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whether the cassette has the full-size VHS form or a compact VHS-C form, and treat any required adapter as a separate compatibility dependency.", "Distinguish ordinary VHS from S-VHS using cassette identification and evidence about the recording; do not equate the cassette stock designation with the signal actually recorded.", "Distinguish the physical cassette from its case, a digital transfer and the work named on its label by inspecting the tape-bearing object itself." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Cassette format identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "VHS; VHS-C; S-VHS; S-VHS-C; uncertain; variant inclusion subject to registry scope", "why_it_matters": "Determines the relevant equipment checks and whether this model applies." }, { "name": "Identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to observed markings, photographs, manufacturer documentation and inspection records", "why_it_matters": "Separates verified format identity from 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compatible playback configuration, including any required adapter.", "Play or wind the tape when its assessed condition supports the operation.", "Capture recorded video and audio while logging omissions, interruptions and playback defects.", "Apply record protection or perform authorised erasure and reuse after checking preservation obligations.", "Route a damaged or contaminated cassette for isolation, specialist assessment or treatment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cassette-format-and-identity", "name": "Cassette format and identity", "description": "Establishes which physical tape cassette is being assessed and what its markings actually demonstrate.", "rationale": "Similar tape formats and VHS-family variants can require different equipment, while labels can misidentify both format and contents.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-format", "name": "Physical format", "description": "Identifies the cassette form and resolves VHS-family boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "format-evidence", "name": "Format evidence", "description": "Record observed features and supporting documentation for the proposed cassette format, preserving uncertainty where evidence conflicts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which markings and physical features support identification as VHS rather than another tape cassette format?", "kind": "definition", "id": "format-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a full-size or compact cassette, and does its identified variant belong within this registry entry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "format-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cassette-and-label-history", "name": "Cassette and label history", "description": "Separates the tape-bearing object from replaceable packaging and claims written on it.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-reuse-evidence", "name": "Identity and reuse evidence", "description": "Record cassette identifiers, label changes and evidence of reuse without assuming that a case or title describes the 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"description": "Record the television system, VHS or S-VHS recording identification, speed and audio arrangement where established by evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recording system and speed have been established, by what observation, and over which portions of the tape?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recorded-signal-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Which audio arrangements are present, and have available tracks been checked for different or missing content?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recorded-signal-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recording-extent", "name": "Recording extent", "description": "Locates recordings, gaps and changes without requiring a full catalogue of the recorded works.", "findings": [ { "id": "recording-segments-and-coverage", "name": "Recording segments and coverage", "description": "Record observed programme boundaries, blank or unreadable stretches and changes in recording characteristics, with explicit inspection coverage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do recordings, apparent gaps and changes in speed or signal system occur, using what position reference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recording-segments-and-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts remain unexamined, and what evidence distinguishes an unrecorded stretch from a playback failure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recording-segments-and-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tape-condition-and-transport", "name": "Tape condition and transport", "description": "Assesses whether the cassette can mechanically enter and pass through a playback transport.", "rationale": "A cassette can be correctly identified yet threaten its recording or the deck because of tape, housing or contamination problems.", "layers": [ { "id": "housing-and-tape-path", "name": "Housing and tape path", "description": "Examines cassette components and visible tape before powered transport.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanical-readiness", "name": "Mechanical readiness", "description": "Record housing damage, protective flap condition, visible tape slack, reel obstruction and evidence of broken tape or previous repair.", "questions": [ { "text": "What visible defects in the housing, flap, reels or exposed tape could interfere with loading or movement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mechanical-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Does the inspection support loading or winding, or is specialist assessment needed before transport?", "kind": "action", "id": "mechanical-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tape-surface-and-contamination", "name": "Tape surface and contamination", "description": "Tracks observable surface problems and exposure history without diagnosing deterioration from appearance alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "contamination-and-damage-evidence", "name": "Contamination and damage evidence", "description": "Record visible deposits, suspected mould, creasing, moisture exposure and reported transport symptoms, distinguishing observations from diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What deposits, deformation or exposure history have been observed, and how reliable is each observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contamination-and-damage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations require isolation or specialist review before this cassette shares playback equipment with other tapes?", "kind": "action", "id": "contamination-and-damage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "playback-preservation-and-reuse", "name": "Playback, preservation and reuse", "description": "Connects cassette evidence to a specific playback, transfer, storage or overwrite decision.", "rationale": "VHS playability depends on the tape and equipment together, and successful playback alone does not establish complete preservation or permission to erase.", "layers": [ { "id": "playback-and-transfer-evidence", "name": "Playback and transfer evidence", "description": "Records the equipment used and the extent and quality of recovered signals.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-and-recovery", "name": "Configuration and recovery", "description": "Link playback observations and transfer outputs to the deck, adapter, selected audio and relevant settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed deck and any adapter support this cassette form and the recording characteristics established so far?", "kind": "action", "id": "configuration-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "Which video and audio portions were recovered, and which defects or omissions remain unresolved after the documented playback attempt?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-and-recovery-q02" }, { "text": "What observations would trigger stopping playback to prevent further tape or equipment damage?", "kind": "action", "id": "configuration-and-recovery-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "retention-and-record-protection", "name": "Retention and record protection", "description": "Determines how to retain the cassette and whether an operation that changes its recording is allowed.", "findings": [ { "id": "preservation-and-overwrite-decision", "name": "Preservation and overwrite decision", "description": "Record the cassette's protection feature, applicable retention constraints, transfer verification and condition-based storage or treatment needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the inspected record-protection state, and what independent authority permits or prohibits erasing or recording over this tape?", "kind": "action", "id": "preservation-and-overwrite-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What verified transfer coverage and retention requirements must be satisfied before reuse or disposal can be considered?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "preservation-and-overwrite-decision-q02" }, { "text": "What storage or specialist treatment is indicated by this cassette's observed condition and documented exposure history?", "kind": "action", "id": "preservation-and-overwrite-decision-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.vhs denote an individual physical cassette, the VHS format family or another concept, and does an existing world model already own that meaning?", "Should VHS-C, S-VHS and S-VHS-C be included as variants here or linked to separate registered things?", "Which authoritative format and equipment references establish reliable identification tests and compatibility limits across recording systems, speeds and audio arrangements?", "Which conservation guidance should govern inspection, stopping criteria, contamination handling and storage for the cassette types included?", "What evidence is sufficient to declare a transfer complete when recordings may change speed, contain different audio tracks or continue after apparent blank sections?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 18 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "unclassified", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond 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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 VHS, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a VHS tape cassette, assess its recorded content and physical condition, and decide whether and how it may be played, preserved, transferred or reused.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 65 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 VHS, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form and material. 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS 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 VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS 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 VHS 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 VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS 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 VHS from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a VHS is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a VHS is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a VHS is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a VHS is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a VHS is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a VHS is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a VHS 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 VHS 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 VHS between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS 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 VHS, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a VHS 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 VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a VHS and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a VHS is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a VHS performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a VHS.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a VHS at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a VHS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a VHS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a VHS 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 VHS and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS 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 VHS is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a VHS, 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 VHS, 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 VHS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 13, "findings": 15, "questions": 45 } } } }