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[Islamic Relief](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/dhul-qadah/)", "Dhul Qadah, Dhu al-Qa'dah and Dhu'l-Qa'da can designate this same month; similarity to the name Dhu'l-Hijja must not override the different month identity.", "It belongs to the four sacred months, but that classification alone cannot distinguish it from the other three. [Islamic Relief](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/dhul-qadah/)", "Its inclusion among the months associated with Hajj does not make it identical to the pilgrimage or determine the dates of individual rites. [Tafsir Ibn Kathir on 2:197](https://previous.quran.com/2%3A197/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir?locale=en)", "An unqualified month name identifies a recurrence; a dated occurrence additionally requires a Hijri year and calendar context, rather than a permanently assigned Gregorian interval." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Islamic month position", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "11; predecessor Shawwal; successor Dhu'l-Hijja", "why_it_matters": "Disambiguates the month and detects accidental substitution of its neighbouring months." }, { "name": "Naming form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Arabic ذو القعدة; language-tagged transliterations and spelling variants", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition across languages without creating separate things for different spellings." }, { "name": "Occurrence year", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified Hijri year, era and calendar variant", "why_it_matters": "Separates the recurring month from a specific occurrence." }, { "name": "Boundary determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Local sighting, accepted external sighting, calculation, tabular rule or other explicitly documented method", "why_it_matters": "Explains how an occurrence's dates were obtained and whether a forecast is sufficient for the intended action." }, { "name": "Applicable calendar authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named issuing body or calendar provider, with geographic or community applicability", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one community's determination from silently becoming universal." }, { "name": "Occurrence duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "29 or 30 calendar days; unresolved until the applicable method establishes it", "why_it_matters": "Supports day validation and the transition into Dhu'l-Hijja." }, { "name": "Boundary evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved, forecast, rule-derived, authority-confirmed, contested or superseded", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can commit a date or must preserve alternatives." }, { "name": "Occurrence phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Upcoming, current, completed or indeterminate relative to a reference time and calendar context", "why_it_matters": "Supports timely reminders and detects stale scheduling assumptions." }, { "name": "Religious classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sacred-month membership and Hajj-month association, each with a source and interpretive context", "why_it_matters": "Supports relevant associations without treating a calendar label as a complete religious ruling." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a supplied month name to vr.tr.dhu-l-qa-da while preserving its original spelling.", "Identify a yearly occurrence using its Hijri year and applicable calendar context.", "Express an occurrence as a qualified Gregorian interval or a set of unresolved candidate intervals.", "Determine whether a reference time falls before, within or after the occurrence.", "Schedule or revise month-relative reminders using the selected authority's dates.", "Attach sourced religious associations and route action-specific interpretation to the relevant neighbouring model." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-britannica", "title": "Dhū al-Qaʿdah", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dhu-al-Qadah", "what_it_supports": "Month identity as the 11th Islamic month; one of four sacred months; etymology of sitting from warfare; Hajj-season context.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-wikipedia", "title": "Dhu al-Qadah", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhu_al-Qadah", "what_it_supports": "Ordinal position, sacred-month status, spelling variants, and common associations (pre-Hajj month, some historical events).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-quran", "title": "The Quran, 9:36 (At-Tawbah)", "url": "https://quran.com/9/36", "what_it_supports": "Scriptural basis that twelve months include four sacred months.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-hadith-bukhari", "title": "Sahih al-Bukhari 3197 (Book of the Beginning of Creation)", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3197", "what_it_supports": "Prophetic list of the four sacred months: Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja, Muharram, and Rajab.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "month-identity", "name": "Month identity", "description": "Recognise Dhu'l-Qa'da across names and distinguish its recurring identity from neighbouring months and individual occurrences.", "rationale": "The similar names of Dhu'l-Qa'da and Dhu'l-Hijja make name matching alone insufficient.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-recognition", "name": "Names and recognition", "description": "Connect attested naming forms to the registered month.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-resolution", "name": "Name resolution", "description": "Record the supplied name, language and evidence for resolving it to this entry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Arabic or transliterated form identifies Dhu'l-Qa'da in this record?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What source establishes that an unfamiliar spelling denotes this month rather than Dhu'l-Hijja?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sequence-and-occurrence", "name": "Sequence and occurrence", "description": "Anchor the month in the Hijri sequence and identify whether a reference is recurring or year-specific.", "findings": [ { "id": "eleventh-month-anchor", "name": "Eleventh-month anchor", "description": "Use ordinal position and neighbouring months to validate identity, then qualify any particular occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the reference denote the eleventh month between Shawwal and Dhu'l-Hijja?", "kind": "definition", "id": "eleventh-month-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "Does it refer to Dhu'l-Qa'da generally or to an occurrence in a specified Hijri year and calendar variant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "eleventh-month-anchor-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "month-boundary-determination", "name": "Month boundary determination", "description": "Establish when a Dhu'l-Qa'da occurrence begins and ends under its applicable calendar practice.", "rationale": "An agent needs both the entry from Shawwal and the exit into Dhu'l-Hijja to determine membership and duration.", "layers": [ { "id": "entry-from-shawwal", "name": "Entry from Shawwal", "description": "Capture the determination that establishes the first day of Dhu'l-Qa'da.", "findings": [ { "id": "opening-determination", "name": "Opening determination", "description": "Record the opening boundary, its method and the authority or rule supporting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sighting decision, calculation or calendar rule establishes the transition from Shawwal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "opening-determination-q01" }, { "text": "What local date and day-boundary convention define the start of 1 Dhu'l-Qa'da?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "opening-determination-q02" }, { "text": "For which location or community does this determination apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "opening-determination-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exit-to-dhul-hijja", "name": "Exit to Dhu'l-Hijja", "description": "Establish the final day and resulting duration of the occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "closing-determination", "name": "Closing determination", "description": "Relate the end of Dhu'l-Qa'da to the next month's opening without assuming that knowing the start settles the end.", "questions": [ { "text": "What determination establishes the transition into 1 Dhu'l-Hijja?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "closing-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Does this occurrence contain 29 or 30 days under the selected calendar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "closing-determination-q02" }, { "text": "Is the closing boundary established or still conditional on a later decision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "closing-determination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "civil-date-correspondence", "name": "Civil date correspondence", "description": "Translate Dhu'l-Qa'da dates into usable civil dates without losing calendar and locality assumptions.", "rationale": "The recurring month has no fixed Gregorian placement, and a displayed civil date may not express its complete religious day interval.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualified-conversion", "name": "Qualified conversion", "description": "Make Gregorian representations traceable to a specific occurrence and conversion basis.", "findings": [ { "id": "gregorian-mapping", "name": "Gregorian mapping", "description": "Record the civil interval and the calendar source from which it was derived.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Gregorian dates correspond to this Dhu'l-Qa'da occurrence under the selected calendar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gregorian-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Which calendar edition, algorithm or announcement supports that correspondence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gregorian-mapping-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-day-membership", "name": "Local day membership", "description": "Interpret timestamps near month and day boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "sunset-and-civil-labels", "name": "Sunset and civil labels", "description": "Distinguish a calendar's displayed date from the local interval used to decide membership in a Dhu'l-Qa'da day.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the intended use follow a sunset boundary, a civil midnight label or another documented convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sunset-and-civil-labels-q01" }, { "text": "What location, time zone and boundary time are needed to classify the supplied timestamp?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sunset-and-civil-labels-q02" }, { "text": "Can the timestamp be assigned to Dhu'l-Qa'da unambiguously with the available information?", "kind": "action", "id": "sunset-and-civil-labels-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-calendar-associations", "name": "Religious calendar associations", "description": "Represent the month's sacred status and Hajj-season relationship with explicit interpretive limits.", "rationale": "These associations explain the month's significance but do not independently establish what a particular person must or may do.", "layers": [ { "id": "sacred-month-membership", "name": "Sacred-month membership", "description": "Attribute the month's religious classification and any claimed consequences.", "findings": [ { "id": "sacred-status-and-interpretation", "name": "Sacred status and interpretation", "description": "Separate identification as a sacred month from interpretations of conduct during it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source explicitly identifies Dhu'l-Qa'da among the sacred months?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sacred-status-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which tradition or authority supports any proposed consequence for conduct during this month?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sacred-status-and-interpretation-q02" }, { "text": "Which proposed decisions require a religious-ruling model beyond month identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "sacred-status-and-interpretation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "hajj-season-membership", "name": "Hajj-season membership", "description": "Connect Dhu'l-Qa'da to the interpreted months of Hajj without importing the pilgrimage's complete rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "pilgrimage-calendar-interface", "name": "Pilgrimage calendar interface", "description": "Record the attributed Hajj-season association and distinguish it from rite-specific dates and administrative windows.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source and interpretive tradition establish Dhu'l-Qa'da's inclusion among the months of Hajj?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pilgrimage-calendar-interface-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested date concern month membership, a pilgrimage rite or an administrative deadline?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pilgrimage-calendar-interface-q02" }, { "text": "What additional pilgrimage-specific evidence is needed before acting on this association?", "kind": "action", "id": "pilgrimage-calendar-interface-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-status-and-use", "name": "Occurrence status and use", "description": "Judge whether an occurrence's dates are usable and manage actions when determinations differ or change.", "rationale": "A forecast, an authority-confirmed boundary and a conflicting community determination support different scheduling decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "determination-status", "name": "Determination status", "description": "Assess the standing and applicability of the dates assigned to Dhu'l-Qa'da.", "findings": [ { "id": "competing-calendar-determinations", "name": "Competing calendar determinations", "description": "Preserve alternative determinations with their authority, applicability and revision history.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the occurrence boundaries forecasts, rule-derived dates or confirmed announcements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competing-calendar-determinations-q01" }, { "text": "Do differing dates reflect different communities, different methods or a correction by the same authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competing-calendar-determinations-q02" }, { "text": "Which determination governs the user's intended use, and what evidence supports that selection?", "kind": "action", "id": "competing-calendar-determinations-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "month-relative-actions", "name": "Month-relative actions", "description": "Use qualified occurrence dates to drive reminders and transitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "scheduling-and-revision", "name": "Scheduling and revision", "description": "Evaluate the current phase of Dhu'l-Qa'da and update dependent actions when its accepted boundaries change.", "questions": [ { "text": "At the reference time, is this occurrence upcoming, current, completed or indeterminate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scheduling-and-revision-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested reminder require confirmed boundaries, or may it use a visibly provisional date?", "kind": "action", "id": "scheduling-and-revision-q02" }, { "text": "Which scheduled actions must be recalculated if the start or the transition into Dhu'l-Hijja is revised?", "kind": "action", "id": "scheduling-and-revision-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "Dhu'l-Qa'da as a named Hijri calendar month (month 11 of 12)", "Dhu'l-Qa'da as a sacred month (shahr ḥarām) under classical Islamic law", "Dhu'l-Qa'da of a given Hijri year as a dated interval in civil and religious timekeeping", "Observational Dhu'l-Qa'da (crescent-sighting start and length)", "Tabular/calculated Dhu'l-Qa'da (arithmetic Hijri calendars, including civil Saudi Umm al-Qura)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": "Q186251", "note": "item 'Dhu al-Qidah' (Islamic month)" }, { "scheme": "ISO 8601 / Hijri month number", "value_or_pattern": "11", "note": "eleventh month in the 12-month Hijri year; often written as Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah or similar in locale data" }, { "scheme": "CLDR / Unicode locale month name", "value_or_pattern": "islamic-month-11 / Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah (and regional display names)", "note": "month name key in Islamic calendar locales" }, { "scheme": "Arabic name", "value_or_pattern": "ذُو ٱلْقَعْدَة / Dhū al-Qaʿdah", "note": "classical Arabic form; many Latin spellings exist" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": [ "Quran 9:36 - twelve months, four of them sacred (scriptural, not a civil statute)", "Prophetic hadith (e.g. Sahih al-Bukhari) enumerating the four sacred months including Dhu'l-Qa'da", "Classical fiqh on ashhur ḥurum (prohibition of fighting in sacred months, with juristic exceptions)", "National civil Hijri calendars (notably Saudi Umm al-Qura) that fix the start and length of Dhu'l-Qa'da for government dating", "Observational moon-sighting practice used by many communities and some states to declare the month" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": [ "Civil and religious dating: letters, contracts, mosque notices, and state documents dated in Dhu'l-Qa'da of a Hijri year", "Liturgical calendar: the month immediately before Dhu'l-Hijja, so it frames travel, ihram preparation, and Hajj logistics", "Sacred-month observance: historically and in some legal-ethical teaching, a period of truce and restricted warfare", "Conversion tables and software: mapping a Gregorian date range onto Dhu'l-Qa'da AH n", "Public holidays and school calendars in some Muslim-majority states when Hajj-related leave begins near the month's end" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": "ordinal position in Hijri year", "typical_range": "11", "unit": "month index" }, { "quantity": "length of the month", "typical_range": "29 or 30", "unit": "day" }, { "quantity": "mean synodic month (astronomical basis of the calendar)", "typical_range": "about 29.53", "unit": "day" }, { "quantity": "offset from following Hajj month", "typical_range": "immediately precedes Dhu'l-Hijja (month 12)", "unit": "calendar sequence" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": [ "Moon-sighting disagreement: communities start Dhu'l-Qa'da on different civil days, splitting dated obligations and travel plans", "Tabular vs observational mismatch: a calculated 29/30-day month may not match local crescent sighting", "Sacred-month rule vs later practice: treating the month as a blanket ceasefire can be legally and historically overstated", "Transliteration collision: Dhul-Qadah / Dhu al-Qa'dah / Zilqad etc. break search, records, and software matching", "Confusion with Dhu'l-Hijja leads to wrong Hajj dates and ritual timing" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": [ "Latin spellings: Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu al-Qa'dah, Dhul-Qadah, Dhu al-Qidah, Zilqad / Zil-Qa'dah (South Asian usage)", "Start of the month: Saudi Umm al-Qura and other calculated calendars vs local ru'yat al-hilal in many communities", "Sacred-month legal weight: classical Arabian and early Islamic practice vs limited civil application in modern states", "Language forms: Arabic ذو القعدة; Persian/Urdu ذی قعدہ / Zilqad; Turkish Zilkade" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da 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": "Dhu'l-Hijja (Dhū al-Ḥijjah)", "difference": "Twelfth month and the Hajj month itself; Dhu'l-Qa'da is the eleventh and precedes it. Test: month number 11 vs 12, and whether the Hajj rites (8-13 Dhu'l-Hijja) fall inside it." }, { "name": "Shawwal", "difference": "Tenth month, immediately before Dhu'l-Qa'da; contains Eid al-Fitr at its start. Test: month number 10 vs 11; Eid al-Fitr is in Shawwal, not Dhu'l-Qa'da." }, { "name": "Rajab", "difference": "The other isolated sacred month (seventh month), not part of the three consecutive sacred months. Test: month 7 vs 11; Rajab is not adjacent to Hajj." }, { "name": "Muharram", "difference": "First month of the Hijri year and one of the four sacred months. Test: month 1 vs 11; Muharram includes Ashura (10 Muharram)." }, { "name": "Islamic lunar year / Hijri epoch", "difference": "The year is the 12-month cycle; Dhu'l-Qa'da is one named month inside it. Test: whether the object is a year identifier (AH n) or a month within that year." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Dhu'l-Qa'da this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which Arabic orthographic forms, regional names and transliterations should be accepted as verified aliases for this registry entry?", "Which calendar authorities and community practices must the model support, and how should applicability be resolved when the user supplies only a location?", "How should historical Dhu'l-Qa'da occurrences be represented when calendar reconstruction or Gregorian conversion remains disputed?", "Which tradition-specific interpretations of sacred-month status and Hajj-month membership are necessary for intended agent actions?", "Which reported Dhu'l-Qa'da commemorations have sufficient evidence and community relevance to warrant links to separate observance models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 35 } }, "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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Dhu'l-Qa'da, establish the status and boundaries of a particular occurrence, and support calendar-dependent actions under an identified authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 63 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Dhu'l-Qa'da from another, and a Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da?", "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 Dhu'l-Qa'da?", "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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da, 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 Dhu'l-Qa'da is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }