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person; a company, machine or facility that produces things requires a neighbouring model.", "Recognition requires an attributable making contribution; merely owning, buying, selling or collecting a thing does not establish that contribution.", "A making contribution must be distinguished from requesting, financing or approving somebody else's work.", "Designer, artist, craftsperson, engineer and hobbyist may overlap with maker; record demonstrated making rather than treating occupational labels as mutually exclusive categories.", "Assess claimed making against a stated boundary for what counts as making; do not silently require physical fabrication, professional status or membership in a maker community." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Making domains", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named kinds of things, materials or media; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence in one domain from being treated as capability in every kind of making." }, { "name": 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historical only or unknown; dated", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes evidence of being a maker from present availability or readiness." }, { "name": "Resource access", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Required tools, materials, workspace and assistance, with access conditions", "why_it_matters": "Separates knowing how to make something from being able to undertake the work now." }, { "name": "Observed making duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hours per specified making episode, distinguishing active work from elapsed time", "why_it_matters": "Supports contextual effort estimates without treating unlike outputs as comparable units of productivity." }, { "name": "Task readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ready, ready with conditions, blocked, declined or unknown; specific to a proposed task", "why_it_matters": "Connects demonstrated capability, consent and practical constraints to an actionable decision." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a maker's claimed contribution and connect it to evidence from a particular thing or making episode.", "Match proposed making work to demonstrated processes, media and output requirements.", "Identify missing tools, materials, assistance or practice needed before work can begin.", "Request clarification, a relevant work sample or a bounded trial when capability evidence is insufficient.", "Propose a making task or collaboration subject to the person's agreement and applicable conditions.", "Update capability and readiness assessments from documented making outcomes and revisions." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-1", "title": "Maker movement", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_movement", "what_it_supports": "", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "making-basis", "name": "Making basis", "description": "Establishes why this person is represented as a maker and what evidence supports that representation.", "rationale": "The definition depends on making activity, so a label alone cannot explain how the person satisfies it.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-activity", "name": "Qualifying activity", "description": "Identifies the activity and resulting thing used to recognise the person as a maker.", "findings": [ { "id": "making-instance", "name": "Making instance", "description": "Record an identifiable instance of making and the boundary under which it qualifies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What thing did the person make, and what activity brought it into being or transformed it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "making-instance-q01" }, { "text": "Does this instance qualify under the adopted boundary for making, and which aspects remain disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "making-instance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-evidence", "name": "Attribution evidence", "description": "Connects maker claims to evidence while preserving uncertainty about authorship and execution.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-maker-claim", "name": "Supported maker claim", "description": "Record the basis, date and limitations of the claim that this person performed the making.", "questions": [ { "text": "What work samples, process records, observations or accounts support the person's making contribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-maker-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the attribution are self-reported, independently supported or unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-maker-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-repertoire", "name": "Making repertoire", "description": "Describes what the person can make and the processes through which they can make it.", "rationale": "Being a maker does not imply competence with every material, medium, tool or degree of difficulty.", "layers": [ { "id": "materials-and-processes", "name": "Materials and processes", "description": "Locates capability in concrete combinations of medium, process and tooling.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-process-range", "name": "Demonstrated process range", "description": "Record processes the maker has used, the media involved and the conditions under which capability was demonstrated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which combinations of material or medium, process and tool has the person used to make a thing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "demonstrated-process-range-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows whether each process was completed independently or with assistance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "demonstrated-process-range-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capability-limits", "name": "Capability limits", "description": "Records the demonstrated bounds of a making capability and the uncertainty in extending it.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-task-envelope", "name": "Supported task envelope", "description": "Record the complexity, scale, precision or other task conditions for which the maker has relevant evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What scale, complexity and acceptance criteria did the maker's relevant examples actually satisfy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-task-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "What trial, assistance or additional evidence is needed before assigning a task beyond those examples?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-task-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-contribution", "name": "Making contribution", "description": "Separates the person's making work from contributions by collaborators, suppliers and automated systems.", "rationale": "An association with a finished thing can conceal who made which parts and what the person can reproduce themselves.", "layers": [ { "id": "division-of-work", "name": "Division of work", "description": "Identifies the maker's concrete part in an individual or shared making episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "personal-making-share", "name": "Personal making share", "description": "Record actions and components attributable to the maker without assuming sole authorship of the whole result.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts or making steps did this person perform, and which were performed by others?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "personal-making-share-q01" }, { "text": "Did the person's role include making, or only design, instruction, procurement, funding or approval?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "personal-making-share-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assistance-and-automation", "name": "Assistance and automation", "description": "Captures how external assistance and automated processes contributed to the result.", "findings": [ { "id": "mediated-making", "name": "Mediated making", "description": "Record what the maker specified, operated, adjusted, assembled or checked when tools or other actors performed substantial steps.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did the person directly control or execute when using automated equipment, generative software or outsourced fabrication?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mediated-making-q01" }, { "text": "Which claimed capabilities depend on that assistance remaining available?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mediated-making-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-readiness", "name": "Making readiness", "description": "Determines whether the person can and agrees to undertake a particular making activity under current conditions.", "rationale": "Past making capability is insufficient to establish present access, availability or permission to act.", "layers": [ { "id": "practical-conditions", "name": "Practical conditions", "description": "Connects a proposed making task to the resources and time the maker can actually access.", "findings": [ { "id": "resource-and-time-fit", "name": "Resource and time fit", "description": "Record dependencies and constraints that enable or block the proposed making work.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required tools, materials, workspace and assistance are accessible to the maker, and under what conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "resource-and-time-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence supports the estimated active work time and completion window for this particular task?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "resource-and-time-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "agreement-and-operating-limits", "name": "Agreement and operating limits", "description": "Records the maker's willingness and the task-specific conditions governing work.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-making-task", "name": "Authorised making task", "description": "Record whether the maker accepts the task and which relevant permissions, supervision or operating limits must be satisfied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the person agreed to undertake this making task, and what limits have they placed on that agreement?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-making-task-q01" }, { "text": "Which task-specific access permissions, operating conditions or supervision requirements remain unsatisfied?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-making-task-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "making-outcomes", "name": "Making outcomes", "description": "Connects completed and attempted making to evaluation, revision and delivery.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence of how making attempts turn out and how the maker responds when a result does not meet its intended use.", "layers": [ { "id": "result-evaluation", "name": "Result evaluation", "description": "Records outcomes against the criteria applicable to a particular making episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "outcome-against-intent", "name": "Outcome against intent", "description": "Record what was attempted, what resulted and how the result was assessed, without treating commercial usefulness as a universal requirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was the intended result of this making episode, including exploratory or unfinished work?", "kind": "definition", "id": "outcome-against-intent-q01" }, { "text": "Which checks or observations establish what the result achieved and where it fell short?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outcome-against-intent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revision-and-handover", "name": "Revision and handover", "description": "Records the maker's response to feedback and the information needed when another person receives or continues the work.", "findings": [ { "id": "follow-through", "name": "Follow-through", "description": "Record revisions, remaining limitations and agreed handover actions attributable to the maker.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did the maker change after testing or feedback, and what evidence explains the change?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "follow-through-q01" }, { "text": "What instructions, unfinished steps or known limitations must the maker communicate for the agreed handover?", "kind": "action", "id": "follow-through-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": [ "craft artisan", "industrial/product maker", "digital fabricator / maker-movement practitioner", "artist-maker", "toolmaker", "prototype / R&D maker", "repairer-maker", "community workshop maker" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of maker this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's use of 'things' include digital works, prepared food, performances and other transient outputs, or are some assigned to neighbouring concepts?", "Where should the making boundary fall for repair, modification, assembly from kits and configuration of existing components?", "What contribution is sufficient for maker attribution when fabrication is outsourced or output is substantially generated by automated systems?", "Does one evidenced making episode establish a lasting maker classification, or should recognition depend on an ongoing practice?", "Which existing Vercy models already own overlapping aspects of maker, creator, craftsperson or producer, and should this entry link to one of them?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 maker, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "a person who makes things", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: arms manufacturer, basketweaver, basketmaker, baster, tacker, belt maker, bookmaker, bootmaker, boot maker, brewer, beer maker, candlemaker.", "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 maker, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "arms manufacturer", "basketweaver", "basketmaker", "baster", "tacker", "belt maker", "bookmaker", "bootmaker", "boot maker", "brewer", "beer maker", "candlemaker" ] } ], "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 maker from another, and a maker 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 maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker 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 maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker 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 maker between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a maker 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 maker, 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 maker, 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 maker is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a maker.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a maker and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a maker, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a maker, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a maker, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a maker is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a maker and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a maker sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a maker, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a maker, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a maker is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as maker.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does maker require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses maker, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What maker actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define maker, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as maker, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a maker 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 maker and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 maker is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a maker, 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 maker, 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 maker 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 } } } }