Publication Scope Model

Bijux Pollenomics publishes one governed evidence state through several geographic and purpose-specific views. World, Europe-plus, Nordic, country, lake-ranking, and fieldwork surfaces are related products, not independent databases with separate truth rules.

“One governed evidence state” means one authority chain, not one homogeneous table. Source families retain different observation units, lifecycle materialization, precision, and claim roles. Publication composes eligible members while preserving those differences.

Geographic Lineage

flowchart TB
    Evidence[("governed evidence state")]
    Evidence --> World["world publication"]
    World --> Europe["Europe-plus selection"]
    Europe --> Nordic["Nordic selection"]
    Nordic --> Sweden["Sweden bundle"]
    Nordic --> Norway["Norway bundle"]
    Nordic --> Finland["Finland bundle"]
    Nordic --> Denmark["Denmark bundle"]
    Sweden --> Lakes["Sweden lake-priority packet"]
    Sweden --> Fieldwork["Lyngsjön fieldwork record"]

The arrows mean governed derivation, not increasing evidence strength. A narrower geography selects records and context appropriate to its scope; it cannot acquire a more precise locality, stronger chronology, or better source lineage merely by being closer to the reader's question.

Publication Is Downstream Selection

flowchart LR
    Capture["captured source state"] --> Prepared["materialized preparation evidence"]
    Prepared --> Fitness["claim-specific fitness"]
    Fitness --> Membership["product membership"]
    Membership --> Scope["geographic or purpose scope"]
    Scope --> Product["manifest, evidence rows, and presentation"]
    Missing["missing preparation stage"] -. "cannot be repaired by" .-> Scope

Selection answers whether an eligible record belongs in a declared product. It does not certify collection completeness, create a normalized artifact, or supply a review record that the evidence lifecycle does not contain. If a publication member depends on a family with a narrower materialized lifecycle, the product must preserve that limit in its role, caveat, and traceability.

Scope Responsibilities

Scope	Primary reader question	Governing responsibility	Important limit
world	what is the broadest shared publication posture?	parent membership, common layers, and global caveats	source density and maturity remain uneven
Europe-plus	how does European evidence relate to the broader surface?	regional selection and traceability back to world	not a separate European database
Nordic	what evidence and context are available across the Nordic region?	Nordic membership, cross-country comparison, and regional review	RAÄ and SVAR remain Sweden-specific inputs
country	which admitted records, citations, and warnings belong to one nation?	filtered descendant bundle with country scope reasons	absence can reflect scope, recovery, or refusal
lake priority	which Swedish lakes rank under declared evidence and sensitivity rules?	decision-support inputs, weights, ranking, and caveats	not a fieldwork or sampling instruction
fieldwork	what was observed during one situated visit?	date, place, observations, and evidence boundary	not representative lake or regional coverage

Eligibility, Generation, And Release Are Separate

Publication crosses three gates, and a later gate cannot repair an earlier failure:

Gate	Question	Accountable negative outcome
eligibility	does the governed evidence satisfy this product's identity, role, geography, and fitness rules?	qualification, exclusion, or recovery requirement
generation	did the producer assemble a coherent manifest and all declared descendants?	build failure or publication-integrity finding
release	do coverage, traceability, limitations, and product language support distribution under the proposed claim?	retained release refusal with reconsideration conditions

flowchart LR
    Evidence["governed evidence"] --> Eligible{"eligible for scope?"}
    Eligible -->|no| Account["qualification, exclusion, or recovery"]
    Eligible -->|yes| Generate{"bundle coherent?"}
    Generate -->|no| Integrity["publication-integrity finding"]
    Generate -->|yes| Release{"release claim supported?"}
    Release -->|no| Refusal["release refusal"]
    Release -->|yes| Published["released product"]

An eligible record does not authorize generation when required inputs or parent lineage are unavailable. A generated product does not authorize broad release wording when recovery, comparability, or coverage remains insufficient. This is why a successful report build and a release refusal can both be correct outcomes for the same repository revision.

Subset Invariants

A child publication is trustworthy only when it preserves these relationships:

1. every child member resolves to governed evidence and an admitted parent lineage;
2. geographic filtering records why a member is included or excluded;
3. identifiers, evidence roles, spatial precision, and temporal posture do not change meaning between scopes;
4. country and specialized packets retain citations, warnings, and relevant refusal evidence; and
5. a rendered map or narrative never overrides the bundle manifest and evidence rows that govern membership.

flowchart LR
    Parent["parent publication members"] --> Filter["declared geography and product rules"]
    Filter --> Child["child manifest and evidence rows"]
    Child --> Validate{"subset and semantic validation"}
    Validate -->|pass| Render["map, table, or narrative"]
    Validate -->|fail| Block["publication integrity finding"]

Subset validation is stronger than checking coordinates against a bounding box. It also verifies that the child's evidence identity and interpretation remain compatible with its parent and governing data.

Specialized Products Remain Attached

The Sweden lake-priority packet combines SVAR lake identity with available pollen, archaeology, aDNA, and contextual evidence under declared ranking and sensitivity rules. It remains attached to the Sweden and Nordic publication lineage because its inputs and caveats come from the same governed state.

The Lyngsjön fieldwork record is different again: it preserves evidence from a specific visit. It can inform interpretation of one candidate but does not retroactively validate the ranking model or establish general site suitability.

Choose The Narrowest Sufficient Scope

• use the world surface for the broadest inventory and shared posture;
• use Europe-plus when European context matters beyond the Nordic selection;
• use Nordic for regional comparison and Nordic contextual layers;
• use a country bundle for national membership, citations, and warnings;
• use the lake-priority packet for declared Swedish decision support; and
• use the fieldwork record for claims about the documented visit itself.

Choosing a narrower scope improves relevance, not authority. Consequential claims still resolve through the publication member to the governing evidence and captured source.

Absence Has More Than One Cause

When a record does not appear in a child product, inspect its governed state before interpreting the omission:

Cause	Meaning
outside geography or purpose	valid evidence is irrelevant to this scope
source not captured or recovered	the repository cannot yet account for the candidate record
preparation stage absent	the family lacks a materialized artifact required by the claim
evidence unresolved	identity, locality, chronology, coordinates, or role remain insufficient
product refusal	known evidence does not satisfy the declared admission rule

Only the first is ordinary scope filtering. None is evidence of biological or archaeological absence.

Inspect The Contract

Each geographic family publishes a manifest or publication contract, point-traceability surface, scientific review, and associated caveats. Read those beside the visible map. The publication guide describes bundle authority, while provenance and publication linkage shows how one member resolves back to its source.