{ "model": { "rank": 4890, "code": "thing-q107198", "model_id": "vr.tr.barber", "name": "barber", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise the barber occupation, assess evidence of service competence and applicable authority, and determine which grooming work a role holder may undertake.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q107198/", "tier": 2, "score": 71, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "barber surgeon" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 71, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.barber", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q107198", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107198", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:12:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08803-320d-75c2-9a6c-85c8eb4d8bc4\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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(vr.tr.barber, SOC / SOC.PER), including its service boundaries, competences, practice conditions and relations to practitioners, employers and applicable authorities; it does not model a particular person or barbershop.", "in_scope": [ "Occupational identity centred on cutting and grooming head hair and, where offered, facial hair", "Service-specific competences for consultation, cutting, clipping, finishing and shaving", "Qualification and authorisation requirements attached to a jurisdiction and service", "Responsibilities for hygiene, client agreement and recognising service limitations", "Relations between the occupation, practitioners, establishments and work arrangements" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A practitioner's personal identity, biography and complete employment history", "Barbershop ownership, premises management and business finances", "Job advertisements, vacancies and individual employment contracts", "Manufacture and full technical specifications of grooming tools and products", "Medical diagnosis and treatment of scalp or skin conditions", "The historical barber-surgeon role beyond distinguishing it from contemporary barbering" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Represents an occupation that people practise, rather than a person, shop or advertised position.", "Has a core service profile involving head-hair cutting and grooming; facial-hair services must be recorded rather than assumed.", "Can overlap with hairdresser or hairstylist roles, so classification depends on documented service scope and local occupational usage rather than title alone.", "Does not use client gender as the defining test for whether the role is barber.", "A barber title alone does not establish competence or permission to perform every shaving, chemical or skin-contact service." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Occupational classification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Classification scheme, edition, code, label and exact-or-broader mapping", "why_it_matters": "Connects the registered role to external occupational systems without assuming their categories have identical boundaries." }, { "name": "Service profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Head-hair cutting; clipper work; beard or moustache grooming; shaving; finishing; other explicitly evidenced services", "why_it_matters": "Defines the work represented and exposes services requiring separate competence or authority." }, { "name": "Hair and technique coverage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented hair textures, lengths, styles and tool techniques covered by competence evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a general occupational label from being treated as proof of competence across all client needs." }, { "name": "Practice jurisdiction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Country and relevant subnational jurisdiction, with effective date", "why_it_matters": "Provides the context needed to investigate occupational and service requirements." }, { "name": "Service authorisation assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unverified; requirement established; evidence sufficient; evidence insufficient; restriction identified; with service, jurisdiction and date", "why_it_matters": "Separates an occupational title from a supported assessment of what a particular role holder may do." }, { "name": "Competence evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Service or technique linked to training, assessment, supervised practice or other documented evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports service matching while distinguishing demonstrated skill from claimed experience." }, { "name": "Work arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Employee; self-employed; chair renter; apprentice or trainee; other; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps identify supervision and operational responsibility without treating the occupation as an employment contract." }, { "name": "Service readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ready; consultation needed; supervision needed; equipment or hygiene condition unresolved; defer; refer", "why_it_matters": "Connects role competence to the conditions of a specific proposed grooming service." } ], "affordances": [ "Match a requested haircut, beard service or shave to documented competence and service scope.", "Identify which jurisdictional requirements and practitioner evidence need verification before a service.", "Distinguish the barber occupation from its holder, workplace and vacancy records.", "Flag missing consultation, hygiene, supervision or equipment conditions before proceeding.", "Support a decision to adapt, defer or refer a service when the request exceeds documented capability or appropriate boundaries." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "occupational-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Occupational identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what the barber role denotes and how it relates to adjacent grooming occupations.", "rationale": "Titles and service overlap can otherwise cause an agent to confuse occupational identity with a person, establishment or unrestricted service entitlement.", "layers": [ { "id": "barber-role-recognition", "name": "Barber role recognition", "description": "Recognises the occupation through its documented grooming work.", "findings": [ { "id": "core-grooming-profile", "name": "Core grooming profile", "description": "The draft treats head-hair cutting and grooming as central, while recording facial-hair and other services explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which services establish that the role under consideration is barber in its local context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "core-grooming-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Is the referenced entity the occupation, a practitioner, a barbershop or a vacancy?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "core-grooming-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-occupation-mapping", "name": "Adjacent occupation mapping", "description": "Makes overlap with hairdressing, styling and other personal-care roles explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "title-and-classification-fit", "name": "Title and classification fit", "description": "External classifications and local titles need a documented mapping rather than an assumed one-to-one equivalence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authoritative occupational classification and edition place barber within a named category?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "title-and-classification-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which service or qualification boundaries distinguish barber from hairdresser or cosmetologist in the context being modelled?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "title-and-classification-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "grooming-services-and-competence", "name": "Grooming services and competence", "description": "Connects requested outcomes to consultation and demonstrated cutting, grooming and shaving abilities.", "rationale": "A barber label is too broad to support a reliable match between a client's request and a practitioner's capabilities.", "layers": [ { "id": "consultation-and-outcome", "name": "Consultation and outcome", "description": "Defines the intended result in terms the client and practitioner can agree.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-hair-and-beard-result", "name": "Agreed hair and beard result", "description": "A service proposal should capture desired shape, retained length and practical constraints before cutting or shaving begins.", "questions": [ { "text": "What head-hair or facial-hair shape, retained length and finish has the client agreed to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "agreed-hair-and-beard-result-q01" }, { "text": "What clarification or adaptation is needed given hair texture, growth patterns, current length and the client's maintenance preferences?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-hair-and-beard-result-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "technique-specific-capability", "name": "Technique-specific capability", "description": "Separates competence by grooming technique and relevant client needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "cutting-and-shaving-evidence", "name": "Cutting and shaving evidence", "description": "Clipper work, scissor cutting, beard shaping and razor shaving are assessed as distinct capabilities where relevant to the service profile.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports competence in the tools, techniques and hair textures required for this service?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cutting-and-shaving-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can the practitioner deliver the requested result independently, under supervision or only after further training?", "kind": "action", "id": "cutting-and-shaving-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualifications-and-practice-authority", "name": "Qualifications and practice authority", "description": "Locates qualification, registration, licensing and supervision questions within their actual jurisdictions.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish being described as a barber from holding any credentials or permissions required for particular work.", "layers": [ { "id": "jurisdictional-service-requirements", "name": "Jurisdictional service requirements", "description": "Determines which requirements apply to the proposed barbering services and setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-authority-and-scope", "name": "Applicable authority and scope", "description": "Requirements remain unresolved until supported by a relevant authority and an effective date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority and current source establish requirements for barbering and the specific proposed services in this jurisdiction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-authority-and-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Do the identified requirements attach to the practitioner, the establishment, particular services or a combination of these?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-authority-and-scope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holder-evidence-and-supervision", "name": "Holder evidence and supervision", "description": "Links role holders to relevant credentials and any conditions on their practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-practice-conditions", "name": "Verified practice conditions", "description": "A credential assessment records its issuer, scope, status and restrictions without transferring those attributes to the occupation itself.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified evidence shows that this role holder meets the applicable requirements for the proposed service?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-practice-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What supervision, renewal or scope restriction must be resolved before the role holder undertakes the work?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-practice-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safe-service-and-work-responsibility", "name": "Safe service and work responsibility", "description": "Captures practical readiness for close-contact grooming and responsibility for carrying it out.", "rationale": "Competence alone does not establish that tools, client conditions and workplace arrangements support proceeding with a particular service.", "layers": [ { "id": "tool-and-contact-readiness", "name": "Tool and contact readiness", "description": "Examines hygiene and equipment conditions relevant to shared grooming tools and skin contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "prepared-tools-and-work-area", "name": "Prepared tools and work area", "description": "Service readiness includes evidence that tools, blades, linens and contact surfaces have been prepared under applicable procedures.", "questions": [ { "text": "What applicable guidance defines preparation, reuse or disposal requirements for the tools and materials used in this service?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "prepared-tools-and-work-area-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved tool, blade, linen or surface condition requires correction before service begins?", "kind": "action", "id": "prepared-tools-and-work-area-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-limits-and-accountability", "name": "Service limits and accountability", "description": "Assigns operational responsibilities and identifies when grooming should be adapted or stopped.", "findings": [ { "id": "defer-refer-and-report", "name": "Defer, refer and report", "description": "The role needs a supported route for handling unsuitable service conditions, incidents and requests outside its competence, without assuming a medical diagnostic function.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed condition or client concern requires adapting, deferring or referring the proposed grooming service under applicable guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "defer-refer-and-report-q01" }, { "text": "Who is responsible for supervision, hygiene controls and incident handling under this barber's actual work arrangement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "defer-refer-and-report-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": [ "This describes the occupation sense, not a particular practitioner, employer or job vacancy.", "Identifier mappings are recalled rather than source-verified; check the applicable classification edition before publication.", "Verify local licensing authorities, qualification titles, hygiene requirements and authorised services before making jurisdiction-specific claims." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of barber this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Traditional barber", "Master barber", "Apprentice barber" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of barber 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": "ISCO-08", "value_or_pattern": "5141", "note": "International Labour Organization unit group 'Hairdressers'; includes barbers rather than identifying them separately." }, { "scheme": "US Standard Occupational 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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": [ "barber surgeon" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 71 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 barber from another, and a barber from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a barber 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 barber, 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 barber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a barber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a barber is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a barber is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a barber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a barber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a barber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a barber moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a barber, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a barber, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a barber 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 barber 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 barber between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a barber 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 barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber.", "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 barber and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a barber, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a barber sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber.", "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 barber 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a barber, 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 barber, 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 barber 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 barber is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a barber, 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 barber, 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 barber is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }