Institutional source resolution
Resolve Authority →SRCTA-14
TA-14 AUTHORITY GOVERNANCE INSTITUTION
Official Source Index
Locate the originating law, regulation, standard, code, framework, guidance document, method, or institutional record before relying on a governance claim. This index preserves source identity, publisher, record type, status, and the boundary between publication and execution authority.
SOURCE DISCIPLINE
The source must be preserved before the claim can be trusted.
TA-14 separates source authenticity, legal or technical authority, applicability, evidence sufficiency, and execution permission. A real source can still be irrelevant, superseded, non-binding, or outside scope.
Use the issuing authority, standards body, legislature, regulator, treaty secretariat, or official publisher whenever an authoritative source is available.
Preserve the edition, amendment, effective date, adoption state, and supersession history before relying on summaries or crosswalks.
A governance claim should remain bounded to what the cited source actually establishes, not what a secondary description implies.
A source can prove publication or content, but execution still requires applicable authority, evidence, scope, binding, and a preserved determination.
OFFICIAL SOURCE CONTROL DESK
Find the record. Inspect the publisher. Preserve the boundary.
Use the filters to locate governance records, then inspect whether the source is official, supporting, unresolved, current, applicable, and sufficient for the proposition being asserted.
LAW
European Union
European Union Artificial Intelligence Act
A risk-based legal framework governing the development, placement on the market, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems in the European Union.A risk-based legal framework governing the development, placement on the market, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems in the European Union.
Source resolution questions08
- Is this the issuing authority or an authorized official publisher?
- What edition, amendment, revision, or effective date is controlling?
- Has the instrument been adopted, incorporated, enacted, or contractually required?
- Which jurisdiction, sector, subject, activity, and role fall within scope?
- Is the record current, superseded, proposed, guidance, or unresolved?
- What proposition does the source actually support?
- What evidence remains necessary beyond the source text?
- What authority must still bind before execution or reliance?
TA-14 source boundaryT14
An official source can establish authorship, publication, text, version, or institutional position. It does not automatically establish applicability, compliance, certification, admissibility, or permission to execute a consequential action.
Source identityVersionAuthorityScopeEvidenceExecution
Source accessA source link is preserved for this record.
External source availability, licensing, access restrictions, and later amendments remain controlled by the originating publisher.
SOURCE RESOLUTION SEQUENCE
Publication is the beginning of source governance, not the end.
Each source must be traced from publisher through version, authority, applicability, evidence, and governed reliance.
Preserve title, publisher, URL, identifier, and source class.
Confirm the source is official, authorized, or clearly labeled as supporting.
Resolve edition, amendment, effective date, adoption, and supersession.
Distinguish law, regulation, standard, code, guidance, framework, method, or proposal.
Resolve jurisdiction, sector, role, activity, system, and territorial scope.
Determine whether the source governs, informs, supports, or remains outside scope.
Preserve the evidence required to support the bounded proposition.
Join source, authority, evidence, determination, execution, and outcome.
SOURCE FAILURE MODES
A real citation can still support an invalid conclusion.
The source layer must preserve both what is known and what remains unresolved. These failure modes should produce HOLD, DENY, or ESCALATE rather than silent assumption.
A copied or archived page is relied upon without confirming the controlling official publication.
The source is official, but the edition used is not the edition adopted, contracted, or applicable to the reviewed activity.
A press release, article, or overview is treated as though it reproduces the controlling legal or technical requirements.
The source is real, but its territorial, sectoral, subject-matter, or organizational reach is not established.
A bill, draft, model law, consultation text, or TA-14 proposal is presented as currently binding authority.
A recommendation or public-health guideline is cited as though it creates a legal duty without an adoption pathway.
The record cannot show where the source came from, when it was retrieved, or whether the content has changed.
A citation is used to support a conclusion broader than the source text, scope, evidence, or authority permits.
TA-14 SOURCE LITERACY ACADEMY
Teach people to distinguish an official source from applicable authority.
The Academy pathway explains source classes, publishers, official editions, incorporation by reference, treaty implementation, guidance, model codes, proposed instruments, version drift, source licensing, and the point at which a citation becomes admissible support for a bounded claim.
Source identity
Publisher, title, URL, identifier, authenticity, and provenance.
Version literacy
Edition, amendment, effective date, adoption, and supersession.
Authority literacy
Legislative, regulatory, contractual, technical, and institutional authority.
Applicability
Jurisdiction, scope, role, activity, sector, and exclusions.
Evidence boundary
What the source proves, what it supports, and what remains unresolved.
Execution boundary
Why citation does not by itself authorize consequential execution.
TA-14 OFFICIAL SOURCE INDEX
Preserve the source. Resolve the authority. Bound the claim.
No citation should silently become applicability, compliance, certification, or permission to execute.
No authenticated source. No admissible reliance.