{ "model": { "rank": 4724, "code": "thing-q180494", "model_id": "vr.tr.saga", "name": "saga", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a saga as a narrative work, assess its identity and transmission, and determine appropriate interpretation, attribution and reuse.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q180494/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "chivalric saga", "bishops' saga", "saints' saga", "contemporary saga", "legendary saga", "kings' saga", "Strengleikar", "Dórótheu saga", "Agnesar saga", "Norwegian synoptics" ], "aliasCount": 10, "merged": 10, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q180494", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180494", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:52:04Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.8, "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: 01a087f0-1b3d-76b3-b365-04c1209ac670\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, narrative organisation, classification and transmission of saga as a literary narrative form, distinguishing historically situated saga traditions from broader modern uses of the label while keeping works separate from their expressions and carriers.", "in_scope": [ "The grounds for identifying a narrative work as a saga", "Saga subtype, cultural setting and historically situated genre attribution", "Continuity of characters, kinship groups, conflicts and events across narrative episodes", "Relationships among attributed authorship, claimed historical events and textual evidence", "Textual witnesses, translations, redactions and adaptations as related but distinguishable entities", "Completeness, attribution confidence and constraints on use of a specified expression" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Distributed computing sagas and transaction coordination patterns", "Narrative genres generally, except where needed to distinguish saga", "Physical manuscripts, printed volumes and digital files as independently managed objects", "Historical people and events independently of their representation in the narrative", "Publishing series or media franchises whose only connection is shared branding", "Copyright law and licensing regimes as independently maintained models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record evidence that saga is a genre or tradition attribution; length, multiple instalments or the word in a title alone are insufficient.", "Separate attribution to a historically situated saga tradition from a modern descriptive label for an extended family, heroic or other continuing narrative.", "Identify narrative continuity through recurring participants, kinship, consequences or shared history rather than assuming that every collection of episodes forms one saga.", "Distinguish a saga's representation of past events from independent evidence that those events occurred.", "Distinguish the narrative work from a translation, editorial reconstruction, adaptation or individual copy carrying it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Saga sense and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Historically situated literary genre; modern genre or descriptive usage; title or marketing label only; disputed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unrelated meanings and unsupported genre assignments from being treated as equivalent." }, { "name": "Saga subtype", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed subtype with classification authority and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Preserves differences among saga traditions without imposing an unverified universal taxonomy." }, { "name": "Narrative continuity basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Individual protagonist; kinship group; community; dynasty; linked conflicts; shared setting; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Explains what makes successive episodes belong to the same narrative." }, { "name": "Represented temporal span", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Years or generations when supported; otherwise a qualified interval or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition of temporal scope without making multigenerational duration a mandatory condition." }, { "name": "Narrative and composition settings", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Separate links to represented places and periods, proposed composition contexts and attested witness contexts", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the time and place of the story from being mistaken for those of its production." }, { "name": "Textual completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete relative to a named reference; fragmentary; interrupted; reconstructed; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Qualifies interpretation and determines whether missing narrative material can be inferred safely." }, { "name": "Authorship attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Named and supported; traditionally attributed; contested; anonymous; unknown, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps traditional attribution distinct from established authorship." }, { "name": "Expression relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Witness of; redaction of; translation of; abridgement of; adaptation of; continuation of; uncertain relationship", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison and citation without collapsing materially different texts." }, { "name": "Permitted use of selected material", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Supported permission or restriction for a specified action, expression, jurisdiction and date; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "An older underlying work does not establish the reuse status of a modern translation or edition." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate saga with explicit grounds and confidence.", "Trace episode continuity through characters, kinship, conflicts and their consequences.", "Compare witnesses or translations while preserving variant passages and uncertain relationships.", "Separate narrative assertions, editorial interpretations and independently supported historical claims.", "Select and cite an appropriate expression for reading, analysis, quotation or adaptation.", "Identify missing evidence that prevents a confident attribution, reconstruction or reuse decision." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saga-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Saga identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which literary sense of saga applies and what counts as the individual work.", "rationale": "Saga can denote a situated literary form or a broad modern narrative label, and those uses require different recognition evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "genre-attribution", "name": "Genre attribution", "description": "Ground the saga label in a named tradition, classification or usage.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounds-for-saga-classification", "name": "Grounds for saga classification", "description": "Record who classifies the work as a saga, in which sense and with what supporting evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does saga identify a historical literary tradition, a modern genre usage or only a title or promotional label here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "grounds-for-saga-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Which catalogue, scholarly account or creator statement supports that classification, and do other sources contest it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounds-for-saga-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-delimitation", "name": "Work delimitation", "description": "Locate the work's boundaries within compilations, continuations and related narratives.", "findings": [ { "id": "independent-narrative-identity", "name": "Independent narrative identity", "description": "Treat inclusion in a manuscript, cycle or publishing series as evidence to examine rather than proof of a single work.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes this saga's beginning, ending and recognised title variants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "independent-narrative-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Are adjacent narratives or continuations parts of this work, separately recognised works or editorial groupings?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "independent-narrative-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saga-narrative-continuity", "name": "Saga narrative continuity", "description": "Represent the relationships that hold the saga's episodes and temporal movement together.", "rationale": "An agent needs to follow continuity across changing participants and episodes without assuming a single protagonist or a fixed plot pattern.", "layers": [ { "id": "participants-and-kinship", "name": "Participants and kinship", "description": "Track narrative identities and relationships where they explain continuity or conflict.", "findings": [ { "id": "participant-continuity", "name": "Participant continuity", "description": "Record kinship, alliances, rivalries and succession when the narrative makes them consequential.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people, families or communities connect the principal episodes, and which relationships are explicitly stated?", "kind": "definition", "id": "participant-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Where do repeated names, bynames or conflicting genealogies leave participant identity uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participant-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episodes-and-time", "name": "Episodes and time", "description": "Distinguish presentation order from the chronology and causal connections of narrated events.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-linkage-and-span", "name": "Episode linkage and span", "description": "Describe how episodes connect through consequences, recollections, succession or other evidenced narrative links.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which conflicts or consequences link episodes, and where does continuity depend on an editor's interpretation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "episode-linkage-and-span-q01" }, { "text": "What temporal span and generational transitions are supported by the text, and which intervals remain indeterminate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-linkage-and-span-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saga-history-and-claims", "name": "Saga history and claims", "description": "Separate the saga's represented world from claims about its composition and historical reliability.", "rationale": "Narrative authority, historical setting and evidence about actual events must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "represented-past", "name": "Represented past", "description": "Capture the places, periods and events the saga presents without automatically endorsing their historicity.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-claim-status", "name": "Historical claim status", "description": "Keep textual assertions separate from external corroboration, contradiction and unresolved interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which statements about people or events are asserted by the narrative, attributed to a character or supplied by an editor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-claim-status-q01" }, { "text": "What independent evidence supports or challenges a proposed historical identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-claim-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-narrative-authority", "name": "Composition and narrative authority", "description": "Qualify accounts of authorship, composition and the narrative's claimed sources.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-and-source-claims", "name": "Attribution and source claims", "description": "Record proposed authors, composition contexts and appeals to prior accounts with their evidential limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports the proposed author, composition period and place, independently of the story's setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-and-source-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Does the text invoke oral accounts, verse, documents or named informants, and what establishes whether those sources survive or can be checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-and-source-claims-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saga-textual-transmission", "name": "Saga textual transmission", "description": "Track the evidence through which the saga survives and the interventions through which readers encounter it.", "rationale": "Witness variation, editorial reconstruction and translation can change the narrative available for interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "witnesses-and-redactions", "name": "Witnesses and redactions", "description": "Link surviving textual witnesses and proposed redactions without treating their relationship as settled.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-and-completeness-evidence", "name": "Variant and completeness evidence", "description": "Record consequential differences, omissions and additions against identified witnesses or reference texts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which witnesses support this text, and where do they differ in episode order, participants, wording or ending?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "variant-and-completeness-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Relative to which witness or edition is this expression called complete, fragmentary or reconstructed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-and-completeness-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "editions-and-transformations", "name": "Editions and transformations", "description": "Distinguish editorial presentation, translation and creative transformation of the saga.", "findings": [ { "id": "expression-interventions", "name": "Expression interventions", "description": "Identify changes such as supplied passages, normalised names, abridgement or altered narrative framing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source text underlies this edition or translation, and what interventions does its editor or translator disclose?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expression-interventions-q01" }, { "text": "Do the changes preserve an expression of the same saga or support identifying a separate adaptation or continuation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expression-interventions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "saga-reading-and-reuse", "name": "Saga reading and reuse", "description": "Support accountable interpretation, citation and reuse of a specifically identified saga expression.", "rationale": "Actions must account for textual variation and the distinct status of an underlying work, translation and editorial material.", "layers": [ { "id": "interpretation-and-citation", "name": "Interpretation and citation", "description": "Make analytical claims traceable to the passages and expressions that support them.", "findings": [ { "id": "passage-grounded-analysis", "name": "Passage-grounded analysis", "description": "Anchor interpretations of saga themes and narrative conduct in a named text while preserving conflicting readings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passages support an interpretation involving kinship, honour, conflict, belief or authority, and what competing readings remain plausible?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "passage-grounded-analysis-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent cite those passages so another reader can locate them despite differences in chapter divisions or translation?", "kind": "action", "id": "passage-grounded-analysis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "expression-specific-reuse", "name": "Expression-specific reuse", "description": "Connect intended actions to the rights and access evidence for the actual material selected.", "findings": [ { "id": "reuse-decision", "name": "Reuse decision", "description": "Assess quotation, reproduction, translation and adaptation using the status of each relevant contribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the intended action use the underlying saga, a modern translation, editorial commentary or a manuscript image?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reuse-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What rights or permission evidence supports that action for the selected material, jurisdiction and date?", "kind": "action", "id": "reuse-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No registry sense was supplied; this description assumes the medieval literary sense, with the broader modern usage noted separately.", "Genre boundaries and the relationship between oral tradition, written composition and surviving manuscripts require work-specific investigation.", "This is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research; no particular manuscript identifier, edition or attribution has been checked." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of saga this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Sagas of Icelanders", "Kings' sagas", "Bishops' sagas", "Legendary sagas", "Chivalric sagas", "Contemporary sagas" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of saga 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": "Manuscript shelfmark", "value_or_pattern": "Repository or collection designation followed by a manuscript identifier, sometimes including a format designation", "note": "Identifies a manuscript witness or volume, which may contain several sagas; it does not identify the abstract work." }, { "scheme": "ISBN", "value_or_pattern": "13 digits, normally beginning with 978 or 979; older editions may have 10-digit ISBNs", "note": "Identifies a published edition and format, not the saga independently of its editions and translations." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of saga 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": [ "IFLA Library Reference Model, issued by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, distinguishes work, expression, manifestation and item for bibliographic description.", "TEI Guidelines, maintained by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, support encoding saga texts, manuscript descriptions and textual variants." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of saga 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": [ "Study of medieval Nordic literature and narrative technique", "Historical research using critical comparison with independent evidence", "Philological comparison of manuscript witnesses and language", "Critical editions, translations and teaching", "Adaptation into contemporary fiction, theatre and screen narratives" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of saga 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": [ "Treating narrated events as verified history without evaluating composition dates, literary conventions and independent evidence", "Conflating the period depicted with the date of composition or the date of a surviving manuscript", "Treating one manuscript, editorial reconstruction or translation as the sole authoritative text", "Conflating a saga work with its translations, editions, digital files or individual physical copies", "Assuming that the age of the underlying work determines the copyright status of a modern translation or edition" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of saga 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": [ "In medieval Icelandic and Old Norse literary contexts, saga denotes prose narratives spanning several recognized genres.", "In modern English, saga also denotes an extended story, especially one following a family across generations, or figuratively a prolonged sequence of events." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of saga 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": "epic", "difference": "Saga classification principally concerns a prose narrative tradition; literary epics are conventionally extended verse narratives, although themes can overlap." }, { "name": "chronicle", "difference": "A chronicle principally organizes historical reporting by temporal succession; a saga typically develops a narrative around people and their actions, although boundaries can overlap." }, { "name": "novel", "difference": "A novel belongs to a different literary and historical classification; resemblance in length or narrative complexity does not by itself make a medieval saga a novel." }, { "name": "family saga", "difference": "In modern publishing, a family saga follows a family over time and need not belong to the medieval Icelandic or Old Norse tradition." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of saga 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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 saga, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a saga as a narrative work, assess its identity and transmission, and determine appropriate interpretation, attribution and reuse.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: chivalric saga, bishops' saga, saints' saga, contemporary saga, legendary saga, kings' saga, Strengleikar, Dórótheu saga, Agnesar saga, Norwegian synoptics.", "10 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 73 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 saga, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "chivalric saga", "bishops' saga", "saints' saga", "contemporary saga", "legendary saga", "kings' saga", "Strengleikar", "Dórótheu saga", "Agnesar saga", "Norwegian synoptics" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 10 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 saga from another, and a saga 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 saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga 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 saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga 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 saga between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a saga 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 saga, 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 saga, 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 saga is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a saga says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a saga contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a saga, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a saga, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a saga is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a saga and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a saga, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a saga, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a saga is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of saga a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For saga, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of saga exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made saga and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to saga, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in saga, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a saga 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 saga and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a saga, 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 saga, 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 saga 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 saga is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a saga, 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 saga, 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 saga is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }