Systems Atlas Project

ATLAS 9 domains

132 nodes, and the parent of the nine is undefined.

Every node in the atlas has a page, whether or not anything has been written on it. An empty field is shown as a gap rather than hidden, which is why most of what follows is visibly unfinished.

These nine are not a division of anything. Rule 03 asks whether a set of parts is collectively exhaustive, and that question needs a parent to be exhaustive of. This list has none, so the rule cannot be applied to it. That is an open problem, not an oversight.

Domains

Nine starting points, unevenly worked.

Depth is not progress. A deeper domain is only more finely divided, and every level still has to survive the same six rules.

Academic L2

Institutions, funding structures and communication systems that produce, validate and transmit knowledge and credentials, including higher education and research enterprises.

Divided to level 2 · 9 nodes
Economic L0

Production, distribution, exchange and accumulation structures through which scarce resources and goods and services are created and allocated across institutional units.

Not divided · 1 node
Healthcare L0

Organisations, people, infrastructures and governance arrangements whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health, including the core system functions that deliver and finance care.

Not divided · 1 node
Human biological L6

The organised structures of the human organism, from cells to organ systems, and the stable functional organisation those structures enable, including the agreed terminologies that describe them.

Divided to level 6 · 88 nodes
Legal L2

Institutionalised rule systems - sources of law, adjudication structures and enforcement mechanisms - that define rights and obligations and create binding decisions backed by legitimate authority.

Divided to level 2 · 14 nodes
Meta L0

Formal organisation-of-knowledge structures - ontologies, top-level categories, representation standards and metadata or provenance systems - that define and relate concepts across domains to enable interoperability, retrieval, integration and analysis.

Not divided · 1 node
Political L2

Institutions, authority relations and formal or informal decision structures that determine collective choices and the allocation of public power in a society.

Divided to level 2 · 16 nodes
Religious L0

Shared belief and practice complexes organised around sacred or ultimate concerns, including the institutions and community structures that maintain, transmit and regulate those beliefs and practices.

Not divided · 1 node
Technological L0

Artefacts, processes and infrastructures that apply organised knowledge to achieve practical objectives, including the standardised technical definitions and system components that enable design, deployment and operation.

Not divided · 1 node

Behind the map

The rules it is held to, and the record of where it failed.

The method is six rules a division has to survive, and eleven lenses through which a part may then be questioned. The rules govern how a system is cut into parts; the lenses govern what may be asked of a part once it exists.

The diagnostics record every wrong turn in the same structure: what was attempted, what broke, and whether it was resolved. Entries left unresolved stay published as they are.