → SCRIBE NOT MECHANISED YET, NOT MECHANISED YET.This hand-off is not mechanised yet. A person notices, or nobody does.
- 12hands onSCRIBE → SPINE hands on.A step following the one before it.
- 13nothing crossesSPINE NOT MECHANISED YET.This hand-off is not mechanised yet. A person notices, or nobody does.
- 14nothing crossesEXTERNAL CONTRIBUTOR → NOT MECHANISED YET hands on.This hand-off is not mechanised yet. A person notices, or nobody does.
What this work delivers.
Relevant evidence brought together around a subject, with a clear distinction between what can be discovered and what the holder allows someone to access.
Define the question
Start from an organisation, location or activity and the decision the evidence must support.
Resolve the subject
Use shared identifiers and conformed records to recognise the same subject across sources.
Find the evidence
Query the connected sources and follow relevant relationships. Public information and restricted information retain their own access conditions.
Access or acquire
Read what is available. Where a user needs a record in their own system, acquisition is a separate, deliberate action under the holder’s terms.
The Spine example uses a bundled public-data extract. It illustrates discovery; it is not a production service for private-data transactions.
Explore the data exampleWhich tools, in what capacity.
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