{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.mirabilia-urbis-romae","code":"thing-q1108828","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1108828/","name":"Mirabilia Urbis Romae","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.MED"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Mirabilia Urbis Romae, in the supplied sense, is a travel literary genre in medieval Latin literature concerned with descriptions of Rome's monuments, wonders and associated historical or legendary narratives for visitors, including pilgrims.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to identify and compare works in this medieval Latin travel literary genre, assess evidence for genre membership, distinguish individual works and their versions, and evaluate descriptions of Rome for quotation or 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histories of individual works are outside scope except where they inform genre membership or development.","Church indulgences and station calendars are outside scope except where their relationships to travel literature inform genre boundaries.","Modern visitor navigation and recommendations are outside scope.","Comprehensive biographies of proposed authors, scribes, editors and translators are outside scope."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Genre membership requires evidence about literary form, subject matter, function and scholarly classification rather than a shared title alone.","The genre can encompass distinct works without implying that they descend from a single source text.","A related description such as Master Gregory's work requires an explicit assessment of genre membership rather than automatic inclusion or exclusion based on its separate work identity.","A translation, expanded guide or excerpt retains its relationship to a particular work while also 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A [Freiburg catalogue record](https://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/mirabilia1509) illustrates a Mirabilia printing bound after an Indulgentiae text.","questions":[{"text":"Which shelfmark and folios or pages contain the relevant Mirabilia text?","id":"component-extent-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Are adjacent indulgence lists or church calendars part of this textual version, separate works, or later binding companions?","id":"component-extent-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"reading-verification","name":"Reading verification","description":"Assesses the reliability and editorial mediation of the wording an agent will use.","findings":[{"id":"attested-versus-edited-reading","name":"Attested versus edited reading","description":"Distinguish manuscript or print readings from expanded abbreviations, normalised spelling, conjectures and OCR output.","questions":[{"text":"Which witness readings and editorial interventions underlie the wording quoted here?","id":"attested-versus-edited-reading-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What must be checked against an image or critical apparatus before this passage can support a comparison?","id":"attested-versus-edited-reading-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"interpretation-and-responsible-reuse","name":"Interpretation and responsible reuse","description":"Governs claims about the work's historical use and the practical reuse of its available representations.","layers":[{"id":"audience-and-use","name":"Audience and use","description":"Tests proposed functions against evidence from particular versions and witnesses.","findings":[{"id":"function-evidence","name":"Function evidence","description":"Treat pilgrimage, antiquarian description, civic representation and other proposed uses as interpretations whose support may differ across the tradition.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence supports the claimed audience or use of this particular version?","id":"function-evidence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does describing it as a pilgrim guide fit the passages and witness context under discussion?","id":"function-evidence-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"quotation-and-reuse","name":"Quotation and reuse","description":"Selects an appropriate textual representation and checks its reuse basis.","findings":[{"id":"usable-extract","name":"Usable extract","description":"An extract should identify its version, edition or witness, stable locator, editorial treatment and applicable reuse conditions.","questions":[{"text":"Which Latin text or translation should supply this extract, and how will readers locate and verify it?","id":"usable-extract-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What reuse conditions apply separately to the selected translation, apparatus, transcription and manuscript images?","id":"usable-extract-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Mirabilia Urbis Romae this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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