Systems Atlas Project
Level 0
Academic
academic
Justification
What has been written down.
Six fields are required of every node. Empty ones are shown as declared gaps — a gap means nothing has been written, not that there is nothing to write.
Definition
CommentInstitutions, funding structures and communication systems that produce, validate and transmit knowledge and credentials, including higher education and research enterprises.
Inclusion
Comment- higher education institutions and credentialing systems
- research institutions and R&D governance
- academic labour structures
- scholarly communication infrastructure
- funding and evaluation systems
Exclusion
Comment- pure technical artefacts and infrastructures — goes to technological
- policy decisions about resource allocation — goes to political
- personal beliefs not embedded in academic institutions — goes to religious
Sources
CommentDeclared gap No sources have been cited.
Boundary cases
CommentDeclared gap No boundary cases have been recorded.
Uncertainty
Comment- The definition is written with verbs (produce, validate, transmit), which fails the stated structural test. Either the test is wrong or this domain is not structural.
Divides into
5 components at level 1.
CommentOrganised institutions that deliver accredited education and formal qualifications.
Research structures Level 1Institutions and organisational units that produce new knowledge.
Credentialing and evaluation structures Level 1Systems that assess, validate and formally recognise academic achievement and research output.
Scholarly communication structures Level 1Infrastructure that disseminates and archives academic knowledge.
Funding and resource allocation structures Level 1Systems that distribute financial and material resources within academia.
The whole domain
9 nodes, every level of the descent.
The full descent below this domain. A node that divides opens to show its parts; a node that does not is a link and nothing more. Every entry is a page, and a page existing says nothing about whether anything has been written on it.
AcademicL05 components
Higher education structuresL13 components
- Research structuresL1
- Credentialing and evaluation structuresL1
- Scholarly communication structuresL1
- Funding and resource allocation structuresL1
Rules
Whether this division survives the six rules.
Rules 1, 5 and 6 are checked by the validator and reported here. Rules 2, 3 and 4 are judgements about meaning and cannot be automated — no state is claimed for them. The rules themselves are set out in the method.
At most seven
Divides into 5 components.
Mutually exclusive
A judgement about whether the parts overlap. Not automated.
Collectively exhaustive
A judgement about what the parts leave out. Not automated.
Equal abstraction
A judgement about whether the parts answer the same question type. Not automated.
Decomposable or terminal
Divides into 5 parts.
Justified in writing
4 of the six fields carry content. The rest are declared gaps.
Proposals
What has been argued about this node.
Nothing has been decided against this node. That is not the same as nothing being wrong with it.
Discussion
What has been said about this node.
Nothing published on this node yet.