{ "model": { "rank": 5124, "code": "thing-q173287", "model_id": "vr.tr.acrostic", "name": "acrostic", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an acrostic, verify its secondary reading, assess its textual integrity, and determine which edits or reproductions preserve its defining constraint.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q173287/", "tier": 2, "score": 69, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "acrostic psalm", "word square", "abecedarius" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 69, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.acrostic", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q173287", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173287", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:42:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.2, "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: 01a0881e-e610-7b11-916b-f13d7af8c161\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: acrostic\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 regist", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 53.3, "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: 01a0881e-e614-7cf3-9c19-b4ea35e5be42\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: acrostic\nRegistry id: vr.tr.acrostic\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q173287", "registryId": "vr.tr.acrostic", "name": "acrostic", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q173287/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.acrostic", "name": "acrostic", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an acrostic, verify its secondary reading, assess its textual integrity, and determine which edits or reproductions preserve its defining constraint.", "definition": "An acrostic is a composition in verse or prose in which letters at corresponding positions in successive lines or other textual units, most commonly the initial letters, spell a word, name, message, or ordered sequence when read in order.", "scope_statement": "This model owns acrostic as a textual form and the acrostic structure of individual works or expressions: an ordered selection of letters or other textual units yields a secondary sequence, typically through the initial letters of successive lines.", "in_scope": [ "The relationship between the carrier text and its secondary reading", "Segmentation, ordering, selection positions, and extraction rules", "Message-bearing and alphabetic acrostic constraints", "Evidence of deliberate construction and the strength of an identification", "Version, translation, and presentation changes that preserve or disrupt the acrostic" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General poetry analysis unrelated to the acrostic constraint", "The complete bibliographic description of editions and individual copies", "General cryptographic systems and claims of secure concealment", "Crossword-style acrostic puzzles as games with clues and solving rules", "Ownership and licensing determinations beyond links to applicable rights records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reproducible rule selects textual units from an ordered series of carrier units; merely noticing a suggestive substring is insufficient.", "In the central initial-letter case, reading the first letters of successive lines produces the secondary sequence without rearranging them.", "Alphabetic acrostics can follow an alphabetic sequence rather than spelling a separate word or sentence.", "The carrier text retains its ordinary reading while supporting a second structural reading, unlike an isolated acronym alone.", "Identification depends on specified textual boundaries and positions; arbitrary skipping or changing selection rules weakens the claim." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Carrier segmentation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "lines, verses, stanzas, words, or explicitly defined textual units", "why_it_matters": "Determines which units contribute to the secondary reading and whether layout changes alter extraction." }, { "name": "Selection rule", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "initial letters; final letters; internal positions; multiple positions; other explicitly stated rule", "why_it_matters": "Makes extraction reproducible and exposes variants whose inclusion requires a stated scope convention." }, { "name": "Reading order", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "carrier order, reverse carrier order, or another explicitly evidenced order", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from silently rearranging units to manufacture a result." }, { "name": "Secondary sequence role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "name, dedication, message, alphabetic sequence, other, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates the extracted sequence from an interpretation of its purpose." }, { "name": "Constraint coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "conforming carrier units / expected carrier units, with exceptions identified", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether the acrostic is complete, partial, damaged, or dependent on exceptions." }, { "name": "Construction evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "explicitly attested, structurally supported, conjectural, disputed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes verifiable extraction from certainty about authorial intention." }, { "name": "Textual witness", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "link to the particular manuscript, edition, transcription, or digital expression inspected", "why_it_matters": "An acrostic may survive in one textual version and fail in another." }, { "name": "Transformation integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "preserved, altered, broken, untested", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about editing, translation, reflow, and reproduction." } ], "affordances": [ "Extract the secondary sequence with a trace from each selected unit to its carrier position.", "Test a stated acrostic rule and report omissions, substitutions, and other exceptions.", "Generate or revise carrier text against an explicit target sequence and selection rule.", "Compare versions to identify changes that preserve or disrupt the acrostic.", "Annotate the secondary reading while distinguishing extraction evidence from interpretive claims.", "Assess whether a proposed translation or presentation preserves the constraint or needs an explanatory note." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "acrostic-identity", "name": "Acrostic identity", "description": "Establishes which textual phenomenon is being identified and the boundaries of that identification.", "rationale": "The agent must distinguish an acrostic constraint from an acronym, accidental pattern, or separately modelled puzzle.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-instance", "name": "Form and instance", "description": "Separates the general form from its occurrence in a particular text.", "findings": [ { "id": "carrier-and-secondary-reading", "name": "Carrier and secondary reading", "description": "An individual acrostic relates an ordinarily readable carrier text to a secondary sequence obtained from selected textual positions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passage is the carrier, and what secondary sequence is claimed for it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "carrier-and-secondary-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Does the claim concern the whole work or only a bounded passage within it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "carrier-and-secondary-reading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variant-boundaries", "name": "Variant boundaries", "description": "Makes the naming convention and neighbouring forms explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "central-case-and-extensions", "name": "Central case and extensions", "description": "Initial letters of successive lines provide the central recognition case; other positions or carrier units require an explicit classification convention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this example select initial letters of lines, or does it use a different position or carrier unit?", "kind": "definition", "id": "central-case-and-extensions-q01" }, { "text": "Under the terminology used by the consulted source, are final-letter and internal-letter constructions included as acrostics or treated as neighbouring forms?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "central-case-and-extensions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extraction-mechanics", "name": "Extraction mechanics", "description": "Records how the secondary sequence is obtained without hidden choices.", "rationale": "An acrostic claim is operationally useful only if another agent can repeat its extraction.", "layers": [ { "id": "carrier-units", "name": "Carrier units", "description": "Defines the units and boundaries from which characters are selected.", "findings": [ { "id": "segmentation-and-character-handling", "name": "Segmentation and character handling", "description": "Extraction depends on stable carrier boundaries and declared treatment of punctuation, spaces, and script-specific character units.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which line, verse, stanza, or word boundaries govern selection, and are they textual boundaries or display wrapping?", "kind": "definition", "id": "segmentation-and-character-handling-q01" }, { "text": "How are leading punctuation, whitespace, diacritics, and multi-code-point letters handled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "segmentation-and-character-handling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-order", "name": "Selection and order", "description": "Specifies selection positions and traversal order.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproducible-extraction", "name": "Reproducible extraction", "description": "A traceable extraction identifies every contributing position and preserves the raw result separately from interpretive spacing or normalisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What position is selected from each carrier unit, and in what order are the units traversed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproducible-extraction-q01" }, { "text": "What exact sequence results before adding spaces, changing case, or normalising spelling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproducible-extraction-q02" }, { "text": "Can the agent expose each selected character alongside its carrier location?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproducible-extraction-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "constraint-and-evidence", "name": "Constraint and evidence", "description": "Evaluates structural conformity and the support for claims about meaning or intention.", "rationale": "A readable extracted string does not by itself establish deliberate construction or its intended interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-conformity", "name": "Structural conformity", "description": "Tests the carrier against the stated target or sequence rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-and-exceptions", "name": "Target and exceptions", "description": "Conformity must be assessed against the actual constraint, which may be a message, an alphabetic progression, or another specified sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the expected result an independently attested target, an alphabetic sequence, or an interpretation proposed after extraction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "target-and-exceptions-q01" }, { "text": "Which expected positions conform, and which require omissions, substitutions, repetitions, or uncertain readings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-and-exceptions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intent-and-interpretation", "name": "Intent and interpretation", "description": "Separates structural observation from claims about why the acrostic was made.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-acrostic-claim", "name": "Supported acrostic claim", "description": "Evidence for extraction, intentional construction, and the meaning of the extracted sequence should be assessed separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authorial statement, manuscript feature, editorial account, or structural evidence supports deliberate construction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-acrostic-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretation of the extracted name or message is supported, and which alternatives remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-acrostic-claim-q02" }, { "text": "Should the agent present the identification as attested, structurally supported, conjectural, or disputed?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-acrostic-claim-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-preservation", "name": "Transmission and preservation", "description": "Tracks the acrostic across textual witnesses, transformations, and presentations.", "rationale": "Edits that leave the ordinary meaning broadly intact can destroy the secondary reading.", "layers": [ { "id": "witness-and-version", "name": "Witness and version", "description": "Anchors extraction to the inspected expression and compares alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-specific-integrity", "name": "Version-specific integrity", "description": "The acrostic structure belongs to a particular textual expression; editions, transcriptions, and translations must be checked individually.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exact witness or version was inspected, and where can its relevant passage be located?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "version-specific-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Do variant wording, spelling, missing lines, or changed segmentation alter the secondary sequence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "version-specific-integrity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transformation-decisions", "name": "Transformation decisions", "description": "Supports constraint-aware editing, translation, and display.", "findings": [ { "id": "preserve-or-document-change", "name": "Preserve or document change", "description": "A transformation should declare whether it preserves the original secondary sequence, creates an adapted one, or loses the constraint.", "questions": [ { "text": "Must the proposed edit or translation preserve the exact secondary sequence, its role, or only explain the original construction?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserve-or-document-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which line boundaries and selected characters must remain stable when the text is reflowed or exported?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserve-or-document-change-q02" }, { "text": "After transformation, does re-extraction verify preservation, or must the changed acrostic be documented as an adaptation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "preserve-or-document-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up 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": [ "Terminology varies: some definitions restrict acrostics to initial letters, while broader treatments include telestichs and mesostics.", "The sense described is the literary and textual device, rather than a particular work or puzzle format.", "This account is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted, and no dedicated identifier scheme or governing standard is asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of acrostic 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": [ "Initial-letter acrostic", "Telestich, using final letters", "Mesostic, using letters within lines", "Double acrostic, using both initial and final letters", "Alphabetic acrostic, following alphabet order" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of acrostic 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": [ "Poetry incorporating a person's name or a dedication", "Mnemonic phrases whose initials cue information to remember", "Concealing messages within an otherwise readable text", "Alphabetically structured religious poetry", "Word puzzles and classroom writing exercises" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of acrostic 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": [ "Reflowing text or changing line breaks can destroy a line-based acrostic.", "Translation can preserve the overt meaning while losing the encoded sequence.", "Editing, transcription errors, or spelling modernization can alter the hidden message.", "Coincidental letter sequences can be mistaken for intentional messages." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of acrostic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Hebrew biblical poetry includes alphabetic acrostics organized by the Hebrew alphabet.", "Alphabetic acrostics depend on the alphabet and letter ordering of the language used." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of acrostic 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": "Acronym", "difference": "An acronym forms an abbreviated name or word from initial letters; an acrostic embeds a sequence in corresponding positions across a composition." }, { "name": "Acrostic puzzle", "difference": "An acrostic puzzle is a solving activity that uses acrostic relationships; an acrostic composition need not be a puzzle." }, { "name": "Steganography", "difference": "Steganography conceals the existence of a message; an acrostic can serve that purpose but may openly display its organizing pattern." }, { "name": "Concrete poetry", "difference": "Concrete poetry uses visual arrangement as part of its meaning; an acrostic specifically encodes a sequence through selected textual positions." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of acrostic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend the narrow initial-letter sense or a broader family including final-letter, internal-letter, and multiple-position constructions?", "Which authoritative terminology should govern alphabetic acrostics and variants that repeat each alphabetic letter across several carrier units?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish deliberate construction from a coincidental secondary sequence in an unannotated text?", "Which script-specific rules are needed for grapheme selection, historical spelling, and reading direction?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 25 } }, "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 acrostic, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise an acrostic, verify its secondary reading, assess its textual integrity, and determine which edits or reproductions preserve its defining constraint.", "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: acrostic psalm, word square, abecedarius.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 69 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 acrostic, 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": [ "acrostic psalm", "word square", "abecedarius" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 69 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 acrostic from another, and a acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic 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 acrostic between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic 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 acrostic contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic 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 acrostic is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a acrostic, 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 acrostic, 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 acrostic is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }