Stage 4: model things and meaningful relationships

Outcome: a concept map and relationship ledger. Time: 1 to 2 hours.

Explain and inspect

A stable identifier continues to name a thing when its display label changes. A semantic relationship is a directed, evidenced statement such as “dataset is published by organisation”. A clickable Markdown link is not automatically a factual relationship. Similar labels do not prove identity. Use Explorer's Reader, Links and Inspect views to read an existing relationship both ways.

Do and check

Give each concept a short stable ID, preferred label, type and source. Add a relationship only when it answers a competency question or materially improves navigation. Record direction, labels, predicate, authority, derivation, time, evidence and rights. Keep inferred, model-derived and synthetic assertions distinct from official ones. Reject decorative or unsupported links and test near-neighbour identities.

Retrieve and reflect

Explain why “A is related to B” is usually too vague for reliable grounding. Record one removed link and the evidence needed to restore it.

Next: build the bundle.