{ "model": { "rank": 5521, "code": "thing-q152519", "model_id": "vr.tr.basilisk", "name": "basilisk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a basilisk as a represented legendary creature, distinguish tradition-specific variants, and assess which descriptions and uses are supported.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q152519/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q152519", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152519", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:32:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 13.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0884c-54fc-7e82-b37a-22eefbd63c79\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: basilisk\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 regist", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 56.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0884c-54fe-7483-b394-406c9620dc39\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: basilisk\nRegistry id: vr.tr.basilisk\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q152519", "registryId": "vr.tr.basilisk", "name": "basilisk", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q152519/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.basilisk", "name": "basilisk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a basilisk as a represented legendary creature, distinguish tradition-specific variants, and assess which descriptions and uses are supported.", "definition": "A basilisk is a legendary creature of European tradition, generally represented as a serpent or reptilian hybrid whose gaze, breath, or venom can kill, with its appearance and powers varying across accounts.", "scope_statement": "This model provisionally owns the basilisk as a legendary creature concept transmitted through texts, images and adaptations, consistent with the INF / INF.MED placement; identification with a particular titled work remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "The legendary creature sense of basilisk and evidence identifying that sense", "Descriptions of its appearance, origin, powers and vulnerabilities within named traditions", "Boundaries between basilisk variants and neighbouring creature concepts", "Representations that transmit or reinterpret the basilisk concept", "Attribution and uncertainty needed to use basilisk descriptions responsibly" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Living animals called basilisks and their biological classification", "Independent models of books, films, games or other works titled Basilisk", "Complete bibliographic descriptions of editions, files and physical copies", "General models of legendary creatures, serpents or monsters", "Real toxicology, animal handling and medical treatment", "Thought experiments or technical products that reuse the name" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a legendary creature concept rather than a living animal, product or titled work sharing its name.", "Identification is supported by a source naming or explicitly equating the creature with a basilisk; a dangerous serpent-like appearance alone is insufficient.", "Claims about appearance and lethal effects are attached to a particular account rather than treated as universal identifying traits.", "A cockatrice identification requires evidence of equivalence in the relevant tradition; visual resemblance alone does not establish identity.", "A character or creature in an adaptation is linked to the wider concept only when naming, attribution or documented derivation supports that relationship." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "legendary creature concept | named fictional individual | titled work | biological namesake | other namesake | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from combining unrelated referents under one registry name." }, { "name": "Attested designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source passage or image label linked to its recorded name, language and translation", "why_it_matters": "Makes basilisk identification traceable instead of relying on resemblance." }, { "name": "Tradition or adaptation context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named account, cultural tradition or fictional setting with supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps incompatible descriptions meaningful within their own contexts." }, { "name": "Depicted body form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-described anatomy; controlled values established after research; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without imposing one canonical appearance." }, { "name": "Attributed harmful mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-specific account of trigger, transmission and effect; unstated or disputed permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes what an account claims the creature does from an agent's assumptions." }, { "name": "Attributed countermeasure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claimed protection, vulnerability or defeat condition linked to its account", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one tradition's solution from being applied across every representation." }, { "name": "Basilisk-cockatrice relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "explicit equivalence | explicit distinction | partial overlap | later identification | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Records a consequential identity boundary without silently merging concepts." }, { "name": "Description support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "directly attested | attributed through a secondary source | interpretive | disputed | unverified", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may assert, qualify or withhold a description." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a basilisk mention before linking it to the registry entry.", "Construct a source-qualified profile for a particular basilisk tradition or adaptation.", "Compare depictions while preserving disagreements about anatomy and powers.", "Check whether a proposed illustration or narrative matches a selected account.", "Trace which accounts support an attributed power or countermeasure.", "Flag unsupported combinations and unresolved creature identifications for review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "basilisk-identity", "name": "Basilisk identity", "description": "Establish which referent a basilisk mention identifies and where the creature concept ends.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, so the name and domain alone cannot settle its intended sense.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-resolution", "name": "Referent resolution", "description": "Separate the legendary creature from works, animals and other namesakes.", "findings": [ { "id": "creature-sense-evidence", "name": "Creature sense evidence", "description": "Require contextual evidence before treating a basilisk mention as this legendary creature concept.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry's originating record identify a legendary creature, a particular work or another namesake?", "kind": "definition", "id": "creature-sense-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which passage, label or identifier supports linking this mention to the creature concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "creature-sense-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-creature-boundaries", "name": "Neighbouring creature boundaries", "description": "Record contextual distinctions and equivalences with cockatrices and other creatures.", "findings": [ { "id": "cockatrice-equivalence", "name": "Cockatrice equivalence", "description": "Treat basilisk-cockatrice equivalence as a claim requiring attribution, rather than a default synonym rule.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the relevant account distinguish basilisk from cockatrice or explicitly equate them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cockatrice-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Is the equivalence present in the original account, a translation or a later interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cockatrice-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embodied-creature-profile", "name": "Embodied creature profile", "description": "Describe the basilisk's represented body and origin within a specified account.", "rationale": "Recognition requires a contextual profile because the model must not assume one universal anatomy or origin story.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomy-and-identification", "name": "Anatomy and identification", "description": "Capture bodily features explicitly described or visibly represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-body-features", "name": "Attested body features", "description": "Separate source-supported bodily features from additions made by illustrators, translators or adapters.", "questions": [ { "text": "What body form, limbs, head features and markings does this account actually describe or depict?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-body-features-q01" }, { "text": "Which features support basilisk identification, and which could equally belong to another creature?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attested-body-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-life-history", "name": "Origin and life history", "description": "Keep attributed birth conditions, development and habitat tied to their narrative context.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-account", "name": "Origin account", "description": "Record an origin or habitat only when the selected account supplies one; absence is not a licence to import another version.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does this account state about how the basilisk comes into existence and where it lives?", "kind": "definition", "id": "origin-account-q01" }, { "text": "Which source supports each origin condition, and does it belong to the same variant as the recorded anatomy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-account-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "powers-and-encounter-rules", "name": "Powers and encounter rules", "description": "Represent what a basilisk is said to do and the conditions under which an encounter changes outcome.", "rationale": "An agent comparing stories or checking an adaptation needs explicit triggers and limits, rather than a generic label such as deadly monster.", "layers": [ { "id": "harmful-effects", "name": "Harmful effects", "description": "Distinguish attributed mechanisms, targets and outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "effect-trigger-and-result", "name": "Effect trigger and result", "description": "Model any claimed gaze, contact, breath or other effect only as specified by its account.", "questions": [ { "text": "What initiates the harmful effect, who or what is affected, and what outcome is explicitly stated?", "kind": "definition", "id": "effect-trigger-and-result-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account specify direction of looking, distance, delay or exceptions, or leave these conditions unstated?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effect-trigger-and-result-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resistance-and-defeat", "name": "Resistance and defeat", "description": "Capture attributed protections and defeat conditions without assuming they work in every version.", "findings": [ { "id": "countermeasure-conditions", "name": "Countermeasure conditions", "description": "Distinguish a countermeasure demonstrated in the narrative from advice, speculation or a rule introduced by an adaptation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protection or defeat method is stated, and what evidence within the account establishes its effectiveness?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "countermeasure-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Under the selected account's rules, may an agent use this countermeasure in a reconstruction, or must its effectiveness remain unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "countermeasure-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-representation", "name": "Transmission and representation", "description": "Track how accounts and adaptations transmit, alter or interpret the basilisk concept.", "rationale": "The informational creature concept must remain distinct from individual depictions and the works carrying them.", "layers": [ { "id": "accounts-and-derivation", "name": "Accounts and derivation", "description": "Connect descriptions to identifiable accounts and document supported relationships between versions.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-bearing-account", "name": "Claim-bearing account", "description": "Locate the passage or image carrying each basilisk claim while delegating full work and edition metadata to neighbouring models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifiable passage or image supports this description, and which edition or translation was consulted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-bearing-account-q01" }, { "text": "Is a later depiction demonstrably derived from this account, or is the relationship only inferred from similarity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-bearing-account-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-reuse", "name": "Interpretation and reuse", "description": "Keep symbolic readings and creative recombinations distinguishable from attributed creature descriptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-representation", "name": "Qualified representation", "description": "Support illustrations, summaries and adaptations that identify their chosen variant and disclose unsupported combinations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a proposed symbolic meaning stated by the source, supported by contextual scholarship or introduced by the interpreter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Should the proposed depiction be labelled as following a particular account, combining variants or creating a new adaptation?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The legendary-creature sense is assumed; no recorded sense establishes whether the registry instead intends a particular creative work.", "The INF.MED domain and batch classification warrant checking the original registry record before adopting this definition.", "Appearance, lethal powers, and the boundary with the cockatrice should be checked against individual historical sources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of basilisk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Subject of literary, artistic, and heraldic representation.", "Creature adapted in fantasy fiction, games, and other entertainment." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of basilisk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Accounts of lethal powers describe folklore, not documented biological hazards.", "The name can be confused with living basilisk lizards or with titled creative works." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of basilisk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Classical Mediterranean accounts emphasize a deadly serpent; later European representations also include creatures with avian features." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of basilisk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "cockatrice", "difference": "Usually depicted as a rooster-serpent hybrid; historical usage overlaps with basilisk, so the distinction depends on the source." }, { "name": "basilisk lizard", "difference": "A living lizard of the genus Basiliscus, rather than a legendary creature." }, { "name": "Basilisk", "difference": "A title used for creative works, including manga and anime; a specific work requires authorship or other identifying context." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of basilisk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.basilisk originate from a record for the legendary creature, or does INF.MED indicate a particular titled work?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this creature concept and require this registry entry to link to it?", "Which directly inspected accounts should establish the initial set of basilisk variants and their historical relationships?", "Where do sources distinguish basilisk from cockatrice, and where do translations or adaptations equate them?", "Which appearance, power, origin and symbolic claims can be directly supported, and which widely repeated claims must remain unverified?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a basilisk, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a basilisk as a represented legendary creature, distinguish tradition-specific variants, and assess which descriptions and uses are supported.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 66 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 basilisk, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 66 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 basilisk from another, and a basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk 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 basilisk between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk 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 basilisk contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 basilisk is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a basilisk, 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 basilisk, 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 basilisk 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 } } } }