Skip to Content

Changes for page Specification

Last modified by Robert Schaub on 2025/12/24 20:33
From version 9.1
edited by Robert Schaub
on 2025/12/12 09:32
Change comment: Imported from XAR
To version 7.1
edited by Robert Schaub
on 2025/12/11 20:58
Change comment: Imported from XAR

Summary

Details

Page properties
Content
... ... @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
1 -{{warning title="Version 0.8aa (Draft)"}}
1 +{{warning title="Version 0.8r (Draft)"}}
2 2  This document describes the **Specification** of FactHarbor. It is a working draft.
3 3  {{/warning}}
4 4  
... ... @@ -6,39 +6,17 @@
6 6  
7 7  This section defines the technical architecture, data models, and functional requirements of FactHarbor.
8 8  
9 -== Mission ==
10 -
11 -**FactHarbor brings clarity and transparency to a world full of unclear, controversial, and misleading information by shedding light on the context, assumptions, and evidence behind claims — empowering people to better understand and judge wisely.**
12 -
13 -== Purpose ==
14 -
15 -Modern society faces a deep informational crisis:
16 -* Misinformation spreads faster than corrections.
17 -* High-quality evidence is buried under noise.
18 -* Meanings shift depending on context — but this is rarely made explicit.
19 -* Users lack tools to understand *why* information conflicts.
20 -* Claims are evaluated without clearly defined assumptions.
21 -
22 -FactHarbor introduces structure, transparency, and comparative reasoning. It provides:
23 -* Multiple valid scenarios for ambiguous claims.
24 -* Transparent assumptions, definitions, and boundaries.
25 -* Full evidence provenance.
26 -* Likelihood-based verdicts (one per scenario).
27 -* Versioning and temporal change tracking.
28 -* Hybrid AI–human collaboration.
29 -
30 30  == Core Concepts ==
31 31  
32 -* **Claim**: A statement needing structured interpretation.
33 -* **Scenario**: Definitions, assumptions, boundaries, and context.
34 -* **Evidence**: Information supporting or contradicting a scenario.
35 -* **Verdict**: Likelihood estimate based on weighted evidence **for a specific scenario**.
36 -* **Summary View**: User-facing overview.
37 -* **AKEL**: AI subsystem for drafting and assistance (human supervised).
38 -* **Federation**: Decentralized nodes hosting datasets.
39 -* **Truth Landscape**: The aggregation of multiple scenario-dependent verdicts showing where a claim is plausible.
40 -* **Time Evolution**: Versioning of all entities allowing historical views.
11 +FactHarbor structures reasoning about claims into transparent, inspectable steps:
41 41  
13 +* **Claims and Claim Clusters** – people submit real-world statements; similar phrasings are grouped.
14 +* **Scenarios** – each claim is evaluated under clearly defined contexts (assumptions, definitions, boundaries).
15 +* **Evidence** – sources and data are collected and linked to specific scenarios.
16 +* **Verdicts** – each scenario receives a likelihood-based assessment, not an absolute label.
17 +* **Truth Landscape** – the set of scenario-dependent verdicts shows where and why a claim seems more or less plausible.
18 +* **Time Evolution** – all important entities (claims, scenarios, evidence links, verdicts) are versioned, so it is possible to see *what we believed at time X* and how this changed.
19 +
42 42  == Functional Lifecycle ==
43 43  
44 44  The system follows a six-step lifecycle: