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it covers the platform rather than its corporate operator or photography as a practice.", "in_scope": [ "Flickr accounts, photostreams and persistent media identifiers", "Photo and video publication, descriptive metadata and organisation", "Albums, collections, galleries and group participation", "Media visibility, reuse declarations and attribution context", "Flickr API access, account capabilities and media availability" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The corporate structure and finances of Flickr's operator", "Photography techniques, cameras and image editing", "General copyright law and the full semantics of individual licences", "The people, places and events depicted in uploaded media", "Independent archival systems and third-party applications using Flickr" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Resolve a candidate resource to a Flickr account, photo, group or other Flickr object; a copied image or an embedded Flickr image does not make its host page Flickr.", "Identify the combination of account photostreams, named media objects and photographic community relationships, rather than treating Flickr as anonymous file storage.", "Distinguish Flickr albums, collections, galleries and group pools by their membership and control rules instead of treating them as interchangeable folders.", "Separate permission to view a Flickr photo from permission to reuse it; 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[Flickr developer guide](https://www.flickr.com/services/developer/api/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Flickr object identifier and canonical page does this URL resolve to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "canonical-photo-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which account published the object, and what evidence supports any claimed creator identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "canonical-photo-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "acting-principal", "name": "Acting principal", "description": "Determine whose authority an operation would use.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-authority", "name": "Operation authority", "description": "Represent account ownership, authentication and delegated permission separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Flickr account is authenticated, and which application permissions has it granted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "operation-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Does this principal have the ownership or group role needed for the proposed operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "media-and-organisation", "name": "Media and organisation", "description": "Represent uploaded media and the Flickr structures that arrange it.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish a media object from its placement in a photostream or curated container.", "layers": [ { "id": "media-record", "name": "Media record", "description": "Capture the identity, metadata and chronology of a Flickr photo or video.", "findings": [ { "id": "metadata-evidence", "name": "Metadata evidence", "description": "Separate uploader descriptions, tags, embedded technical metadata and service timestamps by provenance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which title, tags, location and technical metadata are available, and where did each originate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "metadata-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What are the taken and upload times, and how precise or trustworthy is each?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "metadata-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "container-semantics", "name": "Container semantics", "description": "Distinguish organisation structures and the effects of membership changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisation-versus-media-lifecycle", "name": "Organisation versus media lifecycle", "description": "Record container type, controller, membership and ordering before planning any rearrangement or removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this structure an album, collection, gallery or group pool, and what may it contain?", "kind": "definition", "id": "organisation-versus-media-lifecycle-q01" }, { "text": "Would the proposed removal change only membership, remove a container, or delete the underlying Flickr media?", "kind": "action", "id": "organisation-versus-media-lifecycle-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "visibility-and-reuse", "name": "Visibility and reuse", "description": "Model audience access independently from declared rights and reuse conditions.", "rationale": "Flickr media can be discoverable or viewable without being available for the intended external use.", "layers": [ { "id": "audience-controls", "name": "Audience controls", "description": "Assess effective visibility for a specified viewer.", "findings": [ { "id": "viewer-dependent-access", "name": "Viewer-dependent access", "description": "Private and semi-private search results depend on authenticated viewing permission. [Flickr photo search API](https://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which audience settings apply to this media, and can the intended recipient actually view it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "viewer-dependent-access-q01" }, { "text": "What audience would gain or lose access if the agent changed the photo's permissions?", "kind": "action", "id": "viewer-dependent-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights-and-attribution", "name": "Rights and attribution", "description": "Retain the rights evidence needed to evaluate a specific reuse.", "findings": [ { "id": "recorded-rights-context", "name": "Recorded rights context", "description": "Capture the exact declaration, credited creator, photo page and observation date without treating an uploader's declaration as proof of every required right.", "questions": [ { "text": "What licence or rights statement was displayed when the media was assessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recorded-rights-context-q01" }, { "text": "What attribution, permissions or unresolved rights must be addressed for the proposed reuse?", "kind": "action", "id": "recorded-rights-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "discovery-and-community", "name": "Discovery and community", "description": "Represent how Flickr media is found and situated in photographic communities.", "rationale": "Search results and group participation provide useful context but do not establish completeness, authorship or quality.", "layers": [ { "id": "search-context", "name": "Search context", "description": "Record how a set of Flickr results was obtained.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-discovery", "name": "Bounded discovery", "description": "Preserve query terms, filters, authentication context, pagination and retrieval time with discovered media.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Flickr search filters and retrieval boundaries produced this result set?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-discovery-q01" }, { "text": "What prevents these results from representing all relevant photographs on Flickr?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-discovery-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "group-participation", "name": "Group participation", "description": "Describe group membership, submissions and moderation in their local context.", "findings": [ { "id": "group-specific-action-rules", "name": "Group-specific action rules", "description": "Record the target group's rules and the acting account's role before submitting media or moderating participation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which group rules and submission conditions apply to this photo?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "group-specific-action-rules-q01" }, { "text": "Can this account submit, withdraw or moderate the item, and what approval state must be checked afterward?", "kind": "action", "id": "group-specific-action-rules-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-operation-and-continuity", "name": "Service operation and continuity", "description": "Track operational constraints, action outcomes and preservation needs.", "rationale": "A Flickr model must support reliable operations despite changing account capabilities and incomplete retrieval.", "layers": [ { "id": "api-and-account-capabilities", "name": "API and account capabilities", "description": "Bind planned operations to current service capabilities and permission requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "executable-operation", "name": "Executable operation", "description": "Record method requirements explicitly; changing photo permissions requires authenticated write permission. [Flickr setPerms API](https://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.setPerms.html)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current account limits, API requirements and granted permissions constrain this operation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "executable-operation-q01" }, { "text": "What response and subsequent state check will demonstrate that the operation succeeded?", "kind": "action", "id": "executable-operation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "availability-and-export", "name": "Availability and export", "description": "Distinguish retrieval failure from deletion and evaluate export completeness.", "findings": [ { "id": "preservation-evidence", "name": "Preservation evidence", "description": "Track media retrieval and metadata preservation independently, including unresolved failures and organisation relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does an unavailable item reflect access restrictions, a service error or confirmed removal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "preservation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which originals, descriptions, rights declarations and organisation relationships were verified in the export?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "preservation-evidence-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The sense described is the named online platform, not an abstract concept or the general activity of photo sharing.", "Current ownership, subscription offerings, upload limits, and policy wording require verification and are omitted.", "This account is based on recall; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Flickr this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Flickr photo ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric identifier", "note": "Identifies an uploaded photo in Flickr's data model and API." }, { "scheme": "Flickr NSID", "value_or_pattern": "Digits followed by @N and further digits", "note": "Identifies accounts and groups independently of their display names." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Flickr this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Flickr, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Flickr as a photography-sharing service, assess the state of its accounts and media, and determine which discovery, organisation, sharing and reuse actions are available and authorised.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 74 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 Flickr, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. 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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 Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Flickr 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Flickr proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a Flickr, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a Flickr and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Flickr, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a Flickr, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Flickr is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Flickr consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Flickr takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Flickr, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Flickr, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr 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 Flickr?", "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 Flickr?", "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 Flickr 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 Flickr and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 Flickr is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Flickr, 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 Flickr, 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 Flickr 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 } } } }