Experiment ID: CC-EXP-QMAP-04

Version: 0.1

Date: 19 September 2026

Candidate: Qualified Mapping Assertion Profile (QMAP)

Standing: INTERNAL — GENERIC MAPPING-ASSERTION PRIOR-ART + NAMING REVIEW. NO ADMISSION OR PUBLICATION AUTHORISED.

Question

Before Commons admission:

is treating mappings as first-class qualified assertions already established?
what remains distinctive in QMAP?
is the QMAP name suitable?

Executive result

PASS WITH REDUCTION.

First-class/qualified relationships, provenance-bearing assertions, crosswalk records and mappings-as-resources are established modelling practices.

QMAP should not claim invention of those mechanisms.

Its bounded candidate contribution is:

a cross-domain mapping assertion profile that requires recoverable mapping purpose and provenance, preserves external/domain relation semantics, and keeps mapping existence separate from acceptance, conformance, authority, transformation and runtime permission.

Distinctive profile discipline

QMAP combines:

mandatory/recoverable mapping purpose;
mandatory/reconstructable provenance;
external relation-semantic preservation;
source/target independence;
version/lens/applicability awareness;
mapping-standing separation;
conflict/supersession preservation;
mapping ≠ transformation;
mapping ≠ conformance/authority/runtime permission;
Commons Non-Promotion Rule.

Purpose challenge

Could purpose be optional for a trivial identifier crosswalk?

Even a legacy-customer-ID to new-customer-ID mapping can serve identity resolution, migration, reporting compatibility or temporary coexistence.

Refinement:

mapping purpose MUST be semantically recoverable.

It may be explicit on each assertion or inherited from an identified Mapping Set/Profile with unambiguous purpose.

Provenance challenge

Provenance may also be inherited from an identified Mapping Set/release if reconstructable.

It need not be duplicated on every atomic assertion.

Supporting construct — Mapping Set

Mapping Set: an identifiable collection of Mapping Assertions sharing declared purpose, provenance/release, source/target scheme/version scope or other common qualification.

A Mapping Set does not replace atomic assertions.

Individual assertion identity remains necessary where assertion-level acceptance, conflict, citation or supersession matters.

Candidate model

Mapping Set
  ├── declared purpose
  ├── provenance/release
  ├── source/target scheme/version scope
  └── contains
        │
        ▼
 Mapping Assertion
   ├── source
   ├── relation
   ├── target
   ├── inherited/overridden qualifiers
   ├── individual standing/conflict
   └── supersession

Inheritance must remain explicit/reconstructable.

Naming review

Qualified Mapping Assertion Profile — QMAP

Accurate and preserves first-class assertion insight.

Risk: “qualified” may sound quality-approved and QMAP may sound tool-like.

Result: PASS.

Mapping Assertion Profile — MAP

Simple but acronym is generic and loses contextual discipline.

Result: HOLD.

Contextual Mapping Assertion Profile — CMAP

Signals context but overemphasises one qualifier and acronym is widely overloaded.

Result: PASS/HOLD.

Purpose-Bound Mapping Assertion Profile

Highlights purpose but is too narrow.

Result: REJECT.

Qualified Mapping Profile

Too short; loses assertion insight.

Result: REJECT.

Naming recommendation

No alternative clearly dominates.

Retain Qualified Mapping Assertion Profile (QMAP) as the controlled candidate name for admission.

Explicit definition:

“Qualified” means contextually specified/provenanced, not quality-approved.

Revisit public naming at publication gate.

Prior-art hostile tests

Generic statement reification already exists → QMAP does not claim invention. PASS.
SKOS crosswalks exist → reuse relation semantics. PASS.
Mapping tables with metadata exist → QMAP claims semantic discipline/interoperability, not first implementation. PASS.
Formal logic derives relation → preserve inference provenance. PASS.
Mapping Set carries common metadata → allowed with reconstructable inheritance. PASS.
Mapping lacks stable ID → deterministic/composite identity may suffice locally; stable identity required where cited/contested/accepted/superseded. PASS.

Refined semantic minimum

identifiable Mapping Assertion;
source;
target;
relation;
mapping purpose — direct or inherited;
provenance — direct or inherited.

Where material:

version/lens;
applicability/context;
time;
standing;
evidence;
confidence;
conflict;
supersession;
derivation.

Novelty boundary

Do not claim QMAP invents mapping assertions, qualified relationships, crosswalk provenance or is unique.

Bounded statement:

QMAP packages a tested cross-domain discipline for purpose-bound, provenance-bearing mapping assertions that preserve relation semantics and prevent mappings from being silently promoted into equivalence, conformance, authority or executable transformation.

Admission readiness

Survived:

generality;
relation-vocabulary reduction;
18 hard cases;
candidate specification hostile review;
generic mapping-assertion prior-art;
naming review.

SEMANTIC ADMISSION READINESS: HIGH.

PUBLICATION READINESS: NOT YET.

Remaining:

IP/publication review;
Commons admission decision;
publication-gate naming review;
namespace/machine-readable decision after admission.

Recommendation

Prepare CC-ADM-QMAP-01 — Commons Admission Decision Package recommending:

ADMIT AS INTERNAL CONTROLLED COMMONS CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION.

Recognise Mapping Set as supporting construct, not separate profile.

Decision

CC-EXP-QMAP-04 — PASS WITH REDUCTION.

Retain QMAP candidate name for admission.

No admission/publication/namespace/schema authorised.

CC-EXP-QMAP-04 — Generic Mapping-Assertion Prior-Art & Naming Review v0.1