origin
Let an agent identify origin events of sequences and entities with sources, distinguish origination from later milestones, describe preliminary and opening stages, and support chronology and storytelling.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Identify Finding the origin event.
Find
Which event began it.
Find
Identification.
- Which event is documented as the origin of this sequence or entity, and how reliable is the evidence? provenance
- Are first stage, formal founding and public launch being distinguished? boundary
Stages
Opening stages.
Stages
Stages.
- What are preludes, overtures and preliminaries in events and works, and how do they relate to the main sequence? definition
- Which entry fits a specific work? action
Record Recording origins.
Document
Documenting.
Document
Documentation.
- How should origin events be recorded in organisational and historical records? action
- Which entry fits record keeping? action
Myths
Origin stories.
Myths
Origin stories.
- How do origin stories of organisations and movements differ from documented origins, and how are they analysed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Domains Origins across domains.
Nature
Origins in nature.
Nature
Nature.
- How are origin events such as germination and speciation identified in biology? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific process? action
History
Origins in history.
History
History.
- How do historians identify and debate the origin events of movements, wars and institutions? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Learn Narrative and teaching.
Narrative
Origins in storytelling.
Narrative
Narrative.
- How do stories use inciting incidents and origin events? provenance
- Which entry fits narrative structure? action
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can the analysis of origins be taught in history and organisational studies? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.event
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.EVT
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- origination, inception, germination, preliminary, overture, prelude, emanation, rise, procession
What it is Filled
An event that constitutes a beginning, the first part or stage from which subsequent events follow, such as the origination of a project, the inception of an institution, the germination of an idea, or the prelude, overture and preliminaries that open a longer sequence; origin events are identified in history, biography, organisational records and narrative, and are often reconstructed after the fact.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent identify origin events of sequences and entities with sources, distinguish origination from later milestones, describe preliminary and opening stages, and support chronology and storytelling.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Initiating event
- Sequence-defining
- Often reconstructed
- Narrative role
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present an origin myth or legend as documented history.
- Backdate an origin to support a claim of priority, seniority or ownership.
- Attribute an origin to a person without evidence.
Only with a human decision
- Settling a disputed claim of who started something first.
May
- Report the origin of a project, organization or tradition with its source and date.
- Distinguish the first stage of something from its formal founding.
Moral aspects Filled
- Origin stories confer status and legitimacy, so false ones can take credit from others.
- Communities hold founding stories dear; questioning them calls for care.
Who is affected
- Founders and early contributors
- Communities with founding narratives
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; each origin claim is answered for by whoever makes it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07305628-n - registry parent class
related
- event - category
- beginning - the related quality sense
- chronology - ordering from origins
- incident - a distinct event
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.origin-event
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07338522-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- First stage of subsequent events
- Origination, inception, prelude
- A beginning as a state or point is the related quality sense
- Not physical; the first event in a sequence.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify origin events
- distinguish origination from milestones
- describe opening stages
- support chronology
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Origin myths presented as fact
- Confusing first stage with formal founding
- Backdated claims
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Archival and historical sourcing standards
- Organisational record-keeping rules
- No regulation of the concept
Context of use required Filled
- Events that begin sequences.
- origination of organisations and projects
- inception of ideas and movements
- preludes, overtures and preliminaries
- germination and first stages in nature
- origin events in narrative
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07338522-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: origin - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should origin myths be a separate entry?
- How should sourcing standards be linked?
- How should this relate to the beginning entry?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-origin-event/spec.json