product key
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a product key, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Derived, awaiting review
6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one product key from another, and a product key from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a product key sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a product key from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a product key passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a product key between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a product key, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a product key is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Content, encoding and access What a product key says, how it is encoded and who may read it.
An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.
Content and encoding
The content itself, its format and its language.
Content, format and language
What a product key contains and in what form it is held.
- What identifies and describes the content of a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the content of a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the content of a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Access, rights and retention
Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.
Access rules and retention
The permissions attached to a product key and the period it survives.
- What identifies and describes access to a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about access to a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once access to a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Work, version and copy Which level of product key a statement is about.
The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.
Levels of the thing
Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.
What belongs at each level
Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.
- For product key, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy? boundary
- What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited? definition
Versions, editions and variants
How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.
Versions and canonicity
Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.
- Which versions or editions of product key exist, and how do they differ substantively? definition
- Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose? provenance
Authorship, rights and permitted use Who made product key and what may be done with it.
Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.
Authorship and contribution
Who contributed what, and in what capacity.
Contributors and roles
The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.
- Who authored or contributed to product key, in what roles, and how is that attested? provenance
- Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead? boundary
Rights and permissions
Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.
Rights, term and permitted acts
The regime in force and what it allows.
- What rights subsist in product key, in which jurisdictions, and until when? definition
- Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a product key came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a product key and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a product key is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a product key, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a product key, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a product key is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- work, medium or creative form
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Steam key
What it is Derived, awaiting review
An informational thing registered under INF.MED. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
Why it exists Derived, awaiting review
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a product key, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Steam key.
- 1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.
- Described in 20 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
May
- read it and act on what it says
- observe it, measure it, record its state
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Links to other meta-models Derived, awaiting review
related
- Steam key - covers: 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.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Made of: content that has to be carried by something else
- 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.
Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review
- What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- read and interpreted
- observed and measured
Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Context of use required Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 20 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.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- 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 product key, and on what evidence are they told apart?
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a product key is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a product key is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a product key is known, and what must it refuse?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry, generated draft (pass 1) · not researched
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