{ "model": { "rank": 5636, "code": "thing-q177900", "model_id": "vr.tr.transcription", "name": "transcription", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a transcription task, record its source and representation rules, assess fidelity, and determine whether the resulting transcript is fit for its intended use.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.PRC", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q177900/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "bacterial transcription" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.transcription-process", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q177900", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177900", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:49:09Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 23.4, "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: 01a0885b-70be-7ad2-860f-b666660ba5f5\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: transcription\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: ACT.PRC\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 188 things:\n# Batch 006: 1001 re", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.5, "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: 01a0885b-70c4-7e23-b4fb-c4074bb01117\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: transcription\nRegistry id: vr.tr.transcription\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.PRC\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q177900", "registryId": "vr.tr.transcription", "name": "transcription", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.PRC" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q177900/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.transcription", "name": "transcription", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a transcription task, record its source and representation rules, assess fidelity, and determine whether the resulting transcript is fit for its intended use.", "definition": "In its linguistic and documentary sense, transcription is the production of a written representation of speech or an existing text according to conventions governing what is preserved, interpreted, or normalized.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models transcription as the activity of representing spoken, signed, or already written language in a written notation under explicit conventions; the registry's intended sense remains unresolved because no definition is recorded.", "in_scope": [ "Identifying source material, its modality, and the portions selected for transcription", "Choosing orthographic, phonetic, diplomatic, or edited transcription conventions", "Producing text with speaker attribution, segmentation, and source alignment where required", "Representing uncertainty, unintelligible passages, and editorial intervention", "Reviewing and correcting a transcript against its source" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Biological transcription from a nucleic acid template", "Musical transcription into notation or for another instrumentation", "Translation into a different language", "Summarisation, interpretation, and substantive rewriting of source content", "Recording equipment and the capture of source media as independent activities", "Publication, archival custody, and downstream analysis of completed transcripts" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The output represents identifiable linguistic content in a source; newly composed text without such a source is not transcription.", "The output preserves source language under declared notation rules; rendering meaning in another language introduces translation.", "Omissions and normalisations must be accountable to a declared convention; selecting only main ideas produces a summary instead.", "The object modelled is the source-to-text activity; its resulting transcript is a related information artefact.", "Speech recognition, optical character recognition, and manual entry can perform parts of the activity; the method alone does not establish transcript fidelity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Source modality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded speech | live speech | signed discourse | manuscript | printed text | mixed", "why_it_matters": "Determines what evidence can be inspected and which transcription conventions are applicable." }, { "name": "Source and selected extent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source identifier with time intervals, page regions, or other stable locators", "why_it_matters": "Makes coverage and individual readings traceable to the material being transcribed." }, { "name": "Representation convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named and versioned convention specifying notation, omissions, normalisation, and editorial additions", "why_it_matters": "Defines which differences from the source are intentional and which count as errors." }, { "name": "Language and notation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source languages or varieties, output script, and any phonetic or sign notation", "why_it_matters": "Supports assignment to suitable transcribers and interpretation of the output." }, { "name": "Production method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "manual | automated | assisted; associated tool or model version where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Records how the initial reading was produced and where review may be needed." }, { "name": "Review state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unstarted | in progress | awaiting review | reviewed with unresolved passages | accepted for stated use", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an unreviewed draft from being treated as an accepted transcript." }, { "name": "Coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of selected source extent processed, with denominator and excluded spans recorded", "why_it_matters": "Separates completion from correctness and exposes unprocessed material." }, { "name": "Unresolved readings", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count of marked spans, with source locations and uncertainty types", "why_it_matters": "Shows where the transcript still requires evidence or expert judgement." }, { "name": "Evaluated transcription error", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Metric and value, with reference transcript, comparison unit, normalisation rules, and evaluated extent", "why_it_matters": "Makes quality claims interpretable without assuming one metric suits every transcription convention." } ], "affordances": [ "Select and partition source material into traceable transcription assignments", "Apply an explicit transcription convention to create or revise text", "Align transcript segments with source times or page regions", "Flag ambiguous readings and route them for targeted review", "Compare a transcript with its source or an adjudicated reference", "Accept a version for a stated use or return specific passages for correction" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "source-and-task-boundary", "name": "Source and task boundary", "description": "Establishes what linguistic material is being transcribed and what completion covers.", "rationale": "A transcript cannot be assessed for fidelity or completeness without a bounded source.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-identification", "name": "Source identification", "description": "Records the material from which readings must be recoverable.", "findings": [ { "id": "identifiable-source-evidence", "name": "Identifiable source evidence", "description": "Record the source version, modality, languages, and stable locators available for checking the transcript.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recording, live event, image, or physical text supplies the linguistic content?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identifiable-source-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which source version and locators allow a reviewer to recover the evidence for a passage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identifiable-source-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selected-coverage", "name": "Selected coverage", "description": "Distinguishes assigned material from intentional exclusions and unfinished work.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-transcription-assignment", "name": "Bounded transcription assignment", "description": "Record selected intervals or regions and identify gaps without silently treating them as absent source content.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which speakers, time intervals, pages, marginal notes, or other regions belong to this assignment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-transcription-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "How much of the selected extent has been processed, and which spans remain excluded or unfinished?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-transcription-assignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-conventions", "name": "Representation conventions", "description": "Defines what the written representation preserves, normalises, annotates, or omits.", "rationale": "Two transcripts may differ legitimately because they serve different purposes and follow different conventions.", "layers": [ { "id": "notation-and-detail", "name": "Notation and detail", "description": "Specifies the transcription system and its required level of linguistic detail.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-representation-policy", "name": "Declared representation policy", "description": "Identify the notation and rules for phenomena such as pronunciation, disfluency, spelling, layout, and signed expression.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which convention defines the required orthographic, phonetic, diplomatic, or other representation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-representation-policy-q01" }, { "text": "Which source features must be retained, and which may be normalised or omitted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-representation-policy-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "editorial-intervention", "name": "Editorial intervention", "description": "Makes additions and transformations distinguishable from source content.", "findings": [ { "id": "visible-editorial-decisions", "name": "Visible editorial decisions", "description": "Record how supplied punctuation, expanded abbreviations, corrected spelling, and explanatory insertions are represented.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are supplied words, expansions, corrections, and explanatory annotations distinguished from directly represented content?", "kind": "definition", "id": "visible-editorial-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed edits would cross this task's boundary into translation, summary, or rewriting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "visible-editorial-decisions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "segmentation-and-attribution", "name": "Segmentation and attribution", "description": "Connects passages to source locations and, where relevant, to speakers or textual hands.", "rationale": "Correct words alone may be insufficient when their order, source position, or attribution is wrong.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-alignment", "name": "Source alignment", "description": "Defines transcript units and their correspondence to source spans.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-transcript-segments", "name": "Traceable transcript segments", "description": "Record segmentation and alignment at the resolution required for checking or downstream use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are segments defined by turns, utterances, words, lines, pages, or another explicit rule?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-transcript-segments-q01" }, { "text": "What timestamp or region precision is required, and how is alignment error assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "traceable-transcript-segments-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "speaker-and-hand-attribution", "name": "Speaker and hand attribution", "description": "Handles attribution without converting an uncertain distinction into an asserted identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-content-attribution", "name": "Supported content attribution", "description": "Separate local speaker or hand labels from verified identities and account for overlap or uncertain attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports each speaker or hand label and any association with a named person?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-content-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "How should simultaneous speech, changing hands, and uncertain attribution be represented?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-content-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "uncertainty-and-recovery", "name": "Uncertainty and recovery", "description": "Preserves the distinction between readable content, competing readings, and unavailable evidence.", "rationale": "Transcription must expose uncertainty so plausible completions do not become unsupported source claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "uncertain-passages", "name": "Uncertain passages", "description": "Locates and classifies passages whose reading is not settled.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-unresolved-readings", "name": "Explicit unresolved readings", "description": "Mark uncertainty at the affected span and distinguish illegibility, unintelligibility, missing source, and competing interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exact spans are unresolved, and what prevents a reliable reading of each?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "explicit-unresolved-readings-q01" }, { "text": "How does the convention distinguish an uncertain candidate reading from wholly unrecoverable content?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-unresolved-readings-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-assisted-recovery", "name": "Evidence-assisted recovery", "description": "Governs attempts to resolve difficult passages while retaining their evidential basis.", "findings": [ { "id": "reviewable-reading-recovery", "name": "Reviewable reading recovery", "description": "Record the source inspection, contextual evidence, or specialist judgement used to revise an uncertain reading.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which replay, image enhancement, parallel witness, vocabulary resource, or specialist review could resolve this passage?", "kind": "action", "id": "reviewable-reading-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the revised reading, and does any uncertainty remain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reviewable-reading-recovery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "production-and-fidelity-review", "name": "Production and fidelity review", "description": "Records how the transcript was produced, checked, corrected, and accepted.", "rationale": "A completed text and an automated confidence score do not by themselves establish fitness for a particular use.", "layers": [ { "id": "transcription-production", "name": "Transcription production", "description": "Tracks the method and revisions that produced the current transcript.", "findings": [ { "id": "recoverable-production-history", "name": "Recoverable production history", "description": "Associate transcript versions with their human or automated production steps and subsequent corrections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who or what produced the initial transcription, using which tools, versions, and relevant settings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recoverable-production-history-q01" }, { "text": "Which passages were subsequently corrected, by whom, and on what source evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recoverable-production-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fidelity-and-acceptance", "name": "Fidelity and acceptance", "description": "Evaluates the transcript against its declared convention and intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-quality-decision", "name": "Use-specific quality decision", "description": "Record review coverage, error criteria, unresolved defects, and the basis for accepting or returning the transcript.", "questions": [ { "text": "What review method and comparison rules assess wording, omissions, attribution, and alignment for this use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "use-specific-quality-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Which remaining defects require correction before acceptance, and who can make that decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-quality-decision-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": [ "No sense is recorded, and ACT.PRC alone does not distinguish linguistic, documentary, biological, or musical transcription; this description provisionally covers linguistic and documentary uses.", "The varieties overlap: a phonetic transcript can also be verbatim, and conventions determine what fidelity means.", "Standards are recalled rather than checked; their editions, precise scope, and applicability should be verified." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of transcription 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": [ "Verbatim transcription of speech", "Edited or normalized transcription of speech", "Phonetic transcription", "Phonemic transcription", "Conversation-analytic transcription", "Diplomatic transcription of written documents" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of transcription this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 24624, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, addresses transcription of spoken language.", "The International Phonetic Alphabet, maintained by the International Phonetic Association, provides symbols and conventions for representing speech sounds.", "The TEI Guidelines, maintained by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, provide conventions for encoding transcribed speech and documentary texts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of transcription 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": [ "Creating searchable records of interviews, meetings, and oral histories", "Documenting speech for linguistic analysis", "Preparing records of court proceedings", "Producing reference text for training and evaluating speech-recognition systems", "Making manuscripts and archival documents accessible as machine-readable text" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of transcription 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": "Word error rate against a reference transcript", "typical_range": "Task-dependent; zero indicates agreement, and insertion errors can make the value exceed 100", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "Transcription effort relative to recording duration", "typical_range": "Depends on recording quality, notation detail, language, and workflow", "unit": "labour hours per recording hour" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of transcription 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": [ "Omitting, substituting, or inserting words, especially under noise or overlapping speech", "Assigning speech to the wrong speaker", "Normalizing speech in ways that erase analytically important features or change apparent meaning", "Exposing confidential or personally identifying information", "Treating an uncertain reading or an automatically generated passage as verified source content" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of transcription 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": [ "Orthography, punctuation, and dialect representation follow language-specific and regional conventions.", "Court-reporting requirements and transcript certification practices differ by jurisdiction.", "Privacy and consent requirements for recordings and transcripts differ by jurisdiction and use." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of transcription 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": "translation", "difference": "Translation expresses content in another language; transcription ordinarily represents the source language." }, { "name": "transliteration", "difference": "Transliteration maps writing between scripts; speech transcription maps spoken material into writing or notation." }, { "name": "automatic speech recognition", "difference": "Automatic speech recognition is a computational method for recognizing speech; transcription is the broader activity and can be performed manually." }, { "name": "captioning", "difference": "Captioning adds presentation requirements such as synchronization and often speaker or non-speech sound information." }, { "name": "biological transcription", "difference": "Biological transcription synthesizes RNA from a DNA template rather than representing speech or documents." }, { "name": "musical transcription", "difference": "Musical transcription represents music in notation or adapts it for another performing medium." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of transcription this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.transcription denote linguistic transcription, biological transcription, musical transcription, or a broader process concept?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the intended sense and therefore need to be linked instead of duplicated?", "Should signed-language notation, manuscript transcription, and speech transcription share this registry entry, or are any already owned by neighbouring entries?", "Which recognised transcription conventions and practitioner sources should ground the preservation, normalisation, and uncertainty rules?", "Which intended uses require particular review coverage, error measures, attribution evidence, or acceptance thresholds?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 transcription, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a transcription task, record its source and representation rules, assess fidelity, and determine whether the resulting transcript is fit for its intended use.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: bacterial transcription.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 66 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 transcription, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "bacterial transcription" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 66 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 transcription from another, and a transcription 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 transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription 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 transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription 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 transcription between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a transcription 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 transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a transcription proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a transcription, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a transcription and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a transcription, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a transcription, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a transcription is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a transcription consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a transcription takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a transcription, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a transcription, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a transcription is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What transcription is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of transcription are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is transcription operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of transcription and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of transcription?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as transcription?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a transcription 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 transcription and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 transcription is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a transcription, 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 transcription, 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 transcription 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 } } } }