{ "model": { "rank": 5781, "code": "thing-q170611", "model_id": "vr.tr.techno", "name": "techno", "purpose": "Let an agent explain techno, relay origins, musical traits, scenes, subgenres and culture from music history and journalism sources with debates attributed, describe the named styles, relay hearing and drug harm reduction information neutrally, and distinguish techno from house, trance, electro and EDM as a broad commercial label.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170611/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "acid techno", "techno-tribal", "experimental techno", "industrial techno", "minimal techno", "progressive techno", "Jtek", "deep techno", "bleep techno", "hardgroove techno", "wonky techno", "melodic techno", "peak time techno", "Belgian hardcore techno", "electro-techno", "West Coast Sound of Holland", "raw techno", "Schaffel", "techno body music", "turbine", "hard techno", "German techno", "Detroit techno", "Tromsø techno scene", "Berlin techno", "psytech", "UK hardcore (techno)", "Birmingham sound", "second wave of Detroit techno" ], "aliasCount": 29, "merged": 29, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.techno", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170611", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170611", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T23:53:45Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q170611", "registryId": "vr.tr.techno", "name": "techno", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q170611/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.techno", "name": "techno", "purpose": "Let an agent explain techno, relay origins, musical traits, scenes, subgenres and culture from music history and journalism sources with debates attributed, describe the named styles, relay hearing and drug harm reduction information neutrally, and distinguish techno from house, trance, electro and EDM as a broad commercial label.", "definition": "A genre of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit in the mid-1980s with artists Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, known as the Belleville Three, characterised by repetitive four-on-the-floor beats, synthesised sounds and futurist aesthetics, influenced by Kraftwerk, funk and Chicago house, and developed further in Berlin after the fall of the Wall at clubs such as Tresor and Berghain; styles the registry aliases name include minimal techno, acid techno, industrial techno, experimental techno, progressive techno and techno-tribal. UNESCO listed Berlin techno culture on Germany s national intangible heritage register in 2024. 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"typical tempo", "typical_range": "about 120-150", "unit": "BPM", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "Tresor opened", "typical_range": "1991", "unit": "year", "note": "Berlin" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "Detroit techno", "minimal techno", "acid techno", "industrial techno", "hard and experimental techno" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "electronic dance music", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "originated in", "target": "Detroit", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is influenced by", "target": "Kraftwerk", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "house music", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Noise exposure guidance for venues", "Drug laws", "Club licensing rules" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Promoting drug use", "Hearing damage", "Erasing Black Detroit origins" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What techno is.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is someone at a club collapsed, overheated or unresponsive, in which case get help from staff and call emergency services?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What is techno, and how does it differ from house, trance, electro and EDM?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "styles", "name": "Styles", "description": "Named styles.", "findings": [ { "id": "styles-finding", "name": "Styles", "description": "Styles.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are minimal, acid, industrial, experimental, progressive and tribal techno?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific style?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "detroit", "name": "Detroit", "description": "Detroit origins.", "findings": [ { "id": "detroit-finding", "name": "Detroit", "description": "Detroit.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the Belleville Three create techno in Detroit?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "berlin", "name": "Berlin", "description": "Berlin scene.", "findings": [ { "id": "berlin-finding", "name": "Berlin", "description": "Berlin.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did techno shape Berlin after reunification?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "music", "name": "Music", "description": "Musical traits.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "machines", "name": "Machines", "description": "Drum machines and synths.", "findings": [ { "id": "machines-finding", "name": "Machines", "description": "Machines.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the Roland TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303 shape techno sounds?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Roland TR-909?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "djing", "name": "DJing", "description": "DJ culture.", "findings": [ { "id": "djing-finding", "name": "DJing", "description": "DJing.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do techno DJs mix and build sets?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits DJ mix?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Culture and health.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "heritage", "name": "Heritage", "description": "Heritage recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "heritage-finding", "name": "Heritage", "description": "Heritage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does heritage recognition of Berlin techno culture mean, and what debates exist about origins and commercialisation, with positions attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health", "name": "Health", "description": "Hearing and harm reduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "health-finding", "name": "Health", "description": "Health.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do health bodies advise on hearing protection and drug harm reduction at clubs?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits noise-induced hearing loss?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should Detroit techno be a separate entry?", "How should heritage listings be linked?", "How should debates about commercialisation be presented?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "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 techno, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain techno, relay origins, musical traits, scenes, subgenres and culture from music history and journalism sources with debates attributed, describe the named styles, relay hearing and drug harm reduction information neutrally, and distinguish techno from house, trance, electro and EDM as a broad commercial label.", "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: acid techno, techno-tribal, experimental techno, industrial techno, minimal techno, progressive techno, Jtek, deep techno, bleep techno, hardgroove techno, wonky techno, melodic techno.", "29 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 techno, 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": [ "acid techno", "techno-tribal", "experimental techno", "industrial techno", "minimal techno", "progressive techno", "Jtek", "deep techno", "bleep techno", "hardgroove techno", "wonky techno", "melodic techno" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 29 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 techno from another, and a techno 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 techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno 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 techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno 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 techno between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a techno 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 techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno 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 techno contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno 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 techno, 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 techno, 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 techno 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 techno and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a techno, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and 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