Geographic Publication Lineage¶

World, Europe-plus, Nordic, and country products are related selections over one governed evidence state. Their relationship is part of the publication contract: a narrower geography can remove members by scope, but it cannot change the identity, evidence role, precision, or source meaning of a member inherited from its parent.

The Scope Graph¶

flowchart TB
    World["World"] --> Europe["Europe-plus"]
    Europe --> Nordic["Nordic"]
    Nordic --> Sweden
    Nordic --> Norway
    Nordic --> Finland
    Nordic --> Denmark

docs/report/publication_geography_registry.json names these scopes, their parents, directories, and country membership. The registry governs scope identity; bundle manifests govern the files and members published for one version of a scope.

Scope	Parent	Governing entry point
world	none	`docs/report/world/world_bundle.json`
Europe-plus	world	`docs/report/regions/europe-plus/europe-plus_bundle.json`
Nordic	Europe-plus	`docs/report/regions/nordic/nordic_bundle.json`
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark	Nordic	country bundle and report directory under `docs/report/countries/`

The hierarchy describes product lineage, not scientific containment. A member can be absent from a child because its evidence lies outside the child scope or because that child publishes a narrower product family. Absence must still resolve to an explicit scope, admission, or product-contract reason.

What A Child Product May Change¶

Child operation	Allowed	Not allowed
geographic selection	retain members whose governed geography satisfies the child scope	alter coordinates to force containment
product inventory	omit parent artifacts that are outside the child product contract	silently drop required warnings or traceability companions
presentation	choose child-specific title, framing, labels, and default viewport	change evidence role or precision
aggregation	calculate child counts from child member identities	copy a parent total or add unlike observation units
qualification	add a narrower child-specific warning	remove a qualification inherited from governing evidence
analytic sidecar	derive a ranking or summary under an explicit child contract	make the derived result the authority for upstream facts

flowchart LR
    Parent["parent member"] --> Scope{"child scope predicate"}
    Scope -->|inside and eligible| Child["same identity and meaning"]
    Scope -->|outside| NonMember["reasoned non-member"]
    Child --> Sidecar["optional child analysis"]

Subset Validation¶

docs/report/publication_geography_subset_validation.json checks each child against its parent for country, animal, and human populations. A passing row establishes that the checked identity sets obey the declared subset relation. It does not establish source completeness, independent observations, or equal evidence maturity across layers.

Validation result	Meaning
country subset passes	child country membership is permitted by its parent scope
animal subset passes	child animal members resolve within the parent animal population
human subset passes	child AADR members resolve within the parent human population
all pass	lineage is structurally coherent for those checked populations

The validation operates on identities rather than counts alone. Equal totals can hide member replacement, while different totals are expected when a child is a proper subset.

Trace A Member Across Scopes¶

For a member visible in more than one product:

record the stable source or evidence identity in the broadest product;
locate the same identity in each child manifest or traceability surface;
confirm that role, locality, coordinate basis, temporal posture, and qualification are unchanged;
record the child scope decision that retains it; and
inspect child-specific analysis separately from inherited evidence.

flowchart LR
    Source["governed evidence ID"] --> WorldMember["world member"]
    WorldMember --> EuropeMember["Europe-plus member"]
    EuropeMember --> NordicMember["Nordic member"]
    NordicMember --> CountryMember["country member"]
    CountryMember -. "same evidence authority" .-> Source

A new feature identifier may represent product-local rendering while the underlying evidence identity remains stable. Preserve both identities rather than assuming a label or coordinate is sufficient to join products.

Explain Absence From A Child Scope¶

Check absence in this order:

Check	Question
parent membership	did the evidence belong to the immediate parent product?
governed geography	does the evidence satisfy the child boundary at its declared precision?
child product type	does this child publish the relevant evidence family and role?
admission	did a child-specific rule exclude or defer the record?
manifest	is the expected structured member present in the product inventory?
rendering	is the member hidden only by a browser filter or default layer state?

“Not on the country map” cannot distinguish these states. A complete absence claim names the expected identity, parent, child, failed or inapplicable predicate, and governing record.

Country Products Are More Than Clipped Maps¶

A country directory can contain AADR samples, animal evidence, citations, warnings, contextual sources, rankings, fieldwork preparation, and scientific review. Those members share geography but not observation unit or authority.

Country publication therefore has two independent responsibilities:

preserve parent evidence meaning and subset lineage; and
declare which country-specific products and analytical sidecars exist.

A country count is reproducible only when it names the product member family, version, numerator identities, eligible denominator, and exclusions. The country label alone is not a population definition.

Compare Countries Without Double Counting¶

Country products are disjoint only for the particular membership relation being tested. The same evidence can still appear in regional and world products, and one source object can contribute several typed records.

Before combining countries:

select one observation unit and evidence role;
use stable governed identities, not display labels;
verify country assignment and boundary version;
preserve qualifications and unresolved states;
deduplicate shared upstream objects where the analytical question requires independence; and
state whether excluded, outside-scope, and unrecovered records belong in the denominator.

Cite A Geographic Result¶

Retain the publication version, scope key, parent scope, bundle manifest, stable member or aggregate identity, source-family role, observation unit, governing evidence link, and material qualification. For a cross-scope claim, also retain the subset-validation row and the exact scopes compared.

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