{ "model": { "rank": 6621, "code": "thing-q183272", "model_id": "vr.tr.frieze", "name": "frieze", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an architectural or decorative frieze, interpret its relationship to a supporting composition, assess its condition and identify appropriate documentation or intervention.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q183272/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "pulvinated frieze", "zoophorus" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.frieze-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q183272", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183272", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:09:10Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0886d-bd8a-7cf3-9b14-ad713b6cc317\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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provisionally owns frieze as an architectural or decorative band, including the classical entablature component and related bands of painted, sculpted or applied ornament; the registry's intended sense remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "A frieze's boundaries, extent and position within an architectural or decorative composition", "The classical architectural sense and broader decorative uses, distinguished explicitly", "Internal divisions, motifs, figures and narrative or repeating arrangements", "Materials, execution techniques and attachment to a supporting surface", "Survival, displacement, reconstruction and constraints on treatment" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole buildings, façades and complete entablatures", "Individual sculptures or motifs considered independently of their band arrangement", "Mathematical frieze patterns and their symmetry classification as abstract objects", "The textile sense of frieze", "Organisations, publications and events named Frieze" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "In the classical architectural sense, identify the entablature zone between the architrave and cornice; ornament is not required.", "In the broader decorative sense, identify an elongated band whose placement and composition support reading it as a coherent strip.", "Distinguish a frieze from an isolated relief panel by whether the panel belongs to a larger band or architectural frieze zone.", "Distinguish a frieze from a cornice or moulding by architectural position and compositional role, rather than merely horizontal orientation.", "Do not require repetition: a frieze may contain a continuous scene, differentiated compartments or an undecorated surface." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sense of frieze", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "classical entablature component | decorative band | disputed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether architectural position or decorative organisation supplies the principal identification test." }, { "name": "Architectural placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "supporting building or object; adjoining elements; interior or exterior position", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the frieze's role and distinguishes it from neighbouring architectural elements." }, { "name": "Band dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length, height and relief depth in mm or m; distinguish surviving and reconstructed extents", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison, placement of fragments and assessment of proposed reconstructions." }, { "name": "Compositional organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "undecorated | repeating motifs | continuous scene | compartmented | mixed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Guides interpretation of sequence, gaps and relationships among surviving sections." }, { "name": "Material and execution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded materials and techniques, including carving, modelling, painting, casting or assembly", "why_it_matters": "Determines which surface features, deterioration processes and treatment constraints require attention." }, { "name": "Support and attachment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "integral to support | applied | mechanically attached | detached | unresolved; identify support where known", "why_it_matters": "Separates the decorative band from its support while capturing dependencies relevant to stability and handling." }, { "name": "Survival and placement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | fragmentary | altered | reconstructed; in situ | relocated | dispersed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the present display arrangement from being mistaken for the original composition." }, { "name": "Interpretive confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented | materially supported | comparative attribution | conjectural | disputed, recorded per interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Keeps identification, dating, sequence and iconographic readings 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"Sense and recognition", "description": "Make the basis for calling the candidate a frieze explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-identification", "name": "Basis of identification", "description": "Record whether identification rests on entablature position, decorative band composition or a documented historical designation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this called a frieze because it occupies the zone between architrave and cornice, because it forms a decorative band, or for another documented reason?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the candidate from a cornice, moulding, isolated panel or general wall decoration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-host", "name": "Extent and host", "description": "Locate the band within its supporting composition and resolve its continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "band-limits-and-transitions", "name": "Band limits and 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compartments and changes in spacing.", "findings": [ { "id": "compositional-units", "name": "Compositional units", "description": "Identify the observable units and their arrangement, including triglyph and metope divisions where applicable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the band undecorated, continuously figured, divided into compartments, organised by repeating motifs or a combination of these?", "kind": "definition", "id": "compositional-units-q01" }, { "text": "What are the dimensions and spacing of its units, and where do corners, endpoints or openings change the rhythm?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compositional-units-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "imagery-and-viewing", "name": "Imagery and viewing", "description": "Separate visible content from interpretations of meaning and reading order.", "findings": [ { "id": "scene-sequence-and-interpretation", "name": "Scene sequence and interpretation", "description": "Record figures, motifs and inscriptions alongside proposed readings and the viewing conditions that support them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible gestures, orientations, inscriptions or scene transitions support a reading direction or narrative sequence?", "kind": "definition", "id": "scene-sequence-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Who proposed each identification of the subject, and which details support or contradict it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scene-sequence-and-interpretation-q02" }, { "text": "From what positions could the band be seen, and how might its height and viewing distance affect interpretation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scene-sequence-and-interpretation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fabric-and-assembly", "name": "Fabric and assembly", "description": "Record how the frieze was made and how its sections relate physically to their support.", "rationale": "Similar band compositions can be carved, painted or assembled, creating different evidence and intervention constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-execution", "name": "Surface and execution", "description": "Describe material, relief, finish and evidence of successive surface treatments.", "findings": [ { "id": "worked-and-finished-surface", "name": "Worked and finished surface", "description": "Distinguish the supporting material, worked decoration, surviving finishes and later additions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the substrate and whether the decoration was carved, modelled, painted, cast or otherwise applied?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "worked-and-finished-surface-q01" }, { "text": "Where do relief depth, tool marks or surviving colour vary, and which observations may indicate reworking or later finishes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "worked-and-finished-surface-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "joints-and-support", "name": "Joints and support", "description": "Connect the visual band to the physical units and attachments that carry it.", "findings": [ { "id": "physical-units-and-fixings", "name": "Physical units and fixings", "description": "Record block or panel joints, attachment evidence and support dependencies separately from decorative divisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do physical joints coincide with motif or scene boundaries, or does the composition cross separately made units?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "physical-units-and-fixings-q01" }, { "text": "Which attachments and supporting elements must be understood before any section can be handled, detached or repositioned?", "kind": "action", "id": "physical-units-and-fixings-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "survival-reconstruction-and-care", "name": "Survival, reconstruction and care", "description": "Assess surviving evidence, proposed arrangements and the consequences of intervention.", "rationale": "A frieze may survive as dispersed fragments or a restored display whose apparent continuity exceeds the evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "original-and-present-arrangement", "name": "Original and present 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"Locate deterioration and evaluate actions against the frieze's material and interpretive evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-sensitive-care", "name": "Evidence-sensitive care", "description": "Relate cracks, detachment, surface loss and previous repairs to the band's support, imagery and possible treatments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do cracking, separation, fading or surface loss threaten attachment, motif legibility or evidence of original finish?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-sensitive-care-q01" }, { "text": "What examination and specialist review are needed before cleaning, consolidation, removal or reinstatement?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-sensitive-care-q02" }, { "text": "How would a proposed infill or rearrangement change the apparent rhythm, scene sequence or certainty of the reconstruction?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-sensitive-care-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external 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ACT.ACT alone does not establish that interpretation.", "The term also has mathematical and textile meanings that would require separate descriptions if intended.", "This is recalled knowledge, with no sources consulted; material-specific deterioration claims should be checked against the actual object." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of frieze 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": [ "Doric frieze with alternating triglyphs and metopes", "Continuous sculptured frieze", "Plain frieze", "Pulvinated frieze with a convex profile" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of frieze 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": [ "Articulating the horizontal divisions of a classical building", "Displaying narrative, ceremonial or symbolic relief sculpture", "Decorating the upper portion of an interior wall", "Providing a continuous ornamental band on a facade" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of frieze 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": "Height, length and relief depth", "typical_range": "Varies with the building, material and design; no universal typical range", "unit": "mm or m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of frieze 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": [ "Weathering and erosion can obscure carved detail.", "Water penetration and freeze-thaw action can crack or detach susceptible exterior materials.", "Failure of fixings or supporting masonry can cause elevated fragments to fall.", "Incompatible repairs or aggressive cleaning can damage historic surfaces." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of frieze 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": [ "Greek Doric architecture characteristically divides the frieze into triglyphs and metopes; Ionic architecture commonly uses a continuous frieze.", "Roman and later classical traditions adapt frieze profiles and ornament, including inscriptions and convex profiles.", "Outside strict classical terminology, frieze can describe decorative horizontal bands in other architectural traditions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of frieze 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; 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a frieze, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise an architectural or decorative frieze, interpret its relationship to a supporting composition, assess its condition and identify appropriate documentation or intervention.", "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: pulvinated frieze, zoophorus.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 59 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 frieze, 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": [ "pulvinated frieze", "zoophorus" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one frieze from another, and a frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a frieze 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 frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze 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 frieze?", "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 frieze?", "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 frieze 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 frieze and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 frieze is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a frieze, 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 frieze, 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 frieze 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 } } } }