{ "model": { "rank": 3947, "code": "thing-q172605", "model_id": "vr.tr.palate", "name": "palate", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an anatomical palate, record its structure and functional state, and identify what further observation or specialist assessment is needed.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q172605/", "tier": 2, "score": 80, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 80, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q172605", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172605", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:07:57Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08790-f9be-7770-a6a7-090f7384e7ce\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: palate\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 57.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08790-f9cb-7040-825c-de1acebc56e3\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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anatomical roof of the mouth, including its hard and soft regions, their continuity, and their contribution to oral-nasal separation; human anatomy is the provisional reference pending confirmation of the registry's intended species coverage.", "in_scope": [ "Hard palate, soft palate and their anatomical junction", "Palatal surfaces, tissue covering, landmarks and regional dimensions", "Continuity of the palate and any openings or tissue defects", "Soft-palate movement and contribution to velopharyngeal closure", "Observed palatal variation, acquired changes and reconstruction" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Palate as a figurative term for taste preference or culinary judgement", "Tongue, dentition and the complete oral cavity", "Nasal cavity and pharynx except their interfaces with the palate", "Whole-organism swallowing, speech and respiratory function", "Cleft disorders, tumours and other diseases as independent clinical entities", "Palatal prostheses, surgical procedures and treatment protocols as independent things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Occupies the roof of the mouth; the tongue occupies a different anatomical position and is not part of the palate.", "In the human reference anatomy, includes an anterior bony hard palate and a posterior mobile soft palate.", "Forms an anatomical partition between oral and nasal spaces, with its posterior soft region participating in closure toward the pharynx.", "The uvula is a landmark of the human soft palate, not a synonym for the entire palate.", "Refers to physical anatomy rather than the sensory experience or cultural evaluation of flavour." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Species and developmental context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species; developmental stage or age at observation", "why_it_matters": "Determines which anatomical landmarks and comparison standards apply." }, { "name": "Palatal region", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Hard palate; soft palate; hard-soft junction; multiple regions; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Separates observations about rigid support from observations about mobile tissue." }, { "name": "Palatal dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, width and vault height in mm, with landmarks and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Makes shape observations comparable without assuming a universal normal size." }, { "name": "Tissue continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No discontinuity observed; visible opening; suspected concealed defect; indeterminate; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes surface appearance from evidence about the integrity of the underlying partition." }, { "name": "Soft-palate movement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed excursion and symmetry, specified by task; not assessed; indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Relates mobility to the conditions under which it was observed." }, { "name": "Palatal surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Localised descriptions of colour, contour, tissue integrity, swelling and visible lesions", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time without converting appearance into an unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Velopharyngeal interface", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relationship of soft palate to pharyngeal walls during a named task, with assessment method", "why_it_matters": "Closure depends on interacting structures rather than the palate alone." }, { "name": "Alteration history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to documented congenital variation, injury, surgery, reconstruction or prosthesis use", "why_it_matters": "Explains current anatomy and distinguishes native tissue from modifications or external support." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and annotate palatal regions and landmarks in an examination record or image.", "Record dimensions using explicit anatomical landmarks and methods.", "Compare tissue continuity, surface condition and movement across observations.", "Link palatal findings to separately recorded speech, swallowing or nasal-regurgitation observations without assuming causation.", "Identify missing evidence and formulate questions for an appropriate anatomical or clinical assessment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "palatal-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Palatal identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which anatomical palate is represented and where its ownership ends.", "rationale": "The absent registry definition leaves both word sense and species coverage unresolved.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-referent", "name": "Anatomical referent", "description": "Anchors the entry to a body structure and an explicit organism context.", "findings": [ { "id": "sense-and-species", "name": "Sense and species", "description": "Record the anatomical sense, species and developmental context before applying human reference anatomy.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry intend the anatomical palate, and which species does this model cover?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sense-and-species-q01" }, { "text": "What record establishes the species and developmental stage of the palate being described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sense-and-species-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-and-neighbouring-boundaries", "name": "Regional and neighbouring boundaries", "description": "Separates palatal regions from adjacent oral, nasal and pharyngeal structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "palatal-extent", "name": "Palatal extent", "description": "Specify the hard palate, soft palate and their junction while making ownership of marginal structures explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which landmarks delimit the hard palate, soft palate and their junction in the chosen reference anatomy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "palatal-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Where does this model place its boundary with the alveolar process, gingiva, palatal arches and pharyngeal walls?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "palatal-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "palatal-architecture-and-covering", "name": "Palatal architecture and covering", "description": "Records the geometry, supporting tissues and surfaces that distinguish palatal regions.", "rationale": "A palate combines a rigid anterior roof with a mobile posterior region, requiring different observations for each.", "layers": [ { "id": "hard-palate-geometry", "name": "Hard-palate geometry", "description": "Describes the bony roof and its measurable contour.", "findings": [ { "id": "vault-and-landmarks", "name": "Vault and landmarks", "description": "Record palatal vault shape and dimensions against named landmarks, keeping descriptive shape separate from clinical interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which landmarks and reference plane define the recorded palatal length, width and vault height?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vault-and-landmarks-q01" }, { "text": "Were these dimensions obtained from direct examination, a dental cast, a surface scan or imaging?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "vault-and-landmarks-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "soft-palate-and-surface-anatomy", "name": "Soft palate and surface anatomy", "description": "Describes posterior soft tissue and the covering of both palatal regions.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-tissue-description", "name": "Regional tissue description", "description": "Localise observations to the oral or nasal surface and distinguish visible covering from deeper tissue architecture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which palatal region and surface carry the observed contour, landmark or tissue change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-tissue-description-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a description of underlying bone or muscle beyond what the visible mucosa shows?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-tissue-description-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "oral-nasal-separation-and-motion", "name": "Oral-nasal separation and motion", "description": "Represents palatal continuity and task-dependent participation in separating oral and nasal spaces.", "rationale": "An intact-looking surface and effective dynamic closure are different properties and must be recorded separately.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-continuity", "name": "Structural continuity", "description": "Records evidence of an intact partition or an opening through palatal tissues.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-and-openings", "name": "Continuity and openings", "description": "Describe the location and extent of observed openings while preserving uncertainty about concealed defects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a palatal opening observed, and what are its region, dimensions and apparent connections?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuity-and-openings-q01" }, { "text": "Does the assessment establish underlying tissue continuity, or only the appearance of the surface?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-and-openings-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dynamic-velopharyngeal-participation", "name": "Dynamic velopharyngeal participation", "description": "Records soft-palate movement in relation to the surrounding closure mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-motion-and-closure", "name": "Task-specific motion and closure", "description": "Associate movement and closure observations with the eliciting task and assessment method without attributing the whole mechanism to the palate.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which speech or swallowing task was soft-palate movement observed, and how was excursion or symmetry recorded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-specific-motion-and-closure-q01" }, { "text": "What assessment distinguishes a palatal contribution from pharyngeal-wall contributions to the observed closure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "task-specific-motion-and-closure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "palatal-condition-and-change", "name": "Palatal condition and change", "description": "Tracks local tissue observations and the effects of development, injury or reconstruction.", "rationale": "Current palatal appearance may reflect longstanding variation or acquired alteration, each requiring evidence rather than inference from a single view.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-condition", "name": "Local condition", "description": "Keeps visible palatal findings and reported symptoms localised and temporally anchored.", "findings": [ { "id": "surface-findings-and-symptoms", "name": "Surface findings and symptoms", "description": "Record visible changes separately from reported pain, altered sensation or functional difficulty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the palatal change, what is its measured extent, and when was it observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "surface-findings-and-symptoms-q01" }, { "text": "Which symptoms were reported, by whom, and which findings were directly observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "surface-findings-and-symptoms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reconstruction", "name": "Development and reconstruction", "description": "Relates present palatal anatomy to documented history and external support.", "findings": [ { "id": "altered-anatomy-and-follow-up", "name": "Altered anatomy and follow-up", "description": "Link developmental differences, repairs and prosthetic support to the regions they affect, preserving unresolved questions about current tissue and function.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish whether the present palatal form is developmental, acquired or surgically reconstructed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "altered-anatomy-and-follow-up-q01" }, { "text": "What additional assessment is needed to distinguish tissue continuity and independent palatal function from effects of a repair or prosthesis?", "kind": "action", "id": "altered-anatomy-and-follow-up-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The anatomical sense is inferred from PHY.OBJ because no sense was recorded.", "Hard and soft palate are constituent parts, not alternative kinds of whole palate.", "The description assumes human anatomy; comparative anatomy across animal groups requires separate checking." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of palate this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica", "value_or_pattern": "Palatum", "note": "Anatomical Latin name for the palate; no numerical identifier is asserted here." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of palate 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": [ "Separates the oral and nasal cavities.", "Provides a surface against which the tongue manipulates food during chewing and swallowing.", "The soft palate helps close the passage to the nasopharynx during swallowing.", "Contributes to speech articulation and control of nasal resonance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of palate 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": [ "Cleft palate is a congenital opening or discontinuity that can affect feeding, speech and middle-ear function.", "Inadequate closure between the soft palate and pharyngeal walls can cause excessive nasal resonance and nasal escape of air during speech.", "An abnormal opening between the oral and nasal cavities can permit food or liquid to enter the nose.", "Palatal tissues can sustain thermal burns, trauma, infection or tumours." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of palate this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "hard palate", "difference": "The bony anterior component of the palate, rather than the whole structure." }, { "name": "soft palate", "difference": "The mobile muscular posterior component of the palate, rather than the whole structure." }, { "name": "uvula", "difference": "A midline projection from the free posterior margin of the soft palate." }, { "name": "tongue", "difference": "A separate muscular organ on the floor of the mouth that can contact the palate." }, { "name": "sense of taste", "difference": "A sensory capacity; 'palate' can figuratively mean taste or food preference, but this entry covers the anatomical structure." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of palate this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.palate cover human anatomy specifically or comparative anatomy across species?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the anatomical palate or a concept to which this registry entry should link?", "Which authoritative anatomical references should establish the model's boundaries, especially at the alveolar process and palatal arches?", "Which measurement protocols and age- or species-specific reference data support meaningful comparison of palatal geometry and movement?", "How should concealed structural defects and uncertain velopharyngeal findings be represented without treating limited observations as diagnoses?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a palate, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an anatomical palate, record its structure and functional state, and identify what further observation or specialist assessment is needed.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 80 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 palate, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 80 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one palate from another, and a palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a palate 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 palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 palate is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a palate, 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 palate, 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 palate 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 } } } }