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the artistic sense of device in registry entry vr.tr.device-communication: a feature or arrangement within an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect, including its operating pattern, occurrences and contextual interpretation.", "in_scope": [ "The device's recognisable formal or compositional pattern", "Occurrences of the device within particular works, expressions or performances", "Intended, interpreted and observed effects, recorded separately", "Dependencies on artistic medium, placement and audience expectations", "Conditions for retaining, adapting or removing the device" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Physical machines, communication hardware and playback equipment", "The identity, authorship and rights of the containing work", "Editions, files and physical copies as publication or carrier objects", "Complete plot, genre, style or thematic models of the containing work", "General audience psychology beyond responses associated with the device" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "It identifies an artistic arrangement and a proposed effect, rather than merely naming equipment used to produce or display the work.", "An occurrence can be located in a passage, shot, sound sequence, composition, performance or other bounded part of a work.", "It can be distinguished from its subject matter: the same subject may be presented with different devices.", "A device type can recur across works; a particular occurrence has work-specific placement and execution.", "Attribution as a designed device requires a stated evidential basis; perceived effects alone do not establish creator intention." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Device designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named artistic device or explicitly described unnamed arrangement", "why_it_matters": "Allows recognition without forcing an uncertain occurrence into a familiar label." }, { "name": "Level of identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Device type | occurrence | coordinated set of occurrences", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a reusable technique from being confused with its execution in one work." }, { "name": "Artistic mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Described operation, such as repetition, contrast, omission, delay, juxtaposition or framing", "why_it_matters": "Records what the device does to the work's material before assigning an effect." }, { "name": "Occurrence anchor", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Containing work or expression and a medium-appropriate locator", "why_it_matters": "Makes an interpretation inspectable in the version where the device occurs." }, { "name": "Effect attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Creator-stated intention | documented production intention | analyst interpretation | observed audience response | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps claims about purpose separate from evidence about reception." }, { "name": "Proposed artistic effect", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly described effect, such as suspense, comic incongruity, emphasis, disorientation or thematic association", "why_it_matters": "Provides a criterion for judging whether the device supports a proposed artistic aim." }, { "name": "Medium dependency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Required properties of language, image, sound, movement, space, timing or interaction", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what must survive when adapting the device to another medium." }, { "name": "Interpretive status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Candidate | supported | contested | rejected, with recorded grounds", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to retain uncertainty rather than treating every detected pattern as intentional." } ], "affordances": [ "Annotate a candidate occurrence with its location, mechanism and supporting evidence.", "Compare occurrences to distinguish a shared device from superficial resemblance.", "Explain how placement and medium support a proposed effect.", "Assess competing interpretations without equating audience response with creator intention.", "Propose an adaptation that preserves the relevant artistic operation.", "Evaluate the likely consequences of altering or removing the device." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "artistic-device-identity", "name": "Artistic device identity", "description": "Establishes what artistic arrangement is being identified and at what level.", "rationale": "The word device can denote hardware, a broad technique or one local artistic occurrence; recognition must resolve these boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "device-sense-and-boundary", "name": "Device sense and boundary", "description": "Separates the artistic device from equipment, subject matter and whole-work classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "artistic-arrangement-test", "name": "Artistic arrangement test", "description": "Record the feature being treated as an artistic arrangement and the grounds for that 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"measurement", "id": "operative-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "medium-specific-realisation", "name": "Medium-specific realisation", "description": "Captures the expressive capabilities on which the device depends.", "findings": [ { "id": "expressive-dependencies", "name": "Expressive dependencies", "description": "Identify dependencies such as sound resemblance, shot order, bodily timing or control of audience attention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which properties of the medium are necessary for this occurrence to operate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expressive-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes of language, format or performance would disrupt that operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "expressive-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "placement-and-composition", "name": "Placement and composition", "description": "Locates the device and connects it to surrounding artistic material.", "rationale": "A device may depend on preparation, recurrence or contrast that 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"description": "Record contextual relationships needed to explain how the device operates at its location.", "questions": [ { "text": "What earlier material or established expectation prepares the audience for this device?", "kind": "definition", "id": "setup-and-interaction-q01" }, { "text": "Would moving or isolating the occurrence change its operation, and what evidence supports that judgment?", "kind": "action", "id": "setup-and-interaction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effect-and-interpretation", "name": "Effect and interpretation", "description": "Separates claims about artistic purpose from interpretations and observed responses.", "rationale": "Design is central to the registry definition, but neither creator intention nor successful effect should be inferred automatically from a formal pattern.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-purpose", "name": "Attributed purpose", "description": "Records the proposed effect and the basis for attributing it to artistic design.", "findings": [ 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"effect-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative interpretation explains the same arrangement, and what evidence could distinguish the readings?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effect-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "artistic-use-and-revision", "name": "Artistic use and revision", "description": "Supports decisions to employ, adapt, alter or remove the device.", "rationale": "An agent needs to connect an artistic intervention to the device's mechanism and contextual dependencies.", "layers": [ { "id": "adaptation-and-reuse", "name": "Adaptation and reuse", "description": "Distinguishes preserving a device's operation from copying a particular expression.", "findings": [ { "id": "adaptation-invariants", "name": "Adaptation invariants", "description": "Specify which relationships must survive adaptation and which expressive choices may change.", "questions": [ { "text": "What operation must be preserved for the adapted feature to remain an occurrence of this device?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adaptation-invariants-q01" }, { "text": "What target-medium choices could support the proposed effect, and how could their success be assessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "adaptation-invariants-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revision-consequences", "name": "Revision consequences", "description": "Evaluates changes in relation to the device's artistic role and evidence of effectiveness.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-impact", "name": "Change impact", "description": "Record expected consequences of changing the device and distinguish tested outcomes from predictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What preparation, payoff, rhythm or association would be affected by removing or altering this occurrence?", "kind": "action", "id": "change-impact-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison between versions or audience responses could test the predicted consequence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-impact-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a device 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 device, 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 device, 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 device 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 device 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 device, 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 device, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a device 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 device 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 device between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes 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superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a device, 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 device, 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 device is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a device says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a device contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a device, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a device, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a device is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a device and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a device, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a device, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a device is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of device a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For device, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of device exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made device and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to device, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in device, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a device 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 device and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a device, 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 device, 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 device 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 device is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a device, 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 device, 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 device 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 } } } }