{ "model": { "rank": 6449, "code": "thing-housing", "model_id": "vr.tr.housing", "name": "housing", "purpose": "structures collectively in which people are housed", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/housing/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "accommodation", "apartment", "flat", "barrack", "bedsitting room", "bedsitter", "bedsit", "billet", "block", "cabin class", "second class", "economy class", "casern", "cellblock", "ward", "cliff dwelling", "cold-water flat", "condominium", "condo", "death house", "death row", "detox", "diggings", "digs", "domiciliation", "lodgings", "pad", "dormitory", "dorm", "residence hall", "hall", "student residence", "duplex apartment", "duplex", "dwelling", "home", "domicile", "abode", "habitation", "dwelling house" ], "aliasCount": 99, "merged": 60, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "built", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [ "artifact", "structure" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.artifact", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-03551520-n", "ili": "i54968", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:40:17Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00828546, "turns": 1, "seconds": 135, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 68.2, "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: 01a07c4b-7294-7622-aa8b-f6a87560261d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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provision in which people have their habitual place of residence.", "scope_statement": "This model owns housing as structures collectively used or intended to house people, including the composition, residential capacity, physical condition, service readiness and constraints that determine their usability; individual buildings, households, land interests and housing markets remain linked entities.", "in_scope": [ "The residential structures included in the housing collective and the basis for grouping them", "The number, types and physical usability of dwellings and residential spaces", "Occupancy, vacancy and availability as distinct states of residential capacity", "Habitability, accessibility and essential service readiness", "Physical interventions and constraints affecting continued residential use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Household identities, relationships, income and personal housing needs", "Detailed building engineering and component maintenance records", "Land parcels, ownership titles and tenancy contracts as independent entities", "Housing prices, mortgage products and market dynamics", "Settlement-wide planning, transport and public infrastructure networks" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent comprises structures considered collectively for housing people, rather than only a population of residents or an administrative area.", "Residential use or intended residential use determines membership; ownership by a housing provider alone does not make an asset housing.", "The collective can contain occupied, vacant or temporarily unusable structures without treating all of them as currently available accommodation.", "A dwelling is a component or counted residential space within the collective; its count must not be substituted for the number of structures.", "Land designated for future housing is distinguished from residential structures already present, with proposed construction recorded separately." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": 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residential provision without confusing dwellings, rooms and buildings." }, { "name": "Residential capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "People or bed spaces, with the capacity basis and applicable limits stated", "why_it_matters": "Supports capacity decisions while distinguishing design estimates from assessed or authorised occupancy." }, { "name": "Occupancy distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Counts by occupied, partly occupied, vacant or unknown, at a stated date", "why_it_matters": "Shows use of the housing without assuming vacancy means availability." }, { "name": "Availability distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Counts by available now, available after stated work, unavailable or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies capacity that can actually be brought into residential use." }, { "name": "Habitability assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assessed suitable, suitable subject to stated conditions, unsuitable or unassessed, against named criteria", "why_it_matters": "Connects residential usability to evidence and exposes uncertainty." }, { "name": "Essential service readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per-service availability, operability and affected dwelling count", "why_it_matters": "Reveals housing that physically exists but cannot support occupation because services are absent or impaired." }, { "name": "Accessibility coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dwelling counts meeting specified access and internal usability requirements", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating all residential capacity as usable by people with different access needs." }, { "name": "Intervention authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to responsible parties and evidence of authority for a specified action", "why_it_matters": "Separates physically feasible changes from changes an agent or provider is authorised to initiate." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify constituent residential structures and reconcile inconsistent housing counts.", "Assess usable and available residential capacity with explicit evidence gaps.", "Locate concentrations of habitability, accessibility or service problems.", "Compare repair, adaptation, conversion and replacement options for their effects on usable housing.", "Route proposed inspections or interventions to the responsible party with required checks.", "Track changes in residential provision, including temporary losses during works." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cescr-gc4-1991", "title": "General Comment No. 4: The Right to Adequate Housing (Art. 11 (1) of the Covenant)", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comments-and-recommendations/general-comment-no-4-right-adequate-housing-article", "what_it_supports": "Legal definition of adequate housing as more than four walls: security of tenure, services, affordability, habitability, accessibility, location and cultural adequacy.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "icescr-art11", "title": "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Article 11", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-economic-social-and-cultural-rights", "what_it_supports": "Treaty basis for housing as part of an adequate standard of living, distinct from a single house as an object.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "who-housing-health-2018", "title": "WHO Housing and health guidelines", "url": "https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241550376", "what_it_supports": "Habitability measures (crowding, cold, injury, water, accessibility) and health hazards of the dwelling stock.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ohchr-unhabitat-fs21", "title": "Fact Sheet No. 21/Rev.1: The Human Right to Adequate Housing", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/publications/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-no-21-rev-1-human-right-adequate-housing", "what_it_supports": "UN-Habitat/OHCHR operationalisation of adequate housing versus homelessness, eviction and informal settlements.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "sna-2008-dwellings", "title": "System of National Accounts 2008 (dwellings as produced fixed assets, AN.111)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Statistical treatment of the housing stock as dwellings, separate from land, construction activity and real-estate services." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "housing-identity-and-composition", "name": "Housing identity and composition", "description": "Defines which residential structures form this housing collective and how its parts are counted.", "rationale": "Housing is collective: an agent needs a defensible membership boundary before totals or condition summaries have meaning.", "layers": [ { "id": "collection-boundary", "name": "Collection boundary", "description": "Records the grouping rule and treatment of ambiguous members.", "findings": [ { "id": "residential-membership", "name": "Residential membership", "description": "Establish whether each included structure or structural portion belongs to this collective on a stated residential basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structures are included, and what geographic, management or explicit membership rule groups them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "residential-membership-q01" }, { "text": "How are mixed-use structures, temporary accommodation and structures awaiting residential conversion treated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "residential-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "residential-composition", "name": "Residential composition", "description": "Distinguishes structures, dwellings and shared residential spaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "counting-units-and-forms", "name": "Counting units and forms", "description": "Make the composition of the housing explicit without counting the same residential provision twice.", "questions": [ { "text": "What counts as a dwelling here, particularly where kitchens, bathrooms or sleeping spaces are shared?", "kind": "definition", "id": "counting-units-and-forms-q01" }, { "text": "How many structures, dwellings and shared residential spaces exist by residential form at the assessment date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-units-and-forms-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "residential-capacity-and-use", "name": "Residential capacity and use", "description": "Separates physical accommodation capacity, actual occupation and availability.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish housing that exists from housing that can accommodate additional people.", "layers": [ { "id": "accommodation-capacity", "name": "Accommodation capacity", "description": "Records the basis and limits of capacity estimates.", "findings": [ { "id": "capacity-basis", "name": "Capacity basis", "description": "Relate capacity estimates to the residential spaces and assessment criteria that support them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What capacity is recorded in dwellings, people or bed spaces, and which spaces contribute to each total?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capacity-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Does each capacity figure come from design information, inspection, an occupancy standard or another identified source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "capacity-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occupation-and-availability", "name": "Occupation and availability", "description": "Tracks residential use and the conditions for making unused capacity available.", "findings": [ { "id": "vacancy-to-availability", "name": "Vacancy to availability", "description": "Distinguish vacant housing from housing ready and permitted to receive occupants.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many dwellings are occupied, partly occupied, vacant or of unknown occupancy, and when was this established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vacancy-to-availability-q01" }, { "text": "For vacant dwellings, what repairs, service restoration, permissions or release decisions are required before occupation?", "kind": "action", "id": "vacancy-to-availability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitability-and-residential-access", "name": "Habitability and residential access", "description": "Assesses whether housing supports residential occupation and which access requirements it meets.", "rationale": "A housing count alone cannot establish whether its accommodation is usable or suitable for a particular residential need.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitability-evidence", "name": "Habitability evidence", "description": "Connects residential condition assessments to observations and applicable criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-affecting-occupation", "name": "Conditions affecting occupation", "description": "Identify conditions such as damp, temperature extremes, sanitation failures or impaired escape routes that may affect residential use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed conditions affect occupation, how many dwellings are affected, and what evidence dates each observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditions-affecting-occupation-q01" }, { "text": "Which assessment criteria support the recorded habitability state, and where has no competent assessment been completed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditions-affecting-occupation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "residential-accessibility", "name": "Residential accessibility", "description": "Records access to dwellings and usability of essential domestic spaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "accessible-residential-paths", "name": "Accessible residential paths", "description": "Assess the complete route into and through accommodation against stated access needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dwellings have a usable route from the site entrance through shared circulation to sleeping, cooking and washing facilities for the specified access requirements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accessible-residential-paths-q01" }, { "text": "Which adaptations could remove identified barriers, and what physical constraints require further assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "accessible-residential-paths-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "domestic-services-and-shared-dependencies", "name": "Domestic services and shared dependencies", "description": "Records services and shared facilities on which residential usability depends.", "rationale": "A single shared failure can remove multiple dwellings from usable provision even when their individual interiors remain intact.", "layers": [ { "id": "essential-domestic-services", "name": "Essential domestic services", "description": "Distinguishes installed connections from working services available to residents.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-operability", "name": "Service operability", "description": "Establish whether water, sanitation, energy and required heating or cooling are operational for the housing concerned.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which domestic services are required for this housing context, and which are operational, interrupted, absent or unverified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "service-operability-q01" }, { "text": "What inspections, tests or provider records substantiate service operation rather than merely the presence of a connection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "service-operability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-residential-dependencies", "name": "Shared residential dependencies", "description": "Maps shared access, equipment and facilities to the dwellings they support.", "findings": [ { "id": "shared-failure-effects", "name": "Shared failure effects", "description": "Identify how failures of shared facilities change usable residential capacity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dwellings depend on each shared lift, entrance, water system, sanitation facility or communal domestic space?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shared-failure-effects-q01" }, { "text": "If a shared dependency fails, which dwellings lose usability or accessibility, and what verified alternatives exist?", "kind": "action", "id": "shared-failure-effects-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "housing-intervention-and-continuity", "name": "Housing intervention and continuity", "description": "Connects proposed changes to residential outcomes, authority and continuity of occupation.", "rationale": "Repair or redevelopment decisions can improve housing while temporarily or permanently removing accommodation people rely on.", "layers": [ { "id": "intervention-feasibility", "name": "Intervention feasibility", "description": "Frames housing interventions in terms of expected capacity and usability changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "residential-outcomes-of-work", "name": "Residential outcomes of work", "description": "Record what repair, adaptation, conversion or replacement is expected to achieve and what must be verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What change in dwelling count, usable capacity, habitability or accessibility is expected from each proposed intervention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "residential-outcomes-of-work-q01" }, { "text": "Which surveys, technical assessments and linked permissions are needed before the intervention can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "residential-outcomes-of-work-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-occupation-continuity", "name": "Authority and occupation continuity", "description": "Links implementation responsibility to the effects of work on existing occupation.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-work-and-capacity-loss", "name": "Authorised work and capacity loss", "description": "Establish who may initiate work and how occupation will be affected during delivery.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has responsibility and evidenced authority for the proposed work, including work on shared residential facilities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authorised-work-and-capacity-loss-q01" }, { "text": "Which occupied dwellings would become unavailable, for how long, and what linked relocation or continued-occupation arrangements must be resolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-work-and-capacity-loss-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Owner-occupied housing", "Private rental housing", "Social and public housing", "Informal, self-built and slum housing", "Temporary, transitional and emergency housing", "Collective and institutional housing (halls of residence, barracks, residential care)", "Cooperative, co-housing and community-land-trust housing", "Specialist and supported housing (older people, disability, homelessness pathways)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q1212274", "note": "Item for housing as residential accommodation/stock, not Q3947 (house as a single building)." }, { "scheme": "UN CPC Ver.2.1", "value_or_pattern": "5311", "note": "Residential buildings (with 53111 one-dwelling and 53112 multi-dwelling subclasses)." }, { "scheme": "UN COFOG", "value_or_pattern": "06.1", "note": "Housing development, under 06 Housing 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indoor temperature, injury, water and accessibility.", "International Building Code and International Residential Code (International Code Council) - structural, fire and occupancy rules for dwellings in adopting jurisdictions.", "Eurocodes (CEN) - structural design of residential buildings in Europe.", "ISO 6707-1 (ISO) - vocabulary for buildings and civil engineering works, including dwelling/housing terms.", "ISO 37120 (ISO) - city indicators that include slum population and affordable housing.", "Fair Housing Act 1968 (United States) - anti-discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.", "National housing and building statutes (e.g. UK Housing Acts and Building Regulations; France HLM/SRU; many states' public-housing and rent-regulation laws)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": 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for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Dwelling stock (number of housing units)", "typical_range": "from tens of thousands in a small city to tens or hundreds of millions nationally", "unit": "dwellings" }, { "quantity": "Useful floor area per dwelling", "typical_range": "about 30-150 in much of the OECD; often well below 30 in overcrowded or informal stock", "unit": "m²" }, { "quantity": "Floor area per person", "typical_range": "adequacy debates often sit around 9-20; many high-income cities run 30-50", "unit": "m²/person" }, { "quantity": "Housing cost-to-income ratio", "typical_range": "about 15-50 of household income; 30 is the common affordability threshold, 50 severe burden", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Vacancy rate", "typical_range": "about 1-12 of the stock, depending on market tightness and second-home share", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Occupancy / crowding", "typical_range": "typically under 1 person per room in high-income stock; overcrowding definitions often start above 1 (US) or by Eurostat household-composition rules", "unit": "persons/room" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Homelessness and hidden homelessness when the stock, price or access rules leave people without a habitable dwelling.", "Overcrowding, with associated infectious-disease, stress and child-development harms.", "Unaffordability and cost-induced poverty (rent or mortgage absorbing a large share of income).", "Habitability failure: damp, mould, cold homes, lead, asbestos, unsafe electrics and fire.", "Structural collapse, earthquake, flood or landslide damage, especially in informal or non-code construction.", "Forced eviction and tenure insecurity.", "Segregation and discriminatory allocation (race, disability, family status, source of income).", "Vacant or speculative stock coexisting with shortage; second homes hollowing resident supply." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Anglophone policy talk treats 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tenure, not a last-resort residual." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "House (single dwelling)", "difference": "A house is one residential building or dwelling; housing is the stock and system of such structures taken together." }, { "name": "Shelter", "difference": "Shelter is emergency or overnight protection; housing is durable residential accommodation intended as a habitual home." }, { "name": "Accommodation (short-stay)", "difference": "Hotels, hostels and similar lodging are temporary commercial stays; housing is principal residence, even when the building form looks similar." }, { "name": "Real estate", "difference": "Real estate is the tradable land-and-building asset class, including non-residential property; housing is the residential stock as living space and social provision." }, { "name": "Household", "difference": "A household is the social unit that occupies a dwelling; housing is the physical stock those units occupy." }, { "name": "Construction / building activity", "difference": "Construction is the process of producing structures; housing is the resulting residential stock (plus existing buildings not currently being built)." }, { "name": "Settlement or city", "difference": "A settlement is the urban or rural place as a whole (streets, jobs, infrastructure); housing is only the residential buildings within it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of housing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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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 housing, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "structures collectively in which people are housed", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "built" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: accommodation, apartment, flat, barrack, bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit, billet, block, cabin class, second class, economy class.", "60 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 housing, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "On the scale of a building: sited rather than moved.", "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.", "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": [ "accommodation", "apartment", "flat", "barrack", "bedsitting room", "bedsitter", "bedsit", "billet", "block", "cabin class", "second class", "economy class" ] } ], "standing": "60 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 housing from another, and a housing 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 housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at built scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a housing is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a housing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a housing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a housing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a housing is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 housing is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a housing 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 housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 housing is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a housing, 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 housing, 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 housing 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 } } } }