{ "model": { "rank": 3592, "code": "thing-q172827", "model_id": "vr.tr.sari", "name": "sari", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a sari, record its textile and draping characteristics, assess its condition, and choose appropriate wearing, care or documentation actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q172827/", "tier": 2, "score": 84, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Rajanna Siripattu", "Garad sari", "Korial sari", "Tangail saree", "Lace sari", "Dhaniakhali saree", "handloom sari", "Banarasi sari", "Baluchari Sari", "gagra choli", "Bhagalpur sari", "Ilkal saree", "Kanchipuram sari", "Paithani", "patola sari", "Pochampally saree", "Kerala sari", "low-rise saris", "Tant sari", "lehenga" ], "aliasCount": 20, "merged": 20, "knownIn": 84, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.sari", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q172827", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172827", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:37:56Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c4c-e266-7a82-8977-df3be05b5958\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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under vr.tr.sari, including its textile body, draping features and explicitly identified adaptations; it records individual examples without treating a regional tradition, product design or complete outfit as the garment itself.", "in_scope": [ "The sari's textile body, dimensions, edges, borders and identifiable end sections", "Fibre composition, textile construction and applied decoration", "Draping configurations and their requirements for secure, practical wear", "Evidence supporting regional, craft, maker and occasion associations", "Condition, alterations and material-dependent care constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Blouses, petticoats, jewellery and other separately worn outfit components", "Other wrapped garments, such as sarongs and dhotis, as independent garment kinds", "Weaving looms, dyeing equipment and textile production facilities", "Regional dress traditions and ceremonial practices beyond their documented relationship to a sari", "Retail brands, businesses and product catalogues as independent entities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether the textile is intended and identified as a sari through its garment use and provenance; a rectangular cloth alone is insufficient evidence.", "Check whether wearing involves arranging the textile around the body through a recognised sari drape, or whether stitching reproduces such an arrangement in an explicitly identified adaptation.", "Inspect longitudinal borders and any differentiated end section, often called a pallu; these can guide draping, but their absence does not by itself exclude a sari.", "Distinguish a conventional sari length from a closed tube, skirt or separate skirt-and-scarf ensemble by examining seams, components and wearing instructions.", "Separate the sari from accompanying blouse fabric or other outfit pieces, recording whether any attached fabric segment is intended to be cut off before wear." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Garment construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Unstitched length; partially stitched; pre-draped or pre-stitched adaptation; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Determines how the garment can be arranged and whether its classification needs an explicit adaptation boundary." }, { "name": "Usable textile dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and width in cm, with attached blouse fabric and measurement method identified", "why_it_matters": "Supports drape feasibility and prevents attached outfit fabric from inflating the wearable length." }, { "name": "Fibre composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared or verified fibre names and percentages where available; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Informs handling and care while separating a seller's declaration from tested composition." }, { "name": "Textile construction and embellishment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded weave or other construction; woven, printed, dyed, embroidered or applied decoration; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish appearance from production technique and identify vulnerable decorative elements." }, { "name": "Border and end-section arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Position, width and differentiation of borders and ends; reversible or directional appearance; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Guides orientation, visible placement and identification of decorative regions." }, { "name": "Drape compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to named or described drapes with wearer, dimension and support requirements", "why_it_matters": "Allows suitability to be assessed for a particular wearer and arrangement rather than assumed from the garment name." }, { "name": "Attributed textile tradition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claimed place, craft tradition or maker, with evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Preserves meaningful attribution without treating motifs or marketing names as proof of origin." }, { "name": "Wear and care condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Mapped tears, stains, weakened folds, loose embellishment, edge damage and previous repairs; assessment date", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether draping, fastening, cleaning or storage could worsen existing damage." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the textile body, borders, end sections and any attached blouse segment before arranging the garment.", "Assess whether a proposed drape is feasible for the sari's dimensions, construction and intended wearer.", "Select compatible support garments or removable fastenings for a documented drape.", "Document craft and regional attributions with their supporting evidence and uncertainty.", "Assess suitability for wear and choose cleaning, repair or storage actions based on the sari's materials and condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "garment-boundary-and-layout", "name": "Garment boundary and textile layout", "description": "Establishes what 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"sari-body-and-adaptations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dimensions-and-orientation", "name": "Dimensions and orientation", "description": "Records the usable cloth extent and features that govern its orientation.", "findings": [ { "id": "wearable-length-and-visible-regions", "name": "Wearable length and visible regions", "description": "Measure the sari body and map borders, differentiated ends, directional motifs and any attached blouse fabric without presuming a universal layout.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the usable length and width in centimetres, excluding any fabric intended for a separate blouse?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wearable-length-and-visible-regions-q01" }, { "text": "Which borders, end sections or directional motifs constrain how the sari should be oriented when draped?", "kind": "action", "id": "wearable-length-and-visible-regions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textile-and-decoration", "name": "Textile and decoration", "description": "Captures the material and decorative construction that influence the sari's behaviour.", "rationale": "Similar-looking saris can differ in drape, weight and care needs because their fibres and decoration are constructed differently.", "layers": [ { "id": "base-textile", "name": "Base textile", "description": "Separates fibre identity and textile construction from visual impressions.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-and-drape-behaviour", "name": "Composition and drape behaviour", "description": "Record evidence for fibre and construction claims alongside observed stiffness, transparency and pleat retention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which fibre and construction claims come from a label, maker record, examination or test?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "composition-and-drape-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "How does the cloth behave when folded into pleats and placed over the shoulder under the intended wearing conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-and-drape-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decorative-construction", "name": "Decorative construction", "description": "Identifies how surface effects, borders and end decoration are produced and attached.", "findings": [ { "id": "decoration-method-and-material", "name": "Decoration method and material", "description": "Distinguish woven motifs, print, embroidery and applied elements; retain uncertainty about metallic-looking yarn composition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the motifs and borders woven into the cloth, printed, embroidered or attached as separate elements?", "kind": "definition", "id": "decoration-method-and-material-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes the material of any zari or other metallic-looking decoration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "decoration-method-and-material-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "draping-and-wearing-context", "name": "Draping and wearing context", "description": "Connects the sari to specific wearing arrangements and documented social contexts.", "rationale": "The same textile can support different drapes, while regional or occasion associations cannot be inferred reliably from appearance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "drape-feasibility", "name": "Drape feasibility", "description": "Assesses a proposed arrangement against the garment and wearer.", "findings": [ { "id": "pleating-support-and-movement", "name": "Pleating, support and movement", "description": "Record the chosen drape's wrapping, pleating, end placement and support requirements without assuming that every sari uses the same undergarments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the usable cloth provide sufficient coverage, pleat allowance and end placement for the intended wearer and drape?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pleating-support-and-movement-q01" }, { "text": "What support garments or fastenings does this arrangement require, and can they be used without damaging the textile?", "kind": "action", "id": "pleating-support-and-movement-q02" }, { "text": "Does the arranged sari permit the intended walking, sitting and other activities without slipping or dragging?", "kind": "action", "id": "pleating-support-and-movement-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-occasion", "name": "Attribution and occasion", "description": "Records supported relationships to making traditions, communities and occasions.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-cultural-associations", "name": "Documented cultural associations", "description": "Keep production origin, design influence, drape tradition and wearer use distinct, with evidence attached to each attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports the claimed regional or craft identity, and does that evidence concern manufacture, design or wearing practice?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-cultural-associations-q01" }, { "text": "Which occasion or community associations are documented for this sari, and which remain seller or owner descriptions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-cultural-associations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-care-decisions", "name": "Condition and care decisions", "description": "Relates damage and material uncertainty to wearing, cleaning, repair and storage.", "rationale": "A sari's long folded textile, decorated ends and fastening points require condition assessment tied to how it is handled and worn.", "layers": [ { "id": "wearability-assessment", "name": "Wearability assessment", "description": "Locates damage in relation to pleats, tucks, fastenings and exposed sections.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-at-drape-stress-points", "name": "Damage at drape stress points", "description": "Map weakened folds, pinholes, tears, loose decoration and edge wear to the regions loaded or displayed by the proposed drape.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are defects relative to the intended waist tuck, pleats, shoulder fastening and lower edge?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-at-drape-stress-points-q01" }, { "text": "Can the proposed drape be worn without loading damaged cloth or catching loose decoration?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-at-drape-stress-points-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cleaning-repair-and-storage", "name": "Cleaning, repair and storage", "description": "Determines suitable interventions from the combined textile, decoration and condition evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-compatible-with-all-components", "name": "Care compatible with all components", "description": "Assess care instructions against the sari's body, borders, decorative yarns and applied elements, recording unresolved compatibility before intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented care instructions or specialist assessment support cleaning and pressing the complete sari?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "care-compatible-with-all-components-q01" }, { "text": "Which repair and storage choices avoid stressing weakened folds, distorting borders or snagging raised decoration?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-compatible-with-all-components-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": [ "Dimensions are approximate and vary with drape, wearer, regional tradition and whether an attached blouse piece is included.", "The listed kinds mix weaving traditions, regional textile names and garment-length categories; they are not mutually exclusive.", "The definition describes the traditional construction; contemporary stitched and pre-draped saris also exist." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of sari this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Banarasi sari", "Kanchipuram sari", "Paithani sari", "Chanderi sari", "Jamdani sari", "Nauvari sari" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of sari 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": [ "Everyday clothing", "Wedding and ceremonial attire", "Festive and religious dress", "Professional clothing and institutional uniforms", "Handloom craft production and textile collecting" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of sari this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Cloth length for a common six-yard sari", "typical_range": "5-6", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Cloth width", "typical_range": "1.1-1.2", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Cloth length for a nine-yard sari", "typical_range": "8-9", "unit": "m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of sari this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and 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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": [ "Rajanna Siripattu", "Garad sari", "Korial sari", "Tangail saree", "Lace sari", "Dhaniakhali saree", "handloom sari", "Banarasi sari", "Baluchari Sari", "gagra choli", "Bhagalpur sari", "Ilkal saree" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 20 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 sari from another, and a sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sari 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 sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 sari is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sari, 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 sari, 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 sari 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 } } } }