{ "model": { "rank": 4432, "code": "thing-q164444", "model_id": "vr.tr.funk", "name": "funk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise funk as a musical genre and practice, assess the evidence for that classification, and support informed description, comparison and musical interpretation.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q164444/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "blaxploitation", "Latin funk", "G-funk", "bayou funk", "Afro-funk", "deep funk", "electro funk", "go-go", "porn groove", "psychedelic funk", "avant-funk", "synth funk", "punk funk", "Brit funk", "funkcore", "nu-funk", "Israeli funk", "bounce beat" ], "aliasCount": 18, "merged": 18, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q164444", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164444", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:12:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 23.1, "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: 01a087cc-159c-7d92-ac4d-7f383541a1ec\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: funk\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registered ", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 63, "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: 01a087cc-1590-7550-bd13-19f662fe668a\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: funk\nRegistry id: vr.tr.funk\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for th" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q164444", "registryId": "vr.tr.funk", "name": "funk", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q164444/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.funk", "name": "funk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise funk as a musical genre and practice, assess the evidence for that classification, and support informed description, comparison and musical interpretation.", "definition": "Funk is a genre of African American popular music that emerged in the United States during the 1960s, drawing on rhythm and blues, soul and jazz and foregrounding syncopated, interlocking rhythms, prominent bass lines and groove over extended harmonic progression.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the musical sense of funk for vr.tr.funk: its groove organisation, ensemble practices, expressive conventions and contextual genre boundaries, while linking to separate models for individual works, performances, recordings and rights.", "in_scope": [ "Funk genre identification, including uncertain and hybrid classifications", "Groove organisation through accent, syncopation, repetition and interlocking parts", "Roles of bass, percussion, chordal instruments, voices and production in sustaining the groove", "Performance practices involving bodily movement, ensemble interaction and variation", "Evidence of musical lineage, community usage and changes in the meaning of funk" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Funk as an emotional state, smell or other nonmusical sense", "Complete models of neighbouring genres such as soul, jazz, disco and hip-hop", "Individual composition, arrangement, performance, recording, release or physical copy identities", "Artist biographies and organisational histories beyond their relevance to genre evidence", "Ownership, licensing and clearance decisions for particular compositions, recordings or samples" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Test whether the interaction of bass, percussion and other rhythmic parts sustains a central groove; a syncopated bass line alone is insufficient evidence.", "Examine phrase-level accents and any emphasis on the first beat alongside anticipations, rests and offbeat attacks, rather than requiring one fixed drum pattern.", "Assess whether repetition supports detailed rhythmic variation and ensemble interaction; repetition by itself does not distinguish funk.", "Compare the candidate with plausible neighbouring classifications using musical features and contextual evidence; danceability, instrumentation or tempo alone cannot settle the label.", "Distinguish membership in funk from a funk-influenced passage or a merely 'funky' description, and explicitly resolve labels such as Brazilian funk before assuming a shared genre scope." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Classification relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "funk; funk hybrid; funk-influenced; contested; insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates genre membership from influence and prevents a local stylistic feature from determining the classification of an entire work." }, { "name": "Classification target", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "passage; arrangement; performance; recording; artist repertoire; scene", "why_it_matters": "A genre judgment must identify what it describes and must not transfer automatically between targets." }, { "name": "Pulse and tempo", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "beats per minute, with pulse interpretation, time span and estimation uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports groove comparison without treating a tempo range as a definition of funk." }, { "name": "Accent and onset organisation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "onsets, rests and accent strengths by instrument role and position within a stated metrical cycle", "why_it_matters": "Makes claims about syncopation, downbeat emphasis and interlocking rhythm inspectable." }, { "name": "Groove cycle", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "beats or bars per recurring pattern, with variation points and analysed passage", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the recurring foundation from fills, breaks and changes of section." }, { "name": "Ensemble role allocation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "sound source linked to pulse, bass anchor, rhythmic punctuation, harmonic support, lead or response roles", "why_it_matters": "Recognises functional similarities across acoustic, electric, electronic and sampled ensembles." }, { "name": "Harmonic movement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "chord changes per stated passage, with pedal, vamp and tonal-centre annotations where supported", "why_it_matters": "Tests how harmonic continuity or movement interacts with rhythmic development." }, { "name": "Classification evidence state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed; supported; disputed; unresolved, with attributable evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps a draft interpretation distinct from an adequately supported genre judgment." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a passage or recording as funk, hybrid or funk-influenced with an explicit explanation and uncertainty.", "Annotate how bass, drums, chordal attacks and vocal or instrumental responses create a groove.", "Compare performances or arrangements to identify changes in rhythmic feel and ensemble function.", "Retrieve musically comparable examples using groove features and contextual genre evidence.", "Suggest arrangement or rehearsal changes tied to an intended funk interpretation without presenting one pattern as mandatory.", "Flag ambiguous genre names, unsupported lineage claims and sample provenance requiring further investigation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "funk-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Funk identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes the intended musical sense and the level at which a funk classification applies.", "rationale": "The word can denote genre membership, stylistic influence or an informal impression, and those claims require different evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "musical-sense", "name": "Musical sense", "description": "Separates the registry concept from other meanings and potentially distinct musical uses of the name.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-funk-concept", "name": "Intended funk concept", "description": "Record the musical tradition intended by each use of the label and preserve ambiguity until contextual evidence resolves it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of funk identify the musical tradition intended by vr.tr.funk, a different musical use of the name, or a nonmusical meaning?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-funk-concept-q01" }, { "text": "What contextual evidence resolves labels such as funk, funky and Brazilian funk without silently merging their meanings?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-funk-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-influence", "name": "Membership and influence", "description": "Locates the classification claim and distinguishes genre membership from borrowed features.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-genre-claim", "name": "Bounded genre claim", "description": "Attach each classification to a specific target and explain whether funk is its principal genre, a hybrid component or a local influence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is funk being attributed to a passage, arrangement, performance, recording, repertoire or scene?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-genre-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which musical and contextual evidence supports funk membership rather than a funk-influenced description?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-genre-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "groove-and-metric-organisation", "name": "Groove and metric organisation", "description": "Makes the rhythmic relationships underlying a proposed funk reading available for inspection.", "rationale": "A genre label or tempo estimate cannot explain how a particular example produces its groove.", "layers": [ { "id": "pulse-accent-and-space", "name": "Pulse, accent and space", "description": "Examines pulse interpretation, phrase accents, syncopated attacks and strategically placed rests.", "findings": [ { "id": "accent-map", "name": "Accent map", "description": "Describe where parts reinforce or displace the perceived pulse, including whether the first beat acts as an organising anchor.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pulse, metre and phrase boundary best explain the passage, and where is that interpretation uncertain?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accent-map-q01" }, { "text": "Where do bass, kick, snare and chordal attacks coincide, anticipate or leave space around strong beats?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accent-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "repetition-and-feel", "name": "Repetition and feel", "description": "Examines recurring patterns, their variation and the timing relationships between parts.", "findings": [ { "id": "groove-cycle-and-variation", "name": "Groove cycle and variation", "description": "Separate stable rhythmic scaffolding from changes in timing, articulation, fills and pattern length.", "questions": [ { "text": "Over how many beats or bars does the groove recur, and which elements vary between repetitions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "groove-cycle-and-variation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a straight, swung or other subdivision feel, and can timing deviations be distinguished from transcription or recording uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "groove-cycle-and-variation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ensemble-interlock-and-sound", "name": "Ensemble interlock and sound", "description": "Explains how sound sources divide and coordinate rhythmic, harmonic and expressive work.", "rationale": "Funk recognition should follow relationships between parts rather than depend on a mandatory instrument list.", "layers": [ { "id": "bass-and-percussion", "name": "Bass and percussion", "description": "Examines the low-frequency pattern and percussion as interacting components of the groove.", "findings": [ { "id": "bass-drum-relationship", "name": "Bass-drum relationship", "description": "Record how bass attacks, sustained notes and rests relate to kick, snare and subdivision patterns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bass and percussion events reinforce one another, and which create complementary rhythmic movement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bass-drum-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "How does the groove function when the bass or percussion role is supplied by synthesis, sampling, voice or an unconventional instrument?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bass-drum-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chordal-vocal-and-timbral-roles", "name": "Chordal, vocal and timbral roles", "description": "Examines rhythmic contributions from harmony, melodic punctuation, articulation and vocal exchange.", "findings": [ { "id": "distributed-rhythmic-work", "name": "Distributed rhythmic work", "description": "Identify how guitar, keyboards, horns, voices or other sources contribute attacks, responses and contrasting textures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts provide short rhythmic punctuation, sustained harmony, lead material or responses, and when do those roles change?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "distributed-rhythmic-work-q01" }, { "text": "How do articulation, muting, effects and note duration affect the rhythmic function of each part?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "distributed-rhythmic-work-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "groove-development-and-performance", "name": "Groove development and performance", "description": "Tracks how a funk interpretation develops through arrangement, interaction and performance decisions.", "rationale": "A static loop description misses the ways performers sustain interest, signal changes and shape movement over time.", "layers": [ { "id": "vamps-breaks-and-transitions", "name": "Vamps, breaks and transitions", "description": "Relates harmonic movement and recurring grooves to interruptions, entrances and section changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "arrangement-energy", "name": "Arrangement energy", "description": "Describe how continuity and contrast arise through harmonic changes, breaks, fills and the addition or removal of parts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the passage develop through a sustained vamp, harmonic progression, changing instrumentation or a combination of these?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "arrangement-energy-q01" }, { "text": "Which break, entrance or transition could an agent identify or propose to support a stated arrangement goal?", "kind": "action", "id": "arrangement-energy-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interaction-and-movement", "name": "Interaction and movement", "description": "Examines observable performer coordination, response patterns and dance-related use.", "findings": [ { "id": "performed-groove-coordination", "name": "Performed groove coordination", "description": "Record cues, exchanges and audience interaction where evidence exists, without inferring a social setting from audio alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What audible or visible evidence identifies ensemble cues, call-and-response or coordinated changes in the groove?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "performed-groove-coordination-q01" }, { "text": "What rehearsal instruction would address an observed coordination issue while preserving the performers' intended feel?", "kind": "action", "id": "performed-groove-coordination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-and-classification-evidence", "name": "Lineage and classification evidence", "description": "Connects musical analysis to attributable cultural context and identifiable listening examples.", "rationale": "Funk classification cannot be settled by acoustic resemblance alone, and claims about origins or influence need traceable support.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-and-historical-usage", "name": "Community and historical usage", "description": "Records how musicians, listeners and documentary sources locate an example within funk.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-genre-and-lineage", "name": "Attributed genre and lineage", "description": "Keep self-description, contemporary reception and later scholarship distinguishable, including conflicting accounts of affiliation or influence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attributable sources connect the example to funk, and are they contemporary descriptions, participant accounts or retrospective classifications?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-genre-and-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes the relevant African American musical and social context, and what supports any claimed transmission into another scene?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-genre-and-lineage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recording-specific-comparison", "name": "Recording-specific comparison", "description": "Anchors analysis to exact versions and distinguishes resemblance from documented borrowing.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-listening-evidence", "name": "Traceable listening evidence", "description": "Link analytical claims to identifiable recordings and passages, preserving differences between arrangements, performances, edits and remixes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recording, version and time span supports the groove claim, and would another performance of the same composition support it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-listening-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is a proposed connection based on a documented sample, an acknowledged influence or an analyst's comparison, and what evidence remains missing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-listening-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is inferred from INF.MED: the musical genre, rather than a mood, smell or another meaning of the word.", "Subgenre boundaries are porous; boogie and electro-funk can also be classified within post-disco and electronic dance music.", "This is a recall-based description with no sources consulted; precise origin claims and regional histories need research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of funk 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": [ "P-funk", "Jazz-funk", "Funk rock", "Electro-funk", "Boogie" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of funk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISRC - International Standard Recording Code", "value_or_pattern": "12 alphanumeric characters", "note": "Identifies a particular sound recording, including a funk recording; it does not identify the genre or the underlying composition." }, { "scheme": "ISWC - International Standard Musical Work Code", "value_or_pattern": "T followed by nine digits and a check digit", "note": "Identifies a musical work, including a funk composition; distinct recordings of that work can have separate ISRCs." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of funk 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": [ "Music for social dancing and live performance.", "Recorded songs and instrumental tracks.", "Drum breaks, bass lines and other passages used in sampling, particularly in hip-hop.", "Rhythmic and arranging vocabulary used in pop, rock, jazz and electronic music." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of funk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Genre tagging based only on a syncopated bass line can confuse funk with neighbouring styles.", "Treating funk as a fixed rhythmic formula can obscure its historical and regional diversity.", "Conflating compositions, recordings and sampled passages can produce incorrect attribution and rights metadata." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of funk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "New Orleans funk draws strongly on local rhythmic traditions, with the Meters as a prominent example.", "Brazilian funk carioca is a distinct electronic dance tradition with substantial Miami bass ancestry; the shared name does not make it interchangeable with US funk.", "British jazz-funk developed a distinctive club and dance scene around jazz, funk and soul." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of funk 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": "Soul", "difference": "Soul commonly centres expressive, gospel-influenced singing; funk more strongly foregrounds interlocking rhythmic parts, although many recordings belong to both." }, { "name": "Disco", "difference": "Disco typically foregrounds a steady four-on-the-floor dance pulse; funk commonly relies on more syncopated rhythmic interplay, with considerable overlap." }, { "name": "Jazz", "difference": "Jazz commonly gives improvisation and harmonic development a central organising role; funk can sustain relatively static harmony around a repeated groove." }, { "name": "Hip-hop", "difference": "Hip-hop is a broader cultural and musical tradition associated with practices including rapping and DJing; funk is one of its major musical source traditions." }, { "name": "Funk carioca", "difference": "Its Brazilian scene, electronic production traditions and Miami bass lineage distinguish it from the African American genre described here." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of funk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend funk to cover a particular musical tradition exclusively, and where should related but distinct uses such as Brazilian funk be linked?", "Which existing Vercy world model or registry model, if any, already owns this genre concept and should supply its canonical model?", "Which researched examples and counterexamples best distinguish funk membership from funk influence across periods, regions and production methods?", "How much agreement exists among practitioners and scholarly sources about downbeat emphasis, syncopation and harmonic repetition as identifying tendencies rather than necessary conditions?", "Which primary and scholarly sources can support lineage claims and cultural context while preserving disagreement over genre boundaries?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a funk, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise funk as a musical genre and practice, assess the evidence for that classification, and support informed description, comparison and musical interpretation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: blaxploitation, Latin funk, G-funk, bayou funk, Afro-funk, deep funk, electro funk, go-go, porn groove, psychedelic funk, avant-funk, synth funk.", "18 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 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 funk, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "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": [ "blaxploitation", "Latin funk", "G-funk", "bayou funk", "Afro-funk", "deep funk", "electro funk", "go-go", "porn groove", "psychedelic funk", "avant-funk", "synth funk" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 18 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 funk from another, and a funk 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 funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk 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 funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk 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 funk between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a funk 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 funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk 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 funk contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk 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 funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 funk is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a funk, 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 funk, 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 funk 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 } } } }