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Accountable Knowledge Authority

The person, role or body that can determine whether consequential knowledge is sufficiently authoritative for a stated use.

Assurance

Evidence-bounded reasoning about whether a defined knowledge dependency is sufficiently dependable for its intended use.

Craft Knowledge

Knowledge developed through experience, practice, professional judgement and context.

Fitness for Reliance

A reasoned conclusion about whether knowledge is sufficiently dependable for an intended use and consequence.

Generated Knowledge

Knowledge produced, inferred, synthesised or materially transformed by a technological system.

Knowledge Assurance Object

The bounded process, decision, service, capability or other knowledge-dependent object being assessed.

Knowledge Pollution

An environment in which repeated creation, copying or transformation makes it harder to distinguish what should be trusted, why and on whose authority.

Minimum Sufficient Evidence

The least burdensome evidence set sufficient for a competent and proportionate conclusion. This is a design principle for selecting evidence. It does not establish that using the method achieves minimum burden or proportionate effort in practice.

Source Knowledge

Knowledge grounded in an identifiable source or explicit reference point.