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cavities and the trachea and oesophagus.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identification, boundaries, passage functions, protective functions and observed condition of the region called the throat, with species and anatomical interpretation recorded explicitly rather than assuming that throat names one discrete organ.", "in_scope": [ "Species-specific interpretation and anatomical boundaries of the throat region", "Regional relationships among breathing, swallowing and voice production", "Observed passage difficulty, irritation, pain, swelling and secretion handling", "Evidence about local tissue condition and protective responses", "Regional exposures, interventions and changes over time" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete anatomy and mechanics of the external neck and cervical spine", "Detailed dental, tongue and oral-cavity models", "Complete models of the pharynx, larynx, oesophagus and trachea as individual structures", "Whole respiratory, digestive and nervous system 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intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Value on a named scale, at rest and during specified activities", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparable observations of discomfort and functional impact." }, { "name": "Voice change", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unchanged, changed, not assessable or unknown; description relative to baseline", "why_it_matters": "Records a related functional change without treating it as proof of throat pathology." }, { "name": "Local tissue appearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed location, appearance, examination method and visibility limits", "why_it_matters": "Keeps directly observed tissue findings separate from symptoms and inferred causes." }, { "name": "Change duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Elapsed time in hours or days, with onset certainty", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a single observation from a persistent, recurrent or changing condition." } ], "affordances": [ "Map a use of the word throat to a bounded anatomical region and linked structures.", "Record swallowing, breathing and voice observations with their conditions and evidence sources.", "Compare regional symptoms and functional performance with the organism's baseline.", "Locate gaps that require an appropriately qualified examination or another anatomical model.", "Apply an externally validated assessment protocol to recorded observations while preserving missing information.", "Track a documented intervention and subsequent regional changes without assuming causation." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "grays-anatomy", "title": "Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Anatomical bounds of the pharynx and larynx, the three pharyngeal subdivisions, adult pharyngeal length, and the transition at the cricopharyngeus into the oesophagus." }, { "id": "terminologia-anatomica", "title": "Terminologia Anatomica", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official IFAA names and codes for pharynx and larynx and their parts; the controlled vocabulary that medical 'throat' maps onto." }, { "id": "moore-clinically-oriented-anatomy", "title": "Clinically Oriented Anatomy", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Surface and endoscopic relations used in airway assessment (thyromental distance, oropharyngeal inspection) and the clinical distinction of oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea and oesophagus." }, { "id": "wikipedia-throat", "title": "Throat", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat", "what_it_supports": "Common-language scope of 'throat' as pharynx plus larynx, and the contrast with narrower technical terms.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "regional-identity", "name": "Regional identity", "description": "Establish what throat refers to in this organism and encounter.", "rationale": "Throat is a regional term whose boundaries must be explicit before observations can be interpreted.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-reference", "name": "Anatomical reference", "description": "Anchor the regional label to the organism and terminology used.", "findings": [ { "id": "throat-referent", "name": "Throat referent", "description": "Record the intended anatomical meaning without assuming one universal organ boundary.", "questions": [ { "text": "For this species and anatomical convention, what region does throat denote?", "kind": "definition", "id": "throat-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied this interpretation, and what anatomical reference supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "throat-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-boundaries", "name": "Regional boundaries", "description": "Separate the throat region from its constituent and neighbouring structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "included-structures", "name": "Included structures", "description": "Record inclusions, exclusions and links to more specific anatomical models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which portions of the pharynx, larynx or adjoining passages are included in this use of throat?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-structures-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observation concern this region, an individual internal structure or the external neck?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-structures-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-performance", "name": "Passage performance", "description": "Record how swallowing and breathing are experienced or observed in relation to the throat.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish passage functions and their evidence rather than collapse them into a single normal or abnormal state.", "layers": [ { "id": "swallowing-performance", "name": "Swallowing performance", "description": "Describe swallowing by material, phase and reported location.", "findings": [ { "id": "swallowing-difficulty", "name": "Swallowing difficulty", "description": "Distinguish pain, initiation difficulty and a sensation of material sticking.", "questions": [ { "text": "What difficulty is reported or observed when swallowing saliva, liquids or solids?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "swallowing-difficulty-q01" }, { "text": "Is the difficulty localised to the throat by the subject, by an examiner or by an investigation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "swallowing-difficulty-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breathing-passage", "name": "Breathing passage", "description": "Capture breathing observations potentially associated with the region.", "findings": [ { "id": "air-passage-observations", "name": "Air passage observations", "description": "Record perceived restriction, sounds and effort without inferring a local obstruction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What breathing sounds, effort or restriction were observed, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "air-passage-observations-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence localises the concern to the throat rather than the nose, chest or another region?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "air-passage-observations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-and-voice", "name": "Protection and voice", "description": "Record secretion handling, protective responses and voice-related changes.", "rationale": "These observations connect throat-region condition with passage protection and communication while requiring distinct evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "secretion-and-material-handling", "name": "Secretion and material handling", "description": "Describe handling of saliva and other material near the airway interface.", "findings": [ { "id": "protective-response-observations", "name": "Protective response observations", "description": "Record drooling, coughing, choking reports and clearance attempts in their actual context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What difficulty handling saliva or other material was observed, and when did it occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "protective-response-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Is any claimed airway entry of material directly established, suspected or unassessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protective-response-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "voice-function", "name": "Voice function", "description": "Relate reported or observed voice changes to baseline and anatomical evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "voice-deviation", "name": "Voice deviation", "description": "Document voice changes without assigning their cause to the throat region automatically.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has voice quality, effort or availability changed relative to the subject's baseline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "voice-deviation-q01" }, { "text": "What supports linking the voice change to a structure included in this throat model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "voice-deviation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-condition", "name": "Local condition", "description": "Separate throat sensations from directly examined tissue findings.", "rationale": "A complaint of sore or swollen throat does not by itself identify the affected tissue or establish a cause.", "layers": [ { "id": "regional-sensations", "name": "Regional sensations", "description": "Record pain, irritation, tightness and lump sensations with localisation limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptom-pattern", "name": "Symptom pattern", "description": "Describe the sensation, severity and relationship to swallowing, breathing or speaking.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the sensation felt, how severe is it, and which activities alter it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptom-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Does a reported lump or swelling describe a sensation, a visible change or an examined physical finding?", "kind": "definition", "id": "symptom-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "examined-tissues", "name": "Examined tissues", "description": "Capture visible or instrumentally assessed findings and examination coverage.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-examination-evidence", "name": "Local examination evidence", "description": "Bind tissue descriptions to specific locations, methods and visibility limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which throat structures were actually examined, by whom and using what method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-examination-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What tissue changes were documented, and which portions of the region remained unexamined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-examination-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-action-context", "name": "Course and action context", "description": "Connect changes over time and relevant exposures to evidence-based next steps.", "rationale": "An agent needs temporal context and explicit decision authority to act on throat observations without inventing diagnoses or thresholds.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-exposures", "name": "Onset and exposures", "description": "Record baseline, onset, progression and potentially relevant events.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-change-history", "name": "Regional change history", "description": "Capture timing relative to ingestion, irritants, voice use, illness or procedures without asserting causation.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did the throat change begin, and is it improving, worsening, persistent or recurrent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regional-change-history-q01" }, { "text": "Which exposures or procedures preceded it, and how reliable is the reported timing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-change-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-and-intervention", "name": "Assessment and intervention", "description": "Record the authority for next steps and the response to documented interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-next-action", "name": "Supported next action", "description": "Tie observation, escalation or intervention decisions to an applicable protocol or qualified assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which validated protocol or qualified assessment determines the next action for these throat observations?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "What missing observations or examination limits prevent that decision from being made?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q02" }, { "text": "After a documented intervention, what changed in throat symptoms, swallowing, breathing or voice, and when?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-next-action-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Nasopharynx (posterior to the nasal cavities, above the soft palate)", "Oropharynx (from the palatoglossal arch to the upper border of the epiglottis, including the palatine tonsils)", "Laryngopharynx / hypopharynx (from the epiglottis to the cricopharyngeus, continuous with the oesophagus)", "Larynx (cartilaginous voice box from the hyoid/epiglottis to the cricoid, included in lay and ENT 'throat')", "Waldeyer ring tissue (palatine and lingual tonsils and adenoids as the usual focus of 'sore throat')", "Non-human vertebrate pharynx (homologous passage; birds add a more caudal syrinx, not a laryngeal voice box)", "Ventral cervical integument ('throat' of a bird or mammal as a plumage or pelage region, e.g. throat patch or dewlap)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of throat this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { 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Prefer the pharynx/larynx concepts over the colloquial word in coded records." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D010614 (Pharynx); D007830 (Larynx)", "note": "U.S. National Library of Medicine. 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each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ENT and primary-care inspection with a tongue depressor and light, and flexible nasendoscopy of the nasopharynx, oropharynx, hypopharynx and larynx.", "Passage for breathing, swallowing and phonation; the shared lumen is why food can enter the airway.", "Airway management: oropharyngeal (Guedel) airways, laryngeal mask airways, and endotracheal tubes traverse or sit in this passage.", "Sampling and surgery: throat swabs for streptococcal pharyngitis, tonsillectomy, and oncologic resection of oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal tumours.", "Sleep medicine: collapsible pharyngeal walls are the usual site of obstructive sleep apnoea.", "Veterinary oral-pharyngeal examination and, in meat inspection, examination of the head and throat of slaughtered animals." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of throat 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": "Adult pharyngeal length (cranial base to inferior border of cricoid)", "typical_range": "12-15", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Thyromental distance (airway assessment)", "typical_range": "greater than 6.5 in an uncomplicated adult airway; under 6 flags difficulty", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Retropalatal oropharyngeal anteroposterior airway diameter (awake adult)", "typical_range": "about 10-20", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Pharyngeal swallow transit (bolus through the pharynx)", "typical_range": "about 0.5-1.0", "unit": "s" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of throat 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": [ "Infectious pharyngitis and tonsillitis (viral or group A streptococcus), with peritonsillar abscess as a local complication.", "Acute airway obstruction from foreign body, epiglottitis/supraglottitis, angioedema, or trauma.", "Aspiration when the laryngeal inlet fails to close during swallow.", "Obstructive sleep apnoea from inspiratory collapse of the pharyngeal walls.", "Malignancy of the oropharynx, hypopharynx or larynx (including HPV-associated oropharyngeal carcinoma).", "Caustic or thermal injury to the pharyngeal mucosa; blunt or penetrating neck trauma and strangulation.", "Iatrogenic injury during intubation, endoscopy or tonsillectomy (bleeding, dental injury, airway loss)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of throat 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": [ "English 'throat' is broader than medical 'pharynx'; many clinical records still write 'throat' for oropharyngeal disease.", "French gorge, German Rachen, and several other languages use a folk term that may or may not include the larynx; Hals/cou often means the whole neck.", "Classical Chinese and TCM distinguish yan (pharynx) from hou (larynx); English 'throat' collapses both.", "In field zoology and birding, 'throat' usually means the ventral neck plumage, not the pharyngeal lumen." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of throat 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; 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A neck mass lateral to the sternocleidomastoid is not a throat finding." }, { "name": "Oral cavity", "difference": "The oral cavity ends at the palatoglossal arches; the oropharynx begins behind them. The tongue body is oral; the posterior third is oropharyngeal." }, { "name": "Nasal cavity", "difference": "Separated from the nasopharynx at the choanae; anterior rhinoscopy is not a throat examination." }, { "name": "Larynx", "difference": "The larynx is the cartilaginous voice box from epiglottis/hyoid to cricoid; 'throat' in anatomy is primarily the pharynx, though clinical speech often includes the larynx." }, { "name": "Oesophagus", "difference": "Begins at the cricopharyngeus (about vertebral C6); below that a lumen problem is oesophageal, not pharyngeal." }, { "name": "Trachea", "difference": "Begins at the inferior border of the cricoid; a tracheostomy sits below the throat proper." }, { "name": "Corolla throat (botany)", "difference": "Homonym: the mouth of a fused floral tube where the limb flares, not an animal passage. 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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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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": [ "human throat", "frog's throat", "Al-Anq" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 107 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 throat from another, and a throat 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 throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a throat, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a throat, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a throat is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a throat is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a throat 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 throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 throat is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a throat, 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 throat, 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 throat 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 } } } }