{ "model": { "rank": 6184, "code": "thing-q153071", "model_id": "vr.tr.polka", "name": "polka", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a musical work, arrangement or performance as polka, assess the evidence and musical condition, and decide whether classification, comparison, adaptation or use is justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q153071/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Eastern-style polka", "French polka", "polkabilly", "polka-mazurka", "Polkett", "Swing-Polka", "fast polka", "Concert polka", "Slovenian-style polka" ], "aliasCount": 9, "merged": 9, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.polka", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q153071", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153071", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T12:00:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0079713, "turns": 1, "seconds": 73, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 75.5, "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: 01a07bbc-031b-7d70-8fdf-f5d46833fa50\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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spread as a social-dance and popular-music form.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally interprets polka in INF.MED as a musical form and genre associated with polka dancing; it owns the evidence for that identity, its audible organisation, variant relationships and suitability for intended musical use, pending confirmation of the registry sense.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting or challenging a polka classification", "Metre, pulse, rhythmic articulation and accompaniment", "Phrase and section organisation relevant to recognising and performing polka", "Relationships among compositions, arrangements, recordings and named polka traditions", "Musical suitability for dancing, listening, rehearsal or adaptation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Detailed dance steps, choreography and dancer technique", "Polka-dot patterns and other nonmusical meanings of the name", "General biographies of composers, performers and communities", "Instrument construction and maintenance", "Event logistics, venue management and dance-floor safety", "General copyright and licensing records, which belong to linked rights models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Test the underlying pulse grouping: a two-beat organisation supports a polka reading, while a persistent three-beat organisation calls for comparison with waltz or mazurka; metre alone does not settle identity.", "Distinguish audible musical evidence from a title containing 'polka': record whether rhythm, phrasing and documented designation support the title.", "When another duple-time dance form such as a march or schottische is plausible, compare accent placement, accompaniment, phrase organisation and documented dance association rather than classifying by tempo alone.", "Distinguish a polka arrangement of an existing melody from a source composition already identified as polka; classification may apply to only one version.", "Treat instrumentation and regional labels as supporting context rather than sufficient tests, and record which musical features substantiate the proposed tradition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Polka identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed | supported | contested | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the agent may assign a polka label confidently or must retain competing classifications." }, { "name": "Musical entity being classified", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "composition | arrangement | score edition | performance | recording | excerpt", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a judgement about one arrangement or performance from being applied automatically to every version." }, { "name": "Notated metre and perceived grouping", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded time signature where available, perceived beats per cycle, and agreement or disagreement between them", "why_it_matters": "Exposes whether notation and audible organisation support the proposed dance-form identity." }, { "name": "Tempo and tempo variation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Beats per minute with an explicit beat unit, measured passage and observed range", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparisons and adaptation decisions without confusing different pulse-counting conventions." }, { "name": "Accent and accompaniment pattern", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Described or transcribed pattern, including bass attacks, chord attacks, accents and exceptions", "why_it_matters": "Provides musical evidence beyond the title or time signature." }, { "name": "Phrase and section organisation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Phrase lengths in bars under a stated metre, section sequence, repeat counts and deviations", "why_it_matters": "Helps an agent assess continuity, anticipate returns and identify passages that may complicate dance or rehearsal use." }, { "name": "Claimed polka tradition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to named traditions with attribution, supporting evidence and disputed alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Keeps local or stylistic expectations explicit rather than treating all polkas as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Suitability for intended use", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | suitable | suitable with adaptation | unsuitable | disputed, relative to a named use", "why_it_matters": "Separates recognition as polka from practical readiness for a particular dance, rehearsal or listening context." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a specified musical version as polka with explicit supporting and conflicting evidence.", "Compare candidate polkas by pulse, accompaniment, phrase organisation and documented tradition.", "Locate sections, repeats and pulse disruptions for rehearsal or dance preparation.", "Assess whether a performance suits a specified polka dance practice or musical programme.", "Propose tempo, repeat or accompaniment changes and identify which changes require renewed identity or suitability assessment.", "Link a polka arrangement to its source melody and related performances without merging their distinct classifications." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "grove-polka", "title": "Polka", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Origin in Bohemia c.1830, 2/4 metre, hopping step, 19th-century European ballroom spread, and distinction from related couple dances.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "britannica-polka", "title": "polka", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/art/polka", "what_it_supports": "Dance definition, Bohemian origin, basic step pattern, and later popularisation as social and folk dance.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "loc-polka", "title": "The Polka", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200196571/", "what_it_supports": "US reception, immigrant dance-hall practice, and the polka as a named popular-music genre in American collections.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wd-polka", "title": "polka (Q185023)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185023", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifier for the dance/music form and links to national-library and encyclopaedia records.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "polka-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Polka identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what is being called polka and why that designation should be accepted, qualified or challenged.", "rationale": "The name can identify a musical genre, a dance or a version-specific treatment, so recognition requires an explicit referent and musical evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "classified-musical-referent", "name": "Classified musical referent", "description": "Locates the polka claim at the appropriate musical level.", "findings": [ { "id": "location-of-polka-claim", "name": "Location of the polka claim", "description": "Records whether the designation concerns the composition, an arrangement, a performance or only a passage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which composition, arrangement, performance or passage is being identified as polka?", "kind": "definition", "id": "location-of-polka-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Who or what supplied the polka designation, and does that evidence identify this exact version?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "location-of-polka-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-dance-form-readings", "name": "Competing dance-form readings", "description": "Tests the classification against plausible neighbouring musical forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "polka-classification-support", "name": "Polka classification support", "description": "Records evidence distinguishing polka from other dance forms and preserves unresolved disagreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which audible or notated features support polka beyond the title or catalogue label?", "kind": "definition", "id": "polka-classification-support-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this version from a march, schottische, waltz or another plausible classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "polka-classification-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "polka-pulse-and-articulation", "name": "Polka pulse and articulation", "description": "Captures the temporal and accent relationships through which the version presents its polka character.", "rationale": "A polka judgement and a dance-use decision both require more than a tempo value or time signature.", "layers": [ { "id": "metre-and-moving-pulse", "name": "Metre and moving pulse", "description": "Relates written metre to perceived pulse and its stability.", "findings": [ { "id": "pulse-grouping-and-rate", "name": "Pulse grouping and rate", "description": "Records beat grouping, counting convention, tempo and local changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What metre is notated or inferred, and how are the audible beats grouped?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pulse-grouping-and-rate-q01" }, { "text": "What is the tempo with its beat unit specified, and where do accelerations, pauses or pulse ambiguities occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pulse-grouping-and-rate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bass-chord-and-melody-interaction", "name": "Bass, chord and melody interaction", "description": "Examines how accompaniment and melodic articulation establish or complicate the dance pulse.", "findings": [ { "id": "accent-pattern-and-exceptions", "name": "Accent pattern and exceptions", "description": "Describes the observed rhythmic relationship among bass, chords and melody without imposing one universal accompaniment formula.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do bass notes, chords and melodic accents fall within the beat cycle?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accent-pattern-and-exceptions-q01" }, { "text": "Which syncopations, pickups or articulation changes preserve the perceived polka pulse, and which make it uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accent-pattern-and-exceptions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "polka-strains-and-version-lineage", "name": "Polka strains and version lineage", "description": "Connects the version's phrases and repeated sections with its source material and attributed tradition.", "rationale": "Recognising a melody does not establish that every arrangement is polka, and structural changes can alter how a version functions.", "layers": [ { "id": "phrase-and-repeat-map", "name": "Phrase and repeat map", "description": "Makes recurring musical sections and departures from their patterns inspectable.", "findings": [ { "id": "section-return-and-phrase-regularity", "name": "Section return and phrase regularity", "description": "Records phrase lengths, repeated strains or sections, transitions and endings as observed in this version.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the phrase lengths, section order and repeat pattern, including introductions and endings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "section-return-and-phrase-regularity-q01" }, { "text": "Where do shortened phrases, extensions or unexpected returns change the pattern a performer or dancer would anticipate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "section-return-and-phrase-regularity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "arrangement-and-tradition-links", "name": "Arrangement and tradition links", "description": "Separates source-melody identity from a version's polka treatment and tradition claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "inherited-and-added-polka-features", "name": "Inherited and added polka features", "description": "Identifies what a version preserves or introduces and the evidence for its stylistic attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source work or earlier version is linked, and which polka-related features were retained, added or removed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "inherited-and-added-polka-features-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a named polka tradition for this version, and is the attribution contested?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "inherited-and-added-polka-features-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "polka-use-and-adaptation", "name": "Polka use and adaptation", "description": "Turns musical observations into decisions about a specified use and proposed changes.", "rationale": "A version may be recognisably polka while requiring changes for a particular dance practice, ensemble or performance setting.", "layers": [ { "id": "dance-and-performance-fit", "name": "Dance and performance fit", "description": "Assesses the version against explicitly stated polka-use requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-musical-readiness", "name": "Use-specific musical readiness", "description": "Records whether pulse, tempo, phrase continuity and duration meet the intended use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which polka dance practice, ensemble task or listening context supplies the suitability criteria?", "kind": "definition", "id": "use-specific-musical-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Do this version's tempo, pulse continuity, phrase pattern and duration satisfy those criteria, and what adjustment is needed if they do not?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-musical-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adaptation-and-reassessment", "name": "Adaptation and reassessment", "description": "Evaluates proposed musical changes and the need to reassess identity or practical fit.", "findings": [ { "id": "polka-character-after-change", "name": "Polka character after change", "description": "Records the expected effect of changing tempo, accompaniment, repeats or instrumentation on the supported polka reading.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which proposed changes address the intended use, and which observed polka features must be checked afterward?", "kind": "action", "id": "polka-character-after-change-q01" }, { "text": "Would the changed version retain the existing polka classification and tradition attribution, or require a qualified or new assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "polka-character-after-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Bohemian / Czech polka (the originating 19th-century ballroom and folk form, 2/4, hopping step)", "German and Austrian polka (including the slower Rheinländer / Schottische-adjacent social forms and the faster Bierfest polka)", "Polish polka (including regional village polkas and later urban/accordion styles)", "Nordic polka / polkett (Scandinavian social-dance variants, often slower or in mixed couple-dance programmes)", "Mexican and norteño polka (accordion-led conjunto / banda instrumental polka as a core dance rhythm)", "Texas-Czech and Texas-German polka (immigrant dance-hall and radio tradition in the US Midwest and Southwest)", "Polka as popular/entertainment music (brass-band, circus, and 20th-century recorded hits such as 'Beer Barrel Polka')", "Polka-mazurka and related hybrid couple dances (3/4 hybrids that share the polka name but not the metre)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of polka 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": "Q185023", "note": "Item for the dance and music genre 'polka'." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Polkas", "note": "LCSH for the musical form; used in catalogue records for scores and recordings." }, { "scheme": "Dewey Decimal Classification", "value_or_pattern": "793.33 (ballroom dancing) / 781.62 and related popular-music numbers for recorded polkas", "note": "Classification rather than a unique instance code." }, { "scheme": "ISWC / work identifiers", "value_or_pattern": "per composition (e.g. individual polka works registered as musical works)", "note": "There is no single ISWC for 'polka' as a genre; identifiers attach to named pieces." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of polka 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": [ "No binding technical standard governs the dance or genre itself.", "Performance and recording of copyrighted polka works are governed by ordinary copyright and collecting-society rules in the relevant territory (e.g. national implementing laws of the Berne Convention).", "Social-dance events may be subject to local public-entertainment, noise, and alcohol licensing rather than to a dance-specific code." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of polka 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": [ "Couple dance in 19th- and 20th-century European and immigrant ballrooms, village halls, and festival programmes.", "Core instrumental rhythm in Central European brass bands, Czech/Slovak dechovka, Polish village bands, and Mexican conjunto / norteño ensembles.", "Recorded popular music and radio format (notably US Midwest and Texas Czech/German stations; mid-century hits such as Beer Barrel Polka / Škoda lásky).", "Teaching unit in social-dance and folk-dance curricula (basic polka step: hop-step-close-step in 2/4).", "Named programme item at Oktoberfest-style events, ethnic festivals, and community dance halls." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of polka 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": "Metre / time signature", "typical_range": "almost always 2/4 (occasionally notated 4/4); polka-mazurka in 3/4 is a hybrid", "unit": "beats per bar" }, { "quantity": "Tempo", "typical_range": "about 104-132 bpm for social polka; faster festival/brass polkas often 120-140+ bpm; some Nordic and older ballroom polkas slower", "unit": "beats per minute" }, { "quantity": "Step cycle", "typical_range": "one polka step (hop + three walking steps) occupies one bar of 2/4", "unit": "bars" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of polka 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": [ "Misidentification of metre: calling a 3/4 waltz, mazurka, or polka-mazurka a polka, or vice versa, which breaks partner timing.", "Dance-floor collision and trip risk from the hopping step on crowded or slippery floors.", "Overuse injury (knee, ankle, calf) from repeated hopping, especially on hard halls.", "High sound-pressure exposure at amplified brass/accordion dance events.", "Genre-label drift in catalogues, where 'polka' is applied to any fast duple folk tune or to polka-dot textile patterns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of polka 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": [ "Bohemia / Czech lands: origin story (often attached to a servant girl, Anna Slezáková, c.1830s) and a living dechovka / folk-polka repertory; Czech 'polka' remains a default social dance.", "German-speaking Europe: both fast beer-festival polkas and slower Rheinländer-like couple dances circulate under or beside the name.", "Poland: village polkas and later urban accordion polka; the name is everyday dance vocabulary rather than a single canonised form.", "Nordic countries: polka and polkett sit in mixed gammaldans / old-time programmes with schottis, waltz, and mazurka.", "Mexico and US-Mexico border: polka is a foundational conjunto/norteño instrumental form, often without the Central European hopping-step pedagogy.", "United States (Upper Midwest, Texas): Czech, German, and Polish immigrant dance-hall polka as ethnic popular music; 'polka' can mean a radio/record genre as much as a step.", "The textile sense 'polka dot' (from 19th-century fashion naming) is a different thing that shares the name." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of polka 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": "Waltz", "difference": "Waltz is in triple metre (3/4) with a down-up-up sway; polka is duple (2/4) with a hop on the upbeat." }, { "name": "Schottische / Rheinländer", "difference": "Schottische is a related duple couple dance but typically slower, with a dotted or 'slow-slow-quick-quick' phrase structure rather than the continuous polka hop-step." }, { "name": "Mazurka / polka-mazurka", "difference": "Mazurka is in 3/4 with accent often on the second or third beat; a polka-mazurka borrows polka styling but not polka metre." }, { "name": "Galop", "difference": "Galop is also a fast 2/4 couple dance of the same ballroom generation, but uses a chassé/galloping travelling step without the polka's characteristic hop-step-close." }, { "name": "Polka dot (textile pattern)", "difference": "A repeating round-spot print named in the 19th-century polka craze; it is a surface pattern, not a dance or musical form." }, { "name": "Two-step / foxtrot", "difference": "Later ballroom duple dances that may occupy similar floors; they lack the polka hop and the Central European folk/brass idiom." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of polka this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.polka denote the musical genre, the dance, or a combined cultural form, given that the registry supplies no definition?", "Does an existing Vercy model already own polka or a broader dance-music concept to which this entry should link?", "Which researched musical and community sources establish the boundaries between polka and neighbouring duple-time dance forms across traditions?", "Which distinctions among regional, historical and contemporary polka practices materially change recognition or permitted adaptation decisions?", "Which tempo, 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Eastern-style polka", "French polka", "polkabilly", "polka-mazurka", "Polkett", "Swing-Polka", "fast polka", "Concert polka", "Slovenian-style polka" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 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 polka from another, and a polka 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 polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka 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 polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka 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 polka between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a polka 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 polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka 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 polka contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka 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 polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 polka is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a polka, 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 polka, 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 polka 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 } } } }