IOCE Core Ontology v0.1

A machine-readable representation of the concepts published on the IOCE Atlas. Version 0.1 is provisional and incomplete. It is offered for examination, reuse, translation, criticism and competing interpretation, not as settled truth.

Canonical files: JSON · JSON-LD · Turtle · terms · relations · JSON Schema · sources · provenance · example. Guide for people and machines: /ai/. Licences: LICENSES.md.

Namespace: https://ioce.alkhemy.com/ontology/ioce-core#. Term counts by status: documented 90, externally-sourced 1, inferred 1, proposed 8, unknown 8.

Terms

Isocratic Ownership-Control Equilibrium documented ioce:IOCE

The public site gives this expansion of 'IOCE' but no separate definition of IOCE as a framework. The isocracy page describes 'The IOCE and OCDI work' as an analytic apparatus (see analyticApparatusFor).

Source: IOCE Atlas web application (map UI text)

IOCE Atlas documented ioce:IOCEAtlas

IOCE Atlas is a research tool that tracks the gap between who owns organisations and who actually controls them — across companies, governments, and institutions in the Baltic region and beyond.

Source: IOCE Atlas web application (map UI text)

Isocracy documented ioce:Isocracy

Isocracy is a system of governance in which power is distributed as evenly, transparently, and accountably as possible across the polity, so that public authority remains balanced, corrigible, and ordered toward truth, justice, ecological stewardship, and the common good.

Isocracy is the constitutional principle that governance becomes legitimate only when power — meaning both formal authority and actual operative control — is distributed so widely, transparently, and corrigibly that no actor, class, or institution can maintain durable domination over the rest of the polity. (Compact Definition)

Isocracy is rule under conditions where power remains sufficiently shared, visible, balanced, and corrigible that no actor can justly convert position, wealth, secrecy, or control into lasting domination. (Philosophical Formula)

It is framed more broadly as a constitutional order of equalized civic power, where no person, office, class, faction, institution, or economic bloc is allowed to accumulate durable domination over the rest. (Framing)

The source gives four formulations (primary, compact, philosophical, framing). All are preserved; none is privileged beyond the page's own label 'Primary definition'. 'requirements' are the page's 'Working Definition' list, verbatim.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Ownership documented ioce:Ownership

Rightful title, stake, or claim.

Ownership means how much of the thing is legally theirs. (OCDI page)

Recorded difference: the isocracy page says 'rightful' title, stake or claim; the OCDI page says 'legally theirs'. Both are kept; v0.1 does not reconcile them.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Ownership share (Oᵢ) documented ioce:OwnershipShare

The ownership share of actor i — how much of the asset, resource, or institution that actor owns.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Control documented ioce:Control

Actual operative influence.

Control means how much power that actor actually has over decisions. (OCDI page)

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Control share (Cᵢ) documented ioce:ControlShare

The control share of actor i — how much decision-making power that actor has.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Isocratic Equilibrium documented ioce:IsocraticEquilibrium

A condition in which ownership and control remain appropriately aligned within constitutional and ethical bounds.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Non-Isocratic Drift documented ioce:NonIsocraticDrift

The condition in which control concentrates without legitimate grounding.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Actor documented ioce:Actor

One specific actor in the system — a person, company, board, government office, or group of citizens.

The OCDI formula image calls the same thing 'agent i'.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Ownership-control divergence (per actor) inferred ioce:OwnershipControlDivergence

Formula: |Cᵢ/ΣC − Oᵢ/ΣO|

INFERRED. The OCDI page describes a per-actor 'mismatch' as a step of the formula but does not name or define a per-actor divergence as a concept. The name is taken from the index's own name.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Ownership-Control Divergence Index documented ioce:OCDI

The Ownership-Control Divergence Index measures how far a system is from a fair balance between ownership and control. It compares how much of something each actor owns with how much real decision-making power that actor has.

Formula: OCDI = Σ_{i=1}^{n} | Cᵢ/ΣC − Oᵢ/ΣO |

Range: INFERRED, recorded and not resolved: as published (no ½ factor), OCDI ranges over [0, 2]. The page's own Example 1 (two actors, 50/50 ownership, 90/10 control) totals 0.80, which is consistent with this. OCDI-Gov applies ½ and ranges over [0, 1]. v0.1 records the difference and does not normalise either measure.

Recorded limitation, quoted from the source: 'Diagnostic tool, not complete theory.'

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

OCDI-Gov documented ioce:OCDIGov

OCDI-Gov answers: how far does the money that puts a person in office depart from the people who are entitled to put them there?

Formula: OCDI-Gov = ½ Σ_z | c_z − o_z | over geographic units z

Range: Documented range [0, 1] (total-variation distance). Compare OCDI, whose published form has no ½ factor.

The source states the substitution is deliberate: 'Nobody owns a legislature.' Computed over geographic units (state in v1.1, congressional district planned for v1.2), not individuals.

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Authorisation (OCDI-Gov ownership substitute) documented ioce:Authorisation

The mandate of a public office is held in equal shares by the people entitled to vote for it.

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Finance (OCDI-Gov control substitute) documented ioce:Finance

The resources that determine electoral viability are held in proportion to dollars supplied.

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Ownership-control wedge documented ioce:OwnershipControlWedge

the absolute difference between an individual's estimated economic ownership and voting/effective control of their primary holdings.

Used for private/oligarch entities in place of the full OCDI.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Structural heuristic (OCDI proxy) documented ioce:StructuralHeuristic

OCDI is assigned by a documented structural heuristic: each entity's publicly-known ownership/control class maps to an OCDI proxy.

The numeric proxy value for each class is not published on the public site (provenance unknown for the mapping table).

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Ownership/control class documented ioce:OwnershipControlClass

Each company, government, or organisation is placed in an ownership/control class from public governance facts

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

state-controlled documented ioce:ClassStateControlled

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

founder-dual-class documented ioce:ClassFounderDualClass

Page wording: 'founder or dual-class control'.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

family-controlled documented ioce:ClassFamilyControlled

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

widely-held-institutional documented ioce:ClassWidelyHeldInstitutional

Page wording: 'widely-held institutional'.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

state-influenced unknown ioce:ClassStateInfluenced

Appears only as a data value in /api/ocdi/map-data; not defined publicly.

Source: IOCE API: OCDI map data (field names and vocabularies only)

founder-led-concentrated unknown ioce:ClassFounderLedConcentrated

Appears only as a data value; not defined publicly.

Source: IOCE API: OCDI map data (field names and vocabularies only)

private-employee-owned unknown ioce:ClassPrivateEmployeeOwned

Appears only as a data value; not defined publicly.

Source: IOCE API: OCDI map data (field names and vocabularies only)

Governance class documented ioce:GovernanceClass

For governments the OCDI expresses divergence between nominal public ownership (citizens) and concentration of effective control, assigned by a governance class (consolidated-democracy → authoritarian).

Only the two ends of the scale are published; intermediate classes are unknown.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Provenance tier documented ioce:ProvenanceTier

the provenance tier (live feed, one-time snapshot, or curated CSV)

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

live feed documented ioce:TierLiveFeed

Data value not present in map-data.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

one-time snapshot documented ioce:TierOneTimeSnapshot

Data value: one-time-snapshot.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

curated CSV documented ioce:TierCuratedCSV

Data value: curated-csv.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

curated seed documented ioce:TierCuratedSeed

Listed in the methodology table; not named in the ocdi.html tier list.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Confidence level documented ioce:ConfidenceLevel

Every point carries a provenance tier and a confidence level

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Audited documented ioce:ConfidenceAudited

sourced, verified ownership/control. Marker solid. (None yet in the global layer.)

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Structural heuristic documented ioce:ConfidenceStructuralHeuristic

OCDI inferred from ownership/control class. Marker dashed.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Estimate documented ioce:ConfidenceEstimate

a numeric seed confidence. Marker dashed, labelled with a percentage.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Unspecified documented ioce:ConfidenceUnspecified

no recorded provenance. Marker dotted and faint.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Isocratic principle documented ioce:IsocraticPrinciple

Collective heading for the six principles; no separate definition.

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Equal civic standing documented ioce:PrincipleEqualCivicStanding

no actor accumulates durable domination

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Ownership-control alignment documented ioce:PrincipleOwnershipControlAlignment

OCDI measures the divergence

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Transparency documented ioce:PrincipleTransparency

auditable data flows as constitutional requirement

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Structural balance documented ioce:PrincipleStructuralBalance

five-branch counterweight architecture

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Corrigibility documented ioce:PrincipleCorrigibility

drift must be detectable and correctable

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Anti-capture documented ioce:PrincipleAntiCapture

institutional legitimacy requires real power distribution

Source: Definitions, Methodology & Datasets

Isocratic branch documented ioce:IsocraticBranch

The framework describes an isocratic constitution with five balanced branches rather than a narrow tripartite model.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Economic branch documented ioce:EconomicBranch

Counterweight to concentrated ownership of capital, assets, and productive resources.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Ethical branch documented ioce:EthicalBranch

Holds power to moral, ecological, and intergenerational limits, so authority cannot destroy the conditions of civic life.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Judicial branch documented ioce:JudicialBranch

Impartial adjudication and enforcement of rights against arbitrary or captured power.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Informational branch documented ioce:InformationalBranch

Transparency, provenance, and auditable knowledge flows against opacity and manipulation.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Legislative branch documented ioce:LegislativeBranch

Distributed rule-making and public reason rather than concentrated sovereignty.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Form opposed by isocracy documented ioce:OpposedForm

The decisive opposition is not simply democracy versus dictatorship, but distributed legitimate power versus concentrated effective domination.

The label 'Form opposed by isocracy' is a v0.1 grouping label for the page's list 'What Isocracy Opposes'.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Oligarchy documented ioce:Oligarchy

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Plutocracy documented ioce:Plutocracy

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Technocratic insulation documented ioce:TechnocraticInsulation

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Bureaucratic self-protection documented ioce:BureaucraticSelfProtection

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Propagandistic control of information documented ioce:PropagandisticControlOfInformation

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Regimes in which institutions claim legitimacy while practical power is monopolized elsewhere documented ioce:CapturedLegitimacy

Listed but not defined on the IOCE site (definition: unknown). Ordinary meanings of these words exist outside IOCE; v0.1 does not import one. The identifier 'CapturedLegitimacy' is a v0.1 proposal; the label is verbatim.

Source: Isocracy: The Model

Condition OCDI can indicate documented ioce:IndicatedCondition

Grouping label for the OCDI page section 'What the Formula Can Indicate'.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Hidden unfairness documented ioce:HiddenUnfairness

a system may look fair because ownership is spread out, but real decision-making power may still be concentrated.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Oligarchy or elite capture documented ioce:EliteCapture

where a small group controls much more than its actual stake would suggest.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Disenfranchisement documented ioce:Disenfranchisement

where actors own a lot but have little real voice.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Institutional health documented ioce:InstitutionalHealth

a lower OCDI may suggest more accountability; a higher OCDI may suggest corruption risk, legitimacy problems, or future instability.

Source: The Rudiments of OCDI

Supporting measure (Voting Influence Corruption report) documented ioce:SupportingMeasure

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Party unity documented ioce:PartyUnity

Share of a member's Yea/Nay votes cast with their party's majority position on that roll call

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

PAC share documented ioce:PACShare

Committee contributions ÷ total receipts

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

IE exposure documented ioce:IEExposure

Independent expenditure for and against, per candidate

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Funder HHI documented ioce:FunderHHI

Herfindahl concentration of expenditure across committees

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

DW-NOMINATE externally-sourced ioce:DWNOMINATE

Poole–Rosenthal spatial position from roll-call behaviour

Defined by Poole and Rosenthal (Voteview); cited, not defined, by IOCE.

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Methodology & OCDI-Gov

Kind of not-knowing documented ioce:KindOfNotKnowing

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Risk documented ioce:UncertaintyRisk

Outcomes and probabilities both known

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Uncertainty documented ioce:UncertaintyUncertainty

Outcomes known, probabilities not

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Ignorance documented ioce:UncertaintyIgnorance

Outcome space itself incomplete

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Ambiguity documented ioce:UncertaintyAmbiguity

Terms admit several defensible readings

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Undecidability documented ioce:UncertaintyUndecidability

No possible observation settles it

Source: Voting Influence Corruption: Uncertainty Taxonomy

Institution documented ioce:Institution

Entity type exposed by GET /api/institutions (fields include name, type, sector, jurisdictionId, ocdiScore). No prose definition is published. Records are not copied into the ontology.

Source: IOCE API: institutions (field names only)

Resource documented ioce:Resource

Entity type exposed by GET /api/resources. Observed resourceClass values: water, ecological, heritage, energy, extractive. No prose definition is published.

Source: IOCE API: resources (field names and vocabularies only)

Jurisdiction documented ioce:Jurisdiction

Entity type exposed by GET /api/jurisdictions. Observed jurisdictionLevel values: country, supranational, municipality.

Source: IOCE API: OCDI map data (field names and vocabularies only)

Alert documented ioce:Alert

The UI groups alerts as 'Audit Needed' and 'Resources Council'. No prose definition is published.

Source: IOCE Atlas web application (map UI text)

OCDI score documented ioce:OCDIScore

Numeric field on institutions, resources and jurisdictions. How it was obtained is given per record by dataTier/confidence/source where present; 326 of 503 map points carry no source (provenance unknown).

Source: IOCE API: OCDI map data (field names and vocabularies only)

Stewardship score unknown ioce:StewardshipScore

Present as a data field (resources) and as a UI score label, but not defined anywhere on the public site. Meaning, scale and method: unknown.

Source: IOCE API: resources (field names and vocabularies only)

Map layer documented ioce:MapLayer

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Ownership Lines documented ioce:LayerOwnershipLines

Visual lines representing ownership connections

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Control Lines documented ioce:LayerControlLines

Visual lines representing control flows

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Divergence Hotspots documented ioce:LayerDivergenceHotspots

Heatmap of high OCDI divergence areas

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Stakeholder Nodes documented ioce:LayerStakeholderNodes

Actor/stakeholder location markers

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Institutional Boundaries documented ioce:LayerInstitutionalBoundaries

Institution boundary overlays

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Resource Zones documented ioce:LayerResourceZones

Resource/asset zone markers

Source: IOCE API: map layers

Glyph documented ioce:Glyph

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Equilibrium documented ioce:GlyphEquilibrium

Ownership and control in balance

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Divergence Warning documented ioce:GlyphDivergenceWarning

Significant ownership-control gap detected

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Critical Divergence documented ioce:GlyphCriticalDivergence

OCDI exceeds critical threshold

The numeric 'critical threshold' is not published (unknown).

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Under Review documented ioce:GlyphUnderReview

Active audit or council review in progress

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Verified documented ioce:GlyphVerified

Ownership-control relationship verified

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Commons Resource documented ioce:GlyphCommonsResource

Shared or public commons asset

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Network Node documented ioce:GlyphNetworkNode

Key node in ownership-control network

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Corrective Action documented ioce:GlyphCorrectiveAction

Redistribution or rebalancing underway

Source: IOCE API: glyphs

Triad documented ioce:Triad

Triads exist as named three-element overlays. Their semantics are not defined on the public site; v0.1 records labels only.

Source: IOCE API: triads

Ownership / Control / Benefit unknown ioce:TriadOwnershipControlBenefit

Label documented; meaning of the triad and of its elements is not publicly defined (status: unknown). Do not infer semantics from the words alone.

Source: IOCE API: triads

Ecology / Equity / Care unknown ioce:TriadEcologyEquityCare

Label documented; meaning of the triad and of its elements is not publicly defined (status: unknown). Do not infer semantics from the words alone.

Source: IOCE API: triads

Truth / Goodness / Beauty unknown ioce:TriadTruthGoodnessBeauty

Label documented; meaning of the triad and of its elements is not publicly defined (status: unknown). Do not infer semantics from the words alone.

Source: IOCE API: triads

Idea / Symbol / Object unknown ioce:TriadIdeaSymbolObject

Label documented; meaning of the triad and of its elements is not publicly defined (status: unknown). Do not infer semantics from the words alone.

Source: IOCE API: triads

Epistemic status proposed ioce:EpistemicStatus

PROPOSED for v0.1: the status vocabulary used to mark every term and assertion.

documented proposed ioce:StatusDocumented

inferred proposed ioce:StatusInferred

proposed proposed ioce:StatusProposed

externally-sourced proposed ioce:StatusExternallySourced

unknown proposed ioce:StatusUnknown

Source document proposed ioce:SourceDocument

PROPOSED: a public IOCE page, API endpoint or external dataset cited as evidence (mapped to prov:Entity).

Provenance record proposed ioce:ProvenanceRecord

PROPOSED: a record linking a term or assertion to its source, quote, retrieval date and status.

Relationship types

Deliberately not defined, because no IOCE source supports them: influences, dependsOn, impacts, governs.

Assertions

Licence

IOCE-created material is released under the licences specified below. Third-party data remains subject to its original source licence and attribution requirements. In this ontology: structure, identifiers, relations, status labels and provenance records are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0; text quoted verbatim from IOCE documentation (skos:definition, ioce:alternativeDefinition, ioce:quote) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (attribution: IOCE Atlas, https://ioce.alkhemy.com). No third-party entity data is included.