{ "model": { "rank": 5194, "code": "thing-q131578", "model_id": "vr.tr.j-pop", "name": "J-pop", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, assess and use J-pop classifications while preserving their cultural context, evidential basis and limits.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q131578/", "tier": 2, "score": 69, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Akiba-pop", "denpa song", "moe song", "Akishibu-kei", "J-euro", "self-esteem boosting song", "wa euro" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 69, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q131578", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131578", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:52:16Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.6, "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: 01a08827-580f-7c43-8473-026e6d5b9323\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: J-pop\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 61.7, "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: 01a08827-57fd-7101-b261-c0f3765029d1\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: J-pop\nRegistry id: vr.tr.j-pop\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q131578", "registryId": "vr.tr.j-pop", "name": "J-pop", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q131578/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.j-pop", "name": "J-pop", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, assess and use J-pop classifications while preserving their cultural context, evidential basis and limits.", "definition": "J-pop is an umbrella category of contemporary Japanese popular music associated with Japan's commercial music industry, encompassing multiple musical styles rather than a single formally bounded genre.", "scope_statement": "This model owns J-pop as a musical and cultural category associated with Japanese popular music, including its contested boundaries, attributed repertoire and relationships to production, circulation and audiences; it does not treat J-pop as a single work or a fixed musical formula.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions and uses of the J-pop label across sources, periods and markets", "Evidence connecting particular works, recordings, performances or artist activities to J-pop", "Musical, linguistic and presentation features relevant to a contextual classification", "Relationships between J-pop classification, Japanese music markets and international circulation", "Changing boundaries with adjacent genres, scenes and media categories" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete biographies, citizenship records or identities of performers", "Full descriptions of individual compositions, recordings, releases, files or physical copies", "Ownership, licensing and royalty administration for particular musical assets", "Comprehensive models of the Japanese music industry or Japanese culture", "Standalone models of adjacent categories such as K-pop, kayōkyoku, city pop and anime music" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require contextual evidence that a source uses or supports the J-pop classification; Japanese lyrics, performer nationality or release location alone are insufficient tests.", "Distinguish membership in J-pop from membership in Japanese music generally: association with Japan does not by itself establish a popular-music category.", "Treat idol music and anime-associated music as potentially overlapping classifications, with separate evidence for each label.", "Distinguish the category from its members: an artist attribution does not automatically classify every recording, collaboration or career period.", "Permit overlapping genre labels and historically variable boundaries rather than requiring one exclusive sound-based classification." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Classification target", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "composition | recording | release | performance | artist activity | repertoire | scene", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a J-pop label applied at one level from being inherited indiscriminately by other entities." }, { "name": "Label attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Target linked to a named source, attributed label, source date and relevant passage", "why_it_matters": "Makes classification inspectable and separates sourced usage from agent inference." }, { "name": "Classification assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | supported in context | contested | insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Allows uncertain or conflicting classifications to remain usable without becoming categorical assertions." }, { "name": "Attribution context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "artist self-description | label promotion | retail or platform taxonomy | journalism | scholarship | audience usage", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the purpose and standpoint behind a J-pop label." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Period or dated activity to which the classification applies, distinguished from the source publication date", "why_it_matters": "Separates contemporary naming from retrospective classification." }, { "name": "Market relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented relationships to Japanese and other markets through production, promotion, distribution or reception", "why_it_matters": "Supports examination of market context without substituting nationality for classification evidence." }, { "name": "Vocal language profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named language or languages | instrumental | unknown; recorded for the relevant version", "why_it_matters": "Supports discovery and comparison while avoiding a Japanese-language-only definition." }, { "name": "Adjacent category relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named category with sourced overlap, distinction, historical relationship or disputed equivalence", "why_it_matters": "Preserves meaningful connections without collapsing neighbouring categories into J-pop." }, { "name": "Musical feature evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Target linked to described musical features and their observation or analysis source", "why_it_matters": "Allows sound-based comparisons without claiming a universal J-pop signature." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a proposed J-pop attribution and explain its supporting evidence and limitations.", "Build a repertoire selection using explicit period, market, language and classification criteria.", "Compare how artists, platforms, critics and audiences apply the J-pop label.", "Trace category changes while retaining earlier and conflicting attributions.", "Connect a classified recording to its work, release and media associations without conflating them.", "Identify missing evidence before recommending a classification change or routing a proposed use to asset-specific rights checks." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "j-pop-meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "J-pop meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which use of J-pop is being modelled and how it relates to neighbouring categories.", "rationale": "An agent needs an explicit interpretation of the label before deciding whether a candidate belongs to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "label-usage", "name": "Label usage", "description": "Records definitions and the contexts in which sources apply them.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-j-pop-definition", "name": "Situated J-pop definition", "description": "Capture a source's meaning of J-pop without assuming that all sources share it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this source use J-pop as a musical genre, a market category, a cultural identity or a combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-j-pop-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplies this definition, when, and for which audience or market?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-j-pop-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-categories", "name": "Neighbouring categories", "description": "Makes overlaps and distinctions explicit rather than encoding exclusive membership.", "findings": [ { "id": "adjacent-label-comparison", "name": "Adjacent label comparison", "description": "Evaluate J-pop against relevant neighbouring labels using the same target and context.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the relevant source distinguish J-pop from kayōkyoku, city pop, J-rock or Japanese popular music more broadly?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adjacent-label-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "For this candidate, are idol music, anime music or K-pop alternative labels, overlapping labels or unsupported comparisons?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adjacent-label-comparison-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "repertoire-and-attribution", "name": "Repertoire and attribution", "description": "Connects J-pop claims to precisely identified musical entities and accountable sources.", "rationale": "Category membership becomes unreliable when artist reputations, song titles and recording versions are treated as interchangeable.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-granularity", "name": "Classification granularity", "description": "Identifies the entity and version to which a label actually applies.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-specific-membership", "name": "Target-specific membership", "description": "Attach the attribution to a composition, recording, release, performance or bounded artist activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the J-pop attribution concern an artist's overall activity, a particular release or a specific recording or performance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "target-specific-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Which identifiers, credits and version details distinguish the classified target from covers, remixes and alternate-language recordings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "target-specific-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-strength", "name": "Attribution strength", "description": "Assesses what the evidence supports and where sources disagree.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-and-contested-labels", "name": "Supported and contested labels", "description": "Retain direct attributions, agent interpretations and conflicting evidence as distinguishable records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which accessible source explicitly classifies this target as J-pop, and what passage supports that reading?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-and-contested-labels-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent accept the attribution in its stated context, record disagreement or leave membership unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-and-contested-labels-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "musical-and-presentation-profile", "name": "Musical and presentation profile", "description": "Describes candidate repertoire through musical observations, language and presentation context.", "rationale": "An agent needs useful comparisons within J-pop without inventing sonic or linguistic requirements for the whole category.", "layers": [ { "id": "musical-description", "name": "Musical description", "description": "Records musical characteristics at the level where they can be observed.", "findings": [ { "id": "nonexclusive-musical-features", "name": "Nonexclusive musical features", "description": "Describe arrangement, rhythm, harmony, vocal delivery and production as evidence about particular repertoire.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which musical features are documented or directly observable in the candidate recording, and how were they identified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nonexclusive-musical-features-q01" }, { "text": "Do these features help distinguish this repertoire in context, or are they equally common in the neighbouring categories being compared?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonexclusive-musical-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-presentation", "name": "Language and presentation", "description": "Examines lyrics, performance and visual framing without making them automatic membership rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-and-performance-context", "name": "Version and performance context", "description": "Keep language and promotional presentation tied to the relevant version or activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which languages occur in this version, and does the J-pop attribution persist across its instrumental or alternate-language versions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "version-and-performance-context-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects its choreography, visual presentation or performer positioning to the source's J-pop classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "version-and-performance-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "markets-media-and-audiences", "name": "Markets, media and audiences", "description": "Examines the industrial and audience relationships involved in J-pop attribution and circulation.", "rationale": "J-pop classification may involve market and reception contexts that cannot be recovered from audio features alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "production-and-market-positioning", "name": "Production and market positioning", "description": "Captures documented production, distribution and promotional relationships relevant to the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "japanese-market-relationship", "name": "Japanese market relationship", "description": "Assess how a candidate relates to Japanese popular-music markets without imposing a nationality requirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which production, label, distribution or promotional relationships connect this activity to a Japanese music market?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "japanese-market-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "How is a cross-border collaboration or non-Japanese performer classified by the relevant sources, and on what stated basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "japanese-market-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "media-and-reception", "name": "Media and reception", "description": "Separates media associations and audience usage from musical-category membership.", "findings": [ { "id": "circulation-specific-classification", "name": "Circulation-specific classification", "description": "Record where and how repertoire is presented as J-pop across media and territories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is an anime, game, television or advertising association documented separately from the evidence for calling the music J-pop?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "circulation-specific-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Do Japanese and international platforms, publications or audience communities apply different labels to the same target?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "circulation-specific-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-change-and-agent-decisions", "name": "Historical change and agent decisions", "description": "Maintains time-sensitive category judgments and supports accountable discovery and use.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish historical naming from later reinterpretation and make practical decisions without overstating classification or permission.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-applicability", "name": "Historical applicability", "description": "Tracks when labels were applied and which period of activity they describe.", "findings": [ { "id": "contemporary-and-retrospective-naming", "name": "Contemporary and retrospective naming", "description": "Preserve the difference between a period's own terminology and subsequent J-pop classifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this repertoire called J-pop at the time of release, or does the attribution come from a later source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contemporary-and-retrospective-naming-q01" }, { "text": "What period does the attribution cover, and is there evidence that its applicability changed during the artist's career or the repertoire's circulation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contemporary-and-retrospective-naming-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-use", "name": "Selection and use", "description": "Turns contextual classifications into explainable actions while preserving asset boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-repertoire-actions", "name": "Evidence-based repertoire actions", "description": "Use the classification for discovery and curation, with unresolved membership and asset-specific permissions handled explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the requested J-pop selection, which periods, markets, versions and evidence standards determine inclusion, and how should contested candidates be shown?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-repertoire-actions-q01" }, { "text": "If the agent will reproduce, distribute or synchronise a selected track, which composition and recording records must supply the applicable permissions?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-repertoire-actions-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 musical and industry category, not an individual work, recording or release.", "The listed kinds overlap and do not constitute an official taxonomy; J-pop has no universally enforced membership test.", "Exact histories of the term and boundaries with kayōkyoku, city pop and J-rock require research; no sources were consulted here." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of J-pop 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": [ "Idol pop", "Dance-pop", "Pop rock", "Electropop", "R&B-influenced pop", "Singer-songwriter pop" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of J-pop 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": "ISRC", "value_or_pattern": "12-character alphanumeric code", "note": "Identifies a particular sound recording or music video recording, not J-pop as a category or the underlying composition." }, { "scheme": "ISWC", "value_or_pattern": "T followed by nine digits and a check digit", "note": "Identifies a musical work independently of its recordings." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of J-pop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 3901, issued by ISO, specifies the International Standard Recording Code for recordings.", "ISO 15707, issued by ISO, specifies the International Standard Musical Work Code for musical works." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of J-pop 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": [ "Classification of recordings, artists and playlists in music retail, broadcasting and streaming.", "Commercial releases and live concert performance.", "Theme songs and other music for television dramas, animation, films and games.", "Advertising, promotional campaigns and commercial tie-ins.", "Fan participation through concerts, karaoke, dance covers and collecting." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of J-pop 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": [ "Treating a commercial umbrella category as if it had necessary musical features such as a fixed tempo, instrumentation or song structure.", "Conflating the musical work, a particular recording, a release and an individual physical copy.", "Assuming that artist nationality or Japanese-language lyrics alone determine inclusion.", "Confusing permissions for a composition with permissions for using its recorded performance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of J-pop 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": [ "Outside Japan, J-pop often functions as a broad discovery label for Japanese popular music; domestic classification may use more specific stylistic or industry categories.", "Japanese popular music is not invariably sung in Japanese, and J-pop classification does not require an exclusively Japanese audience." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of J-pop 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": "Japanese popular music", "difference": "The broader historical category includes traditions and periods that are not consistently called J-pop." }, { "name": "Kayōkyoku", "difference": "A historically established Japanese popular-song category that precedes and overlaps with J-pop; the distinction depends partly on period and industry framing." }, { "name": "J-rock", "difference": "Emphasizes rock styles within Japanese music; commercially oriented pop rock may receive both labels." }, { "name": "Anison", "difference": "Defined by association with anime rather than musical style; an anime song can also be J-pop." }, { "name": "City pop", "difference": "A more specific historical and stylistic category associated especially with polished, urban Japanese pop of the late 1970s and 1980s." }, { "name": "K-pop", "difference": "Centers on the South Korean popular-music industry; release language alone does not reliably separate it from J-pop." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of J-pop this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which researched definitions should anchor this registry entry, and how should incompatible scholarly, industry and audience uses be represented?", "What documented history of the J-pop label establishes a defensible distinction between contemporary usage and retrospective application?", "How do sources classify multilingual repertoire, cross-border groups and performers working across Japanese and Korean popular-music markets?", "Which relationships with kayōkyoku, city pop, J-rock, idol music and anime music are supported for particular periods rather than assumed universally?", "Does the existing Vercy catalogue already contain a model covering this concept, and which neighbouring registry entries should be linked to preserve one source of truth?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 J-pop, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, assess and use J-pop classifications while preserving their cultural context, evidential basis and limits.", "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: Akiba-pop, denpa song, moe song, Akishibu-kei, J-euro, self-esteem boosting song, wa euro.", "7 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 69 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 J-pop, 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": [ "Akiba-pop", "denpa song", "moe song", "Akishibu-kei", "J-euro", "self-esteem boosting song", "wa euro" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 69 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 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 J-pop from another, and a J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop 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 J-pop between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop 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 J-pop contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 J-pop is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a J-pop, 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 J-pop, 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 J-pop 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 } } } }