{ "model": { "rank": 3532, "code": "thing-q168432", "model_id": "vr.tr.anchor", "name": "anchor", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a marine anchor, assess its suitability and condition, and identify the evidence needed before deployment, recovery or continued use.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q168432/", "tier": 2, "score": 84, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "stone anchor", "mushroom anchor", "wooden anchor", "stockless anchor", "Onttakeld anker", "Klaar anker", "AC-14", "çıpo", "Admiralty Anchor", "Baldt anchor", "Spek anchor" ], "aliasCount": 11, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 84, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.anchor", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q168432", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168432", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:29:06Z", "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 v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c44-adea-7870-b6d1-b28207cce84e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: anchor\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 register", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 76.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c44-ade0-78c3-a27a-cc3bfc864cf5\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: anchor\nRegistry id: vr.tr.anchor\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext fo" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q168432", "registryId": "vr.tr.anchor", "name": "anchor", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q168432/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.anchor", "name": "anchor", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a marine anchor, assess its suitability and condition, and identify the evidence needed before deployment, recovery or continued use.", "definition": "An anchor is a device connected to a vessel or other floating structure by a line or chain that resists displacement by engaging the bed of a body of water or relying on its submerged weight.", "scope_statement": "This model covers anchor as a physical device intended to hold a vessel or floating installation relative to the bed of a waterbody by transferring restraint forces into that bed; the marine sense is provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Anchor families, holding mechanisms and intended marine applications", "Anchor geometry, materials and attachment interfaces", "Compatibility with bed conditions and expected loading", "Deployment, setting, holding, recovery and stowage states", "Damage, wear, inspection evidence and restrictions on use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The complete anchoring or mooring system, including rode, windlass and vessel fittings", "Vessel manoeuvring, stability and station-keeping models", "Seabed surveys, habitats and anchoring permissions as independently maintained records", "Structural fasteners, wall anchors and rock anchors", "Metaphorical, broadcast and software senses of anchor" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its intended restraint comes from interaction with the bed, unlike a sea anchor or drogue whose resistance comes from moving water.", "It provides the bed-engaging or bed-weighting element, unlike a rode that transmits force or a windlass that handles the rode.", "It is designed to accept an external restraint load through an attachment interface, unlike ballast carried solely to change a vessel's weight or stability.", "It belongs to the marine holding-device sense; resemblance to a construction anchor or use of the same name does not establish membership." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Holding mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "embedment; deadweight; suction-assisted foundation interaction; combined; other documented mechanism; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which bed properties, installation evidence and failure modes are relevant." }, { "name": "Intended service", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "temporary vessel anchoring; permanent mooring; floating-installation restraint; other documented service", "why_it_matters": "Separates operationally recoverable anchors from anchors intended for long-term installation." }, { "name": "Mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with configuration and measurement basis", "why_it_matters": "Affects handling and some holding mechanisms but does not independently establish holding capacity." }, { "name": "Bed-engaging geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "principal dimensions in mm; projected fluke or bearing area in m²; relevant angles in degrees", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification, clearance checks and interpretation of penetration or bearing behaviour." }, { "name": "Material and protective treatment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented material grade, coating or treatment; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of corrosion, deformation and permitted repair methods." }, { "name": "Bed compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to supported substrate classes and site evidence, including exclusions", "why_it_matters": "An anchor suitable for one substrate may fail to set or hold in another." }, { "name": "Supported load envelope", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kN by load direction, duration, cycling, substrate and installation condition", "why_it_matters": "Makes capacity claims conditional on the circumstances in which they were established." }, { "name": "Rode attachment interface", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "attachment geometry and dimensions in mm, permitted connector types and documented loading restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether restraint can be transferred without interference or unsupported loading." }, { "name": "Operational state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "stowed; deploying; on bed; setting; holding verified under stated conditions; dragging; recovering; fouled; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes physical placement from demonstrated restraint." }, { "name": "Serviceability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed; serviceable within documented limits; restricted; awaiting repair; retired", "why_it_matters": "Connects inspection findings to allowed actions." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify the anchor's holding mechanism and identify the evidence required for its intended service.", "Compare documented bed and load compatibility with a proposed anchoring location.", "Check attachment and handling interfaces against the associated anchoring system.", "Record deployment and setting evidence without treating contact with the bed as proof of holding.", "Assess recovery options and restrictions when the anchor is fouled or embedded.", "Use inspection findings and documented limits to recommend continued use, restriction, repair or retirement." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "anchor-identity-and-mechanism", "name": "Anchor identity and mechanism", "description": "Establishes which physical anchor sense and holding mechanism apply.", "rationale": "Marine anchors can hold through substantially different mechanisms, so appearance or name alone cannot determine the appropriate assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "marine-sense-and-service", "name": "Marine sense and service", "description": "Separates marine anchoring devices from other meanings and identifies their intended service.", "findings": [ { "id": "restraint-role", "name": "Restraint role", "description": "Record what the anchor is intended to restrain and whether it is a temporary or long-term installation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this entry denote a bed-interacting marine anchor rather than a drogue, construction fastener or nonphysical anchor?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "restraint-role-q01" }, { "text": "Which vessel or floating-installation services define the anchor kind's intended use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "restraint-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holding-principle", "name": "Holding principle", "description": "Identifies the physical interaction responsible for restraint.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-dependent-evidence", "name": "Mechanism-dependent evidence", "description": "Describe whether restraint depends on penetration, bearing, weight, foundation interaction or a documented combination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What physical mechanism transfers the applied restraint force into the bed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mechanism-dependent-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which design description or observed installation evidence supports that mechanism classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mechanism-dependent-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "anchor-geometry-and-interfaces", "name": "Anchor geometry and interfaces", "description": "Captures the parts and connections that govern bed engagement and force transfer.", "rationale": "Fluke geometry, articulation and attachment details can change setting behaviour and introduce specific interference or failure risks.", "layers": [ { "id": "bed-engaging-form", "name": "Bed-engaging form", "description": "Describes the geometry relevant to the identified holding mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-geometry", "name": "Functional geometry", "description": "Record applicable flukes, shank, stock, crown, ballast body or foundation shell, including moving parts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts penetrate, bear on or otherwise engage the bed, and which orient them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "functional-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "What dimensions, areas, angles and articulation limits describe those parts in the deployed configuration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-geometry-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "load-and-handling-connections", "name": "Load and handling connections", "description": "Separates restraint attachment from lifting, recovery and stowage interfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "connection-compatibility", "name": "Connection compatibility", "description": "Identify each connection's intended function and constraints on connected equipment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attachment carries the rode load, and what connector dimensions and directions of loading are supported?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "connection-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which lifting or recovery points may be used, and what evidence prevents confusing them with the restraint attachment?", "kind": "action", "id": "connection-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bed-and-load-suitability", "name": "Bed and load suitability", "description": "Relates anchor performance evidence to the substrate and applied forces.", "rationale": "Holding capability cannot be inferred reliably from anchor mass or nominal family without bed and loading conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "substrate-response", "name": "Substrate response", "description": "Records conditions that permit or obstruct engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "bed-compatibility-evidence", "name": "Bed compatibility evidence", "description": "Associate supported and unsuitable bed conditions with explicit evidence and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which sediment, rock, vegetation or layered-bed conditions is setting and holding supported by evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bed-compatibility-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What site measurements are needed to evaluate penetration, burial depth or bearing for this anchor mechanism?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bed-compatibility-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditional-holding-capacity", "name": "Conditional holding capacity", "description": "Distinguishes structural strength from demonstrated resistance in a particular bed.", "findings": [ { "id": "capacity-basis", "name": "Capacity basis", "description": "Keep proof loads, structural limits and bed-holding results separately attributable to their conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the anchor's structural load limit from its measured or calculated bed-holding resistance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "capacity-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What load magnitude, direction, cycling and installation conditions bound each reported capacity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capacity-basis-q02" }, { "text": "What reassessment is required when the load reverses, the rode angle changes or the substrate differs from the evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "capacity-basis-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "setting-and-recovery", "name": "Setting and recovery", "description": "Models the anchor's transition between stowage, engagement, restraint and retrieval.", "rationale": "An anchor on the bed may remain unset, and an anchor that holds successfully may require a distinct breakout or recovery procedure.", "layers": [ { "id": "deployment-and-setting", "name": "Deployment and setting", "description": "Tracks prerequisites and evidence for effective engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-setting-state", "name": "Verified setting state", "description": "Record the setting method and observations that justify a bounded holding assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What orientation, installation equipment or setting procedure does this anchor require?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-setting-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations or tests distinguish successful setting from simple bed contact, temporary resistance or dragging?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-setting-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breakout-and-stowage", "name": "Breakout and stowage", "description": "Addresses release from the bed, fouling and secure handling after retrieval.", "findings": [ { "id": "recovery-constraints", "name": "Recovery constraints", "description": "Identify permitted recovery methods and the conditions that make retrieval unsafe or unsupported.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is this anchor intended to break out or be removed, and which attachments and load limits govern recovery?", "kind": "action", "id": "recovery-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence of fouling, abnormal breakout resistance or damage requires recovery to stop for reassessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "recovery-constraints-q02" }, { "text": "What geometry and securing provisions must the associated stowage arrangement accommodate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recovery-constraints-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "integrity-and-service-evidence", "name": "Integrity and service evidence", "description": "Connects anchor-specific deterioration and documentary evidence to service decisions.", "rationale": "Deformation, section loss or restricted articulation can compromise bed engagement or load transfer even when the anchor remains recognisable.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-deterioration", "name": "Damage and deterioration", "description": "Targets the components and surfaces relevant to holding and structural integrity.", "findings": [ { "id": "critical-condition-observations", "name": "Critical condition observations", "description": "Record corrosion, cracks, bent parts, attachment wear and impaired movement against applicable acceptance criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What section loss, cracking, deformation or attachment-hole wear is present at load-carrying and bed-engaging parts?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "critical-condition-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Where articulation is part of the design, does it move through its documented range without seizure or excessive play?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "critical-condition-observations-q02" }, { "text": "Which documented rejection or repair criteria apply to the observed defects?", "kind": "action", "id": "critical-condition-observations-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualification-and-traceability", "name": "Qualification and traceability", "description": "Identifies the basis and applicability of approvals, tests and service restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-qualification", "name": "Applicable qualification", "description": "Record verified issuing bodies, document editions, approval scope and traceability without assuming one standard governs every anchor.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which standards, classification rules or manufacturer requirements apply to this anchor family and intended service, and who issued them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-qualification-q01" }, { "text": "What markings and records connect a particular anchor to its material, design approval and required tests?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-qualification-q02" }, { "text": "Which repairs or modifications require renewed inspection, testing or approval before use?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-qualification-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 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sense of anchor 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": [ "Stocked anchor", "Stockless anchor", "Fluke anchor", "Plough anchor", "Grapnel anchor", "Mushroom anchor" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of anchor 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": [ "Holding a vessel at a selected location while temporarily at rest.", "Securing buoys, pontoons and other floating structures in permanent moorings.", "Helping control vessel position during manoeuvring or emergencies.", "Holding floating offshore installations through multi-anchor mooring systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of anchor this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Anchor mass for small recreational boats", "typical_range": "Approximately 2-30; selection depends on vessel size, anchor design and operating conditions", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Holding force", "typical_range": "No universal range; depends on anchor design, seabed properties, embedment and loading direction", "unit": "kN" }, { "quantity": "Scope ratio", "typical_range": "Commonly about 3:1-7:1 in recreational practice, with substantial dependence on rode type and conditions", "unit": "dimensionless; deployed rode length divided by vertical distance from bow attachment to seabed" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of anchor 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": [ "Failure to set or dragging because the anchor is unsuitable for the seabed, poorly embedded or overloaded.", "Breakout or failure to reset after a change in wind, current or loading direction.", "Fracture, deformation or corrosion of the anchor or its connecting hardware.", "Fouling on rocks, cables, debris or other anchors, preventing retrieval.", "Crushing, entanglement and uncontrolled deployment hazards during handling; seabed habitats and submerged infrastructure can also be damaged." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards 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"name": "Anchor rode", "difference": "The rode is the line, chain or combination transmitting load between the vessel and the anchor." }, { "name": "Sea anchor", "difference": "A sea anchor develops resistance in the water rather than engaging the seabed." }, { "name": "Drogue", "difference": "A drogue is towed through water to limit speed or improve directional control rather than fix a vessel to the seabed." }, { "name": "Anchor fastener", "difference": "An anchor fastener secures an attachment to a solid substrate such as concrete or masonry; it is a different physical-object sense." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of anchor this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.anchor specifically denote a marine anchor, and does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept?", "Does the registry intend 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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": [ "stone anchor", "mushroom anchor", "wooden anchor", "stockless anchor", "Onttakeld anker", "Klaar anker", "AC-14", "çıpo", "Admiralty Anchor", "Baldt anchor", "Spek anchor" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 anchor from another, and a anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 anchor is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a anchor, 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 anchor, 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 anchor 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 } } } }