{ "model": { "rank": 2091, "code": "thing-art", "model_id": "vr.tr.art", "name": "art", "purpose": "the products of human creativity; works of art collectively", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/art/", "tier": 2, "score": 115, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "abstraction", "abstractionism", "abstract art", "alto relievo", "alto rilievo", "high relief", "anaglyph", "aquatint", "fine art", "artificial flower", "bas relief", "low relief", "basso relievo", "basso rilievo", "bronze", "bust", "cameo", "canvas", "canvass", "carving", "chinoiserie", "cinquefoil", "cityscape", "clip art", "commercial art", "computer graphics", "contact print", "copperplate", "cyberart", "daub", "decoupage", "diptych", "distemper", "dry point", "engraving", "etching", "finger-painting", "folk art", "fresco", "gem" ], "aliasCount": 166, "merged": 115, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld", "affordances": [ "graspable" ] }, "markers": [ "artifact" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-02746552-n", "ili": "i50178", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:46:28Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01256844, "turns": 1, "seconds": 148, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 85.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b40-926c-7573-a039-9a0b7a0e256d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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rather than solely as tools, commodities, or records.", "scope_statement": "This model owns works of human creativity treated as art, individually or collectively, with emphasis on their physical manifestations in PHY.OBJ, their artistic identity, and the evidence and constraints needed to act on them.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of artworks, including titles, attribution, constituent parts and boundaries", "Relationships between an artwork, its physical manifestations, editions, copies and authorised realisations", "Materials, artistic techniques and features whose alteration could change the work", "Provenance, authenticity claims and competing interpretations with their supporting evidence", "Condition, conservation needs and artist-authorised change", "Artwork-specific requirements for display, activation, handling and reproduction" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Artists' biographies and careers beyond evidence relevant to a work", "Museums, galleries and collections as organisations or managed holdings", "Art sales, insurance contracts and financial transactions", "Copyright law and licensing systems beyond permissions attached to the work", "Creative production projects and performances as activities, except their relationship to an artwork", "Software and digital infrastructure internals beyond dependencies needed to realise or preserve a work" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record the evidence for treating the item as art, such as maker intention, commissioning context or documented reception; appearance and aesthetic appeal alone do not settle the classification.", "For a functional or decorative object, establish whether its artistic identity requires recording features beyond its practical function; allow both classifications when supported.", "For a found object, identify the selection, designation or arrangement that constitutes the artwork and distinguish it from an otherwise equivalent undesignated object.", "For an image, cast or reproduction, establish whether it is an independent artwork, an authorised edition member, a substitute display object or documentation of another work.", "For an installation or multipart work, determine which components and spatial relationships constitute the work and which are equipment, packaging or exhibition context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Art designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Maker-designated, institutionally documented, contextually attributed, disputed or undetermined; record evidence and claimant", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis for treating an item as art explicit without requiring a universal definition of art." }, { "name": "Artistic form and medium", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded terms such as painting, sculpture, print, textile, assemblage or installation; allow multiple and uncertain terms", "why_it_matters": "Guides recognition, examination and selection of relevant handling and display questions." }, { "name": "Attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Work to named maker, workshop, collaboration or unknown maker, qualified by claim, evidence and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented authorship from signatures, traditions and later attribution." }, { "name": "Manifestation role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Unique object, edition member, artist's proof, authorised realisation, reproduction, fragment or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether another object can represent, replace or instantiate the same work." }, { "name": "Physical extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dimensions in mm or m, mass in kg and component count, with configuration and measurement date", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and establishes space, mounting and movement requirements." }, { "name": "Identity-bearing features", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Work to significant surfaces, materials, components, arrangements or behaviours, with evidence of significance", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes changes that affect artistic identity from changes to replaceable support equipment." }, { "name": "Observed condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations by component or region, including alteration, loss, instability and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports conservation and handling decisions without reducing condition to a single quality score." }, { "name": "Permitted variability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fixed, variable within documented limits, intended to change, renewable, or undocumented", "why_it_matters": "Prevents intended ageing or authorised reconfiguration from being mistaken for damage." }, { "name": "Action authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Proposed action to authorising party, permission evidence, conditions and unresolved restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Allows display, treatment and reproduction decisions to account for distinct forms of authority." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and compare artworks while distinguishing works, manifestations, editions and reproductions.", "Assess whether an observed change is deterioration, prior intervention or documented artistic variability.", "Prepare handling and conservation proposals that protect identity-bearing features.", "Specify an exhibition or activation consistent with documented artistic requirements.", "Generate evidence-qualified descriptions that preserve disputed attribution and interpretation.", "Determine whether a proposed loan, reproduction, substitution or treatment has sufficient evidence and authority to proceed." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata-q735", "title": "art (Q735)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735", "what_it_supports": "Canonical item for art as creative work/products of creativity; neighbour item Q838948 (work of art).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cdwa", "title": "Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)", "url": "https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/", "what_it_supports": "Museum/cataloguing categories that treat a work of art as a describable object (object/work, materials, measurements, creation, provenance).", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "unesco-1970", "title": "Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "International legal frame treating many artworks as cultural property subject to export control and restitution." }, { "id": "object-id", "title": "Object ID", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Minimum documentation standard (Getty, ICOM and partners) used to identify movable art and cultural objects after theft." }, { "id": "iso-21127", "title": "ISO 21127: Information and documentation - A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information (CIDOC CRM)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Reference ontology in which artworks are modelled as human-made objects and conceptual objects with production, condition, and information-object relations." }, { "id": "icom-ethics", "title": "ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Professional rules for acquisition, display, conservation, and deaccession of artworks in museum custody." }, { "id": "cco", "title": "Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "VRA/ALA cataloguing practice that distinguishes a cultural work (including art) from its images and records core work-level data." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "artistic-identity", "name": "Artistic identity", "description": "Establish what is recognised as the artwork and how its manifestations relate.", "rationale": "An artwork's identity may depend on designation, edition status or arrangement rather than physical resemblance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-boundaries", "name": "Designation and boundaries", "description": "Identify the basis of art status and the extent of the work.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-and-extent-of-the-work", "name": "Basis and extent of the work", "description": "Record supported art designations and distinguish constitutive parts from surrounding objects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who identifies this item or assemblage as art, and what evidence supports that designation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-and-extent-of-the-work-q01" }, { "text": "Which objects, surfaces, arrangements or instructions constitute the work, and which belong only to its presentation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-and-extent-of-the-work-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "manifestations-and-editions", "name": "Manifestations and editions", "description": "Distinguish the work from particular objects, copies and realisations.", "findings": [ { "id": "manifestation-status", "name": "Manifestation status", "description": "Record how this manifestation participates in the identity of the work.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a unique work, edition member, proof, authorised realisation, reproduction or fragment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "manifestation-status-q01" }, { "text": "What edition records, certificates, instructions or other evidence establish that status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "manifestation-status-q02" }, { "text": "Under what documented conditions would a replacement or new realisation count as the same work?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "manifestation-status-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-and-provenance", "name": "Making and provenance", "description": "Track evidence about authorship, production and the history of the work.", "rationale": "Attribution and authenticity depend on distinguishable claims about who made the work and how the present object reached its current state and custody.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship-and-production", "name": "Authorship and production", "description": "Separate creative attribution from fabrication and subsequent intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-making", "name": "Attributed making", "description": "Record maker claims, production roles and their evidential limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is credited with conception, execution and fabrication, and which credits are disputed or unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-making-q01" }, { "text": "What supports the proposed date, place, materials and techniques of production?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-making-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "object-history-and-authenticity", "name": "Object history and authenticity", "description": "Connect the present manifestation to historical records without treating gaps as proof.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-and-competing-claims", "name": "Continuity and competing claims", "description": "Record custody history, identifying evidence and unresolved authenticity claims separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ownership, custody, exhibition or treatment records can be linked to this particular manifestation, and where are the gaps?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-and-competing-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Which inscriptions, images, material examinations or expert assessments support or challenge its claimed identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-and-competing-claims-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-condition-and-continuity", "name": "Material condition and continuity", "description": "Assess physical change in relation to the features that sustain artistic identity.", "rationale": "Preserving an artwork requires distinguishing damage from intended transformation and replaceable material from artistically significant substance.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-and-condition-evidence", "name": "Material and condition evidence", "description": "Locate and document the materials and changes relevant to the work's integrity.", "findings": [ { "id": "significant-material-state", "name": "Significant material state", "description": "Connect component-level condition observations to artistic significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which materials, finishes, marks and components are identity-bearing, and what evidence establishes their significance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "significant-material-state-q01" }, { "text": "What losses, distortions, surface changes or instabilities are observable, where are they, and against which dated baseline are they assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "significant-material-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "change-and-treatment", "name": "Change and treatment", "description": "Establish acceptable change and limits on conservation intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-material-change", "name": "Permitted material change", "description": "Record intended transformation, replacement rules and intervention constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which changes are documented as intended or acceptable, and which remain unclassified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-material-change-q01" }, { "text": "May a proposed cleaning, repair, renewal or component replacement proceed, and what artistic evidence and authorisation are required?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-material-change-q02" }, { "text": "Which earlier treatments altered original material or appearance and must inform the proposed intervention?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-material-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "presentation-and-meaning", "name": "Presentation and meaning", "description": "Record how the work should be encountered and how interpretive claims are supported.", "rationale": "Installation choices and explanatory framing can materially alter the experience or apparent meaning of a work.", "layers": [ { "id": "installation-and-activation", "name": "Installation and activation", "description": "Capture requirements for a valid presentation or realisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "presentation-parameters", "name": "Presentation parameters", "description": "Distinguish artistically required settings from curatorial choices and undocumented assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which orientation, spacing, lighting, framing, sequence, sound or audience-interaction requirements are documented as part of the work?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "presentation-parameters-q01" }, { "text": "What must be measured or checked to confirm that a proposed installation satisfies those requirements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "presentation-parameters-q02" }, { "text": "What instructions and dependencies are needed to install, activate and deactivate this work?", "kind": "action", "id": "presentation-parameters-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretive-evidence", "name": "Interpretive evidence", "description": "Separate observable content from attributed intention and later interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-description-and-interpretation", "name": "Supported description and interpretation", "description": "Record titles, depicted subjects and interpretive claims with their sources and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which titles and descriptions originate with the maker, and which were supplied by later owners, cataloguers or communities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-description-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about subject, symbolism or purpose are directly supported, inferred or contested?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-description-and-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "artwork-use-and-authority", "name": "Artwork use and authority", "description": "Connect proposed actions to artwork-specific permissions and preservation constraints.", "rationale": "Possession of an artwork does not by itself resolve authority to reproduce, alter or realise it, and physical actions can affect artistic integrity.", "layers": [ { "id": "permissions-and-integrity", "name": "Permissions and integrity", "description": "Identify evidence needed to authorise uses that reproduce or change the work.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-for-proposed-use", "name": "Authority for proposed use", "description": "Record relevant parties, permission evidence and restrictions for each contemplated action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented permissions or unresolved claims apply to displaying, photographing, reproducing, modifying or re-realising this work?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-for-proposed-use-q01" }, { "text": "Who has the relevant authority for the proposed use, and what evidence distinguishes that authority from ownership or custody?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-for-proposed-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-loan-and-storage", "name": "Handling, loan and storage", "description": "Translate the artwork's construction and significance into practical movement and storage constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "safe-custodial-actions", "name": "Safe custodial actions", "description": "Record work-specific limits on contact, separation, packing and environmental exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which surfaces may be touched, which components may be detached, and what supports or packing protect fragile or identity-bearing features?", "kind": "action", "id": "safe-custodial-actions-q01" }, { "text": "What documented exposure limits and current condition observations determine whether the work can be stored, moved or lent?", "kind": "action", "id": "safe-custodial-actions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Painting (easel, mural, panel, and related pictorial surfaces)", "Sculpture (including relief, installation, and monumental three-dimensional work)", "Drawing and unique works on paper", "Prints, multiples, and artist's books", "Photography", "Decorative and applied arts (ceramics, textiles, furniture, metalwork, glass)", "Public and civic art", "Digital, time-based, and new-media works (often with a physical carrier or display object)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q735", "note": "Item for art as creative activity and its products; the instance class for an individual artwork is typically Q838948 (work of art)." }, { "scheme": "Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)", "value_or_pattern": "8-digit concept IDs prefixed 300…", "note": "Controlled vocabulary for object types, materials, and techniques of art; used in museum and image catalogues." }, { "scheme": "Object ID", "value_or_pattern": "structured record (type, materials, measurements, inscriptions, distinguishing features, images), not a serial number", "note": "International checklist for uniquely describing a movable artwork or cultural object." }, { "scheme": "Museum accession number", "value_or_pattern": "institution-specific, commonly {prefix}-{year}-{running number}", "note": "Primary local identifier for a work in a collection; not globally unique without the holding institution." }, { "scheme": "Iconclass", "value_or_pattern": "alphanumeric notation (e.g. 11H(…), 25H…)", "note": "Subject classification of visual art, not an identifier of the work itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "UNESCO 1970 Convention on illicit import, export and transfer of cultural property (UNESCO)", "1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, with 1954 and 1999 Protocols (UNESCO)", "UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, 1995 (UNIDROIT)", "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (WIPO)", "Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, 17 U.S.C. § 106A (United States) - moral rights of attribution and integrity for certain visual works", "Regulation (EU) 2019/880 on the introduction and the import of cultural goods (European Union)", "Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, 1998 (non-binding, widely cited in restitution practice)", "ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums (International Council of Museums)", "ISO 21127 CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (ISO)", "Categories for the Description of Works of Art - CDWA (Getty Research Institute)", "Cataloging Cultural Objects - CCO (Visual Resources Association)", "Spectrum collection-management standard (Collections Trust, United Kingdom)", "Object ID documentation standard (J. Paul Getty Trust / ICOM)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Held, conserved, and exhibited in museums, galleries, and heritage sites as collection objects with accession records.", "Bought and sold through dealers, fairs, and auction houses; used as collateral, investment, and diplomatic gift.", "Installed in civic space as public art (monuments, murals, commissioned sculpture).", "Used in worship and ritual (icons, altarpieces, temple sculpture, liturgical objects).", "Taught from in studios and art history; reproduced as study images under catalogue and copyright rules.", "Documented for insurance, customs, export licence, and police recovery after theft.", "Subject of provenance research, restitution, and repatriation claims." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Overall height, width, and depth (object, unframed and framed)", "typical_range": "tens of millimetres (small works, jewellery, miniatures) to several metres (large paintings, public sculpture); museum catalogues record to the millimetre", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Mass", "typical_range": "grams (works on paper, small objects) to tonnes (stone or metal monument)", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Display illuminance (conservation limit, not a property of the work)", "typical_range": "about 50 lx for highly light-sensitive media (watercolour, textile, photograph); up to about 200 lx for oil paint on canvas", "unit": "lx" }, { "quantity": "Storage and display relative humidity", "typical_range": "commonly specified around 40-55 (narrower bands for unstable mixed-media works)", "unit": "% RH" }, { "quantity": "Storage and display temperature", "typical_range": "commonly specified around 16-22 for occupied galleries; cooler for film and some photographs", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "Creation date", "typical_range": "from prehistoric portable objects to the present; recorded as a year, range, or century", "unit": "year (CE/BCE)" }, { "quantity": "Insurance or fair-market value", "typical_range": "from negligible to nine-figure sums at the top of the market; highly skewed and jurisdiction-dependent", "unit": "currency (e.g. USD, EUR)" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Material decay: light fading, acidic paper embrittlement, flaking paint, bronze disease, pest attack, pollutant staining.", "Theft, looting, and illicit trafficking, often enabled by thin documentation.", "Forgery, pastiche, and false or inflated attribution.", "Iconoclasm, vandalism, and wartime destruction or seizure.", "Over-cleaning and irreversible restoration that destroy original surface or evidence.", "Provenance gaps, especially Nazi-era, colonial, and conflict-related displacements, leading to title failure and restitution disputes.", "Fire, flood, and climate-driven building failure in stores and historic sites.", "Copyright, moral-rights, and traditional-knowledge conflicts over reproduction, alteration, or sacred restriction.", "Physical injury from unstable public sculpture or falling display hardware (hazard to people, not only to the work)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "European 'fine art' / beaux-arts historically ranked painting, sculpture, and architecture above decorative arts; German Kunstgewerbe and Japanese kōgei treat applied work as a central art category.", "Islamic traditions have long privileged calligraphy, geometry, and architecture; figurative easel painting is not the default high-art form.", "Western museums long classed African, Oceanic, and Indigenous American works as ethnography rather than art; that boundary is actively being rewritten.", "English 'art' is narrower than German Kunst or the older sense of art as skilled making ('the art of…').", "Export-licence thresholds, droit de suite (artist resale right), and moral-rights strength differ sharply between the United States, the EU, and other jurisdictions.", "Sacred images may be legally and socially inalienable in one region and ordinary market objects in another." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Craft", "difference": "Craft is organised around skilled making and often around use or a trade; the same object is treated as art when its primary recognised function is aesthetic or conceptual display rather than continued use. The boundary is institutional and contested, not a material test." }, { "name": "Design", "difference": "Design answers a brief for manufacture or use (product, graphic, interior); an artwork is typically authored as an autonomous work, even when it borrows design methods." }, { "name": "Archaeological or ethnographic artefact", "difference": "An artefact is primarily evidence of a past or living culture; the same object is an artwork when it is also catalogued and valued under an art-historical or art-market object type. Function in the source culture does not decide the museum category by itself." }, { "name": "Document or record", "difference": "A document is kept for evidential content (text, data, legal force); a work of art is kept for its made form. Illustrated manuscripts and artists' archives sit on the line and are typed by the holding system." }, { "name": "Natural object", "difference": "Not human-made. A natural specimen becomes art only if an agent designates it as a work (readymade/found-object practice); otherwise it remains a specimen." }, { "name": "Illustration or commercial image", "difference": "Made to serve a text, brand, or advertisement; it is classed as art when circulated and collected as an autonomous work (original drawing, limited print) rather than only as a reproduction in context." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of art this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "How should this PHY.OBJ entry relate to conceptual, performance-based and digital artworks whose identity is not exhausted by a physical manifestation?", "Does 'works of art collectively' require a first-class aggregate within this model, and how should that differ from a collection managed as a holding?", "What evidence and review process should resolve conflicting artist, estate, community and institutional claims about designation, attribution or permitted change?", "Which medium-specific condition vocabularies and conservation references are needed before the model can support reliable intervention decisions?", "How should the model distinguish an authorised replacement, a restored work and a newly created work when original material or technical dependencies are substantially replaced?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a art, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the products of human creativity; works of art collectively", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "picked up and handled" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: abstraction, abstractionism, abstract art, alto relievo, alto rilievo, high relief, anaglyph, aquatint, fine art, artificial flower, bas relief, low relief.", "115 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a art, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Fits in a hand and is carried without help.", "Moved by a person without machinery.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "pick it up, hold it, put it somewhere else" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "abstraction", "abstractionism", "abstract art", "alto relievo", "alto rilievo", "high relief", "anaglyph", "aquatint", "fine art", "artificial flower", "bas relief", "low relief" ] } ], "standing": "115 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one art from another, and a art from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a art sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a art from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a art is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at handheld scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a art is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, 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"authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a art passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a art between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and 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superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What art is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can 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conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise art, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How art is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does art have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does art need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about art is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about art hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern art, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a art came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a art and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a art is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a art, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a art, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a art is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] 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