{ "model": { "rank": 5393, "code": "thing-q182863", "model_id": "vr.tr.belly-dance", "name": "belly dance", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and support belly dance practice or performance while preserving distinctions among movement, musical interpretation, named traditions and participant intentions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q182863/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Fat Chance Belly Dance", "Oryantal Dans", "hoochie coochie", "Tribal Fusion Belly Dance", "American Tribal Style Belly Dance", "Gothic belly dance", "Malappulayattam", "Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance" ], "aliasCount": 8, "merged": 8, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q182863", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182863", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:16:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.6, "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: 01a0883d-ab7e-7a90-aa23-6c67cef9e193\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: belly dance\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: ACT.ACT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 reg", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0883d-ab8a-7383-8a5a-e4316470cfe5\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: belly dance\nRegistry id: vr.tr.belly-dance\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q182863", "registryId": "vr.tr.belly-dance", "name": "belly dance", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q182863/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.belly-dance", "name": "belly dance", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and support belly dance practice or performance while preserving distinctions among movement, musical interpretation, named traditions and participant intentions.", "definition": "Belly dance is an umbrella term for related social and theatrical dance practices associated especially with the Middle East and North Africa, characterized by articulated movements of the torso and hips in relation to music.", "scope_statement": "This model owns belly dance as a situated dance activity under vr.tr.belly-dance in ACT / ACT.ACT, including how participants identify, perform, teach and assess it; it does not assume that the umbrella term denotes one uniform tradition.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of a practice or performance as belly dance, including the terminology and criteria used by participants", "Movement vocabulary, coordination, transitions and improvisational or choreographic organisation", "Relationships between movement, music, rhythm and expressive intention", "Social, staged and instructional contexts and their expectations", "Learning progression, participant boundaries and adaptations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Dance in general and the full movement systems of neighbouring dance forms", "Music composition, recording production and instrument manufacture", "Costume and prop manufacture or commercial inventory", "Medical diagnosis, rehabilitation prescriptions and claims of therapeutic effectiveness", "Venue operations, employment contracts and entertainment business management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require a participant, teacher, programme or other attributable source to identify the activity as belly dance or explain its relationship to that term; abdominal movement alone is insufficient.", "Examine how pelvic, torso and other body articulations combine into a movement vocabulary and musical interpretation; a hip circle or shimmy in isolation does not establish the dance form.", "Distinguish a named tradition or style from a generic belly dance label using the practitioner's terminology, movement conventions and musical context.", "Record whether an activity is presented as belly dance, a fusion incorporating it or exercise borrowing its movements; shared movements do not erase those boundaries.", "Do not infer dance identity from revealing clothing, a dancer's gender, perceived ethnicity or the presence of a veil." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Declared dance designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Participant-supplied term; belly dance umbrella label; named style; fusion; contested; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the identification actually used and makes uncertainty visible." }, { "name": "Teaching or stylistic lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed relationships to teachers, communities, documented repertoires or teaching systems", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of movement names and stylistic expectations without inventing ancestry." }, { "name": "Movement organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed articulations, isolations, accents, oscillations, travelling steps, turns and combinations, using locally defined terms", "why_it_matters": "Describes what the dancer does rather than identifying the dance through appearance." }, { "name": "Layering complexity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of independently specified simultaneous movement components within a named exercise or phrase", "why_it_matters": "Helps select practice tasks while avoiding a universal ranking of dancers." }, { "name": "Musical relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rhythmic accenting; melodic following; phrase shaping; sustained texture; deliberate contrast; silence; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes musical interpretation assessable beyond beat matching." }, { "name": "Performance organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Improvised; choreographed; structured improvisation; mixed; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether support should prioritise recall, cue response or spontaneous choices." }, { "name": "Participation context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Social dancing; class; rehearsal; staged performance; recorded performance; other participant-described context", "why_it_matters": "Changes expectations for presentation, audience interaction and feedback." }, { "name": "Current participation readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ready for agreed task; adaptation requested; pause requested; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate immediate actions without treating dance observation as a medical assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Describe an observed dance passage using attributed belly dance terminology and explicit uncertainty.", "Compare a passage with the conventions of a specified style or teaching lineage.", "Suggest movement and musicality exercises matched to an agreed learning objective.", "Annotate choreography or improvisation with accents, transitions, cues and expressive choices.", "Adapt a practice task to participant boundaries, available space and costume or prop constraints.", "Identify cultural or historical claims requiring verification before preparing programme notes or teaching material." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dance-identity-and-attribution", "name": "Dance identity and attribution", "description": "Establishes what belly dance means in the particular practice being modelled.", "rationale": "The umbrella label cannot safely substitute for a practitioner's named tradition, terminology or account of influence.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-boundaries", "name": "Designation and boundaries", "description": "Records the activity's declared identity and the evidence supporting its inclusion.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-dance-designation", "name": "Situated dance designation", "description": "Record who applies the belly dance label, any more specific designation and whether that classification is disputed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the practitioner mean by belly dance here, and what more specific name do they use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-dance-designation-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this activity from a fusion performance or an exercise class borrowing belly dance movements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-dance-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-and-cultural-claims", "name": "Lineage and cultural claims", "description": "Separates documented transmission and influences from unsupported origin narratives.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-transmission", "name": "Attributed transmission", "description": "Record teachers, communities and reference performances as attributed influences, without treating them as proof of an unbroken historical lineage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which teachers, communities or documented performances inform this version of the dance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-transmission-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about origins, authenticity or cultural representation require verification before being repeated?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-transmission-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-vocabulary-and-coordination", "name": "Movement vocabulary and coordination", "description": "Describes belly dance movement execution through explicit local definitions and observable coordination.", "rationale": "Movement names alone do not specify which body parts move, how they coordinate or what execution the task requires.", "layers": [ { "id": "articulations-and-isolations", "name": "Articulations and isolations", "description": "Records the intended actions and relationships of pelvis, torso and supporting body parts.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-defined-movement", "name": "Locally defined movement", "description": "Describe movements such as hip accents, circles, torso articulations and shimmies by their intended action, timing and locally used name.", "questions": [ { "text": "What action does this teacher intend by the named hip movement, torso articulation or shimmy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "locally-defined-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Which body parts are intended to move or remain comparatively stable, and what observable criterion indicates control?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "locally-defined-movement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "layering-and-transitions", "name": "Layering and transitions", "description": "Tracks how articulations combine with travelling, turns, arm pathways and changes of weight.", "findings": [ { "id": "coordinated-movement-phrase", "name": "Coordinated movement phrase", "description": "Record simultaneous movement components and transitions as task-specific coordination demands rather than universal difficulty grades.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components must continue simultaneously, such as a shimmy during travelling or a hip pattern under an arm pathway?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coordinated-movement-phrase-q01" }, { "text": "Which component or transition can be simplified while preserving the phrase's learning or expressive objective?", "kind": "action", "id": "coordinated-movement-phrase-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "music-and-dance-composition", "name": "Music and dance composition", "description": "Connects movement choices to the particular accompaniment and the organisation of the dance.", "rationale": "A movement inventory does not capture how a belly dance passage interprets sound or develops over time.", "layers": [ { "id": "musical-interpretation", "name": "Musical interpretation", "description": "Identifies the sound features and meanings that guide movement choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-to-music-relationship", "name": "Movement-to-music relationship", "description": "Record whether movement follows rhythmic accents, melody, phrasing or another stated musical feature, with uncertainty about unfamiliar repertoire retained.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which audible feature is the dancer interpreting in this passage, and how does the movement make that relationship visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "movement-to-music-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplies the identification of the rhythm, musical tradition or lyric meaning used to explain these choices?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "movement-to-music-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "improvisation-and-choreography", "name": "Improvisation and choreography", "description": "Distinguishes fixed sequences, spontaneous decisions and cue-based structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "dance-decision-structure", "name": "Dance decision structure", "description": "Record which choices are fixed and which remain open, including any ensemble or musician cues that shape the performance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which movement sequences, musical landmarks and formations are fixed, and where may the dancer improvise?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dance-decision-structure-q01" }, { "text": "What should the dancer do if a musical phrase, live accompaniment or group cue differs from rehearsal?", "kind": "action", "id": "dance-decision-structure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-presentation-and-learning", "name": "Participation, presentation and learning", "description": "Places the dance within its practical setting, participant agreements and learning objectives.", "rationale": "Appropriate support depends on whether people are learning, social dancing or performing, and on the conditions of that particular activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "presentation-and-participant-boundaries", "name": "Presentation and participant boundaries", "description": "Records expectations for audience interaction, clothing, props and interpersonal contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-performance-conditions", "name": "Agreed performance conditions", "description": "Treat costume, props and audience interaction as contextual choices whose role and practical constraints must be specified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What audience interaction, instructional touch or recording has the participant agreed to in this belly dance setting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "agreed-performance-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "How should the movement or spacing change when the chosen skirt, veil or other prop restricts movement or visibility?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-performance-conditions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "practice-and-feedback", "name": "Practice and feedback", "description": "Connects learning tasks to observable dance objectives and participant-reported limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-learning-readiness", "name": "Task-specific learning readiness", "description": "Assess readiness for a defined movement or phrase through relevant observation and participant feedback, without equating appearance or flexibility with competence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What demonstrates progress for this task: clearer hip accents, sustained shimmy timing, controlled transitions or a more intentional musical interpretation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-specific-learning-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "When the participant reports discomfort, fatigue or difficulty, should the task be reduced, changed or paused?", "kind": "action", "id": "task-specific-learning-readiness-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": [ "This describes a dance-practice sense, rather than an abstract concept; the registry supplies no explicit sense definition.", "Style labels overlap and are not a universally standardized taxonomy; especially check local meanings of baladi and oriental dance.", "Claims of a single ancient origin, fertility-ritual origin or uninterrupted historical lineage require evidence and are not assumed here." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of belly dance 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": [ "Egyptian raqs sharqi", "Egyptian baladi dance", "Turkish oriental dance", "Lebanese oriental dance", "American cabaret belly dance", "Tribal fusion belly dance" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of belly dance 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": [ "Social dancing at celebrations and family gatherings", "Professional entertainment at weddings, restaurants and stage events", "Dance education and recreational practice", "Choreographic creation and improvisational performance", "Exercise classes drawing on belly dance movements" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of belly dance 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": [ "Repetitive practice or movement beyond a dancer's capacity can contribute to musculoskeletal strain.", "Slippery surfaces, unsuitable footwear and trailing costumes can create fall hazards.", "Performances involving flames or balanced blades introduce prop-specific injury risks.", "Teaching diverse traditions as one uniform or supposedly unchanged ancient practice can misrepresent their histories and cultural contexts.", "Sexualized stereotypes can contribute to stigma and harassment of dancers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of belly dance 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": [ "Egyptian usage distinguishes theatrical raqs sharqi from overlapping social and musical contexts described as baladi; neither maps perfectly onto the English label.", "Turkish and Lebanese oriental dance have distinct performance conventions, musical settings and histories, with substantial variation among dancers.", "International communities have developed American cabaret and fusion forms whose movement vocabularies, costumes and teaching conventions can differ from regional Middle Eastern practices." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of belly dance 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": "dance", "difference": "Dance is the broader activity; belly dance identifies a culturally situated family of practices with characteristic torso and hip articulation." }, { "name": "raqs sharqi", "difference": "Raqs sharqi commonly names a theatrical oriental dance tradition, particularly associated with Egypt; belly dance is a broader English umbrella that also includes social and international forms." }, { "name": "Middle Eastern folk dance", "difference": "This broader grouping includes line, circle and other regional dances; geographic association alone does not make a dance belly dance." }, { "name": "burlesque", "difference": "Burlesque is a theatrical performance tradition often involving parody or striptease; belly dance does not require either, although performances can combine them." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of belly dance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "How do relevant practitioners distinguish belly dance from terms such as raqs sharqi and raqs baladi, and where do their classifications disagree?", "Which named styles and fusion practices should be represented as variants within this registry entry, and which require links to independently registered activities?", "Which movement terms have sufficiently consistent meanings across teaching lineages to support comparison, and which require separate local definitions?", "What evidence supports historical claims attached to the specific practice, especially claims of ancient origins or uninterrupted transmission?", "Which assessment and adaptation approaches are supported for different learners without imposing one body type, gender or performance aesthetic as the standard?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a belly dance, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and support belly dance practice or performance while preserving distinctions among movement, musical interpretation, named traditions and participant intentions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Fat Chance Belly Dance, Oryantal Dans, hoochie coochie, Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, American Tribal Style Belly Dance, Gothic belly dance, Malappulayattam, Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance.", "8 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a belly dance, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Fat Chance Belly Dance", "Oryantal Dans", "hoochie coochie", "Tribal Fusion Belly Dance", "American Tribal Style Belly Dance", "Gothic belly dance", "Malappulayattam", "Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 8 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 belly dance from another, and a belly dance 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance 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 belly dance between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a belly dance 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a belly dance proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a belly dance, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a belly dance and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a belly dance, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a belly dance, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a belly dance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a belly dance consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a belly dance takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a belly dance, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a belly dance, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a belly dance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What belly dance is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of belly dance are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is belly dance operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of belly dance and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of belly dance?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as belly dance?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a belly dance 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 belly dance and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 belly dance is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a belly dance, 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 belly dance, 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 belly dance 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 } } } }