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overall length and width, worn drop, and mechanism-specific clearances", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess clearance, storage needs and interference with nearby items." }, { "name": "Mass per earring", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Grams, with detachable components included or excluded explicitly", "why_it_matters": "Records the load of the actual wearing assembly without inventing a universal comfort threshold." }, { "name": "Attachment interface dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres; applicable post or wire diameter, usable length, opening or clip gap", "why_it_matters": "Supports component matching and fit assessment where measurements are available." }, { "name": "Material and finish evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Component-specific material or finish, evidence basis, and unknown portions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes documented composition from appearance or unsupported marketing claims." }, { "name": "Closure function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not applicable, untested, engages and retains in recorded check, loose, jammed, or broken", "why_it_matters": "Guides whether fastening, repair or further inspection is appropriate." }, { "name": "Assembly condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed bending, cracks, sharp edges, looseness, missing parts, deposits or finish loss, with location", "why_it_matters": "Makes defects actionable at the affected post, hinge, setting or contact surface." }, { "name": "Matching-piece relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Matching counterpart identifier, pair or set identifier, and left/right orientation if applicable", "why_it_matters": "Separates individual completeness from whether a pair is complete." }, { "name": "Compatible detachable components", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified backings, charms or adapters, with compatibility evidence", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating visually similar replacement parts as interchangeable." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the attachment mechanism and inventory the parts needed for its wearing configuration.", "Measure the earring and compare its interface with documented fit or component requirements.", "Inspect the post, closure, joints and settings for defects that affect retention or handling.", "Match an earring to its counterpart and establish orientation where the design is asymmetric.", "Select cleaning, storage or repair actions supported by the materials and construction evidence.", "Flag unresolved contact-material, fit or structural questions before recommending wear." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-earring", "title": "Earring. Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia).", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring", "what_it_supports": "Definition, named types (stud, hoop, drop, chandelier, huggie, cuff), cultural wear, and the distinction from stretched-lobe plugs.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q173395", "title": "earring (Q173395). Wikidata, Wikimedia Foundation.", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173395", "what_it_supports": "Canonical item identifier for the kind 'earring'.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "en-1811", "title": "EN 1811: Reference test method for release of nickel from all post assemblies which are inserted into pierced parts of the human body and articles intended to come into direct and prolonged contact with the skin. European Committee for Standardization (CEN).", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Nickel-release limits and the test method that governs piercing posts and other prolonged-contact jewellery in Europe." }, { "id": "astm-f2999", "title": "ASTM F2999, Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Adult Jewelry. ASTM International.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Adult jewellery safety specification covering lead, cadmium and other hazardous substances in earrings sold as consumer jewellery." }, { "id": "astm-f2923", "title": "ASTM F2923, Standard Specification for Consumer Product Safety for Children's Jewelry. ASTM International.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Children's jewellery limits (lead, cadmium, nickel, liquid-filled and battery hazards) that apply to earrings marketed to children." }, { "id": "reach-annex-xvii", "title": "Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH), Annex XVII, Entries 27 (nickel), 23 (cadmium) and 63 (lead). European Union.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Legal restrictions on nickel release from piercing jewellery and on cadmium and lead in jewellery placed on the EU market." }, { "id": "iso-9202", "title": "ISO 9202, Jewellery - Fineness of precious metal alloys. International Organization for Standardization.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard fineness values used to describe gold, silver and platinum alloy earrings (e.g. 375, 585, 750, 925)." }, { "id": "untracht-1982", "title": "Oppi Untracht, Jewelry Concepts and Technology. Doubleday / Robert Hale, 1982.", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Trade construction of posts, wires, hoops, clips and backs, and workshop practice that distinguishes earring findings from other jewellery." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "earring-identity-and-configuration", "name": "Earring identity and configuration", "description": "Establishes what constitutes this individual earring and which wearing configuration is being assessed.", "rationale": "An earring can be confused with a loose component, a pair-level product or an ornament intended for another location.", "layers": [ { "id": "ear-ornament-identity", "name": "Ear ornament identity", "description": "Records the evidence that the object is intended to function as an ear ornament.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-ear-use", "name": "Intended ear use", "description": "The agent needs an evidenced intended use and a form description rather than an identity inferred solely from appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What design feature or documentation establishes that this object is intended to be worn as an ear ornament?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-ear-use-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a complete earring, an earring component or an object whose intended wearing location remains uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-ear-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wearing-assembly", "name": "Wearing assembly", "description": "Defines the components present in the configuration under consideration.", "findings": [ { "id": "required-and-optional-parts", "name": "Required and optional parts", "description": "Completeness depends on the attachment design and any detachable decorative elements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which backing, closure, pendant or adapter belongs to this wearing configuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "required-and-optional-parts-q01" }, { "text": "Which missing parts prevent attachment, and which only alter the intended appearance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "required-and-optional-parts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ear-attachment-and-fit", "name": "Ear attachment and fit", "description": "Captures how the earring meets the ear and the dimensions relevant to that interface.", "rationale": "Pierced and non-pierced mechanisms require different evidence about placement, clearance and retention.", "layers": [ { "id": "attachment-interface", "name": "Attachment interface", "description": "Describes the mechanism, intended placement and relevant contact geometry.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-and-interface-dimensions", "name": "Mechanism and interface dimensions", "description": "The model must distinguish the attachment type from the measurements needed to assess a particular interface.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this earring attach, and does that configuration require a piercing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mechanism-and-interface-dimensions-q01" }, { "text": "What are the applicable post or wire diameter, usable length, opening and contact gap?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mechanism-and-interface-dimensions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "worn-geometry-and-load", "name": "Worn geometry and load", "description": "Records the size, movement and mass of the earring in its wearing configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "drop-clearance-and-mass", "name": "Drop, clearance and mass", "description": "Fit assessment needs the actual assembly's load and occupied space, including movable portions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the mass per earring, worn drop and maximum extent of any swinging or projecting elements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "drop-clearance-and-mass-q01" }, { "text": "What wearer-specific clearance or fit information is still needed before recommending this configuration?", "kind": "action", "id": "drop-clearance-and-mass-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-materials-and-care", "name": "Contact materials and care", "description": "Connects component-level material evidence with contact surfaces and supported care methods.", "rationale": "The post, backing, decoration and coating may have different compositions and care constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-surface-evidence", "name": "Contact surface evidence", "description": "Distinguishes known composition, surface finishes and unverified claims at the wearing interface.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-material-confidence", "name": "Component material confidence", "description": "Material identification should record its evidence and apply only to the components that evidence covers.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the materials and finishes of the post, backing and other ear-contacting surfaces?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "component-material-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence cover the complete assembly, or are some components or underlying materials unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "component-material-confidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "construction-sensitive-care", "name": "Construction-sensitive care", "description": "Records care constraints associated with coatings, stones, adhesives and mixed construction.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-cleaning-method", "name": "Supported cleaning method", "description": "Cleaning recommendations need evidence applicable to the assembled earring, including its least-understood component.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which maker instructions or other applicable evidence support a cleaning method for this earring's materials and construction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-cleaning-method-q01" }, { "text": "What care action is supported now, and which action requires further material or construction identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-cleaning-method-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "retention-and-structural-condition", "name": "Retention and structural condition", "description": "Assesses the mechanisms and connections that keep the earring attached and its ornamentation intact.", "rationale": "A present backing or apparently intact setting does not by itself establish functional retention.", "layers": [ { "id": "fastener-function", "name": "Fastener function", "description": "Records closure engagement and defects in the ear attachment mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "closure-engagement-evidence", "name": "Closure engagement evidence", "description": "A functional assessment must identify the check performed and avoid overstating what it establishes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection or non-damaging functional check has established whether the backing, clip, hinge or latch engages?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "closure-engagement-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does observed looseness, jamming, deformation or incomplete engagement require repair or further assessment before wear?", "kind": "action", "id": "closure-engagement-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ornament-and-joint-integrity", "name": "Ornament and joint integrity", "description": "Locates damage or instability in settings, suspended parts and their connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "settings-joints-and-edges", "name": "Settings, joints and edges", "description": "Condition needs to be recorded at the affected feature so that handling and repair decisions address the actual defect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are there loose stones, open connecting rings, cracked joints, bent posts or sharp exposed edges?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "settings-joints-and-edges-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed defects justify setting the earring aside, securing a detachable part or referring it for repair?", "kind": "action", "id": "settings-joints-and-edges-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pairing-and-component-compatibility", "name": "Pairing and component compatibility", "description": "Establishes matching relationships and whether detachable parts belong with this individual earring.", "rationale": "Pair identity and replacement-part fit cannot reliably be established from visual resemblance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "counterpart-and-orientation", "name": "Counterpart and orientation", "description": "Records pair membership, intentional differences and any wearing orientation.", "findings": [ { "id": "matching-counterpart", "name": "Matching counterpart", "description": "A counterpart may be identical, mirrored or intentionally different, so the intended relationship needs evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence links this earring to its proposed counterpart or set?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "matching-counterpart-q01" }, { "text": "Is the design interchangeable between ears, handed or intentionally mismatched?", "kind": "definition", "id": "matching-counterpart-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "detachable-part-fit", "name": "Detachable part fit", "description": "Records compatibility of replacement backings, charms and adapters.", "findings": [ { "id": "replacement-interface-compatibility", "name": "Replacement interface compatibility", "description": "Replacement decisions require evidence about the relevant interface and retention, not just matching colour or style.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dimensions, thread details or maker specifications establish compatibility with the proposed replacement part?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "replacement-interface-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "What fit and retention checks remain necessary before the replacement can be treated as usable?", "kind": "action", "id": "replacement-interface-compatibility-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 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becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q173395", "note": "Item 'earring'." }, { "scheme": "Getty AAT", "value_or_pattern": "300045998", "note": "Concept 'earrings (jewelry)' in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System (WCO)", "value_or_pattern": "7113 (precious-metal jewellery) or 7117 (imitation jewellery)", "note": "Earrings are not a unique HS heading; they are classified with other articles of jewellery by material." }, { "scheme": "Precious-metal fineness (ISO 9202 / national hallmarking)", "value_or_pattern": "375, 585, 750, 916, 999 (gold, parts per thousand); 800, 925, 999 (silver); 850, 900, 950 (platinum)", "note": "Marks the alloy of a precious-metal earring, not the object type." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of earring this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "EN 1811 (CEN) - reference test method and nickel-release limits for post assemblies inserted into pierced tissue (0.2 μg/cm²/week) and for other prolonged-contact articles (0.5 μg/cm²/week).", "EN 12472 (CEN) - method for simulating wear and corrosion of coated items before nickel-release testing.", "REACH Annex XVII Entries 27, 23 and 63 (European Union) - nickel, cadmium and lead restrictions on jewellery.", "ASTM F2999 (ASTM International) - consumer safety specification for adult jewellery.", "ASTM F2923 (ASTM International) - consumer product safety specification for children's jewellery, including earrings.", "CPSIA lead limits and CPSC enforcement (United States) for children's metal jewellery.", "ISO 9202 (ISO) - fineness of precious metal alloys used in hallmarked earrings.", "National hallmarking law for precious-metal earrings, e.g. UK Hallmarking Act 1973 (UK Assay Offices)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of earring this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Sold in fine-jewellery, fashion-jewellery and piercing-studio retail as matched pairs or singles (including cartilage second holes).", "Worn as everyday adornment, bridal and ceremonial dress (e.g. Indian bridal jhumka sets), heirloom gifts, and markers of age, marriage or community in several cultures.", "Fitted at piercing appointments as first-wear studs or sleepers, then exchanged for decorative pairs once the fistula has epithelialised.", "Recovered archaeologically as paired or single ornaments in burials and hoards, often with a distinctive hook, loop or granulated head.", "Children's dress-up and costume jewellery, including clip-ons marketed to avoid piercing." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of earring 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": "Piercing post or wire diameter (earlobe fashion jewellery)", "typical_range": "0.7-1.0", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Body-jewellery / cartilage gauge (commonly 18G-16G)", "typical_range": "1.0-1.6", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Post length (earlobe stud)", "typical_range": "8-12", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Mass per earring", "typical_range": "0.2-15 for everyday wear; statement and chandelier pieces often 10-30+", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Drop length below the lobe", "typical_range": "0-10 (studs) to about 20-80 (drops and chandeliers)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Hoop outer diameter", "typical_range": "8-70 for common fashion hoops", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Nickel release from piercing posts (EN 1811 limit)", "typical_range": "≤ 0.2", "unit": "μg/cm²/week" }, { "quantity": "Precious-metal fineness (gold)", "typical_range": "375, 585, 750, 916 or 999", "unit": "parts per thousand" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of earring 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": [ "Allergic contact dermatitis from nickel, cobalt or other alloy constituents in posts, backs and base-metal fashion jewellery.", "Mechanical tearing or bifid (split) earlobe from trauma, snagging, or chronic load of heavy dangles.", "Local infection, embedded butterfly backs, hypertrophic scar or keloid at the piercing.", "Cartilage piercing complications, including perichondritis.", "Lead and cadmium exposure from some inexpensive costume and children's jewellery.", "Choking and small-part ingestion hazard from studs, backs and children's earrings.", "Clutch or hinge failure leading to loss of the article.", "Earlobe stretching or ptosis from prolonged wear of heavy pairs." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of earring 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": [ "South Asia: named types such as jhumka, bali and karnaphul; gold pairs are central to bridal sets and often sold by weight under national hallmarking.", "English-language trade: 'sleepers' (UK) for small plain hoops worn to keep a piercing open; 'huggie' is a later North American/global fashion term.", "Spanish: pendientes vs aretes varies by country; French créoles denotes a specific hoop form.", "Clip-ons remain more common where ear piercing was historically less usual (parts of East Asia; older European cohorts).", "West and East African and some Amazonian practices of dilated lobes use plugs or spools that sit in the same anatomical place but are not traded as standard earrings.", "Gold hoop pairs are a strong cultural default in much of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Latin America, including as childhood or coming-of-age gifts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of earring this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Ear cuff", "difference": "A cuff wraps or clips the helix or concha without a hole through the lobe; an earring in the narrow sense is retained by a piercing, a lobe clip/screw, or a finding that passes through tissue." }, { "name": "Flesh plug, tunnel or stretcher", "difference": "A plug fills a dilated fistula and is sized by inner diameter/wearable gauge; a conventional earring hangs from or sits on a small-gauge channel and does not occupy the hole as a cylinder." }, { "name": "Nose hoop or stud", "difference": "Same finding vocabulary (hoop, stud, post) but sited on the ala or septum; anatomical location, not construction, separates it." }, { "name": "Hearing-aid hook, eyeglass temple tip, or earphone", "difference": "Rests on or in the ear for a non-ornamental function (amplification, vision, audio); no decorative fastening intended as jewellery." }, { "name": "Brooch or clothing pin", "difference": "Uses a pin stem and catch on textile, not an ear finding; wear site and catch type separate it even when the ornamental head looks similar." }, { "name": "Hair vine or ear-to-hair chain", "difference": "Anchors into hair or a coiffure as well as, or instead of, the ear; an earring is complete when fastened to the ear alone." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of earring this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to include ear cuffs, ear climbers, piercing plugs and tunnels, or do neighbouring registered things own some of those forms?", "Which existing Vercy models already own overlapping jewellery or body-ornament concepts and should be referenced rather than duplicated?", "What evidence and terminology should qualify component-level composition and contact-suitability claims, especially for plated or undocumented earrings?", "Which non-damaging checks and acceptance criteria are supported for the different backing, clip and hinged closure mechanisms?", "How should hybrid ear ornaments with hearing or electronic functions divide responsibility between this model and neighbouring device models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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. 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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": [ "Chon Hu", "Naushnice", "jue-shaped earring", "plug-shaped earring", "Larang", "dangle earrings", "diamond earring", "ninkari", "poissarde earrings", "stud earrings", "Earring", "hoop earring" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 91 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 14 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 earring from another, and a earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a earring 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 earring is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a earring 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 earring, 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 earring, 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 earring is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] 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"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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 earring is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a earring, 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 earring, 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 earring 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 } } } }