{ "model": { "rank": 5527, "code": "thing-q157943", "model_id": "vr.tr.body-piercing", "name": "body piercing", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a body piercing as an intentionally created opening in body tissue, record its configuration and reported condition, and identify decisions requiring consent or professional assessment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q157943/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "body piercing jewellery", "flesh tunnel", "genital jewellery", "prince's wand", "susuk", "barbell", "nose chain", "ear spiral", "captive bead ring", "Malay piercing custom", "hand web piercing", "ear piercing", "facial piercing", "corset piercing", "type of piercing", "nipple piercing", "neck piercing", "stretching", "wrist piercing", "navel piercing", "helix piercing", "Tragus piercing", "infant ear piercing", "antitragus piercing", "industrial piercing", "conch piercing", "snug", "Daith piercing", "orbital piercing", "oral piercing" ], "aliasCount": 30, "merged": 30, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q157943", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157943", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:33:30Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.4, "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: 01a0884d-328a-7b60-8ef0-5eefffc01e37\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: body piercing\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 r", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 55, "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: 01a0884d-3297-75f2-87bd-d7ae3fc0bfe5\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: body piercing\nRegistry id: vr.tr.body-piercing\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q157943", "registryId": "vr.tr.body-piercing", "name": "body piercing", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q157943/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.body-piercing", "name": "body piercing", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a body piercing as an intentionally created opening in body tissue, record its configuration and reported condition, and identify decisions requiring consent or professional assessment.", "definition": "A body piercing is an intentionally created opening through body tissue, usually skin or mucosa, made to accommodate jewellery; the term also denotes the procedure that creates it.", "scope_statement": "This model owns body piercing in its physical sense: an intentionally created opening or tract in body tissue intended to accommodate jewellery or an ornament anchor, including its relationship to the wearer and any installed ornament; it does not model the piercing procedure as an activity or jewellery as a standalone product.", "in_scope": [ "Anatomical location, side, placement and tissue traversed", "Opening or tract geometry and relationships between entry and exit points", "Relationship to installed jewellery or an ornament anchor", "Creation history, modification history and reported healing state", "Observed condition, wearer intentions and assessment needs" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Step-by-step piercing procedures and practitioner technique", "Piercing needles, equipment and sterilisation systems as products", "Jewellery design, manufacture and retail independently of a piercing", "Diagnosis and treatment of infections, injuries or other conditions", "Tattoos, scarification and unintended puncture wounds", "The wearer's broader identity or cultural affiliation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An intentional tissue opening distinguishes a piercing from a clip-on ornament that attaches without penetrating tissue.", "An intended relationship to jewellery or an ornament anchor distinguishes the covered sense from an accidental puncture or a medical access opening.", "The tissue opening and the installed ornament are distinct: changing jewellery does not by itself establish a new piercing.", "An anatomical location alone is insufficient to identify an instance because several separate piercings can occupy the same body region.", "The model describes the resulting physical modification, while the act of creating it belongs to an activity model." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Anatomical placement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Body region, anatomical landmark, side and local placement; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the piercing without relying solely on informal style names." }, { "name": "Tissue traversed", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Reported or professionally assessed tissue description; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes placements that look similar externally but involve different tissue." }, { "name": "Opening configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Paired openings with a connecting tract, single visible opening with an anchor, other, uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates configurations whose ornament relationships and assessment needs differ." }, { "name": "Recorded tract diameter", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres, with date, method and evidence source; any gauge notation retains its stated convention", "why_it_matters": "Supports dimension comparisons without treating jewellery size as a verified tissue measurement." }, { "name": "Installed ornament", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked jewellery or anchor record; absent or unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects the tissue modification to the specific object currently occupying it." }, { "name": "Reported healing status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Healing, reported healed, uncertain, or under professional assessment; dated and attributed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents elapsed time or appearance alone from being treated as proof of healing." }, { "name": "Observed local condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of discomfort, swelling, discharge, bleeding, skin integrity or placement change; not assessed permitted", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence for review without converting observations into a diagnosis." }, { "name": "Wearer intention", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Retain, change ornament, modify, retire, undecided, or not recorded", "why_it_matters": "Keeps proposed actions aligned with the wearer's expressed wishes." } ], "affordances": [ "Distinguish and label individual piercings using anatomical placement and opening configuration.", "Link an installed ornament and compare documented dimensions while flagging unknown compatibility.", "Build a dated history of creation, stretching, jewellery changes and reported condition.", "Compare observations over time and flag changes for professional assessment.", "Record wearer intentions and prepare questions for a qualified practitioner without prescribing an intervention." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "anatomical-identity", "name": "Anatomical identity", "description": "Identifies the physical piercing and resolves ambiguity between site, style and individual instance.", "rationale": "Piercing names can describe styles or body regions rather than uniquely identifying the tissue opening.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-and-tissue", "name": "Site and tissue", "description": "Records anatomical placement and the evidence for tissue involvement.", "findings": [ { "id": "placement-identification", "name": "Placement identification", "description": "The model must distinguish a local piercing name from documented anatomical placement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anatomical landmark, side and local position identify this piercing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "placement-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Who identified the tissue traversed, and was that identification observed, assessed or inferred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "placement-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "opening-and-instance-boundaries", "name": "Opening and instance boundaries", "description": "Separates individual tissue modifications from shared jewellery and neighbouring modifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "tract-instance", "name": "Tract instance", "description": "The model must identify which openings belong to one piercing and which belong to distinct piercings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible openings and documented tissue path constitute this piercing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tract-instance-q01" }, { "text": "Does one ornament connect multiple distinct piercings, or occupy a single piercing configuration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tract-instance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ornament-and-tissue-interface", "name": "Ornament and tissue interface", "description": "Describes the relationship between a tissue opening and its installed jewellery or anchor.", "rationale": "Recognising the piercing's state requires distinguishing the body's opening from the object occupying it.", "layers": [ { "id": "installed-configuration", "name": "Installed configuration", "description": "Links the ornament and records how it occupies or connects to the piercing.", "findings": [ { "id": "ornament-relationship", "name": "Ornament relationship", "description": "The model must capture whether an ornament passes through a tract, uses an anchor or is absent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What jewellery or anchor is present, and how does it relate to the tissue opening?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ornament-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Which ornament components contact tissue, and where are their material specifications documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ornament-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dimensions-and-fit-evidence", "name": "Dimensions and fit evidence", "description": "Separates measured dimensions, nominal product sizes and attributed fit assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "dimension-comparability", "name": "Dimension comparability", "description": "The model must preserve the origin of size records and avoid inferring fit from nominal diameter alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tract and jewellery dimensions are documented in millimetres, and how was each obtained?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dimension-comparability-q01" }, { "text": "Who assessed the current fit, and what observations or unresolved measurements support that assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dimension-comparability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "piercing-history-and-condition", "name": "Piercing history and condition", "description": "Tracks physical changes and attributed observations across the piercing's existence.", "rationale": "Creation, stretching, jewellery changes and closure can alter how the same piercing should be understood.", "layers": [ { "id": "creation-and-modification-history", "name": "Creation and modification history", "description": "Records dated events affecting the opening and preserves uncertainty about continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "physical-history", "name": "Physical history", "description": "The model must distinguish initial creation from subsequent modification or recreation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence records when this piercing was created and subsequently stretched, altered or re-pierced?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "physical-history-q01" }, { "text": "If the site closed and was pierced again, should the records describe a new instance linked to the earlier one?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "physical-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "healing-and-local-observations", "name": "Healing and local observations", "description": "Separates reported healing status from dated observations and professional conclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-evidence", "name": "Condition evidence", "description": "The model must retain who reported a condition and when, without treating a symptom label as a diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who described the piercing as healing or healed, on what date and with what basis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in discomfort, surrounding tissue, discharge or ornament position have been recorded over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wearer-intent-and-action-boundaries", "name": "Wearer intent and action boundaries", "description": "Connects proposed changes to wearer wishes, contextual constraints and appropriate assessment.", "rationale": "Actions affecting a piercing affect a person's body and cannot be selected from object condition alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "intent-and-authorisation", "name": "Intent and authorisation", "description": "Records the wearer's requested outcome and the scope of any authorised action.", "findings": [ { "id": "requested-piercing-change", "name": "Requested piercing change", "description": "The model must separate a preference about appearance or retention from permission for a physical intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the wearer want to retain, alter or retire this piercing, and what outcome have they requested?", "kind": "action", "id": "requested-piercing-change-q01" }, { "text": "What specific action has the wearer authorised, and what remains undecided?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "requested-piercing-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-and-professional-review", "name": "Context and professional review", "description": "Records situations requiring placement-specific advice or assessment before a change is selected.", "findings": [ { "id": "review-before-intervention", "name": "Review before intervention", "description": "The model must identify unanswered questions relevant to an intended jewellery change, modification or removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What upcoming activity, procedure or equipment requirement creates a question about this piercing or its jewellery?", "kind": "action", "id": "review-before-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved condition, fit or removal questions require assessment by a qualified piercing practitioner or healthcare professional?", "kind": "action", "id": "review-before-intervention-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 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hold for the sense of body piercing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Earlobe piercing", "Ear cartilage piercing", "Nasal piercing", "Oral or perioral piercing", "Navel piercing", "Genital piercing" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of body piercing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ASTM International ASTM F136 specifies wrought titanium alloy for surgical implant applications and is used as a material specification for some piercing jewellery; it does not certify the finished jewellery or procedure.", "The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard applies to covered workplaces with occupational exposure to blood." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of body piercing 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": [ "Personal adornment", "Expression of identity or affiliation", "Cultural or religious traditions", "Ritual practices" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of body piercing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web 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"questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of body piercing 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": "Body jewellery", "difference": "Jewellery is the object worn in or attached to the body; a piercing is the tissue opening or the procedure creating it." }, { "name": "Body modification", "difference": "Body modification is the broader category of intentional bodily alterations; piercing specifically creates an opening for jewellery." }, { "name": "Tattoo", "difference": "A tattoo introduces pigment into tissue rather than creating an opening intended to hold jewellery." }, { "name": "Dermal anchor", "difference": "A dermal anchor uses a base beneath the skin with a single exposed attachment point, whereas conventional piercing jewellery passes through a tissue channel with entry and exit openings." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of body piercing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to cover the physical modification, the practice of piercing, or both, given its PHY / PHY.OBJ assignment and missing definition?", "Should single-point dermal anchors and related modifications fall within this entry, and what authoritative terminology defines their boundary?", "Which anatomical naming system can reconcile common piercing names with precise placement without implying tissue involvement from a style name alone?", "Which evidence-based, site-specific criteria should support healing-status records and escalation for professional assessment?", "What identity 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a body piercing, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a body piercing as an intentionally created opening in body tissue, record its configuration and reported condition, and identify decisions requiring consent or professional assessment.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: body piercing jewellery, flesh tunnel, genital jewellery, prince's wand, susuk, barbell, nose chain, ear spiral, captive bead ring, Malay piercing custom, hand web piercing, ear piercing.", "30 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "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 body piercing, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "body piercing jewellery", "flesh tunnel", "genital jewellery", "prince's wand", "susuk", "barbell", "nose chain", "ear spiral", "captive bead ring", "Malay piercing custom", "hand web piercing", "ear piercing" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 66 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 30 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 body piercing from another, and a body piercing 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing 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 body piercing 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing 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 body piercing from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a body piercing is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The 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together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a body piercing is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a body piercing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a body piercing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a body piercing is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a body piercing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a body piercing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a body piercing is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a body piercing is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a body piercing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a body piercing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a body piercing is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a body piercing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a body piercing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a body piercing 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 body piercing 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 body piercing between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing 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 body piercing, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a body piercing 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What body piercing is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does body piercing perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise body piercing, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How body piercing is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does body piercing have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does body piercing need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about body piercing is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about body piercing hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern body piercing, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a body piercing 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 body piercing and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing 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 body piercing is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a body piercing, 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 body piercing, 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 body piercing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }