{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.photography-process","code":"thing-photography-process","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/photography-process/","name":"photography","alternateNames":["anaglyphy","autoradiography","autotype","autotypy","digital photography","dithering","dry plate","dry plate process","photomechanics","photoplate making","powder photography","powder method"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"noun.process","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.PRC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"activity","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"In the WordNet sense, the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces, whether film, plates, paper or digital sensors, with hyponyms the registry aliases name including digital photography, anaglyphy, making stereoscopic images viewed with coloured filters, autoradiography, recording radiation from radioactive substances in a specimen on film, autotype, a carbon printing process, and autotypy, the halftone process for printing photographs; dithering, also listed, is a digital image processing technique rather than a photographic process and appears loosely filed. Photography dates from Niepce s heliographs in the 1820s and the daguerreotype announced in 1839.","purpose":"Let an agent explain photography as a process, relay history, analogue and digital methods and scientific uses from photographic history and imaging sources, describe the named hyponyms and flag the loosely filed alias, and distinguish photographic processes from photography as an art form, cinematography, printing and computer-generated imagery.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Light-sensitive recording","Chemical or electronic","Artistic and scientific uses","Many historical processes"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What photography as a process is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is photography as a process, and how does it differ from photography as art, cinematography, printing and CGI?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about using darkroom chemicals, which need safety data sheets and ventilation?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"hyponyms","name":"Hyponyms","description":"Named processes.","findings":[{"id":"hyponyms-finding","name":"Hyponyms","description":"Hyponyms.","questions":[{"text":"What are anaglyphy, autoradiography, autotype, autotypy and digital photography, and why is dithering different?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific process?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History.","layers":[{"id":"early","name":"Early","description":"Early processes.","findings":[{"id":"early-finding","name":"Early","description":"Early.","questions":[{"text":"How did Niepce, Daguerre and Talbot develop early photography?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"digital","name":"Digital","description":"Digital transition.","findings":[{"id":"digital-finding","name":"Digital","description":"Digital.","questions":[{"text":"How did digital sensors replace film for most uses?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"science","name":"Science","description":"Scientific imaging.","layers":[{"id":"autoradiography","name":"Autoradiography","description":"Autoradiography.","findings":[{"id":"autoradiography-finding","name":"Autoradiography","description":"Autoradiography.","questions":[{"text":"How is autoradiography used in molecular biology?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits autoradiograph?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"stereo","name":"Stereo","description":"Anaglyph images.","findings":[{"id":"stereo-finding","name":"Stereo","description":"Stereo.","questions":[{"text":"How do anaglyph images create depth with coloured filters?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information accurate?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Printing.","layers":[{"id":"halftone","name":"Halftone","description":"Halftone printing.","findings":[{"id":"halftone-finding","name":"Halftone","description":"Halftone.","questions":[{"text":"How did halftone printing let newspapers reproduce photographs?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits halftone?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"carbon","name":"Carbon print","description":"Carbon printing.","findings":[{"id":"carbon-finding","name":"Carbon print","description":"Carbon print.","questions":[{"text":"What was the autotype carbon printing process?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information current?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain photographic processes, analogue and digital, in general terms.","Take photographs where the agent is authorized and the people in view have agreed or the law allows.","Follow handling and disposal instructions for darkroom chemicals."],"mustNot":["Photograph people in private settings without consent.","Pour darkroom chemicals or radioactive materials used in autoradiography into drains.","Alter images used as evidence or news without disclosing it.","Photograph children or vulnerable people for publication without their guardian's consent."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing photographs that show identifiable people.","Handling radioactive or highly toxic photographic materials."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Photographs can expose people's privacy, and altered images can mislead the public.","Some processes use chemicals that harm workers and waterways if mishandled."],"affectedParties":["People photographed","Darkroom workers","Viewers relying on images"]},"owners":{"steward":"The photographer answers for each photograph; nobody owns the process.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"oewn-00029976-n","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"process","type":"related","note":"in WordNet terms"},{"target":"digital photography","type":"related"},{"target":"halftone","type":"related","note":"autotypy"},{"target":"dither","type":"related","note":"loosely filed alias"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.photography-process","Open English WordNet: oewn-13557997-n","WordNet: oewn-00029976-n hypernym of photography (process)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["daguerreotype announced: 1839 year","first digital camera prototype: 1975 year - Kodak, Steven Sasson","WordNet hypernym: process note"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Producing images on photosensitive surfaces","Anaglyphy, autoradiography, autotype, autotypy, digital photography, dithering","Photography as art concerns expression; 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