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"research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/position-2/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.position-2", "name": "position", "purpose": "Let an agent handle position as a spatial property: what reference frame and coordinates are used, how position is measured and with what accuracy, how arrangement and posture are described, and which other senses of the word belong elsewhere.", "definition": "The spatial property of where something is situated or the way it is arranged: its place relative to a reference frame or to other things, and the posture or configuration it holds; expressed by coordinates, bearings, distances, named places or descriptive terms, and distinct from the other senses of position such as a job or an opinion.", "what_it_is_for": "Not for anything; a property of things in space.", "affordances": [ "state where something is in a chosen frame", "convert between coordinate systems and descriptions", "measure and record accuracy", "describe arrangement and posture" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Requires a reference frame", "Can be absolute or relative", "Includes posture and arrangement, not only location", "Measured with stated accuracy" ], "appearance": "Not visible in itself; shown by markers, coordinates and diagrams.", "visual_identification": [ "A location or arrangement relative to a reference", "Coordinates, bearings, distances or named places", "Position as a job, an opinion or a rank are other senses" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "coordinates", "typical_range": "2 or 3", "unit": "values", "note": "plus a reference frame" }, { "quantity": "positional accuracy", "typical_range": "millimetres to kilometres", "unit": "distance", "note": "by method" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "geographic position by latitude, longitude and height", "relative position by bearing and distance", "position in a layout or formation", "posture of a body or object", "position in a sequence or on a scale" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "spatial property", "why": "a property of things in space" }, { "relation": "needs", "target": "coordinate system", "why": "to be expressed" }, { "relation": "is measured by", "target": "positioning system", "why": "satellite, survey or sensor" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "location", "why": "a place rather than a property" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 19111 spatial referencing by coordinates", "Geodetic datum standards such as WGS 84", "ISO 80000 quantities and units" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Coordinates without a stated datum", "Mixing senses of the word", "Overstated accuracy" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "frame", "name": "Frame", "description": "Reference and coordinates.", "rationale": "No position without a frame.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference", "name": "Reference", "description": "Reference frame.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-finding", "name": "Reference", "description": "Reference.", "questions": [ { "text": "What reference frame or datum is the position given in?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about spatial position or another sense of the word?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coordinates", "name": "Coordinates", "description": "Coordinate systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "coordinates-finding", "name": "Coordinates", "description": "Coordinates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which coordinate system is used, and how are values converted between systems?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific coordinate system?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "measure", "name": "Measure", "description": "Measuring position.", "rationale": "Accuracy matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "methods", "name": "Methods", "description": "Methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "methods-finding", "name": "Methods", "description": "Methods.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is position measured, by satellite, survey, sensor or description?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "What accuracy does the method give?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] }, { "id": "record", "name": "Record", "description": "Recording.", "findings": [ { "id": "record-finding", "name": "Record", "description": "Record.", "questions": [ { "text": "How should position be recorded with datum, time and uncertainty?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which standard governs the record?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "arrangement", "name": "Arrangement", "description": "Posture and layout.", "rationale": "Position is also configuration.", "layers": [ { "id": "posture", "name": "Posture", "description": "Posture of bodies.", "findings": [ { "id": "posture-finding", "name": "Posture", "description": "Posture.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the posture or orientation of an object or body described?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits orientation?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "layout", "name": "Layout", "description": "Position in a layout.", "findings": [ { "id": "layout-finding", "name": "Layout", "description": "Layout.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is position within a formation, layout or sequence expressed?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the arrangement relative or absolute?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use", "name": "Use", "description": "Applications and study.", "rationale": "Use.", "layers": [ { "id": "applications", "name": "Applications", "description": "Uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "applications-finding", "name": "Applications", "description": "Applications.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is position used in navigation, mapping, robotics and logistics?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits navigation?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "study", "name": "Study", "description": "Geometry and geodesy.", "findings": [ { "id": "study-finding", "name": "Study", "description": "Study.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do geometry and geodesy formalise position, and which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is the concept taught?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should posture and arrangement be separate from location?", "How should coordinate reference systems be linked?", "The registry entry has merged sailing rig aliases that belong to a different sense; should they be removed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a position, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: cat rig, fore-and-aft rig, formation, lateen-rig, raster, rig, rigging, split, worldliness, occlusion, tilt, list.", "148 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 position, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "cat rig", "fore-and-aft rig", "formation", "lateen-rig", "raster", "rig", "rigging", "split", "worldliness", "occlusion", "tilt", "list" ] } ], "standing": "148 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 position from another, and a position 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 position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position 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 position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position 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 position between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a position 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 position, 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 position, 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 position is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What position is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of position are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is position operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of position and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of position?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as position?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a position 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 position and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a position, 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 position, 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 position 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 position is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a position, 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 position, 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 position is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }