{ "model": { "rank": 5062, "code": "thing-q178748", "model_id": "vr.tr.iris", "name": "iris", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise botanical irises, distinguish taxon records from living plants, assess their condition and determine appropriate identification, cultivation or conservation actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q178748/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "right iris", "left iris" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 70, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.iris-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q178748", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178748", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:35:03Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.8, "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: 01a08817-9ee3-7a42-a16f-39515cec32cc\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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standards.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally interprets iris as the flowering-plant genus Iris and its members, owning iris-specific identification, growth, reproduction and ecological relationships while keeping genus, species, hybrid, cultivar, population and individual records distinct; the registry's intended sense remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Botanical identity within Iris, including species, hybrids and cultivars", "Identification through flowers, leaves and underground organs", "Individual growth stages, seasonal dormancy and reproductive condition", "Taxon-specific habitat requirements and population occurrence", "Cultivation, propagation and conservation decisions tied to identified irises" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The anatomical iris of an eye and optical iris diaphragms", "Other plants called iris unless their accepted placement is within Iris", "General flowering-plant biology already owned by broader plant models", "Extracted iris fragrances, medicinal 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"category", "unit_or_values": "Genus, species, infraspecific taxon, hybrid, cultivar, population or individual; name and identification confidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents genus-level statements, cultivar traits and individual observations from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Taxonomic reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted name, authorship, publication date, synonyms and external identifiers linked to a named authority and access date", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to reconcile changing names and competing treatments without inventing a binomial for the genus." }, { "name": "Floral identification characters", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Falls and standards form, style-branch form, beard or crest presence, markings; absent or unobserved recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Provides iris-specific evidence for identification and horticultural grouping." }, { "name": "Underground organ", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rhizome, bulb, other documented condition or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Influences identification, dormancy interpretation and suitable propagation methods." }, { "name": "Plant dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flowering-stem height, leaf length and flower dimensions in centimetres, with growth stage and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and growth assessment while avoiding comparisons between incompatible stages." }, { "name": "Seasonal and reproductive stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dormant, emerging, vegetative, budding, flowering, fruiting or senescing; observation date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes normal seasonal change from damage and establishes when identification or propagation is feasible." }, { "name": "Site moisture and drainage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed moisture regime, drainage class, inundation pattern and season", "why_it_matters": "Iris requirements differ among taxa, so a single watering or habitat rule would be misleading." }, { "name": "Occurrence and establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Wild native, introduced, naturalised, cultivated, uncertain; location and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates native-range evidence from garden presence and informs site-specific management." }, { "name": "Clonal and reproductive relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Parentage, division source, seed provenance, clump membership and evidence of shared clone identity", "why_it_matters": "Prevents counting shoots as independent genetic individuals and assuming seedlings preserve cultivar identity." }, { "name": "Condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed vigour, leaf injury, underground-organ integrity, flowering performance and suspected cause with confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports proportionate investigation without converting symptoms directly into a diagnosis." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify an iris to the narrowest defensible taxon or horticultural group using recorded diagnostic evidence.", "Compare a plant's site and seasonal condition with requirements documented for its identified taxon.", "Track emergence, flowering, fruiting and dormancy to schedule observations and cultivation actions.", "Select a propagation approach that accounts for underground organs, parentage and whether cultivar identity must be retained.", "Document wild populations with explicit counting units and provenance for conservation assessment.", "Investigate damage or decline and determine whether additional identification, diagnosis or local management guidance is needed." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "iris-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Iris identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish the botanical sense and the level of identity supported by the evidence.", "rationale": "Iris can denote a genus, a horticultural plant or an unrelated anatomical structure, and those senses require different models.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense-and-taxonomy", "name": "Registry sense and taxonomy", "description": "Connect the registry entry to a defensible botanical concept and taxonomic reference.", "findings": [ { "id": "botanical-concept-resolution", "name": "Botanical concept resolution", "description": "Record the evidence that the entry means Iris plants and identify the taxonomic treatment being followed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the original registry source identify iris as the plant genus Iris, a particular species or another sense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "botanical-concept-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority supplies the accepted genus name, authorship, publication date and applicable GBIF or NCBI identifiers?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "botanical-concept-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-hybrids-and-cultivars", "name": "Species, hybrids and cultivars", "description": "Separate botanical placement from 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"Diagnostic structures", "description": "Capture the floral and vegetative evidence needed to distinguish iris groups.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-morphological-evidence", "name": "Combined morphological evidence", "description": "Use falls, standards, style branches, leaves and underground organs as a combined identification record.", "questions": [ { "text": "What falls, standards, style-branch and beard or crest characters are visible in the flower?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-morphological-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What leaf arrangement and underground organ are documented, and which candidate irises do they support or exclude?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "combined-morphological-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-flowering-and-dormancy", "name": "Growth, flowering and dormancy", "description": "Interpret the plant's observed stage in relation to its identity, climate and observation date.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation", "name": "Seasonal state interpretation", "description": "Separate expected dormancy and senescence from an unexplained loss of vigour.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were emergence, flowering, fruit development and leaf senescence observed for this plant at this location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would distinguish normal seasonal dieback from decline in this identified iris?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "iris-reproduction-and-propagation", "name": "Iris reproduction and propagation", "description": "Represent seed production, vegetative multiplication and the identity consequences of propagation.", "rationale": "An iris clump may contain many connected shoots, and seed propagation does not automatically preserve a cultivar's identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowers-fertility-and-seed", "name": "Flowers, fertility and seed", "description": "Record reproductive 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symptoms with evidence specific to the identified iris.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-fit-and-decline", "name": "Site fit and decline", "description": "Record moisture, drainage, light and symptoms before choosing a cultivation intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What moisture regime, drainage, light exposure and seasonal conditions does the plant experience?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-fit-and-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What taxon-specific evidence supports changing its site or care, or investigating leaf damage, poor flowering or underground-organ decay?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-fit-and-decline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-populations-and-conservation", "name": "Range, populations and conservation", "description": "Keep occurrence, establishment and conservation assessments attached to their correct taxon and geography.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-context-and-permitted-action", "name": "Population context and permitted action", "description": "Distinguish cultivated presence from wild occurrence and connect management to sourced regional evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish native range, local establishment status and any conservation assessment, including its taxon, region and year?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-context-and-permitted-action-q01" }, { "text": "Given the population's identity and location, what evidence and applicable permissions govern collection, division, relocation or removal?", "kind": "action", "id": "population-context-and-permitted-action-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 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"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Bearded irises", "Siberian irises", "Japanese irises", "Louisiana irises", "Dutch irises", "Reticulata irises" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of iris 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": "Botanical scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Iris L.", "note": "Genus name attributed to Linnaeus, published in 1753; this identifies a taxon, not a species or individual plant." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The exact identifier and accepted taxonomic treatment require checking." }, { "scheme": "Cultivar denomination", "value_or_pattern": "Iris 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"text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of iris 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": "Iris of the eye", "difference": "An anatomical structure surrounding the pupil, rather than a plant taxon." }, { "name": "Iridaceae", "difference": "The botanical family containing Iris and other genera; membership in this family does not imply membership in Iris." }, { "name": "Iris pseudacorus", "difference": "Yellow flag iris is a particular species within the genus; its ecological behaviour cannot be attributed to every iris." }, { "name": "Orris root", "difference": "A processed rhizome product from selected irises, rather than the whole plant or genus." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these 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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 iris, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise botanical irises, distinguish taxon records from living plants, assess their condition and determine appropriate identification, cultivation or conservation actions.", "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: right iris, left iris.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 70 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 iris, 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": [ "right iris", "left iris" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 70 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 iris from another, and a iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a iris 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 iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 iris is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a iris, 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 iris, 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 iris 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 } } } }