{ "model": { "rank": 3991, "code": "thing-q109411", "model_id": "vr.tr.curse", "name": "curse", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret and handle a curse as an expression invoking or assigning harm, while separating its content, performance and reported effects.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q109411/", "tier": 2, "score": 79, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "evil eye", "jinx", "tatari", "saka-uta", "woes in the gospels", "sailm escaine", "Mubahala", "Curse of the pharaohs", "dongti", "Unforgivable Curse" ], "aliasCount": 10, "merged": 10, "knownIn": 79, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.curse", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q109411", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109411", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:14:23Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.7, "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: 01a08796-c70d-75d1-a218-266737df2d3d\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: curse\nRegistry id: vr.tr.curse\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q109411", "registryId": "vr.tr.curse", "name": "curse", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q109411/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.curse", "name": "curse", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret and handle a curse as an expression invoking or assigning harm, while separating its content, performance and reported effects.", "definition": "A curse is a spoken, written, or ritually expressed wish or invocation that harm or misfortune befall a person, group, object, or place, often understood within its cultural setting as having supernatural efficacy.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the informational content and identifiable expressions of a curse under vr.tr.curse, provisionally understood as a spoken, written or otherwise represented imprecation; it records attributed supernatural force as a claim rather than an established property.", "in_scope": [ "Words, symbols or narrative formulations that invoke harm upon a target", "The speaker, attributed author, target and invoked agent or force", "Conditions, prohibitions, duration and release clauses expressed by a curse", "Transmission, translation, adaptation and quotation of curse content", "Relationships between a curse expression, its performance and accounts of its effects" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Profanity or insulting language without an imprecatory function", "The complete ritual in which a curse is performed", "The physical tablet, manuscript, recording or other carrier", "The person, community or object targeted by a curse", "Diseases, misfortunes or other events attributed to a curse", "An entire fictional work or religious tradition containing curses" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Expresses, invokes or assigns an adverse outcome to a target; an expletive alone does not establish a curse.", "Can invoke an external power or pronounce a harmful fate without promising that the speaker will personally cause harm, distinguishing it from a straightforward threat.", "Must be distinguished from a neutral prediction of misfortune by its wording, attributed function or performance context.", "May occur inside a prayer, oath or spell, but the curse is the component that invokes or assigns harm.", "A quotation can represent curse content without establishing that the quoting speaker is directing it at anyone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Expression mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "spoken; written; signed; symbolic; mixed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines what evidence preserves the curse and whether wording alone captures its expression." }, { "name": "Imprecatory function", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "wish for harm; invocation of harm; pronouncement of harmful fate; conditional sanction; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition without treating every insult, prediction or threatening statement as a curse." }, { "name": "Target reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "named target; described target; collective target; self; unspecified; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who or what the adverse outcome concerns without resolving ambiguous names by guesswork." }, { "name": "Invoked agency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "referenced deity, spirit, fate, impersonal force or other attributed agent; none explicit; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records how the expression represents the means of harm without endorsing that representation." }, { "name": "Adverse outcome content", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "death; illness; loss; exclusion; failure; misfortune; other specified outcome; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Preserves what harm is actually expressed and prevents later events from being substituted into the wording." }, { "name": "Conditional structure", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unconditional; triggered by an act; triggered by an event; includes an exception; unclear", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes immediate imprecation from sanctions such as a curse upon whoever violates a prohibition." }, { "name": "Use context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "directed performance; quotation; fictional representation; scholarly transcription; reported speech; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Prevents reproduction or discussion of a curse from being automatically classified as its enactment." }, { "name": "Efficacy attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "claimant linked to a claim of efficacy, failure, release or uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Keeps participant beliefs and reported outcomes separate from independently supported observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and annotate the target, adverse outcome, invoked agency and conditions in a curse expression.", "Compare versions and translations while preserving changes in target, severity or release conditions.", "Distinguish a directed curse from quoted, fictional or analytical use.", "Link curse content to its carrier, performance and attributed author without merging those things.", "Assess a requested reproduction against documented access restrictions and the context of its intended use.", "Record reports of efficacy or release with their claimants and supporting evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "imprecation-and-boundaries", "name": "Imprecation and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which sense of curse is represented and what makes the expression imprecatory.", "rationale": "The name can refer to an invocation, profanity or an allegedly afflicted state, which require different models.", "layers": [ { "id": "curse-sense", "name": "Curse sense", "description": "Locates the registered thing among competing uses of the word.", "findings": [ { "id": "imprecatory-content", "name": "Imprecatory content", "description": "Record the evidence that the expression invokes or assigns harm rather than merely containing offensive language.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wording or contextual evidence makes this expression a curse rather than an insult, expletive or lament?", "kind": "definition", "id": "imprecatory-content-q01" }, { "text": "Does the underlying registry reference identify an expression, a performance or an allegedly cursed condition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "imprecatory-content-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-speech-acts", "name": "Neighbouring speech acts", "description": "Separates imprecation from related communicative functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "curse-component", "name": "Curse component", "description": "Identify the imprecatory component when it appears within a threat, prayer, oath, prophecy or spell.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the speaker invoke harm, promise to cause it personally, predict it or combine these functions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "curse-component-q01" }, { "text": "If the curse belongs to a longer oath or prayer, which passage carries the adverse sanction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "curse-component-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "harm-and-conditions", "name": "Harm and conditions", "description": "Captures the curse's target, adverse outcome and expressed rules of application.", "rationale": "Recognition and interpretation depend on who is cursed, what is invoked and under which conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "target-and-outcome", "name": "Target and outcome", "description": "Identifies the referents and harm specified by the expression.", "findings": [ { "id": "directed-adversity", "name": "Directed adversity", "description": "Preserve explicit and unresolved references to targets and adverse outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who or what is targeted, and is that identification explicit, inferred or disputed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "directed-adversity-q01" }, { "text": "What adverse outcome does the expression specify, and which details appear only in later interpretations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "directed-adversity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activation-and-release", "name": "Activation and release", "description": "Records conditions and limits asserted within the curse or attributed to it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-reach", "name": "Conditional reach", "description": "Distinguish textual triggers, duration, exceptions and release clauses from later claims about them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the curse specify a triggering violation, duration, repeated application or extension to descendants?", "kind": "definition", "id": "conditional-reach-q01" }, { "text": "Which source supplies any claimed exception or means of release, and is it part of the expression or a later account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditional-reach-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "voice-and-performance", "name": "Voice and performance", "description": "Connects curse content with its attributed speaker, invoked authority and situated use.", "rationale": "Identical words may function differently when directed at a target, recited in ritual or quoted in a story.", "layers": [ { "id": "speaker-and-agency", "name": "Speaker and agency", "description": "Separates authorship, utterance and the power represented as bringing about harm.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-authority", "name": "Attributed authority", "description": "Record who composes or voices the curse and what agency the expression invokes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who authored, uttered or is said to have uttered the curse, and what supports each attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What agent or force is invoked, and whose account establishes any special authority claimed for the speaker?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-use", "name": "Situated use", "description": "Identifies whether a recorded expression is being enacted, represented or discussed.", "findings": [ { "id": "performance-status", "name": "Performance status", "description": "Link a particular use to its audience, setting and evidence of communicative intent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this occurrence a directed imprecation, a quotation, a fictional utterance or an uncertain report?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "performance-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which gestures, objects or audience responses are necessary to interpret this occurrence, and where is the associated performance documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "performance-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-evidence-and-handling", "name": "Transmission, evidence and handling", "description": "Preserves curse versions, evaluates associated claims and guides contextual reproduction.", "rationale": "A curse may survive through fragmentary carriers and retellings that alter its wording or attach unverified effects.", "layers": [ { "id": "witnesses-and-variants", "name": "Witnesses and variants", "description": "Connects preserved expressions to evidence without confusing content with its carrier.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-expression", "name": "Attested expression", "description": "Track the source of the wording and distinguish transcription, reconstruction, translation and adaptation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inscription, manuscript, recording or report preserves this wording, and which portions are missing or reconstructed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-expression-q01" }, { "text": "Do variant expressions change the target, invoked power, harm or conditions enough to require separate identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attested-expression-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims-and-reproduction", "name": "Claims and reproduction", "description": "Separates attributed effects from observations and records constraints relevant to reuse.", "findings": [ { "id": "effect-attributions", "name": "Effect attributions", "description": "Record claims that a curse worked, failed or ended without treating sequence or belief as proof of causation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who attributes an event to this curse, and what evidence supports the event separately from the causal attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "effect-attributions-q01" }, { "text": "Does an alleged release describe a change in belief, a ritual declaration, an observed outcome or a fictional plot event?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effect-attributions-q02" } ] }, { "id": "contextual-reuse", "name": "Contextual reuse", "description": "Determine how the expression can be reproduced with its use context and documented restrictions intact.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented rights, access conditions or community protocols apply to reproducing this particular expression or recording?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "How should a quotation or translation be labelled so that readers can distinguish documentation from a curse directed at a present target?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-reuse-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": [ "With no recorded sense, this describes the imprecation or ritual-expression sense, not profanity or a supposedly resulting afflicted condition.", "Supernatural efficacy is a belief attributed to particular traditions, not an established property of curses.", "The listed kinds overlap; a researcher should verify the relevant culture, period, and distinction between expression, ritual act, and physical carrier." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of curse 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": [ "Spoken imprecation", "Written curse", "Ritual curse", "Conditional curse attached to an oath or prohibition", "Literary or folkloric curse" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of curse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Expressing hostility or condemnation", "Deterring violations of oaths, agreements, graves, or sacred places", "Seeking supernatural punishment or redress", "Establishing misfortune, conflict, or inherited obligations in stories", "Providing material for the study of religion, folklore, language, and historical social relations" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of curse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fear of being cursed can cause distress and influence behaviour.", "Accusations of cursing can contribute to stigma, exclusion, or violence.", "Claims to diagnose or remove curses can facilitate coercion or financial exploitation.", "Attributing illness or misfortune to a curse can delay practical assistance.", "Treating a translated formula as culturally interchangeable can misrepresent its meaning and function." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of curse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Traditions differ in whether a curse invokes a deity, spirits, impersonal power, or the speaker's own authority.", "Ancient Mediterranean curse tablets provide a historically specific written form; curses in other settings may primarily be oral or enacted.", "The boundaries between curses, prayers for punishment, oath sanctions, and harmful magic vary across languages and religious traditions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of curse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "spell", "difference": "A spell seeks an effect through magical words or actions; a curse specifically wishes or invokes harm or misfortune." }, { "name": "profanity", "difference": "Profanity uses taboo or offensive language and need not invoke harm, although English also calls it cursing." }, { "name": "threat", "difference": "A threat communicates prospective harm, often involving an agent's intended action; a curse wishes or invokes harm without necessarily promising to carry it out." }, { "name": "blessing", "difference": "A blessing invokes or expresses benefit, favour, or protection rather than harm." }, { "name": "curse tablet", "difference": "A curse tablet is a physical artefact bearing a curse; the curse is the expressed content or act." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of curse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's originating reference support the imprecation sense, or does it primarily describe an allegedly imposed supernatural condition?", "Which existing Vercy model, if any, already covers this concept and should remain its single source of truth?", "Which researched examples establish workable boundaries between curses, threats, maledictions, prayers and profanity across relevant languages and traditions?", "When should a recurring curse formula, a translated expression and a particular directed utterance count as distinct identifiable things?", "Which attested symbolic or nonverbal cases require extending this provisional expression-centred scope?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 curse, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret and handle a curse as an expression invoking or assigning harm, while separating its content, performance and reported effects.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: evil eye, jinx, tatari, saka-uta, woes in the gospels, sailm escaine, Mubahala, Curse of the pharaohs, dongti, Unforgivable Curse.", "10 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 79 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 curse, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "evil eye", "jinx", "tatari", "saka-uta", "woes in the gospels", "sailm escaine", "Mubahala", "Curse of the pharaohs", "dongti", "Unforgivable Curse" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 10 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 curse from another, and a curse 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 curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse 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 curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse 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 curse between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a curse 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 curse, 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 curse, 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 curse is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a curse says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a curse contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a curse, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a curse, 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 curse 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 curse and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse 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 curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 curse is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a curse, 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 curse, 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 curse 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 } } } }