{ "model": { "rank": 5032, "code": "thing-creation", "model_id": "vr.tr.creation", "name": "creation", "purpose": "the human act of creating", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/creation/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "rearrangement", "juggle", "juggling", "musical chairs", "reordering", "permutation", "transposition", "reversal", "shuffle", "shuffling", "make", "reshuffle", "reshuffling", "riffle", "baking", "pornography", "porno", "porn", "erotica", "smut", "child pornography", "kiddie porn", "kiddy porn", "creative activity", "re-creation", "creating from raw materials", "molding", "casting", "recording", "transcription", "lip synchronization", "lip synchronisation", "lip synch", "lip sync", "mastering", "fabrication", "manufacture", "manufacturing", "formation", "shaping" ], "aliasCount": 117, "merged": 70, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.act", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-00910190-n", "ili": "i40180", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:31:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08813-ecb5-7671-b801-c6a19583c386\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: creation\nSense to describe: the human act of creating\nDomain code: ACT.ACT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 65.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08813-ecae-7661-8b4d-5ce47733ee6a\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: creation\nRegistry id: vr.tr.creation\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: the human act of creating\nNames folded into this entry: (none" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-CREATION", "registryId": "vr.tr.creation", "name": "creation", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/creation/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.creation", "name": "creation", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a human act of creating, assess its progress and outcome, and identify supported next actions without confusing creation with creativity or the resulting work.", "definition": "Creation, in the sense of the human act of creating, is the activity of bringing a work, idea, artifact, or arrangement into being, without necessarily making it original or valuable by any particular standard.", "scope_statement": "This model owns creation (vr.tr.creation, ACT / ACT.ACT) as the human act of bringing an identifiable result into being through forming, composing, constructing or otherwise making, while recording uncertainty about novelty, intention and completion.", "in_scope": [ "The situated act of creating and its initiating circumstances", "Human contributions, intentions and choices, including collaboration and tool assistance", "Materials, ideas and prior works transformed or combined during making", "Emerging results, revisions, abandoned attempts and completion decisions", "Criteria used to distinguish creation from reproduction, discovery or incidental change" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The resulting object, work or idea as an independently maintained thing", "Creativity as a personal capacity, disposition or measured performance", "Discovery of something treated as already existing independently of the act", "Natural formation without a human creating contribution", "Theological creation or claims about the origin of existence", "Institutional ownership and intellectual property regimes beyond their constraints on the act" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify what comes into being through the person's contribution; merely observing or locating a pre-existing thing indicates discovery instead.", "Identify the human choices, interventions or framing that support attributing the act to a creator; human presence alone is insufficient evidence.", "Separate making a new instance from producing an original form: copying can create an instance without establishing creative novelty.", "Identify the result boundary and the changes that establish it; routine maintenance should not automatically be classified as creating a new thing.", "Record the making episode separately from its result: an unfinished or abandoned creation attempt can exist without a completed work." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Creating state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed | making | revising | paused | abandoned | declared complete", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent should help initiate, develop, resume, preserve or close the attempt." }, { "name": "Intended result", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to a proposed result and its acceptance criteria; may initially be unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Connects the making activity to what the creator is trying to bring into being without requiring a fixed initial plan." }, { "name": "Human contribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person or group linked to contributions such as conception, selection, execution, revision or integration", "why_it_matters": "Supports attribution and distinguishes human creating from merely triggering or witnessing an outcome." }, { "name": "Making operation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "forming | composing | constructing | combining | transforming | reproducing; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the interventions through which the result takes shape." }, { "name": "Intent development", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "specified beforehand | emerging during making | redirected | mixed | unclear", "why_it_matters": "Allows exploratory creation without treating every departure from an initial intention as failure." }, { "name": "Novelty reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Comparison to the creator's experience, a project, a community or documented prior results; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Makes any novelty claim interpretable and prevents treating a new instance as necessarily an original form." }, { "name": "Dependence on prior material", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to inputs, sources, templates and prior works with their stated role in the result", "why_it_matters": "Makes transformation and reuse visible when assessing attribution and permissible next actions." }, { "name": "Completion basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "creator declaration | agreed criteria | recipient acceptance | external constraint | disputed | unset", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a finished result from an activity that simply stopped." } ], "affordances": [ "Clarify what is being brought into being and how its identity differs from the inputs.", "Map human and tool contributions to particular making decisions.", "Trace an emerging result through experiments, revisions and selected alternatives.", "Assess novelty claims against an explicitly chosen comparison set.", "Propose a next making step that respects the creator's intent and recorded constraints.", "Document completion, abandonment or unresolved status while preserving useful intermediate results." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "act-and-result-boundary", "name": "Act and result boundary", "description": "Establishes what counts as the creating act and what it brings into being.", "rationale": "Creation is easily confused with its product, with discovery, or with any change whatsoever.", "layers": [ { "id": "creation-sense", "name": "Creation sense", "description": "Records the interpretation of creating used for this episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "operative-creation-criterion", "name": "Operative creation criterion", "description": "Record whose criterion is being applied and whether it requires a new instance, a new form, intention or some combination; do not presume one criterion is universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What must a human act accomplish to count as creation here, and whose definition supplies that criterion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "operative-creation-criterion-q01" }, { "text": "Would copying, finding, maintaining or accidentally producing the same result meet that criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "operative-creation-criterion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "result-identity", "name": "Result identity", "description": "Separates the episode of making from the identity of its emerging result.", "findings": [ { "id": "result-coming-into-being", "name": "Result coming into being", "description": "Identify what is asserted to become a distinct result and which interventions establish that distinction from pre-existing inputs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identifiable result is this act intended or understood to bring into being?", "kind": "definition", "id": "result-coming-into-being-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes a new result from a revision, rearrangement or continued existence of an input?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "result-coming-into-being-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "human-agency-and-intent", "name": "Human agency and intent", "description": "Locates the human contribution and the developing purpose of the act.", "rationale": "The registry specifies human creating, so the model must make agency legible even when making is collaborative, exploratory or tool assisted.", "layers": [ { "id": "contributing-agents", "name": "Contributing agents", "description": "Connects people and tools to actual interventions in the result.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-making-contributions", "name": "Attributable making contributions", "description": "Record who conceived, selected, executed, revised or integrated elements, keeping contribution evidence separate from claims of authorship or ownership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people made which choices or interventions, and what evidence connects them to those contributions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-making-contributions-q01" }, { "text": "When tools generated or executed substantial parts, what human contribution supports classifying the episode as human creation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributable-making-contributions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "developing-intention", "name": "Developing intention", "description": "Tracks what the creator seeks and how that aim changes through making.", "findings": [ { "id": "intent-and-emergence", "name": "Intent and emergence", "description": "Distinguish prior aims from purposes and possibilities recognised during the act, including the deliberate adoption of accidental outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which aims existed before making began, and which emerged through interaction with the developing result?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intent-and-emergence-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed intervention would advance the current aim, and which would require the creator to choose a new direction?", "kind": "action", "id": "intent-and-emergence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-and-transformation", "name": "Making and transformation", "description": "Explains how inputs become an emerging result through concrete operations and revisions.", "rationale": "A creation model must expose the work of bringing something into being rather than merely attaching a creator to an output.", "layers": [ { "id": "inputs-and-operations", "name": "Inputs and operations", "description": "Links source material and available means to the operations performed on them.", "findings": [ { "id": "transformation-path", "name": "Transformation path", "description": "Record the relevant materials, ideas, references and techniques, and what is formed, combined, removed or altered through making.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inputs and prior works materially inform the result, and where did they come from?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transformation-path-q01" }, { "text": "Which operations turn those inputs into the proposed result rather than simply transferring or displaying them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transformation-path-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "experimentation-and-revision", "name": "Experimentation and revision", "description": "Tracks trials, alternatives and decisions that change the emerging result.", "findings": [ { "id": "selected-making-path", "name": "Selected making path", "description": "Preserve significant intermediate states and the reasons for selecting, revising or abandoning alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which trials or intermediate versions changed the creator's understanding of what could be made?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "selected-making-path-q01" }, { "text": "What next experiment would resolve a specific uncertainty about the emerging result?", "kind": "action", "id": "selected-making-path-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "novelty-and-judgement", "name": "Novelty and judgement", "description": "Makes claims about newness and success explicit without treating them as interchangeable.", "rationale": "Creating a result does not by itself establish originality, usefulness or artistic merit.", "layers": [ { "id": "situated-novelty", "name": "Situated novelty", "description": "Defines the comparison that gives a novelty claim meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-newness-claim", "name": "Bounded newness claim", "description": "Distinguish a newly made instance from a form or approach judged new within a stated reference set, and record the limits of the comparison.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the claimed newness about this instance, the creator's experience, a community's practice or a broader body of prior work?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-newness-claim-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison evidence supports the claim, and how much of the relevant prior work remains unchecked?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-newness-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "criteria-of-success", "name": "Criteria of success", "description": "Records how participants judge whether the act achieved something they value.", "findings": [ { "id": "plural-success-criteria", "name": "Plural success criteria", "description": "Keep the creator's aims, recipient requirements and other evaluators' standards distinguishable, including disagreements and criteria changed during making.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observable qualities would satisfy each relevant participant's criteria for this result?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "plural-success-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "When criteria conflict, who may decide whether to revise the result or accept the disagreement?", "kind": "action", "id": "plural-success-criteria-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuation-and-closure", "name": "Continuation and closure", "description": "Supports decisions about further making, permitted interventions and the end of the episode.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish opportunities to continue creating from decisions that require authority or establish a finished result.", "layers": [ { "id": "authority-to-intervene", "name": "Authority to intervene", "description": "Records the permissions and commitments relevant to changing the emerging result.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-making-actions", "name": "Permitted making actions", "description": "Identify what the agent may generate, alter, incorporate or discard under the creator's delegation and recorded input-use constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authority has the creator given the agent to change the result or choose among alternatives?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-making-actions-q01" }, { "text": "Which recorded constraints on inputs, collaboration or intended use must be resolved before the next making step?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-making-actions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ending-the-episode", "name": "Ending the episode", "description": "Distinguishes completion from interruption, abandonment and ongoing revision.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-and-handoff", "name": "Completion and handoff", "description": "Record why making stops, who accepts that status, and which result or intermediate materials pass into subsequent use or stewardship.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence or declaration makes this episode complete rather than merely inactive?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "completion-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "What result, contribution record and unresolved making decisions should be preserved when the episode closes?", "kind": "action", "id": "completion-and-handoff-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes human activity, excluding theological creation and the use of 'creation' to mean its product.", "There is no single settled cross-disciplinary test for when creation begins, ends, or requires novelty; particular fields should supply their own criteria.", "The kinds overlap and are descriptive rather than a standard taxonomy; no universal identifier, measurement scale, or regulatory standard is asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Artistic creation", "Literary creation", "Musical creation", "Technical invention", "Conceptual creation", "Collaborative creation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Producing artworks, texts, music, and performances", "Developing products, software, and technical solutions", "Formulating concepts, explanations, and methods", "Designing spaces, services, and organisational arrangements", "Making objects for practical use or personal expression" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Time spent creating", "typical_range": "No general range; depends on the activity and how its beginning and end are defined", "unit": "hours" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "An outcome may fail to meet the creator's intentions or practical requirements.", "Premature evaluation or fixation on an initial approach may restrict exploration.", "Unattributed borrowing may produce plagiarism or disputes over authorship.", "Materials, tools, or resulting artifacts may introduce hazards specific to the activity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cultural traditions differ in the weight they give individual originality, collective authorship, and continuity with inherited forms.", "Legal treatment of authorship, ownership, and protectable outputs varies by jurisdiction and type of work." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "creativity", "difference": "Creativity commonly concerns originality and appropriateness or value; creation denotes the activity and does not itself establish those qualities." }, { "name": "production", "difference": "Production includes routine manufacture and repeated outputs; creation foregrounds bringing something into being, although the activities overlap." }, { "name": "invention", "difference": "Invention usually involves devising a new solution, device, or method; creation also includes expressive works and outcomes without technical novelty." }, { "name": "discovery", "difference": "Discovery identifies something understood to exist independently of the discovering act; creation brings its object into being, though some intellectual cases are disputed." }, { "name": "innovation", "difference": "Innovation generally involves implementing or introducing something new; creation can end with an unrealised idea or an unused work." }, { "name": "created work", "difference": "A created work is an outcome; creation in this sense is the activity that produces it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of creation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which established definitions of human creation should this model represent, and how do they differ over intention, novelty and successful realisation?", "Where should the boundary fall between creating a new instance and routine reproduction or maintenance across different practices?", "What evidence is sufficient to attribute human creation in heavily automated or distributed collaborative processes?", "How should an agent recognise results that are ephemeral, performative or conceptual without imposing the identity criteria of durable objects?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this sense of creation, requiring the registry entry to link to it instead of supporting a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 creation, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the human act of creating", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: rearrangement, juggle, juggling, musical chairs, reordering, permutation, transposition, reversal, shuffle, shuffling, make, reshuffle.", "70 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 creation, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "rearrangement", "juggle", "juggling", "musical chairs", "reordering", "permutation", "transposition", "reversal", "shuffle", "shuffling", "make", "reshuffle" ] } ], "standing": "70 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 creation from another, and a creation 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 creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation 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 creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation 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 creation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a creation 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 creation, 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 creation, 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 creation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a creation proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a creation, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a creation and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a creation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a creation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a creation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a creation consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a creation takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a creation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a creation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a creation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What creation is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of creation are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is creation operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of creation and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of creation?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as creation?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a creation 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 creation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a creation, 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 creation, 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 creation 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 creation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a creation, 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 creation, 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 creation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }