{ "model": { "rank": 5385, "code": "thing-q178401", "model_id": "vr.tr.amphora", "name": "amphora", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, document and assess organisms provisionally identified as the diatom genus Amphora, while separating taxonomic identity from observations of specimens and populations.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q178401/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "handō", "clay pot", "Dressel 1", "belly amphora", "neck amphora", "Hypobibazon Class", "Nolan amphora", "Nikosthenic amphora", "pelike", "Melian pithamphora", "amphoriskos", "type B amphora", "type C amphora", "Gaza Jar", "Bellerophon Class", "ball amphora", "Amphora Type", "quartara", "type A amphora", "belly amphoras typus B", "belly amphoras typus C" ], "aliasCount": 21, "merged": 21, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q178401", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178401", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:15:37Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.1, "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: 01a0883c-c185-72a1-a48d-665123a12580\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This draft provisionally interprets amphora as the organism taxon Amphora because the registry places it in PHY.LIV; it owns identification evidence, biological condition, occurrence and handling decisions, pending confirmation of the registry's intended sense.", "in_scope": [ "The taxonomic concept of Amphora and evidence supporting assignment to it", "Individual cells, frustules and samples explicitly linked to an identification", "Microscopic characters used to distinguish Amphora from similar diatoms", "Life-cycle and physiological observations with their measurement conditions", "Population occurrences, habitat associations and culture handling" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Amphora as a pottery vessel or archaeological artefact", "Independent definitions of species assigned to Amphora", "Complete models of aquatic ecosystems or microbial communities", "Microscope design and general laboratory equipment operation", "Food products, commercial preparations or materials derived from diatoms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Confirm that the record denotes a biological taxon or diatom specimen rather than a two-handled vessel; the registry domain alone is insufficient identification evidence.", "Compare valve outline and dorsal-ventral asymmetry against a cited identification treatment, recording the viewing orientation.", "Check raphe position, course and terminal features against the proposed taxon's diagnosis rather than assigning the genus from outline alone.", "Compare valve dimensions, striation and finer ornamentation with diagnostic ranges under a stated microscopy method.", "Test the identification against Halamphora and other similar diatom genera using a current, explicitly selected taxonomic treatment." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Record subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "taxon concept | individual cell | isolated frustule | population | mixed sample | culture", "why_it_matters": "Prevents attributes of a taxon, a living cell and a collected sample from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "accepted name, rank, authority, taxonomic source and identifier where verified", "why_it_matters": "Makes the intended Amphora concept traceable when classifications or combinations differ." }, { "name": "Identification resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unidentified diatom | tentative Amphora | supported genus assignment | supported species assignment | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls which ecological and biological conclusions the evidence supports." }, { "name": "Valve dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length and width in µm, with orientation, calibration and number measured", "why_it_matters": "Supports diagnostic comparisons without confusing viewing geometry or within-population variation with taxonomic differences." }, { "name": "Valve and raphe character set", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented outline, asymmetry, raphe position and endings, with unresolved features marked", "why_it_matters": "Provides inspectable evidence for distinguishing similar amphoroid diatoms." }, { "name": "Striation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "striae per 10 µm, specifying valve region and imaging method", "why_it_matters": "Allows diagnostic comparisons while exposing differences in measurement location and visibility." }, { "name": "Biological condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "living | apparently nonviable | empty frustule | preserved | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Separates evidence of occurrence from evidence of a living population." }, { "name": "Occurrence environment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "sampling location, date, substrate, water body and measured environmental conditions", "why_it_matters": "Connects habitat claims to actual observations instead of extending them automatically across the genus." }, { "name": "Culture composition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "mixed enrichment | unialgal | axenic | unknown, with verification method and date", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an experimental response can reasonably be attributed to the identified diatom." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare calibrated valve images with a cited diagnosis and retain a tentative identification when decisive characters are unresolved.", "Link a taxonomic determination to specimen images, a voucher or a culture accession.", "Measure valve dimensions and striation across multiple cells to assess diagnostic variation.", "Separate living-cell observations from records based on empty or preserved frustules.", "Evaluate whether a habitat or experimental claim applies to a particular species, population or culture.", "Choose imaging, preservation or culture procedures according to the evidence needed and whether living material must be retained." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Resolve the registry sense and establish which taxonomic treatment governs an Amphora determination.", "rationale": "The lowercase name is ambiguous, and a biological interpretation still requires a precise taxon concept.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Establish whether the entry denotes the diatom genus and how subordinate observations relate to it.", "findings": [ { "id": "biological-referent", "name": "Biological referent", "description": "Treat the diatom interpretation as provisional until the originating registry record establishes its referent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry identifier resolve to the diatom genus Amphora, a species, or the pottery-vessel sense?", "kind": "definition", "id": "biological-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Does this observation describe the taxon itself, an individual cell, a population or a mixed sample?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "biological-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nomenclature-and-determination", "name": "Nomenclature and determination", "description": "Anchor names and identifications to a dated taxonomic reference.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-taxon-concept", "name": "Traceable taxon concept", "description": "Record the accepted name, authorship and identifier only after checking the selected authority, preserving earlier determinations separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic source supports the accepted name, authorship and circumscription used here?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-taxon-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Has this specimen's published name been transferred to Halamphora or another genus under that treatment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-taxon-concept-q02" }, { "text": "Who made the determination, when, and from which specimen or image evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-taxon-concept-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "microscopic-identification", "name": "Microscopic identification", "description": "Capture the valve characters and imaging evidence needed to evaluate an Amphora assignment.", "rationale": "A general resemblance or boat-shaped silhouette cannot substitute for a documented differential identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "orientation-and-outline", "name": "Orientation and outline", "description": "Separate viewing geometry from diagnostic shape and dimensions.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-valve-observations", "name": "Comparable valve observations", "description": "Associate every shape interpretation and measurement with the imaged structure, orientation and calibration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the image a valve view, girdle view or oblique view, and can dorsal and ventral sides be distinguished?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-valve-observations-q01" }, { "text": "What are the calibrated valve length, width and outline across the measured cells?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-valve-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-fine-structure", "name": "Diagnostic fine structure", "description": "Assess raphe, striation and ornamentation against explicit alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "differential-identification-evidence", "name": "Differential identification evidence", "description": "Keep observed characters separate from characters expected by a key, and mark features that the imaging method cannot resolve.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed raphe and valve-ornamentation characters support Amphora under the selected diagnosis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "differential-identification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Where was stria density measured, and which diagnostic details remain unresolved at the available resolution?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "differential-identification-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What additional view or microscopy method would distinguish the strongest competing identification?", "kind": "action", "id": "differential-identification-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-state-and-life-cycle", "name": "Living state and life cycle", "description": "Distinguish siliceous remains from living organisms and interpret observed variation in a biological context.", "rationale": "Frustule occurrence, cell viability and reproductive state support different conclusions and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "cell-condition", "name": "Cell condition", "description": "Record direct evidence for living, damaged, preserved or empty material.", "findings": [ { "id": "viability-evidence", "name": "Viability evidence", "description": "Assign biological condition from stated observations or assays rather than the presence of a recognisable frustule alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observed material contain intact cell contents, an empty frustule or preparation-altered remains?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "viability-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations or assays support viability, and how could collection or preservation affect their interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "viability-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-reproduction", "name": "Growth and reproduction", "description": "Relate size distributions and reproductive observations to a documented population or culture.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-cycle-qualified-variation", "name": "Life-cycle-qualified variation", "description": "Record division, size variation and any reproductive structures without assigning a life stage from size alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes life-cycle-related size variation from mixed taxa or environmental effects in this sample?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "life-cycle-qualified-variation-q01" }, { "text": "Were cell division, sexual reproduction or auxospore formation directly observed, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "life-cycle-qualified-variation-q02" }, { "text": "What species-specific evidence, if any, supports distinguishing sexual forms in the material examined?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "life-cycle-qualified-variation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-and-material-use", "name": "Occurrence and material use", "description": "Connect Amphora records to collection context and determine appropriate use of specimens or cultures.", "rationale": "Habitat interpretations and experimental decisions depend on taxonomic resolution, sample provenance and material condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-population-evidence", "name": "Habitat and population evidence", "description": "Document where and how the material was found and what that establishes about a population.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-occurrence", "name": "Qualified occurrence", "description": "Keep collection evidence distinct from claims about residency, native range, ecological preference or conservation status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where, when and from which substrate or water fraction was the material collected, using what method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-occurrence-q01" }, { "text": "Do living-cell observations and repeated sampling support a local population, or only the presence of transported frustules?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-occurrence-q02" }, { "text": "Which taxon-specific evidence supports any native-range, habitat-preference or dated conservation-status claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-occurrence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-and-culture-decisions", "name": "Specimen and culture decisions", "description": "Choose handling and interpretation appropriate to diagnostic material or a living culture.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-preserving-use", "name": "Evidence-preserving use", "description": "Match preparation and culture actions to the intended observation while retaining a traceable basis for identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Should material be retained alive, preserved with cell contents, or prepared for detailed frustule imaging to answer the current question?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-preserving-use-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether the culture is mixed, unialgal or axenic before attributing results to Amphora?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-preserving-use-q02" }, { "text": "Which voucher, image series or culture accession will preserve the identification evidence after the proposed procedure?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-preserving-use-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": [ "The biological sense is inferred from PHY.LIV; the registry should confirm that the intended thing is the diatom genus.", "Verify the genus authority, publication date, accepted species and taxonomic identifiers before publication.", "No sources were consulted; species ranges, life cycles and conservation assessments remain unverified." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of amphora this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric identifier for a taxon record", "note": "The identifier and accepted circumscription of Amphora require verification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of amphora 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": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), adopted through International Botanical Congresses, governs scientific naming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of amphora 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": [ "Species identification in studies of benthic diatom communities.", "Some species contribute to diatom-based assessments of aquatic environmental conditions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of amphora 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": "Valve length and width", "typical_range": "Species-dependent; no genus-wide range asserted", "unit": "µm" }, { "quantity": "Stria density", "typical_range": "Species-dependent", "unit": "striae per 10 µm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of amphora 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": [ "Identification can be unreliable without adequate microscopy of valve structure.", "Older records may use a broader genus circumscription than current classifications.", "Environmental preferences of an individual species cannot safely be generalized to the whole genus." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of amphora 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": [ "Species composition varies among freshwater, brackish and marine habitats." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of amphora 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": "amphora (vessel)", "difference": "The vessel is a two-handled container; Amphora in this interpretation is a biological genus." }, { "name": "diatom", "difference": "Diatoms are the wider organism group; Amphora is one genus within it." }, { "name": "Halamphora", "difference": "A distinct diatom genus containing some species formerly classified in Amphora; separation requires taxonomic characters beyond overall cell shape." }, { "name": "individual Amphora cell", "difference": "An individual is one organism; the genus groups species and has no single population size or conservation status." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of amphora this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating record for vr.tr.amphora confirm the diatom genus Amphora rather than the pottery vessel, and is PHY.LIV correctly assigned?", "Which current taxonomic treatment should govern the genus boundary, accepted authorship and verified GBIF and NCBI identifiers where available?", "Which diagnostic characters reliably separate the intended Amphora concept from Halamphora and other similar genera, and which require electron microscopy?", "Which habitat, range, reproductive and conservation claims can be supported at genus level, and which must remain specific to a species or population?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this taxon concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a amphora, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, document and assess organisms provisionally identified as the diatom genus Amphora, while separating taxonomic identity from observations of specimens and populations.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: handō, clay pot, Dressel 1, belly amphora, neck amphora, Hypobibazon Class, Nolan amphora, Nikosthenic amphora, pelike, Melian pithamphora, amphoriskos, type B amphora.", "21 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 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 amphora, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "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": [ "handō", "clay pot", "Dressel 1", "belly amphora", "neck amphora", "Hypobibazon Class", "Nolan amphora", "Nikosthenic amphora", "pelike", "Melian pithamphora", "amphoriskos", "type B amphora" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 21 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 amphora from another, and a amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 amphora is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a amphora, 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 amphora, 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 amphora 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 } } } }