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}, { "name": "Observed rate deviation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds per day over a recorded interval and operating conditions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a setting error from continuing timekeeping drift." }, { "name": "Energy supply", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "manually wound spring; automatically wound spring; replaceable cell; rechargeable cell; other documented supply", "why_it_matters": "Determines permissible winding, charging or replacement actions." }, { "name": "Remaining operating reserve", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hours under stated conditions; unknown when unmeasured", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about winding, charging and expected interruption." }, { "name": "Case and attachment dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "case width, height or diameter, thickness, attachment width and wearable circumference in millimetres; mass in grams", "why_it_matters": "Supports fit, comfort and 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"description": "The installed timekeeping mechanism and evidence about its performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "identify-timekeeping-mechanism", "name": "Identify the timekeeping mechanism", "description": "Record the movement or electronic timekeeping implementation separately from the appearance of its display.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mechanism maintains time, and what identification or documentation establishes it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identify-timekeeping-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "What rate deviation is observed over a stated interval, with position, temperature and synchronisation events recorded where relevant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identify-timekeeping-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reference-and-correction", "name": "Reference and correction", "description": "The reference, time-zone interpretation and correction behaviour behind displayed time.", "findings": [ { "id": "establish-time-reference", "name": "Establish the time reference", "description": "Distinguish current offset, zone selection and external correction from the watch's underlying rate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reference and time zone should the watch indicate, and what is its measured offset from that reference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establish-time-reference-q01" }, { "text": "How is time corrected, and what happens when the correction source is unavailable or the time zone changes?", "kind": "action", "id": "establish-time-reference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "indications-and-controls", "name": "Indications and controls", "description": "How watch indications are interpreted and how supported functions are operated.", "rationale": "Hands, subdials, windows and screens can represent different quantities, while setting controls may have movement-specific restrictions.", "layers": [ { "id": "readable-indications", "name": "Readable indications", "description": "The meanings and usable conditions of the watch's displays.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpret-watch-display", "name": "Interpret the watch display", "description": "Identify each indication without assuming that every hand or numeric field represents ordinary time of day.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hands, windows, subdials or screen fields show time of day, date, elapsed time or another quantity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interpret-watch-display-q01" }, { "text": "Under what lighting, viewing and power conditions can the required indication actually be read?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpret-watch-display-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "setting-and-complications", "name": "Setting and complications", "description": "Controls and operating sequences for time setting and optional watch functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "operate-supported-functions", "name": "Operate supported functions", "description": "Record crown positions, pushers, bezels or screen interactions together with documented restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What control sequence sets time and operates each installed calendar, alarm, chronograph or additional-zone function?", "kind": "action", "id": "operate-supported-functions-q01" }, { "text": "Does the documented mechanism impose restricted calendar-setting periods, crown-locking steps or conditions on pusher use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "operate-supported-functions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wearing-and-exposure", "name": "Wearing and exposure", "description": "How the watch stays attached and what evidence supports its use under physical exposure.", "rationale": "A functioning movement is insufficient if the watch cannot be secured or its case protection is unsuitable for the intended activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "fit-and-retention", "name": "Fit and retention", "description": "Wearable or carrying geometry and the condition of retention components.", "findings": [ { "id": "secure-personal-carrying", "name": "Secure personal carrying", "description": "Assess the strap, bracelet, clasp, spring bars, chain or other attachment appropriate to this watch form.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dimensions and connector types determine fit and attachment compatibility for this watch?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "secure-personal-carrying-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or adjustment is needed to establish that its clasp, connectors or carrying chain retain it securely?", "kind": "action", "id": "secure-personal-carrying-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "case-and-environmental-protection", "name": "Case and environmental protection", "description": "Case integrity and documented limits for water, impact, magnetic fields and temperature.", "findings": [ { "id": "evaluate-exposure-suitability", "name": "Evaluate exposure suitability", "description": "Keep design claims, markings and current condition distinct when deciding whether an exposure is appropriate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacturer instructions, test records or standards with identified issuing bodies support the watch's claimed exposure limits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evaluate-exposure-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Do crystal damage, seal history, crown position or observed moisture change whether the proposed activity is permissible?", "kind": "action", "id": "evaluate-exposure-suitability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "energy-and-service", "name": "Energy and service", "description": "How the watch receives operating energy and how faults or deterioration are addressed.", "rationale": "Spring winding, cell replacement and rechargeable operation require different interventions, and opening the case can affect protection.", "layers": [ { "id": "energy-replenishment", "name": "Energy replenishment", "description": "The installed energy system, available reserve and compatible replenishment method.", "findings": [ { "id": "maintain-operating-reserve", "name": "Maintain operating reserve", "description": "Determine how to restore energy without assuming that all watches can be wound, charged or opened in the same way.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supplies energy, and what winding procedure, cell specification or charging equipment is documented as compatible?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "maintain-operating-reserve-q01" }, { "text": "What remaining runtime or full-reserve runtime is observed under the stated pattern of use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maintain-operating-reserve-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "faults-and-maintenance", "name": "Faults and maintenance", "description": "Symptoms, service evidence and boundaries between ordinary care and specialist intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "triage-watch-condition", "name": "Triage watch condition", "description": "Record symptoms without prematurely assigning a cause, then identify supported checks and service needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the watch stop, drift, show misaligned indications, lose reserve or exhibit condensation, and when do these symptoms occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "triage-watch-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented checks or cleaning actions are appropriate, and which repairs require specialist work or protection testing afterward?", "kind": "action", "id": "triage-watch-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "connected-watch-capabilities", "name": "Connected watch capabilities", "description": "Conditional modelling of connectivity, software and sensing where the watch includes them.", "rationale": "Connected watches introduce dependencies and data actions, but these must not become requirements for mechanical or unconnected watches.", "layers": [ { "id": "standalone-and-paired-operation", "name": "Standalone and paired operation", "description": "Which watch functions depend on another device, account, network or software state.", "findings": [ { "id": "map-watch-dependencies", "name": "Map watch dependencies", "description": "Identify optional dependencies while reserving product-specific details for narrower watch models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which timekeeping, alarm, notification and other installed functions remain available without a paired phone, account or network?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "map-watch-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which pairing, update and recovery procedures apply to the identified product and installed software version?", "kind": "action", "id": "map-watch-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensing-and-personal-data", "name": "Sensing and personal data", "description": "Optional sensor outputs and the handling of information stored or transmitted by the watch.", "findings": [ { "id": "bound-sensor-and-data-actions", "name": "Bound sensor and data actions", "description": "Record available outputs and operational constraints without treating sensor readings as established health conclusions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sensors and outputs are documented, and what fit, calibration or operating conditions limit their interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bound-sensor-and-data-actions-q01" }, { "text": "What authorised steps export or erase personal data and remove pairing or account associations before transfer or service?", "kind": "action", "id": "bound-sensor-and-data-actions-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": [ "The physical-object domain supports interpreting 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"name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 22810, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, specifies requirements and tests for water-resistant watches.", "ISO 6425, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, specifies requirements and tests for divers' watches.", "ISO 3159, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, addresses wrist chronometers with spring-balance oscillators." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of watch 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": [ "Reading local time and, on equipped watches, other time zones.", "Measuring elapsed intervals using a chronograph or timer.", "Providing alarms and calendar indications.", "Tracking dive time using a suitably rated diving watch.", "Serving as jewellery, personal adornment or a collectible." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of watch 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": "Adult wristwatch case diameter or width", "typical_range": "Approximately 25-50 for many conventional designs", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Mechanical watch power reserve", "typical_range": "Approximately 36-80 for many common movements when fully wound", "unit": "h" }, { "quantity": "Conventional quartz watch battery life", "typical_range": "Approximately 1-5, depending on movement, 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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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a watch 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 watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 watch is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a watch, 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 watch, 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 watch 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 } } } }