Evidence Vocabulary

Bijux Pollenomics uses controlled language so coverage, validation, readiness, and publication do not collapse into one vague maturity claim. A complete statement identifies the object, scope, posture, and evidence strength.

Four Parts Of A Claim

Part	Question	Example
object	What record or product is described?	sample chronology
scope	Where and for which product?	Nordic atlas
posture	What decision or state applies?	qualified
strength	What relationship does the evidence justify?	supports

“Validated” alone is ambiguous. “The Nordic bundle validates declared member traceability” identifies both the object and the bounded property checked.

Information Roles

Term	Meaning	Does not mean
review	bounded evaluation of evidence or product posture	universal scientific endorsement
validation	declared structural, semantic, or relational checks passed	source completeness or historical truth
audit	systematic inspection across a declared population	automatic correction of findings
summary	aggregate orientation over governed records	proof for every member row
coverage	represented share of an explicit denominator	representative sampling unless demonstrated
readiness	a named product currently clears its declared gate	final release or equal maturity across families
ledger	accumulated conflicts, exclusions, substitutions, or caveats	a set of resolved items
matrix	repeated dimensions compared across domains or products	one total confidence rank
queue	ordered unresolved recovery or curation work	evidence already eligible for publication
publishable	eligible for one product at stated precision	unrestricted precision or reuse

Evidence Roles

Role	Interpretation
direct evidence	supports a claim about its governed observation or sample
primary context	provides source-backed environmental context central to comparison
contextual domain	frames interpretation from another evidence domain
sampling context	informs candidate selection or fieldwork reasoning
geographic framing	defines or displays scope without becoming scientific evidence
comparator	appears for structured contrast without equal evidential weight

Provenance Postures

• sample-owned ties the claim to a recoverable sample row;
• site-owned ties it to a site shared by one or more samples;
• project-level describes an archive project and cannot silently apply to every sample;
• source-supplied preserves a value reported directly by the governing source;
• substituted uses a broader or alternative source under an explicit rule;
• unresolved records that the requested representation cannot be defended.

Strength Verbs

Verb	Evidential posture
records	preserves a source statement or repository observation
links	establishes a declared relation between governed identities
supports	provides evidence consistent with a bounded claim
anchors	supplies identity, geography, or chronology used by a product
suggests	indicates a qualified pattern with meaningful alternatives
blocks	prevents admission under an explicit rule
proves	reserved for a claim whose evidence and alternatives justify that strength

Scope Language

world, Europe-plus, Nordic, and country names identify publication geographies. country-filtered describes selection, not national representativeness. current identifies the checked-in state, not permanent completeness. reproducible means the declared inputs and method can recreate an output; it does not mean the source population is exhaustive.

Terms describing quality travel with their object and scope: sample locality unresolved, Nordic product publishable, or project recovery partial. Words such as complete, ready, validated, and representative require an explicit denominator or contract.

Rewrite Ambiguous Claims

Avoid	Prefer	Why
“The database has 1,231 Nordic records.”	“The current Nordic bundle admits 1,231 AADR human-sample rows from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.”	names product, family, unit, and geography
“SEAD coverage is complete.”	“The reviewed SEAD inventory has 2,195 rows; 2,172 have country assignment and are mapped in the Nordic bundle.”	exposes denominator and non-members
“The animal dataset is validated.”	“The named animal product passes its admission and traceability contracts; project recovery remains uneven.”	distinguishes product validity from source completeness
“Pollen explains the archaeological pattern.”	“LandClim and Neotoma provide primary pollen context for comparison with archaeological layers.”	preserves evidence role and avoids causal promotion
“Coordinates are exact.”	“The published coordinate uses source-supplied site precision recorded in coordinate provenance.”	anchors precision to its source
“No samples exist for this project.”	“No defensible sample rows have been recovered from the currently captured project material.”	distinguishes absence of evidence from evidence of absence
“The map proves a regional signal.”	“The mapped layers suggest a regional pattern under the declared scope and observation units.”	bounds inference and preserves alternatives

State Denominators Explicitly

Coverage language is incomplete without its denominator. Useful forms include:

• published members / eligible reviewed records for product admission;
• recovered samples / expected samples for source recovery, only when the expected count is itself supported;
• geocoded records / reviewed records for spatial representation;
• records with sample-owned chronology / recovered sample records for temporal evidence; and
• represented countries / declared product countries for geographic scope.

When the denominator is unknown, say so. “All recovered rows were reviewed” is valid if true; it must not be shortened to “recovery is complete.”

Describe Absence Carefully

Absence can arise from scope, acquisition, extraction, linkage, evidence quality, or admission. Use the narrowest statement supported by the governing record:

Recorded state	Defensible wording
outside product geography	excluded from this geographic product
known source, unavailable supplement	sample recovery blocked by unavailable supporting material
readable source, no defensible sample rows yet	sample extraction incomplete
sample known, locality unresolved	retained in evidence; exact-point publication refused
eligible record rejected by a product rule	excluded from the named product with the recorded reason
no captured evidence for the object	not represented in the current evidence base

None of these states, by itself, supports “the object does not exist.”