Templates.

The structures the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) Systems Evidence publishes in, read from the pages themselves: edition, chapter, brief, dataset and profiles. Risk science and evidence: coupled systems by country and sector, methods, models and Labs evidence.

01Desk chapter

A chapter of GCRI Systems Evidence.

A desk edition has eight chapters on the federation frame. GCRI Systems Evidence names them for its own remit.

FrameChapterScope
1 · The questionThe coupled systemHow the systems in scope depend on each other, and the couplings through which a shock travels.
2 · FindingsFindingsThe findings of the edition, each with its status, evidence-quality level and numbered sources.
3 · By system and sectorSystems and sectorsWhere each system and sector stood at evidence close, read in words and never scored.
4 · Risk and capabilityRisks and capabilityThe risk objects of the edition and the capabilities that hold them, on the ladder of evidence.
5 · ScenarioScenario cascadeOne conditional cascade under stated assumptions; never a prediction.
6 · ReadingsReadings from the other desksReadings from the other desks: cross-references to their editions for the same scope, not copies of them.
7 · AgendaThe 2027 agendaThe research questions the operational series takes up next, each traced to a finding.
8 · In depthSystems in depthOne section per system: its state at evidence close, its exposures and what the series will watch.

Chapter skeleton

# GCRI Systems Evidence: <subject> <year> Desk identifier: NR-GCRI-<scope>-<year>-<class>-v<semver> ## 1 The question    (coupled-system/: The coupled system) ## 2 Findings    (findings/: Findings) ## 3 By system and sector    (systems-and-sectors/: Systems and sectors) ## 4 Risk and capability    (risk-and-capability/: Risks and capability) ## 5 Scenario    (scenario/: Scenario cascade) ## 6 Readings    (lenses-and-readings/: Readings from the other desks) ## 7 Agenda    (agenda/: The 2027 agenda) ## 8 In depth    (systems-in-depth/: Systems in depth)
02Edition

An edition, in reading order.

Every edition is built in the same order, so a reader finds the same part in the same place in every report. The identifier follows NR-<desk>-<scope>-<year>-<class>-v<semver>; a correction is a new version of the same identifier.

PartPathWhat goes in it
S · Executive summarysummary/the abstract, the key messages, the headline finding and what each steward reads in it
1 · The coupled systemcoupled-system/how the systems in scope depend on each other, and the couplings a shock travels through
2 · Key findingsfindings/each finding with its ID, status word, evidence-quality level and numbered sources; grouped, never ranked
3 · Systems and sectors at baselinesystems-and-sectors/where each system and sector stood at evidence close, read in words and never scored
4 · Risks and capabilityrisk-and-capability/the risk objects, read across driver, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, cascade and consequence, and the capability ladder
5 · Scenarioscenario/a conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction
6 · Readings from the other deskslenses-and-readings/each steward’s lens on the reviewed findings, and the other desks’ editions of the subject
7 · Agendaagenda/the bounded questions the next cycle answers, each tied to a finding
8 · Systems in depthsystems-in-depth/one section per system: its state at evidence close, its exposures and what the operational series will watch
A · Methodologymethodology/methods, the model card, the evidence cut and its age, the acceptance record and the glossary
B · Data appendixdata/the indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences and the formats
C · References and recordreferences/every source, the publication record, the corrections log and the open record
FamilySubjectsIdentifier
Country Systems Risk and ResilienceISO3, plus EU and AUNR-COUNTRY-<ISO3>-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Regional SystemsREG-*NR-REGIONAL-<code>-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0 (to confirm from the drafts)
Global SystemsGLBNR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Global Sector ReportGS-01 to GS-15NR-SECTOR-<SECTOR>-GLOBAL-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Strategic Systems ReportSR-01 to SR-14NR-STRATEGIC-<TOPIC>-GLOBAL-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Exponential Technology ReportXT-01 to XT-20NR-XTECH-<TOPIC>-GLOBAL-<year>-BASELINE-v1.0.0

Status words: OBSERVED, REPORTED, DECLARED, ESTIMATED, MODELLED, INFERRED, EXPERT INPUT, FORECAST, SIMULATED, SCENARIO, CANDIDATE. Lifecycle: Draft → Computed → Evidence bound → Reviewed → Approved for release → Published → Corrected → Superseded.

Edition skeleton

# <Title of the report> <year>: <subtitle> Publication ID: NR-<desk>-<scope>-<year>-<class>-v<semver> Series: <series> · Lifecycle: Draft (then Computed, Evidence bound, Reviewed, Approved for release, Published) Evidence close: <date> · Licence: text CC BY 4.0, data CC0 1.0 Contributors: CRediT roles, with ORCID iDs and ROR ids ## S Executive summary    (summary/) ## 1 The coupled system    (coupled-system/) ## 2 Key findings    (findings/) ## 3 Systems and sectors at baseline    (systems-and-sectors/) ## 4 Risks and capability    (risk-and-capability/) ## 5 Scenario    (scenario/) ## 6 Readings from the other desks    (lenses-and-readings/) ## 7 Agenda    (agenda/) ## 8 Systems in depth    (systems-in-depth/) ## A Methodology    (methodology/) ## B Data appendix    (data/) ## C References and record    (references/)
03Evidence brief

A brief, one question at a time.

Short, print-first briefs that carry one question, its evidence and its limits to a decision-maker. No brief template is adopted yet; the skeleton below is a draft for the editorial board and uses only the rules every Reports output already follows.

Brief skeleton (draft for adoption)

# <One question, as the reader would ask it> Series: evidence-brief · Desk: GCRI · Evidence close: <date> ## The answer in two sentences, each with its finding ID ## Findings: NRF-<edition base>-<SYS>-<nnn> · <STATUS> · EQL <n> · [sources] ## What the evidence does not show (limits, and anything not assessed) ## If a scenario is used: its boundary sentence and assumptions ## Sources, numbered ## Cite, corrections and licence
04Dataset

A dataset, as the data package.

Every edition ships its data as a package with the same files. A contributed dataset is described the same way, deposited under CC0 1.0 and linked to the edition that used it (IsSupplementTo).

FileWhat it holds
manifest.jsonschema nexus-reports/data-package.v1: the edition ID, aliases, evidence cut and close, the pack’s SHA-256 and the licences
findings.csvid, status, eql, finding, references: one row per finding
references.csvn, reference: the numbered sources, in the edition’s order
tables/<nn>-<page>-<title>.csveach table of the edition as CSV, with its own JSON twin (edition, table, page, columns, rows)
citation.csl.json, citation.bib, citation.risthe edition’s citation in CSL-JSON, BibTeX and RIS
RecordRelationPoints to
editionIsPartOfthe Collection and its country collection
collectionHasPartevery edition
contributionIsSupplementTothe edition that used it
correctionIsNewVersionOfthe version it corrects

Package layout

data/<CODE>/ manifest.json findings.csv references.csv tables/<nn>-<page>-<title>.csv citation.csl.json, citation.bib, citation.ris
05Country profile

A country profile.

A country profile in the journal reads its edition in 16 sections, in this order. Values come from the edition, with its sources; none are typed into the profile.

Section
01Overview
02At a glance
03Key findings
04Domain reading
05Sector screen
06System couplings
07Risk objects
08Capability ladder
09Scenario
10Lenses
11Portfolio
122027 agenda
13Coupled risk, applied response
14Evidence by system
15Sources
16Cite, corrections and licence
06Sector profile

A sector profile.

A sector profile reads one sector of the global sector screen: its reading, its exposure and how much of the baseline evidence covers it, beside every other sector in the edition.

Section
01Reading
02Exposure
03Evidence coverage
04All sectors in the edition
05Related
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