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ground or by a continuous figured weave.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, construction, visual composition, physical condition and handling constraints of an individual tapestry textile, distinguishing its woven body from later additions and associated equipment.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that the textile is tapestry woven, including how coloured wefts form its design", "Warp, weft, weave transitions, joins, edges and integral finishing", "Woven imagery, inscriptions, borders and evidence of an incomplete composition", "Damage, distortion, repairs, backing and attached hanging supports", "Object-specific requirements for examination, movement, display and storage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Looms, weaving tools and the production workshop as separate things", "Design cartoons, source artworks and independently held preparatory drawings", "Buildings, display walls and environmental control systems", "Detached frames, hanging hardware and storage furniture", "General histories of weaving traditions and the biographies of makers" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether the image is formed by woven wefts rather than printed or painted onto an already woven cloth.", "Check whether coloured wefts work within design areas and interlace with the warp; record uncertain or inaccessible construction rather than identifying technique from appearance alone.", "Distinguish tapestry weaving from embroidery by checking whether the design forms part of the woven body or consists of stitches added to a ground textile.", "Treat wall hanging as a use, not sufficient evidence of tapestry construction; examine the weave even when an object is marketed as a tapestry.", "Distinguish a tapestry-woven rug or fragment through construction and object history, recording use and completeness separately from weaving technique." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Basis of tapestry identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "construction examined | documentary identification only | commercial or traditional name only | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an object name or decorative appearance from being mistaken for verified weaving technique." }, { "name": "Textile dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "height and width in cm, with measurement orientation, support state and exclusions stated", "why_it_matters": "Supports fit assessment and reveals whether reported size includes backing, fringe or later borders." }, { "name": "Warp and weft materials", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "identified material by thread system and region, with method and confidence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Different materials and mixed regions may require different examination and care decisions." }, { "name": "Weave density", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "warp ends per cm and weft picks per cm at identified sampling locations", "why_it_matters": "Helps compare construction regions and document local variation without assuming uniform weaving." }, { "name": "Weaving orientation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "warp direction relative to the intended viewing orientation; uncertain permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects construction evidence to deformation, joins and display support." }, { "name": "Design-area joining", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed slit, sewn slit, interlocked, dovetailed, mixed or unresolved joins, mapped by location", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish construction features from damage and locate vulnerable transitions." }, { "name": "Structural condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "mapped thread breaks, losses, open joins, distortion and edge weakness, with observation date", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether movement or hanging requires further assessment or additional support." }, { "name": "Composition completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "apparently complete | fragment | cut down | assembled | unresolved, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a surviving panel or altered textile from being treated as an intact original composition." }, { "name": "Backing and suspension relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "attached components, attachment locations, apparent age and observed load path", "why_it_matters": "Reveals how the woven body is supported and where attachments may concentrate strain." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or qualify the textile as tapestry woven using documented construction evidence.", "Map woven design regions, joins, losses and repairs for comparison across examinations.", "Assess whether the existing suspension supports the tapestry without evident local strain.", "Plan supported examination, movement or storage around weak edges, open joins and attached components.", "Evaluate a proposed display using the tapestry's dimensions, condition and documented exposure constraints.", "Refer unresolved material identification or treatment decisions for specialist examination." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "campbell-2002", "title": "Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Tapestry_in_the_Renaissance_Art_and_Magnificence", "what_it_supports": "Specialist definition of European pictorial tapestry, haute-lisse versus basse-lisse practice, cartoon-to-loom production, court use as portable display, and typical dimensions of large room sets.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "cavallo-1993", "title": "Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Medieval_Tapestries_in_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art", "what_it_supports": "Medieval European tapestry as a weft-faced narrative hanging, workshop geography, and conservation-relevant structure (slits, warps, linings).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "britannica-tapestry", "title": "Tapestry", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/art/tapestry", "what_it_supports": "Technique (discontinuous weft, warp concealment), historical centres, and the distinction from embroidery and from figured loom weaves.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q192425", "title": "tapestry (Q192425)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192425", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifier for the artwork/textile sense of tapestry and links into museum and vocabulary records.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "unesco-aubusson", "title": "Aubusson tapestry (Intangible Cultural Heritage listing, inscribed 2009)", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/aubusson-tapestry-00250", "what_it_supports": "Living workshop practice at Aubusson as a named regional tradition under UNESCO, distinct from the generic English retail sense of tapestry.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wco-hs-5805", "title": "Harmonized System heading 5805, Hand-woven tapestries of the type Gobelins, Flanders, Aubusson, Beauvais and the like", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Trade classification that treats true hand-woven tapestry as a distinct heading and, in the same heading, groups needle-worked petit point with it for customs purposes." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "woven-identity", "name": "Woven identity", "description": "Establish whether the registered object is a tapestry and what textile body the identification covers.", "rationale": "The word tapestry can describe a weaving technique or serve as a loose name for decorative textiles.", "layers": [ { "id": "construction-evidence", "name": "Construction evidence", "description": "Record observable evidence for how the design is made.", "findings": [ { "id": "design-forming-wefts", "name": "Design-forming wefts", "description": "Document whether the design is produced within the weave and how the wefts relate to the warp.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed interlacing and design-area weft behaviour support identification as tapestry weaving?", "kind": "definition", "id": "design-forming-wefts-q01" }, { "text": "Which areas or faces could not be examined, and how does that limit identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "design-forming-wefts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "textile-boundary", "name": "Textile boundary", "description": "Separate the identified woven body from associated textiles and later additions.", "findings": [ { "id": "integral-and-added-parts", "name": "Integral and added parts", "description": "Identify original or apparently integral regions, joined panels and separately attached components.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which borders, panels and edge finishes are continuous with the tapestry weave, and which are attached separately?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "integral-and-added-parts-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes when backing, fringe or additional borders became part of this object?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "integral-and-added-parts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thread-systems-and-joins", "name": "Thread systems and joins", "description": "Describe the tapestry's material structure and how adjacent woven design areas connect.", "rationale": "Thread systems and design-area joins are necessary for interpreting both technique and structural weakness.", "layers": [ { "id": "warp-and-weft", "name": "Warp and weft", "description": "Locate thread systems, material identifications and variations in construction.", "findings": [ { "id": "thread-material-and-density", "name": "Thread material and density", "description": "Record materials, density and orientation with the location and basis of each observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What materials are identified in the warp and each distinct weft region, and by what examination method?", "kind": "definition", "id": "thread-material-and-density-q01" }, { "text": "What are the local warp and weft densities, and how is warp direction oriented relative to the displayed image?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "thread-material-and-density-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "design-area-connections", "name": "Design-area connections", "description": "Record the construction of colour boundaries, slits and woven transitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "join-construction", "name": "Join construction", "description": "Distinguish intentionally formed joins and openings from failed connections or later stitching.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are adjacent weft areas connected at the examined design boundaries?", "kind": "definition", "id": "join-construction-q01" }, { "text": "Which openings follow construction slits, and what evidence distinguishes intentional openings from failed stitching or torn threads?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "join-construction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-object-history", "name": "Composition and object history", "description": "Connect the surviving woven image to evidence of its original extent, attribution and alterations.", "rationale": "A tapestry may survive as a fragment, a modified composition or one member of a larger set.", "layers": [ { "id": "surviving-composition", "name": "Surviving composition", "description": "Describe visual content and physical evidence of completeness.", "findings": [ { "id": "image-and-edge-continuity", "name": "Image and edge continuity", "description": "Record motifs, inscriptions and borders alongside evidence of cropping or assembly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible motifs, inscriptions and border elements identify the surviving composition without relying on an unverified title?", "kind": "definition", "id": "image-and-edge-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Do cut threads, interrupted motifs, seams or missing borders indicate that the composition was reduced or assembled?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "image-and-edge-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-set-relations", "name": "Attribution and set relations", "description": "Keep evidence for maker, date, design source and set membership distinct from visual resemblance.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-tapestry-identity", "name": "Documented tapestry identity", "description": "Connect marks and records to this particular woven object while retaining uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which marks, records or documented comparisons support the proposed maker, production place and date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-tapestry-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence links this tapestry to a particular series, companion panel or design cartoon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-tapestry-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "woven-condition-and-interventions", "name": "Woven condition and interventions", "description": "Map changes in the textile and distinguish surviving weave from repairs and surface alterations.", "rationale": "A visually legible tapestry can still contain weak thread systems or repairs that affect support decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-damage", "name": "Structural damage", "description": "Locate losses and deformation in relation to warp, weft and joins.", "findings": [ { "id": "thread-loss-and-distortion", "name": "Thread loss and distortion", "description": "Record the extent and distribution of broken threads, exposed warp, open joins and deformation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are warp or weft threads broken or missing, and what are the dimensions of the affected regions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "thread-loss-and-distortion-q01" }, { "text": "Which damaged or distorted regions require additional support or specialist assessment before the tapestry is moved or hung?", "kind": "action", "id": "thread-loss-and-distortion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-and-repair-history", "name": "Surface and repair history", "description": "Document visible surface changes and interventions without treating appearance as a diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "altered-weave-and-appearance", "name": "Altered weave and appearance", "description": "Distinguish observed discoloration, deposits and repair work from inferred causes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are reweaving, patches, repair stitching or applied colour documented or suspected, and what supports that assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "altered-weave-and-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "What comparable photographs or protected regions support an assessment of colour change, and which causes remain unresolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "altered-weave-and-appearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-display-and-storage", "name": "Support, display and storage", "description": "Translate the tapestry's construction and condition into constraints on suspension, exposure and movement.", "rationale": "The woven body must be assessed together with the way its weight is carried and its surface is exposed.", "layers": [ { "id": "suspension-and-backing", "name": "Suspension and backing", "description": "Assess how backing and hanging attachments transfer load through the textile.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-load-path", "name": "Support load path", "description": "Record suspension points, attachment condition and visible strain in the woven body.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the current hanging attachments and backing carry the tapestry's weight, and where is strain visible?", "kind": "definition", "id": "support-load-path-q01" }, { "text": "What changes or specialist review are required before the existing suspension can be used for the proposed display?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-load-path-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-supported-movement", "name": "Exposure and supported movement", "description": "Record object-specific limits and a feasible method for handling the textile.", "findings": [ { "id": "display-and-storage-constraints", "name": "Display and storage constraints", "description": "Connect documented material sensitivities, weak regions and attachments to proposed use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented light-exposure and environmental 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"evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q192425", "note": "Item for tapestry as a textile artwork; the weaving technique is a related but separate item." }, { "scheme": "Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)", "value_or_pattern": "300205002", "note": "Preferred term tapestries (wall hangings); confirm against the current AAT record if linking data." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System (WCO)", "value_or_pattern": "5805", "note": "Hand-woven tapestries of Gobelins/Flanders/Aubusson/Beauvais type; the heading also includes needle-worked tapestries such as petit point." }, { "scheme": "UNESCO ICH", "value_or_pattern": "Aubusson tapestry (inscribed 2009)", "note": "Names a living regional practice, not every tapestry object." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": 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"French state stewardship of the Gobelins, Beauvais and Savonnerie manufactures through the Mobilier National, which governs production and care of official hangings." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of tapestry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Monumental narrative or armorial hangings in palaces, cathedrals, and civic halls, often as complete room sets.", "Portable display of wealth and diplomacy in late medieval and early modern Europe, rolled and moved between residences.", "Thermal and acoustic lining of cold masonry rooms.", "Seat and screen upholstery, especially from Beauvais and related furniture weaves.", "Museum collection objects stored rolled or shown on full-width supports.", "Contemporary commissions in which an artist supplies a cartoon to a tapestry atelier.", "Commercial furnishing fabrics and printed throws sold as tapestry in retail, often not weft-faced tapestry at all." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of tapestry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Warp sett (ends per centimetre)", "typical_range": "3-8 for coarse wool pictorial hangings; about 8-12 for finer European wool; 20-40 or higher for silk kesi", "unit": "ends/cm" }, { "quantity": "Hanging height of a European room tapestry", "typical_range": "2-5 (exceptional cycles exceed 6)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Width of a single hanging", "typical_range": "2-8", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Mass of a large wool hanging", "typical_range": "15-100+", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Display illuminance for historic examples", "typical_range": "50-150, often kept toward the low end for dyes and silk", "unit": "lx" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of tapestry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Photochemical fading and fibre weakening of dyes and silk wefts under daylight or strong display lighting.", "Opening of slits at colour junctions, and failure of the sewing that closes those slits.", "Insect attack on wool and silk (clothes moths, carpet beetles).", "Silk weft loss that leaves exposed warps (sometimes called silk shatter in mixed-fibre areas).", "Sagging, splitting, or warp distortion when a hanging is supported on the wefts rather than on a full backing or correct heading.", "Mould and dye bleed from damp walls, leaks, or wet cleaning.", "Soot, smoke, and fire; wool chars rather than melting but large hangings are still a fuel load.", "Damage from historic restorations: glue linings, overpainting, harsh cleaning, or cropped borders." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of tapestry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In British retail and amateur craft, tapestry commonly means canvas needlepoint (petit point/gros 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"kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Embroidery", "difference": "The image is stitched onto a pre-existing ground; in tapestry the coloured weft is the cloth." }, { "name": "Needlepoint / canvas work (petit point)", "difference": "Worked with a needle through an open mesh canvas; often sold in English as a tapestry kit, but it is not woven on a loom." }, { "name": "Lampas, brocade, or Jacquard figured cloth", "difference": "Pattern comes from continuous supplementary or warp-patterned systems; tapestry uses discontinuous wefts that turn back at the edge of each colour area." }, { "name": "Pile carpet", "difference": "A knotted or tufted pile stands above a foundation; tapestry is weft-faced and has no pile." }, { "name": "Painted or stained cloth hanging", "difference": "The image is pigment on a finished textile; tapestry's image is the weave." }, { "name": "Kilim (when the object under study is a European pictorial hanging)", "difference": "Same slit-tapestry construction, but kilims are typically geometric floor or cover weaves without a painted cartoon translated by a professional low- or high-warp workshop." }, { "name": "Wallpaper or printed furnishing fabric", "difference": "A later interior analogue for covering walls; it is printed or papered, not weft-built." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of tapestry this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry entry include textiles traditionally or commercially called tapestries when their construction is embroidered, printed or otherwise not tapestry woven?", "How should tapestry-woven rugs, upholstery panels and fragments relate to neighbouring registered things without duplicating their identity?", "Which examination methods and minimum evidence should qualify a weaving-technique or fibre identification as confirmed?", "What tapestry-specific condition criteria should trigger specialist review before suspension, rolling or movement?", "How should a tapestry assembled from older fragments be represented as one object while preserving the distinct histories of its woven components?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 tapestry, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a tapestry, assess its woven structure and condition, and decide how it may be supported, displayed, stored or examined.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: decorative tapestry, Sheldon tapestries, verdure, gobelin, Brussels tapestry, Chilkat weaving, Reposteros, ryijy, Bergamo tapestry, entrefenêtre, rya tradition in Vesilahti.", "12 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 63 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 tapestry, 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, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "decorative tapestry", "Sheldon tapestries", "verdure", "gobelin", "Brussels tapestry", "Chilkat weaving", "Reposteros", "ryijy", "Bergamo tapestry", "entrefenêtre", "rya tradition in Vesilahti" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 12 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 tapestry from another, and a tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a tapestry 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 tapestry is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry 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 tapestry between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tapestry 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What tapestry is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does tapestry perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise tapestry, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How tapestry is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does tapestry have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does tapestry need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about tapestry is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about tapestry hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern tapestry, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a tapestry 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 tapestry and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry 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 tapestry is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tapestry, 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 tapestry, 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 tapestry is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }