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[CAS REGISTRY](https://www.cas.org/cas-data/cas-registry)", "Its digits do not encode chemical structure or composition, unlike a structural representation such as SMILES. [CAS FAQ](https://www.cas.org/about/faqs)", "A claim that a number identifies a substance requires assignment evidence, distinguishing a CAS RN from an arbitrary supplier or local inventory code.", "The identification target must be a registered substance, rather than a particular bottle, batch, product listing or document.", "Matching number strings establish identifier agreement; they do not independently establish that two physical materials have matching composition or quality." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Observed representation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Literal source text, including separators and surrounding labels", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence before transcription or normalisation changes." }, { "name": "Format assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unchecked | conforming | nonconforming | ambiguous", "why_it_matters": "Separates recognisable CAS RN syntax from damaged or mislabelled input." }, { "name": "Check-digit assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unchecked | pass | fail | not-computable", "why_it_matters": "Detects some transcription errors without claiming that CAS assigned the number." }, { "name": "Assignment evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified | CAS-confirmed | secondary-source-only | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes authoritative confirmation from repetition of an assertion." }, { "name": "Registered substance referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the substance description supported by the consulted record", "why_it_matters": "Makes explicit what the identifier is asserted to identify." }, { "name": "Target match", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | supported | incompatible | insufficient-detail", "why_it_matters": "Prevents applying a valid identifier to an inadequately matched material." }, { "name": "Mapping relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "exact-referent | broader | narrower | related | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents neighbouring identifiers or substance forms from becoming unsupported synonyms." }, { "name": "Verification age", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Elapsed days since the recorded verification; unknown if never verified", "why_it_matters": "Supports task-specific decisions about rechecking the evidence." }, { "name": "Use readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "lookup-only | identification-supported | review-required | rejected-for-target", "why_it_matters": "Connects validation and substance matching to an explicit next action." } ], "affordances": [ "Recognise and normalise candidate CAS RN text while preserving its original form.", "Check syntax and checksum, flagging failures without silently repairing digits.", "Resolve a candidate against an identified source and capture assignment evidence.", "Compare the source's substance description with the intended material or record.", "Link compatible records while retaining mapping evidence and unresolved conflicts.", "Prepare a correction or CAS verification request when identification remains unsettled." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cas-registry", "title": "CAS Registry", "url": "https://www.cas.org/cas-data/cas-registry", "what_it_supports": "Official definition of the CAS Registry and assignment of unique CAS Registry Numbers to indexed substances.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "number-recognition", "name": "Number recognition", "description": "Establish whether observed text is a usable CAS RN candidate.", "rationale": "A transcription error can redirect substance lookup before any chemical reasoning occurs.", "layers": [ { "id": "representation", "name": "Representation", "description": "Preserve the observed number and justify its normalised form.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-boundaries", "name": "Candidate boundaries", "description": "Record the exact token, its CAS label and any formatting transformations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exact source text is asserted to be a CAS RN, and where does that assertion occur?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Can separators or whitespace be normalised without guessing, inserting or changing digits?", "kind": "action", "id": "candidate-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "check-digit-validation", "name": "Check-digit validation", "description": "Assess numerical integrity independently of assignment evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "validation-outcome", "name": "Validation outcome", "description": "Record separate syntax and checksum results, including the validation rule used.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the candidate satisfy the documented CAS RN group-length and separator rules?", "kind": "definition", "id": "validation-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Does the computed check digit equal the supplied final digit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "validation-outcome-q02" }, { "text": "If validation fails, which source must be revisited before proposing a corrected number?", "kind": "action", "id": "validation-outcome-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cas-assignment-evidence", "name": "CAS assignment evidence", "description": "Establish the evidence that CAS assigned the candidate to the stated substance.", "rationale": "A checksum-valid string and a supplier assertion are insufficient to confirm the assignment.", "layers": [ { "id": "assignment-confirmation", "name": "Assignment confirmation", "description": "Identify the record supporting the number-to-substance relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-of-assignment", "name": "Authority of assignment", "description": "Record whether evidence comes from CAS or an intermediary; CAS identifies itself as the final authority for these numbers. [CAS REGISTRY](https://www.cas.org/cas-data/cas-registry)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which consulted record explicitly connects this exact number to a substance description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-of-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Is that connection confirmed by CAS, reproduced by another publisher or merely inferred from a name match?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-of-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lookup-coverage", "name": "Lookup coverage", "description": "Interpret lookup outcomes within the consulted service's coverage and access limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-search", "name": "Unresolved search", "description": "Keep a failed or unavailable lookup separate from evidence that a candidate has no assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the search return no match, an access failure or a record outside the source's available coverage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unresolved-search-q01" }, { "text": "Which further CAS lookup or 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number 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 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"explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a CAS Registry Number, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a CAS Registry Number is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a CAS Registry Number and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a CAS Registry Number, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a CAS Registry Number, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a CAS Registry Number is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of CAS Registry Number a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For CAS Registry Number, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of CAS Registry Number exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made CAS Registry Number and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to CAS Registry Number, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in CAS Registry Number, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number 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 CAS Registry Number is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number, 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 CAS Registry Number 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 } } } }