{ "model": { "rank": 2033, "code": "thing-q13275", "model_id": "vr.tr.somali", "name": "Somali", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a provisionally identified Somali cat, assess its individual condition and determine appropriate care, handling and referral actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q13275/", "tier": 2, "score": 118, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Aweer people", "Northern Somali", "Oslo Somali", "Ashraf", "Benadiri Somali" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 118, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q13275", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13275", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:25:30Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00632808, "turns": 1, "seconds": 37.1, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 86.9, "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: 01a07b2e-91e0-7743-a54f-98ac526f537e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Somali\nRegistry id: vr.tr.somali\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy mod" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q13275", "registryId": "vr.tr.somali", "name": "Somali", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q13275/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.somali", "name": "Somali", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a provisionally identified Somali cat, assess its individual condition and determine appropriate care, handling and referral actions.", "definition": "Somali is a longhaired cat breed genetically equivalent to the Abyssinian except for a recessive longhair allele, with a ticked coat and a full brush tail.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interprets Somali as the domestic-cat breed and owns the breed-relevant recognition, condition and care requirements of an individual cat; this interpretation requires confirmation because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting or contesting identification as a Somali cat", "Individual expression of the semi-longhaired, ticked-coat phenotype associated with Somali identification", "Coat maintenance, comfort and handling requirements", "Individual activity, climbing, play and social preferences relevant to care", "Documented ancestry and breed-relevant health evidence", "Decisions about grooming, enrichment, veterinary referral and proposed breeding" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Somali people, ethnicity, nationality and language", "Somalia as a territory or political entity", "The Abyssinian breed as a separate model", "General feline anatomy, nutrition and disease knowledge shared by domestic cats", "Breeder businesses, registries and cat-show organisations", "Veterinary diagnostic protocols and treatment prescribing" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether Somali denotes a cat in the originating registry context; the label alone does not distinguish a breed from a language or human identity.", "Inspect the combination of semi-long coat, bushy tail and ticked hairs; this combination supports a Somali phenotype but does not establish registered ancestry.", "Compare coat length and furnishings with an Abyssinian identification, allowing for age, season and condition rather than relying on facial resemblance alone.", "Distinguish ticking along individual hairs from a predominantly striped, spotted or patched body pattern, documenting any ambiguous or overlapping features.", "Separate a documented Somali pedigree from a visual resemblance in a domestic longhair; record the latter as uncertain rather than upgrading it to confirmed breed identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Somali identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "registry-linked pedigree; documented ancestry without registration; phenotype-based attribution; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines how confidently breed-specific assumptions may guide decisions." }, { "name": "Pedigree and individual linkage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to pedigree, issuing registry, parents and evidence connecting documents to this cat", "why_it_matters": "A pedigree supports identification only when it belongs to the individual being assessed." }, { "name": "Coat ticking expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "clearly observed; partly observed; obscured; absent on inspected areas; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports phenotype assessment without treating colour or a photograph as sufficient proof." }, { "name": "Coat length and furnishings", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed body-coat length, tail fullness, neck ruff and other furnishings, with age and season", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish the Somali phenotype and interpret changes in coat presentation." }, { "name": "Coat maintenance condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "free of tangles; tangled; matted; visibly soiled; associated skin concern; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Connects the longer coat to concrete grooming and referral needs." }, { "name": "Weight trajectory", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg recorded over time, interpreted alongside age and professionally assessed body condition", "why_it_matters": "A full coat can complicate visual assessment, so longitudinal evidence helps detect meaningful change." }, { "name": "Activity and social preferences", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed climbing, play, exploration, contact-seeking and withdrawal relative to the individual's baseline", "why_it_matters": "Supports enrichment and recognition of change without assuming that every Somali has the same temperament." }, { "name": "Breed-relevant health evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to veterinary assessments and original screening reports, including date, method, result and applicability", "why_it_matters": "Prevents ancestry, screening results and current clinical health from being conflated." } ], "affordances": [ "Assign or revise a provisional Somali identification with its evidence and uncertainty.", "Inspect coat ticking and furnishings using observation that the cat tolerates.", "Plan and evaluate grooming according to actual tangling, skin condition and handling tolerance.", "Provide and adjust climbing, interactive play and social opportunities using individual observations.", "Compare coat, weight and activity changes with the cat's baseline and prepare a veterinary referral summary.", "Assemble evidence needed for a qualified review of a proposed mating without treating breed identity as breeding clearance." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cfa-somali", "title": "Somali", "url": "https://cfa.org/somali/", "what_it_supports": "Breed definition, colours, and CFA standard as a longhaired Abyssinian-type cat.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "tica-somali", "title": "Somali Breed", "url": "https://tica.org/breeds/browse-all-breeds?view=article&id=861:somali-breed&catid=79", "what_it_supports": "TICA recognition and colour classes of the Somali cat.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "gccf-somali", "title": "The Somali Cat", "url": "https://www.gccfcats.org/getting-a-cat/choosing-a-cat/cat-breeds/somali/", "what_it_supports": "UK GCCF description of type, coat, and distinction from the Abyssinian.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "somali-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Somali identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what Somali means here and how strongly that identification is supported for this cat.", "rationale": "The undefined registry label is ambiguous, and resemblance to the Somali phenotype is different from documented breed identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-meaning", "name": "Registry meaning", "description": "Resolves the intended referent before applying a cat-breed model.", "findings": [ { "id": "cat-breed-interpretation", "name": "Cat-breed interpretation", "description": "Records whether the originating context supports interpreting Somali as a domestic-cat breed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What surrounding registry entries or originating material establish that Somali refers to the cat breed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cat-breed-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Does an existing feline or breed model already own this concept, requiring a link rather than a duplicate model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cat-breed-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-breed-evidence", "name": "Individual breed evidence", "description": "Separates documentary identification from appearance-based attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "pedigree-versus-resemblance", "name": "Pedigree versus resemblance", "description": "Records evidence for Somali identification and any conflict with an Abyssinian, mixed-ancestry or domestic-longhair identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pedigree or ancestry documents identify this cat as Somali, and how are they linked to the individual?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pedigree-versus-resemblance-q01" }, { "text": "If documentation is absent or conflicting, what identification wording preserves the uncertainty?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pedigree-versus-resemblance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ticked-coat-and-development", "name": "Ticked coat and development", "description": "Describes the coat features used in Somali recognition and the context needed to interpret them.", "rationale": "Coat ticking and longer furnishings are central recognition evidence, but their visibility and development must be assessed rather than assumed.", "layers": [ { "id": "coat-pattern-evidence", "name": "Coat pattern evidence", "description": "Examines ticking and competing pattern interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-hair-banding", "name": "Observed hair banding", "description": "Records whether individual hairs show ticking and whether the overall coat supports the proposed identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "On which body areas has ticking been directly observed, and under what lighting or image conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-hair-banding-q01" }, { "text": "Do visible stripes, patches or other markings require an alternative interpretation or reference to a specific registry standard?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-hair-banding-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coat-length-in-context", "name": "Coat length in context", "description": "Interprets body-coat length, tail fullness and furnishings against the individual's development and condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "somali-versus-shorthaired-appearance", "name": "Somali versus shorthaired appearance", "description": "Records the longer-coat evidence relevant to distinguishing a Somali phenotype from an Abyssinian-like appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What body-coat length, tail fullness and neck furnishings are observable at the recorded age and season?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "somali-versus-shorthaired-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "Could immaturity, clipping, coat loss or poor image coverage explain an apparently short or incomplete coat?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "somali-versus-shorthaired-appearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coat-comfort-and-care", "name": "Coat comfort and care", "description": "Connects the Somali's longer coat to individual maintenance needs and tolerable care.", "rationale": "Recognition features also create practical inspection and grooming requirements that cannot be determined from breed identity alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "coat-and-skin-condition", "name": "Coat and skin condition", "description": "Assesses whether coat furnishings remain clean, comfortable and free of problematic tangles.", "findings": [ { "id": "tangles-and-obscured-condition", "name": "Tangles and obscured condition", "description": "Records tangling, matting and changes that a full coat may conceal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are tangles, mats, soiling, thinning or skin changes present, including beneath the fuller furnishings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tangles-and-obscured-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed changes justify professional assessment before further grooming?", "kind": "action", "id": "tangles-and-obscured-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grooming-response", "name": "Grooming response", "description": "Uses the cat's response and coat outcomes to adapt maintenance.", "findings": [ { "id": "tolerated-coat-maintenance", "name": "Tolerated coat maintenance", "description": "Records which grooming methods maintain this coat without escalating discomfort.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tools, session lengths and handling positions does this cat tolerate when grooming its tail, ruff and body coat?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tolerated-coat-maintenance-q01" }, { "text": "How should grooming frequency or technique change when tangles recur or the cat shows discomfort?", "kind": "action", "id": "tolerated-coat-maintenance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-and-household-fit", "name": "Activity and household fit", "description": "Tests activity and interaction expectations attached to Somali identification against the individual cat.", "rationale": "Breed-level temperament descriptions should generate observations, while actual behaviour determines enrichment and household decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "climbing-and-play-profile", "name": "Climbing and play profile", "description": "Assesses how this cat uses exploration, height and interactive play opportunities.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-enrichment-use", "name": "Individual enrichment use", "description": "Records which activities engage the cat and whether available opportunities meet observed preferences.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which climbing routes, elevated resting places and interactive games does this cat repeatedly choose?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-enrichment-use-q01" }, { "text": "What environmental change should be tried when observed activity needs exceed the available opportunities?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-enrichment-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interaction-and-baseline-change", "name": "Interaction and baseline change", "description": "Distinguishes individual social preferences from assumptions about Somali temperament.", "findings": [ { "id": "social-preferences-and-withdrawal", "name": "Social preferences and withdrawal", "description": "Records preferred contact and meaningful departures from established play or interaction patterns.", "questions": [ { "text": "What contact with people or other animals does this cat seek, tolerate or avoid in its usual environment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "social-preferences-and-withdrawal-q01" }, { "text": "When climbing, play or contact-seeking decreases, what evidence is needed to distinguish an environmental response from a possible health concern?", "kind": "action", "id": "social-preferences-and-withdrawal-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-health-and-breeding-evidence", "name": "Lineage health and breeding evidence", "description": "Connects documented Somali ancestry to applicable health evidence and decisions requiring professional review.", "rationale": "Breed and family history can inform investigation, but a model must distinguish reported risk, test scope and the individual's current condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "applicable-screening-evidence", "name": "Applicable screening evidence", "description": "Assesses the provenance and relevance of screening claims for Somali cats and this particular lineage.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-test-applicability", "name": "Verified test applicability", "description": "Records screening evidence without inventing a required panel or interpreting a limited result as general health clearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current veterinary or registry sources support each proposed screening test for Somali cats or this family line?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-test-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "What condition or variant does each original report assess, and what remains outside its scope?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "verified-test-applicability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-and-mating-decisions", "name": "Individual and mating decisions", "description": "Separates current clinical assessment from inherited-risk and proposed-pairing evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-needed-before-breeding", "name": "Evidence needed before breeding", "description": "Organises unresolved questions about health, ancestry and relatedness for a proposed Somali mating.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified parental identities, relatedness information and applicable health reports are available for both proposed parents?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-needed-before-breeding-q01" }, { "text": "Which missing or conflicting findings require veterinary or qualified breeding review before the proposed mating can be assessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-needed-before-breeding-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "usual (ruddy) Somali", "sorrel Somali", "blue Somali", "fawn Somali", "silver Somali", "other CFA/TICA colour classes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q729681", "note": "Somali cat breed item" }, { "scheme": "CFA breed name", "value_or_pattern": "Somali", "note": "Cat Fanciers' Association championship breed" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "CFA Somali Show Standard (Cat Fanciers' Association)", "TICA Somali Breed Standard (The International Cat Association)", "GCCF Somali Standard of Points (Governing Council of the Cat Fancy, UK)", "FIFe SOM Standard (Fédération Internationale Féline)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Pedigree companion cat in CFA, TICA, GCCF and FIFe registries", "Show cat judged against ticked-tabby longhair type and brush tail", "Breeding programmes that outcross to Abyssinian to maintain type and colour" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "adult body weight", "typical_range": "3-5", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "coat length (body)", "typical_range": "medium-long with ruff and britches", "unit": "qualitative" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKDef) inherited from Abyssinian lines", "Progressive retinal atrophy (rdAc) in related Abyssinian/Somali lines", "Dental resorption and gingivitis reported in the Abyssinian-Somali family", "Matting of the semi-long coat if not groomed" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Colour classes accepted differ by registry (CFA more restricted than TICA)", "Some registries treat Somali as the longhair variety of Abyssinian rather than a fully separate breed" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Somali this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Abyssinian", "difference": "Same type and ticked pattern; Abyssinian is shorthaired, Somali is longhaired with a brush tail (longhair is recessive)." }, { "name": "Somali people / Somali language", "difference": "Ethnonym and language of the Horn of Africa, not a cat breed; PHY.OBJ sense is the feline." }, { "name": "Somali sheep (Blackhead Somali)", "difference": "Fat-rumped hair sheep of Somalia/East Africa, a livestock breed not a cat." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to 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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 Somali, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a provisionally identified Somali cat, assess its individual condition and determine appropriate care, handling and referral actions.", "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: Aweer people, Northern Somali, Oslo Somali, Ashraf, Benadiri Somali.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 118 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 Somali, 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": [ "Aweer people", "Northern Somali", "Oslo Somali", "Ashraf", "Benadiri Somali" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 118 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 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 Somali from another, and a Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali 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 Somali between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali 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 Somali contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali 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 Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 Somali is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Somali, 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 Somali, 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 Somali 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 } } } }