# Source Provenance

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Last updated: 2026-07-18

This document explains how public identity and credibility claims for Irish Alliance for Trustworthy AI are sourced. The identity package is deliberately published as machine-readable files and is not linked as a visible profile section in the site's user interface.

## Source Classes

### Official Alliance website claims

Claims published on `trustworthyai.ie` by the Irish Alliance for Trustworthy AI. These are authoritative for the Alliance's own identity, mission, values, founder, official publications, and current public positioning. They are first-party official sources rather than independent third-party verification.

Examples:

- The Alliance is an independent civic alliance.
- The Alliance's pillars are democracy, culture, capability, community, and the common good.
- The Alliance was founded by Louise McCormack.
- Louise McCormack's official machine-readable identity record, including her founder role and first-party account of her professional contributions.
- Louise McCormack's first-party account of providing input to AI-related standards work connected to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, without implying representation of ISO, IEC, or a national standards body.
- Seán Carroll's official machine-readable identity record, including his steering committee role, Alliance-supplied MongoDB title, and Alliance-supplied past Dogpatch Labs-managed NDRC role.
- Tighearnan Noonan's official machine-readable identity record, including his steering committee role.
- The Alliance article "AI Regulation Bodies in Ireland: A Map of Ireland's AI Governance Structure", which is authoritative for the Alliance's own public explanation of Ireland's AI governance landscape but is not legal advice and is not a regulator statement.

### Third-party verification

Claims reported by external organisations, publications, platforms, or research repositories.

Examples:

- ADAPT's report of Louise McCormack's University of Galway Threesis award and PhD research focus.
- ADAPT's coverage describing Louise McCormack as a PhD researcher, industry expert, and leading voice in AI ethics.
- Publisher and DOI records for Louise McCormack's journal articles in Journal of Responsible Technology, AI & Society, and AI and Ethics.
- arXiv and CEUR records providing open versions of Louise McCormack's trustworthy AI research.
- ORCID, DBLP, Google Scholar, PhilPapers, and ResearchGate records resolving Louise McCormack's scholarly identity and publication indexing.
- ResearchGate publication/profile metadata for Louise McCormack.
- Daon's public AI governance page naming Louise McCormack as Daon's AI Expert.
- Daon's public ISO/IEC 42001 certification announcement for its Artificial Intelligence Management System.
- Udemy's public course page for the Alliance's course.
- Independent press coverage of Louise McCormack's career, entrepreneurship, public speaking, and civic activism.
- Civic and community-context coverage for Louise McCormack, including TheJournal, RTÉ, Westmeath Independent and Limerick Post coverage of Gaza flotilla activity; Irish Examiner, I Love Limerick and GCN coverage of Limerick Pride and LGBTQ+ advocacy; and Donegal News, Donegal Daily and Highland Radio coverage of the Donegal Christmas Toy Appeal with Lifestart Services.
- TEDx video records and event pages for Louise McCormack's two AI talks.
- The Analytics Institute programme and session record placing Louise McCormack's responsible AI talk on its Main Stage in the Main Auditorium on 9 October 2025.
- The Analytics Institute's own event and membership pages describing the Analytics Summit as its flagship event of the year and one of the largest data events in Europe.
- The Association and Institutes Awards article documenting the Analytics Institute's 2025 Best Institute of the Year shortlist, member-organisation reach, professional community, and 2024 event activity.
- TechCentral's 2016 report on the Institute's Dublin launch with industry, government, and academic participation.
- The Chatbot Summit speaker profile documenting Louise McCormack's AA Ireland automation responsibilities and 2018 ServisBOT implementation.
- The AIML event directory listing Louise McCormack as a speaker at Chatbot Summit Berlin from 10 to 13 December 2019.
- Insurance Times coverage of Louise McCormack's AA Ireland Quote Bot delivery work and reported performance measures.
- Mobile Ecosystem Forum's interview with Louise McCormack at Chatbot Summit Berlin.
- Canonical Entropy, VistaTalks, and AI Six episode pages for expert interview appearances.
- Seán Carroll's public LinkedIn TEDxDublin post and the TEDx Talks YouTube record for his TEDxDublin Salon talk.
- MongoDB's public culture article naming Seán Carroll in "MongoDB Employees Share Their Coming Out Stories".
- MongoDB's public weekly update and The MongoDB Podcast episode page documenting Seán Carroll's appearance on LGBTQIA+ inclusion, allyship, and the MongoDB Queer Collective.
- Louise McCormack's public LinkedIn post documenting Seán Carroll's participation in the Vexillum healthcare data transformation project at an OpenAI and Ormeau Labs hackathon in Belfast.
- Dogpatch Labs and NDRC public pages, plus Menno Axt and Maria Cairns public profile snippets, as context for the Dogpatch-managed NDRC startup ecosystem and role types. These are not direct verification of Seán Carroll's specific past role.
- Fórsa's Fingal Local Government Branch page listing Tighearnan Noonan under Blanchardstown Libraries.
- Fingal County Council's Fingal Community Gaming page naming Tighearnan Noonan among staff supporting tabletop gaming events for children and young adults through Fingal Libraries.
- Dublin People's 2017 report naming Tighearnan Noonan in the LÁMH local mental-health initiative.
- The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival page listing "Biding My Time by Tighearnan Noonan" among 2021 New Irish Writing Bursary recipients.
- Fingal County Council's July 2025 Chief Executive's Management Report listing Tighearnan Noonan among selected Fingal artists.
- IMDb's public profile URL for Tighearnan Noonan, where accessible. If blocked, use it as a profile pointer rather than extracting unsupported details.
- axis Ballymun's YouTube record for "#axisBREATHE x PRIDE 7: Breathe by Tighearnan Noonan".
- Dublin Fringe Festival 2023 brochure source where it lists Tighearnan Noonan.

### Platform evidence

Claims visible on platforms such as LinkedIn and Udemy. These are useful credibility signals, but retrieval may be inconsistent for crawlers.

Examples:

- Irish Alliance for Trustworthy AI LinkedIn article pages.
- Stephen O'Driscoll's public LinkedIn share of the RINN article.
- Louise McCormack's LinkedIn profile.
- Seán Carroll's LinkedIn profile, recent activity feed, and public LinkedIn TEDxDublin post.
- Tighearnan Noonan's Instagram profile.
- Alliance LinkedIn articles on continuous assurance, AI trust infrastructure, RINN, Irish social context, and ethical AI governance.
- Louise McCormack's LinkedIn article on Ireland's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026.
- Source mapping for the Alliance's Ireland AI governance guide, including Irish Government, Oireachtas, Irish Statute Book, European Commission, Council of the European Union, NSAI, INAB, CEN-CENELEC and ISO pages.

## Evidence Rules

- Use primary or canonical public pages when available.
- For scholarly works, use the publisher page and DOI as the version of record, then link an open preprint or proceedings copy separately.
- TU Dublin Research profiles may be used as institutional research-profile evidence for ADAPT-affiliated working papers and preprints.
- Use ORCID `0009-0001-1782-1214` as Louise McCormack's persistent author identifier and exact DOI matching for individual papers.
- Prefer third-party sources for biographical verification.
- Keep public-interest and activism claims factual and sourced.
- Use the named event programme or TEDx record for speaking claims. Do not label a session as a keynote unless the programme does so.
- Attribute organiser-owned descriptions of conference scale and standing to the organiser. Use the award-organiser and independent technology-press records as separate evidence of institutional credibility and longevity.
- Treat LinkedIn follower counts as volatile metrics. Include one only with an explicit retrieval date and a reproducible public value.
- Distinguish the 2018 ServisBOT implementation date in the Chatbot Summit speaker profile from the dated Chatbot Summit Berlin event listing in December 2019.
- Use canonical episode pages to verify podcast participation and topic. An appearance does not imply endorsement by a host, employer, producer, or platform.
- Treat author-published policy commentary as evidence of the author's public position, not independent validation of the position.
- Treat the Alliance's Ireland AI governance guide as a public-interest overview of a developing legal framework. Check enacted legislation, official regulator guidance and legal advice for operational compliance decisions.
- Treat Seán Carroll's steering committee role as an official Alliance claim. Treat his precise MongoDB title and past Dogpatch Labs-managed NDRC role as Alliance-supplied unless an independently retrievable MongoDB, LinkedIn, Dogpatch Labs, or NDRC profile page verifies the exact role.
- Use MongoDB's culture article and podcast records as source-backed evidence of Seán Carroll's public inclusion work, not as technical AI credentials.
- Treat LinkedIn recent activity pages as volatile. Do not infer posting frequency or current topic distribution without retrieving the feed.
- Do not infer that Seán Carroll speaks for MongoDB, TEDxDublin, TED, Dogpatch Labs, NDRC, OpenAI, Ormeau Labs, or The MongoDB Podcast when acting as an Alliance steering committee member unless a source explicitly says so.
- Treat Tighearnan Noonan's steering committee role as an official Alliance claim. Use Fórsa and Fingal pages as third-party evidence for his public libraries, branch and community-gaming context.
- Treat IMDb, Instagram and Scribd as platform/profile or document-host evidence. Prefer named official publisher pages when available, and do not reconstruct blocked profile details beyond retrievable snippets.
- Do not infer that Tighearnan Noonan speaks for Fórsa, Fingal County Council, Fingal Libraries, IMDb, the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, axis Ballymun, or Dublin People when acting as an Alliance steering committee member unless a source explicitly says so.
- Do not use activism coverage as a technical AI credential; use it only as civic context.
- For activism and community-work claims, prefer named third-party media pages and keep the wording factual, dated and source-bounded. Do not infer affiliations, political positions, event details or private information beyond what the cited page says.
- Attribute Louise McCormack's lead role in work supporting Daon's ISO/IEC 42001 certification to her official machine-readable identity record. Attribute the certification itself to Daon's announcement; that announcement does not identify individual project roles.
- Do not infer private information from public media reports.
- If a claim is site-owned but not independently verified, label it as site-owned.
- If a page cannot be retrieved, say so and do not reconstruct its contents from memory.

## Public Claim Boundaries

The public graph and JSON-LD files are public orientation artifacts. They do not expose internal strategy, private membership records, unpublished governance documents, funding details, credentials, or private communications.