Reading glossary
Definitions that help distinguish statements, sources and evidence.
- Attribution
- Keeping the maker of a statement visible in the account.
- Claim
- An assertion whose support and scope can be examined.
- Context
- The circumstances that define how a record should be read.
- First-party source
- Material published by the organization describing its own activity.
- Model identifier
- The exact name that distinguishes the subject from a broader family.
- Observation
- An examination made directly under a stated method.
- Provenance
- The traceable origin and handling of a document or statement.
- Public-source analysis
- Interpretation of published records, distinct from a physical test.
- Revision
- A recorded change with a reason and, where relevant, new support.
- Scope
- The subject, time or jurisdiction to which a statement applies.
- Source dependence
- Several accounts relying on the same underlying material.
- Unresolved
- A point that the available evidence has not established.
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