{ "model": { "rank": 3807, "code": "thing-q124274", "model_id": "vr.tr.azimuth", "name": "azimuth", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret, compare and use azimuth values while preserving the reference direction, geometric frame and conventions that give them meaning.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q124274/", "tier": 2, "score": 81, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 81, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q124274", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124274", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:12:17Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c6c-6330-7630-bfa9-968b56dfa09b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: azimuth\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: XCT.REL\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 801 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 register", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c6c-6323-72c1-b5e0-7bd2da2e9245\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: azimuth\nRegistry id: vr.tr.azimuth\nPlane / domain: XCT / XCT.REL\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q124274", "registryId": "vr.tr.azimuth", "name": "azimuth", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.REL" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q124274/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.azimuth", "name": "azimuth", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret, compare and use azimuth values while preserving the reference direction, geometric frame and conventions that give them meaning.", "definition": "Azimuth is an angular coordinate specifying a direction about a reference axis, measured in a reference plane from a stated reference direction according to a stated rotational convention.", "scope_statement": "This model owns azimuth as an angular relation locating a direction around a specified axis from a reference direction in a perpendicular plane, including local horizontal azimuth and explicitly declared spherical-coordinate conventions.", "in_scope": [ "The origin, target direction, reference plane and axis defining an azimuth", "Zero direction, positive rotation sense, angular units and value range", "True, magnetic, grid and other explicitly defined reference directions", "Observed, computed and commanded azimuth values with their validity conditions", "Circular comparison, reference conversion and cases where azimuth is undefined" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Elevation, altitude and zenith angle as independently modelled angular quantities", "Complete position, pose or orientation models", "Surveying instruments, compasses and antenna mechanisms as physical devices", "Routes, trajectories and geodesic solutions beyond their associated azimuths", "Magnetic-field and map-projection models used to establish reference corrections" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An azimuth specifies a direction around an axis; it does not by itself specify distance or a complete three-dimensional direction.", "In a local horizontal frame, azimuth resolves direction within the horizontal plane, whereas elevation resolves departure from that plane.", "A numeric angle qualifies as an interpretable azimuth only when its reference direction and rotation convention are known.", "Heading describes where an object's forward axis points, while target azimuth describes a selected direction; they coincide only when those directions coincide.", "Azimuth commonly overlaps with bearing terminology, so the model must identify whether a bearing uses a full-circle azimuth convention or a quadrant notation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Angular value", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees, radians or another declared angular unit", "why_it_matters": "Provides the magnitude while preventing unit-dependent interpretation errors." }, { "name": "Geometric frame", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Origin, reference plane, axis and frame identifier", "why_it_matters": "Determines the geometry in which the angle has meaning." }, { "name": "Target direction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Target point, direction vector, line tangent or designated object axis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes sightline azimuth, heading, path direction and other uses." }, { "name": "Zero reference", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "True north, magnetic north, grid north, named coordinate axis or other declared direction", "why_it_matters": "Values using different zero references cannot be compared directly." }, { "name": "Positive rotation convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared positive rotation sense with viewing direction or handedness", "why_it_matters": "Clockwise and counterclockwise descriptions are ambiguous without a viewing convention." }, { "name": "Angular representation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared interval and endpoint policy; wrapped or unwrapped", "why_it_matters": "Separates circular direction from accumulated rotation and handles the interval boundary." }, { "name": "Definition and validity state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Defined, undefined, indeterminate or invalid for the intended use", "why_it_matters": "Prevents missing geometry or singular directions from being treated as valid zero angles." }, { "name": "Uncertainty", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Angular uncertainty with stated interpretation, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about pointing, comparison and tolerance without assuming precision." }, { "name": "Context of applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Location, time, reference model, observation or computation record as applicable", "why_it_matters": "Some reference directions and corrections depend on where and when the azimuth applies." } ], "affordances": [ "Interpret an azimuth as a direction in a declared frame.", "Compute azimuth from a target direction when its projection and reference frame are valid.", "Normalise angular notation and calculate circular differences.", "Convert between reference conventions when the required frame relationships and corrections are available.", "Assess whether an azimuth is sufficiently defined and precise for a pointing or comparison task.", "Identify when additional elevation, distance or orientation information is required." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "direction-geometry", "name": "Direction geometry", "description": "Establishes what direction the azimuth locates and the geometry supporting that relation.", "rationale": "An angle alone cannot identify an azimuth without an origin, axis, plane and target direction.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-frame", "name": "Origin and frame", "description": "Identifies the geometric setting in which azimuth is evaluated.", "findings": [ { "id": "azimuth-frame", "name": "Azimuth frame", "description": "Record the origin, axis and perpendicular reference plane, including whether the frame is local horizontal or another declared coordinate frame.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what origin and around which axis is this azimuth defined?", "kind": "definition", "id": "azimuth-frame-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes the reference plane, and how is it related to the surrounding coordinate system?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "azimuth-frame-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "direction-referent", "name": "Direction referent", "description": "Distinguishes the direction being described from the object or position that supplies it.", "findings": [ { "id": "projected-target-direction", "name": "Projected target direction", "description": "Identify the sightline, vector, tangent or object axis whose projection into the reference plane determines azimuth.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this azimuth refer to a target sightline, a forward axis, a path tangent or another direction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "projected-target-direction-q01" }, { "text": "Is that direction projected into the reference plane, and is the projection nonzero?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "projected-target-direction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "angular-conventions", "name": "Angular conventions", "description": "Captures the choices that turn a geometric direction into a numeric azimuth.", "rationale": "The same direction can receive different azimuth values under different zero, rotation and notation conventions.", "layers": [ { "id": "zero-and-rotation", "name": "Zero and rotation", "description": "Makes the angular origin and positive sense explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-direction-convention", "name": "Reference direction convention", "description": "Record the zero direction and positive rotation sense without assuming that every discipline uses north and clockwise rotation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which direction is assigned zero, and what convention or authority establishes it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reference-direction-convention-q01" }, { "text": "In which sense does the angle increase, viewed from which side of the reference plane?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reference-direction-convention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "notation-and-periodicity", "name": "Notation and periodicity", "description": "Controls units, interval boundaries and the distinction between direction and accumulated rotation.", "findings": [ { "id": "circular-value-representation", "name": "Circular value representation", "description": "Preserve the angular unit, canonical interval and whether whole turns are discarded or retained for an operational purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What units, interval and endpoint rules govern the recorded value?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "circular-value-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Does a value beyond one turn encode rotation history, or should it be normalised to a direction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "circular-value-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reference-alignment", "name": "Reference alignment", "description": "Supports justified comparisons and transformations between azimuths.", "rationale": "A numeric difference can reflect a reference mismatch rather than a difference in physical direction.", "layers": [ { "id": "north-reference-conversion", "name": "North reference conversion", "description": "Handles true, magnetic and grid references with explicit contextual corrections.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-correction-evidence", "name": "Reference correction evidence", "description": "Record the source, applicability and sign convention of any correction used to align north references.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source and location or time context establish the required magnetic or grid correction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reference-correction-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How is the correction's sign defined and checked against the source and destination azimuth conventions?", "kind": "action", "id": "reference-correction-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparison-and-reversal", "name": "Comparison and reversal", "description": "Separates circular comparison within one frame from transformations between origins or frames.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-directions", "name": "Comparable directions", "description": "Require compatible frames before calculating circular differences; distinguish reversing a vector at one origin from finding a return direction at another origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are both azimuths expressed in the same frame and convention, or what transformation is required first?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-directions-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested reverse azimuth mean a half-turn at the same origin or a direction evaluated in the destination's local frame?", "kind": "action", "id": "comparable-directions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "determination-and-usability", "name": "Determination and usability", "description": "Connects azimuth values to their derivation, uncertainty and permissible use.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a usable directional estimate from a singular, unsupported or insufficiently precise value.", "layers": [ { "id": "determination-evidence", "name": "Determination evidence", "description": "Records how the azimuth was obtained and what limits its precision.", "findings": [ { "id": "azimuth-derivation", "name": "Azimuth derivation", "description": "Distinguish an observation, coordinate-derived result, nominal direction and commanded value, preserving relevant inputs and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this azimuth measured, computed, specified or commanded, and what evidence supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "azimuth-derivation-q01" }, { "text": "What angular uncertainty follows from the inputs, reference alignment and determination method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "azimuth-derivation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "singularities-and-action", "name": "Singularities and action", "description": "Identifies undefined geometry and checks whether a value supports the intended decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "azimuth-validity-gate", "name": "Azimuth validity gate", "description": "Treat zero in-plane projection or an undefined reference direction as a validity problem; evaluate near-singular sensitivity and task tolerances before use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the direction parallel to the azimuth axis, nearly parallel to it, or evaluated where the chosen zero reference is undefined?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "azimuth-validity-gate-q01" }, { "text": "Given the uncertainty and validity state, may the agent use this azimuth for the intended pointing or comparison action?", "kind": "action", "id": "azimuth-validity-gate-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 angular-coordinate sense; no narrower registry sense was supplied.", "North-origin clockwise measurement is common in navigation and surveying, but mathematical and astronomical conventions must be checked explicitly.", "Astronomical and geodetic azimuth use different local reference constructions, involving the gravity vertical and reference-ellipsoid normal respectively; precision work must distinguish them." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of azimuth 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": [ "True-north azimuth", "Magnetic azimuth", "Grid azimuth", "Astronomical azimuth", "Geodetic azimuth" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of azimuth 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 navigation headings and directions to landmarks.", "Specifying survey lines and geodetic directions.", "Locating celestial objects in a horizontal coordinate system.", "Orienting antennas, telescopes and solar panels.", "Describing directions in radar and tracking systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of azimuth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Azimuth angle", "typical_range": "0 inclusive to 360 exclusive for a complete turn; signed representations also occur", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "Azimuth angle in mathematical computation", "typical_range": "0 inclusive to 2π exclusive, or a signed interval spanning one turn", "unit": "radian" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of azimuth 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": [ "Confusing true north, magnetic north and grid north produces systematic direction errors.", "Mixing reference directions or clockwise and counterclockwise conventions gives incompatible angles.", "Treating the 0°/360° boundary as an ordinary numerical discontinuity corrupts averaging, interpolation and control.", "Azimuth is undefined when the direction has zero projection onto the reference plane, as at the zenith in horizontal coordinates.", "Using an outdated magnetic declination correction can misdirect navigation or instrument alignment." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of azimuth 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": [ "Magnetic declination varies with location and time, so magnetic and true azimuth differ by a locally dependent correction.", "Grid north depends on the map projection and position; conversion between grid and true azimuth requires the applicable convergence correction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of azimuth 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": "bearing", "difference": "Bearing is a broader directional term that can denote an azimuth or a quadrant-based direction; azimuth specifies an angular coordinate around a reference axis." }, { "name": "elevation angle", "difference": "Elevation measures the angle above or below the reference plane, while azimuth specifies direction around its normal axis." }, { "name": "heading", "difference": "Heading describes where a vehicle or object points; azimuth can describe any direction, including one unrelated to its orientation." }, { "name": "zenith angle", "difference": "Zenith angle measures angular distance from the upward vertical, whereas azimuth measures direction around that vertical." }, { "name": "longitude", "difference": "Longitude locates a position relative to a reference meridian; local azimuth specifies a direction at an observation point." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of azimuth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.azimuth intend to cover general spherical-coordinate azimuth as well as geographic and astronomical horizontal azimuth?", "Which authoritative conventions should govern zero direction, rotation sense and notation in each supported application domain?", "How should the registry relate azimuth to bearing, heading and position angle while preserving their overlapping but distinct uses?", "Which uncertainty representations and near-singularity thresholds are appropriate for the intended operational tasks?", "Which existing Vercy models already own coordinate frames, magnetic corrections and geodesic direction calculations, and how should this model reference them?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. 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 azimuth, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise, interpret, compare and use azimuth values while preserving the reference direction, geometric frame and conventions that give them meaning.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 81 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 azimuth, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 azimuth from another, and a azimuth 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a azimuth 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth 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 azimuth?", "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 azimuth?", "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 azimuth 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 azimuth and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth 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 azimuth is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a azimuth, 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 azimuth, 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 azimuth is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }