{ "model": { "rank": 2718, "code": "thing-covering", "model_id": "vr.tr.covering", "name": "covering", "purpose": "a natural object that covers or envelops", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/covering/", "tier": 2, "score": 98, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "cuticula", "hide", "pelt", "skin", "plume", "plumage", "down", "down feather", "duck down", "eiderdown", "goose down", "swan's down", "plumule", "aftershaft", "sickle feather", "contour feather", "bastard wing", "alula", "spurious wing", "marabou", "hackle", "saddle hackle", "saddle feather", "protective covering", "armor", "armour", "scute", "sclerite", "clypeus", "carapace", "shell", "cuticle", "shield", "valve", "test", "scallop shell", "oyster shell", "phragmocone", "phragmacone", "theca" ], "aliasCount": 148, "merged": 98, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [ "natural-object" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.object", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-09280855-n", "ili": "i85274", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:15:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00190502, "turns": 1, "seconds": 16.6, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 69.5, "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: 01a07b93-9ee4-7f40-ba68-e7a975e29424\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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covering, including its boundary, relationship to what it covers, extent, attachment, openings and evidenced effects of coverage.", "in_scope": [ "The natural object identified as the covering and the evidence for that identification", "The surface, object or region covered or enveloped", "Coverage geometry, continuity, thickness and openings", "Attachment, separability and interaction with the covered subject", "Changes in coverage and constraints on disturbing it" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Manufactured covers, containers, coatings and packaging", "The complete anatomy, physiology or lifecycle of a covered organism", "The composition and properties of a substance independent of its occurrence as a covering", "The complete structure and condition of the covered object", "Figurative covering, concealment or protection without a physical natural object", "The process that produces a covering except where it explains its present state or likely change" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An identifiable natural object physically overlies, surrounds or envelops an identifiable subject or region; proximity alone is insufficient.", "The candidate has a defensible physical boundary at the stated observation scale; a substance name alone does not identify a covering.", "The covering relationship can be described through overlap or enclosure, rather than inferred solely from a protective function.", "Evidence distinguishes the candidate from an intentionally manufactured cover; ambiguous or modified examples require an explicit boundary decision.", "The candidate can be distinguished from the covered subject at least anatomically or spatially, even if separation would damage either." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Natural-origin evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed natural formation; documented natural origin; inferred natural origin; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the candidate meets the registry definition without treating appearance as proof." }, { "name": "Covered subject", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified object, surface or region, with the covered portion specified", "why_it_matters": "A covering must be recognised through a concrete physical relationship." }, { "name": "Coverage configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "overlying; partially surrounding; fully enveloping; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes different geometries and helps locate accessible surfaces." }, { "name": "Surface coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "0-100% of an explicitly defined reference surface, with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes completeness assessable without confusing a visible projection with total coverage." }, { "name": "Thickness distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm or m at specified locations, with range and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Local thinning or thickening may change separation, exposure and passage through the covering." }, { "name": "Coverage continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "continuous at stated resolution; naturally open; newly breached; patchy; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes expected openings from changes that expose the covered subject." }, { "name": "Interface attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "loose contact; interlocked; adherent; structurally continuous; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Helps judge whether moving the covering would affect the covered subject." }, { "name": "Passage through covering", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "agent-specific measure, such as light transmission in %, water flux in mm/h or particle passage by size; conditions required", "why_it_matters": "Coverage alone does not establish an effective barrier." }, { "name": "Coverage trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "expanding; stable over stated interval; thinning; fragmenting; detaching; re-forming; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about monitoring and the likely consequences of delay." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and map covered areas, margins and openings.", "Inspect or measure thickness and passage through the covering using methods appropriate to its attachment and fragility.", "Compare observations to detect spreading, thinning, breach or detachment.", "Assess whether lifting, parting or removing a portion would expose or damage the covered subject.", "Where authorised and supported by evidence, retain, reposition or remove the covering and monitor the resulting exposure." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "covering-identity", "name": "Covering identity", "description": "Establish which natural object is acting as a covering and what it covers.", "rationale": "A covering is identified by both its natural origin and its physical relationship to another subject.", "layers": [ { "id": "natural-object-boundary", "name": "Natural object boundary", "description": "Determine the candidate's origin and defensible extent as one object.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-and-origin", "name": "Candidate and origin", "description": "Record the candidate's observable boundaries and the evidence that it is natural, including uncertainty about aggregates or human modification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bounded natural object is being identified as the covering, and at what observation scale?", "kind": "definition", "id": "candidate-and-origin-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or record supports its natural origin, and what human modification is known?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-and-origin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "covered-subject", "name": "Covered subject", "description": "Identify the subject and the physical relationship that makes this object its covering.", "findings": [ { "id": "physical-covering-relation", "name": "Physical covering relation", "description": "Specify what is overlain or enveloped and distinguish coverage from adjacency or incidental contact.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which object, surface or region does this covering overlie or envelop?", "kind": "definition", "id": "physical-covering-relation-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the covering end and the covered subject begin, including any inseparable interface?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "physical-covering-relation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-geometry", "name": "Coverage geometry", "description": "Describe the extent, thickness and openings of the covering relative to its subject.", "rationale": "An agent needs to know precisely what remains covered and what is exposed.", "layers": [ { "id": "extent-and-enclosure", "name": "Extent and enclosure", "description": "Record how much of the subject is covered and from which directions.", "findings": [ { "id": "coverage-footprint", "name": "Coverage footprint", "description": "Describe overlap or enclosure against an explicit reference surface and observation method.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of the defined reference surface is covered, and how was that proportion established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coverage-footprint-q01" }, { "text": "Does the covering overlie one side, surround several sides or fully envelop the subject, and which regions remain unobserved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "coverage-footprint-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "thickness-and-openings", "name": "Thickness and openings", "description": "Locate variations in covering depth and interruptions in continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-coverage-variation", "name": "Local coverage variation", "description": "Record thickness variation and distinguish observed openings without presuming that every opening is damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does thickness vary across the covering, and which measurements are direct rather than inferred?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-coverage-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Where are gaps, pores or breaks, and what evidence distinguishes expected openings from newly exposed areas?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-coverage-variation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interface-and-exchange", "name": "Interface and exchange", "description": "Describe how the covering contacts its subject and what can pass across it.", "rationale": "Physical coverage does not by itself establish attachment, protection or isolation.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-and-attachment", "name": "Contact and attachment", "description": "Characterise the interface and the dependence of covering and subject on their connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachment-and-separability", "name": "Attachment and separability", "description": "Record how the covering is held in place and the evidence concerning separation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the covering loose, adherent, interlocked or structurally continuous with its subject?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attachment-and-separability-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence indicates whether separation would tear the covering, injure the subject or disrupt their interface?", "kind": "action", "id": "attachment-and-separability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-and-effects", "name": "Passage and effects", "description": "Assess specific exchanges or exposures associated with the covering.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-barrier-behaviour", "name": "Evidenced barrier behaviour", "description": "Record observed passage and effects separately from assumed protective functions.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much light, water, gas, heat or relevant particulate matter passes through the covering under specified conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidenced-barrier-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "What observations support a claimed effect on the covered subject, and do they distinguish that effect from other causes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-barrier-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-change", "name": "Coverage 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relocate the covering.", "findings": [ { "id": "changing-exposure", "name": "Changing exposure", "description": "Record thinning, fragmentation, detachment or displacement in terms of their effect on exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regions have become thinner, detached or uncovered between dated observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "changing-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects these changes to shedding, erosion, movement or another process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "changing-exposure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "covering-intervention", "name": "Covering intervention", "description": "Support decisions about inspecting, retaining, disturbing or removing the covering.", "rationale": "Changing a covering changes access and exposure and may affect an attached natural subject.", "layers": [ { "id": "inspection-access", "name": "Inspection access", "description": "Determine how to observe the covering or its concealed interface with acceptable disturbance.", "findings": [ { "id": "inspection-method", "name": "Inspection method", "description": "Match an inspection method to the needed observation and the covering's continuity and attachment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the required observation use an existing opening or a method that leaves coverage intact?", "kind": "action", "id": "inspection-method-q01" }, { "text": "If parting or sampling is necessary, which area can be disturbed and what evidence supports that choice?", "kind": "action", "id": "inspection-method-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alteration-and-follow-up", "name": "Alteration and follow-up", "description": "Evaluate changes to coverage and define observations needed after intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "coverage-action-decision", "name": "Coverage action decision", "description": "Record the basis for retaining, repositioning or removing the covering, including uncertain consequences and recovery.", "questions": [ { "text": "Given attachment, observed effects and applicable permission constraints, which changes to coverage are justified?", "kind": "action", "id": "coverage-action-decision-q01" }, { "text": "After a change, what exposure, subject condition and re-coverage observations would determine whether further action is needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "coverage-action-decision-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 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already own particular natural coverings, requiring a reference or shared interpretation rather than a duplicate model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 21 } }, "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 covering, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "a natural object that covers or envelops", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: cuticula, hide, pelt, skin, plume, plumage, down, down feather, duck down, eiderdown, goose down, swan's down.", "98 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 covering, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "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": [ "cuticula", "hide", "pelt", "skin", "plume", "plumage", "down", "down feather", "duck down", "eiderdown", "goose down", "swan's down" ] } ], "standing": "98 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 covering from another, and a covering 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 covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering 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 covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering 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.", "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 covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a covering is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a covering is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a covering, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a covering, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a covering is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a covering is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a covering, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a covering, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a covering 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 covering 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 covering between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a covering, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a covering, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a covering is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a covering, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a covering is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does covering perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise covering, 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 covering 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 covering 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 covering 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 covering 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 covering 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a covering, 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 covering, 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 covering 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 covering is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a covering, 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 covering, 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 covering is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }