Reference
Look it up, then check where it came from.
Three reference surfaces sit under the articles. The glossary defines the terms. The sources hold the documents. The standing register says, claim by claim, which of the two an argument is leaning on.
Nothing in any of them is a summary of the articles. Each is built to be read on its own by somebody who arrived with a word, a standard, or a doubt, which is how most readers arrive.
34 terms
The glossary
Short, attributed definitions of the terms the articles rest on. Most are misused in a specific and repeatable way, and each entry names the error as well as the meaning.
Look a term up140 documents
The sources
The freely readable source material this publication cites: the standards, the standard-setters’ own reasoning, both GAO guides, the Green Book, IPSAS 45. Each fetched and read, not collected.
Read the sources125 claims
The standing register
Every claim on this site sorted by what holds it up: a published requirement, a standard-setter’s reasoning, a named dataset, a contested point, or our own reading. Start here if you came to disagree.
See what each claim rests on231 declared links
The map
Every connection between the articles, the framework questions, the instruments and the definitions, read from above. Nothing inferred: each one was declared by hand beside the thing it belongs to.
See what is joined to whatA worked example
One chiller, four records, three answers to how long it lasts.
The argument the glossary makes in the abstract, on a single piece of plant: the project’s cost report, the maintenance system, the fixed asset register and the renewal plan, side by side. Costs and dates are illustrative and labelled; the rules and the service life data are sourced.
Correspondence
If something here is wrong, that is worth more than agreement.
Material errors are corrected on the affected pages. Messages are used to reply, not to build a mailing list.
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