{ "model": { "rank": 5681, "code": "thing-q142554", "model_id": "vr.tr.cosplay", "name": "cosplay", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a cosplay activity, assess its readiness and constraints, and identify appropriate next actions for its intended portrayal and setting.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q142554/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "female-to-male crossplay", "male-to-female crossplay", "battle gaming", "crossplay", "erocosplay", "acosta!", "cosplay type" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q142554", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142554", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:00:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 13.4, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 89.4, "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: 01a07b17-44d8-7410-a9d8-ecd7cf74f273\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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documentation and reuse.", "in_scope": [ "The participant's declared cosplay intent and chosen character, version or original character concept", "The interpretation expressed through costume, makeup, styling, props and optional performance", "Preparation, fitting and coordination of the elements used in the portrayal", "Readiness for a specified convention, competition, shoot, gathering or online presentation", "Participant boundaries concerning interaction, photography and portrayal", "Changes, repairs and repeat appearances of the same cosplay interpretation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Canonical character biographies and fictional-world continuity", "General garment manufacture, textile inventories and prop fabrication processes", "Convention operations, ticketing and venue management", "Photography production, image licensing and media distribution", "A participant's general identity, health history or professional career", "Role-playing game rules and theatrical production management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record whether the participant describes the activity as embodying or presenting a character; clothing resemblance alone does not establish cosplay.", "Identify the intended character or character concept and its connection to the presentation; an anonymous themed outfit may require clarification rather than automatic classification.", "Distinguish the enacted or planned portrayal from the costume as an owned, displayed or sold object.", "Do not require acting in character, handmade construction, competition entry or exact visual replication as evidence of cosplay.", "Where cosplay overlaps with theatre, role-playing or fashion, record the participant's intent and use context instead of assuming the categories are mutually exclusive." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Portrayal referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named character, character version, original character concept or unresolved referent", "why_it_matters": "Anchors what the participant intends to portray without requiring a pre-existing franchise." }, { "name": "Cosplay intent", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Participant-confirmed, proposed, unclear or declined", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assigning cosplay identity solely from appearance." }, { "name": "Interpretation approach", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Participant-described; examples include reference-led, redesigned, crossover and casual adaptation", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the participant's criteria for assessing the portrayal." }, { "name": "Portrayal mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Costume presentation, posing, in-character interaction, scripted performance or a stated combination", "why_it_matters": "Determines which preparation and interaction decisions apply." }, { "name": "Appearance readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Concept, assembling, fitting, rehearsing, ready, blocked, completed or retired; assessed for a named appearance", "why_it_matters": "Makes readiness dependent on actual intended use." }, { "name": "Independent wearability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Independent, assistance needed for specified tasks, untested or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Reveals whether dressing, movement or removal needs a helper." }, { "name": "Tested continuous wear duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minutes under recorded test conditions, or untested", "why_it_matters": "Supports appearance planning without treating an observed duration as a universal safe limit." }, { "name": "Appearance context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked event, competition category, photoshoot, gathering or online presentation", "why_it_matters": "Connects readiness decisions to applicable participation requirements." }, { "name": "Interaction permissions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per interaction: permitted within stated limits, ask first, declined or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Separates willingness to portray a character from consent to touch, photograph or interact." } ], "affordances": [ "Clarify the portrayal referent and the participant's intended interpretation.", "Compare assembled elements with the participant's stated portrayal goals and identify unresolved choices.", "Produce a fitting, packing and rehearsal checklist for a named appearance.", "Identify readiness blockers involving costume wearability, props, assistance or participation requirements.", "Prepare an interaction and photography brief using the participant's stated permissions.", "Record post-appearance issues and propose repairs or adaptations for a future portrayal." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "portrayal-identity", "name": "Portrayal identity", "description": "Establishes what is being portrayed and how the participant understands the activity.", "rationale": "An agent cannot recognise or assess cosplay reliably from clothing alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "character-anchor", "name": "Character anchor", "description": "Connects the activity to a character, version or original character concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-referent", "name": "Declared referent", "description": "Record the participant's named referent and the references they actually use, preserving ambiguity where unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which character, version or original character concept does the participant intend to portray?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which participant statements, images or other references establish that intention?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "declared-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-boundary", "name": "Activity boundary", "description": "Locates cosplay intent within activities that may also involve fashion, theatre or role-playing.", "findings": [ { "id": "participant-framing", "name": "Participant framing", "description": "Record whether this is a planned or enacted cosplay portrayal and any overlapping activity classifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the participant describe this activity as cosplay, and what does that description mean for this appearance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "participant-framing-q01" }, { "text": "Is the subject a portrayal activity, a costume object, or an overlapping performance that needs links to neighbouring models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participant-framing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-expression", "name": "Interpretation and expression", "description": "Captures how the participant chooses to make the character legible through appearance and optional behaviour.", "rationale": "Assessment must follow the intended interpretation rather than impose visual fidelity or in-character acting.", "layers": [ { "id": "visual-interpretation", "name": "Visual interpretation", "description": "Identifies deliberate character cues and adaptations.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-cues", "name": "Recognition cues", "description": "Record the costume, silhouette, styling, makeup or prop cues the participant considers central, alongside intentional departures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible cues are intended to identify this character or communicate this original character concept?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognition-cues-q01" }, { "text": "Which departures from the references are intentional, and which remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-cues-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "performed-expression", "name": "Performed expression", "description": "Defines whether and how posing, speech or movement contributes to the portrayal.", "findings": [ { "id": "portrayal-repertoire", "name": "Portrayal repertoire", "description": "Record chosen poses, gestures, dialogue or scenes without presuming that character performance is required.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which poses, movements or in-character behaviours, if any, does the participant want to perform?", "kind": "definition", "id": "portrayal-repertoire-q01" }, { "text": "What rehearsal or adaptation is needed to perform those choices in the assembled costume?", "kind": "action", "id": "portrayal-repertoire-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "costume-in-use", "name": "Costume in use", "description": "Assesses whether the chosen costume elements work together on the participant for the intended portrayal.", "rationale": "A visually complete cosplay can still be unusable because its components interfere with dressing, movement or performance.", "layers": [ { "id": "ensemble-assembly", "name": "Ensemble assembly", "description": "Connects portrayal needs to actual components and their dependencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-completeness", "name": "Component completeness", "description": "Record which portrayal elements are available, fitted and compatible, including borrowed or commissioned pieces.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which costume, wig, makeup, footwear and prop elements are required for this interpretation, and which are ready?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "component-completeness-q01" }, { "text": "Which missing element, attachment or delivery blocks a complete fitting or appearance?", "kind": "action", "id": "component-completeness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wearability-and-assistance", "name": "Wearability and assistance", "description": "Records observed use constraints of the assembled cosplay.", "findings": [ { "id": "wear-test-evidence", "name": "Wear-test evidence", "description": "Record fitting observations concerning sight, movement, communication, comfort and removal, together with needed assistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What could the participant see, hear and do during a wear test, for how long and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wear-test-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which components require adjustment, breaks or a helper before the intended appearance?", "kind": "action", "id": "wear-test-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "appearance-and-interaction", "name": "Appearance and interaction", "description": "Connects the portrayal to its setting and the participant's boundaries.", "rationale": "Cosplay readiness depends on where it will appear and which interactions the participant accepts.", "layers": [ { "id": "setting-requirements", "name": "Setting requirements", "description": "Records requirements that affect this particular cosplay appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-fit", "name": "Participation fit", "description": "Link relevant venue, shoot or competition requirements to affected costume elements and planned actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which requirements concerning props, costume dimensions, changing facilities or competition eligibility apply, and where were they verified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "participation-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What must be modified, documented or confirmed before this cosplay can participate as planned?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-and-character-boundaries", "name": "Consent and character boundaries", "description": "Separates character portrayal from permission for real-world interactions.", "findings": [ { "id": "interaction-agreements", "name": "Interaction agreements", "description": "Record boundaries for touching costume pieces, handling props, posing, photography and in-character exchanges.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which interactions are welcome, require a fresh request or are declined by the participant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interaction-agreements-q01" }, { "text": "How will the participant or helper communicate a pause, refusal or end to an interaction while in costume?", "kind": "action", "id": "interaction-agreements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "portrayal-continuity", "name": "Portrayal continuity", "description": "Tracks attribution, revisions and lessons across appearances of a cosplay interpretation.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish revisions from separate portrayals and retain evidence needed for credit, repair and reuse.", "layers": [ { "id": "contribution-and-version", "name": "Contribution and version", "description": "Identifies contributors and the interpretation represented by each appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "portrayal-lineage", "name": "Portrayal lineage", "description": "Record who designed, made, supplied or adapted relevant elements and how the current interpretation relates to earlier versions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who contributed the design, costume construction, styling or props, and what evidence supports the stated credits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "portrayal-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Does this change revise the existing interpretation or establish a distinct portrayal that should be linked separately?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "portrayal-lineage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "appearance-feedback", "name": "Appearance 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avatar use or character illustration?", "What should define continuity between a cosplay interpretation, its revised costume assemblies and its individual appearances?", "Does coordinated group cosplay require a collective activity model in addition to linked individual portrayals?", "Which terms for interpretation approaches are useful across cosplay communities without imposing a hierarchy of authenticity or craftsmanship?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cosplay, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a cosplay activity, assess its readiness and constraints, and identify appropriate next actions for its intended portrayal and setting.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: female-to-male crossplay, male-to-female crossplay, battle gaming, crossplay, erocosplay, acosta!, cosplay type.", "7 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 cosplay, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "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": [ "female-to-male crossplay", "male-to-female crossplay", "battle gaming", "crossplay", "erocosplay", "acosta!", "cosplay type" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 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 cosplay from another, and a cosplay 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay 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 cosplay between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cosplay 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a cosplay proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a cosplay, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a cosplay and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a cosplay, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a cosplay, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a cosplay is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a cosplay consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a cosplay takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a cosplay, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a cosplay, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a cosplay is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What cosplay is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of cosplay are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is cosplay operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of cosplay and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cosplay?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cosplay?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cosplay 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 cosplay and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 cosplay is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cosplay, 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 cosplay, 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 cosplay 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 } } } }