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pilgrimage routes of the Islamic world and neighbouring regions to secure people, goods, and animals overnight.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the caravanserai as a bounded built complex organised to receive travelling caravans, including evidence of its historical function, accommodation of people, animals and goods, supporting infrastructure, surviving fabric and present constraints.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of the caravanserai complex, including uncertain or lost components", "Relationships between entrances, circulation, lodging, animal accommodation and goods storage", "Water, provisioning and other facilities supporting a caravan stop", "Survival, condition and alteration of the complex", "Present occupation, access, stewardship and constraints on use or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The caravan as a travelling group, its membership and its itinerary", "The regional trade network and its overall economic history", "Merchants, operators, owners and governing institutions as independent entities", "Individual cargo consignments, trade transactions and movable collections", "The surrounding settlement, market or fortification beyond the complex boundary" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Evidence supports organised reception of travelling caravans; a historical name or resemblance to a courtyard inn alone leaves identification provisional.", "Accommodation for travellers can be related to provision for pack animals and goods, through surviving spaces or documentary evidence, distinguishing caravan support from lodging alone.", "Rooms, enclosures, entrances and service spaces form an identifiable stopping complex rather than merely adjoining a road or market.", "Where an enclosure or controlled gateway survives, its relationship to accommodation and caravan handling supports identification; defensive appearance alone does not distinguish a caravanserai from a fort.", "Names such as khan, han or ribat are treated as evidence requiring local interpretation, rather than automatically establishing equivalence with caravanserai." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | provisional | disputed | unassessed; with evidence and historical period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a traditional label or architectural resemblance from being treated as a settled functional identification." }, { "name": "Historical stopping context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to evidenced routes, settlement entrances, markets and neighbouring stopping places, qualified by period", "why_it_matters": "Explains the complex's role without assuming that present roads reproduce historical travel patterns." }, { "name": "Complex boundary confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "established | partly established | disputed | unknown; separately for each boundary segment", "why_it_matters": "Determines which yards, outbuildings and water installations can responsibly be assessed as parts of the caravanserai." }, { "name": "Accommodation configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented arrangement of traveller rooms, animal spaces, storage, open courts and covered halls; unknown functions retained", "why_it_matters": "Captures how the complex supported a stop without imposing one architectural plan." }, { "name": "Entrance and passage clearance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minimum clear width and height in metres, with location, survey date and obstructions", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of movement through the complex and present access for visitors or maintenance." }, { "name": "Functional separation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Connections, shared spaces and barriers between traveller accommodation, animal holding, storage and services", "why_it_matters": "Reveals how movement, security and conflicting activities were managed." }, { "name": "Water provision", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each installation: historical role, surviving components, current operation and water-quality assessment status", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes evidence of historical supply from a supply usable today." }, { "name": "Surviving functional legibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "legible | partly legible | obscured | lost | unassessed, by functional area and historical phase", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether the arrangement that supported caravans remains recognisable." }, { "name": "Fabric condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed defects and assessed stability by gateway, wall, roof, room, hall and court; assessment date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports area-specific access and intervention decisions." }, { "name": "Current use and authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links from occupied areas to current activities, responsible parties and evidenced permissions or restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Determines who may authorise access, reuse, maintenance or investigation." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether the complex is a caravanserai and record competing identifications.", "Reconstruct evidenced routes for travellers, animals and goods through particular historical phases.", "Identify areas suitable for access or investigation, subject to current condition and authority.", "Assess how proposed reuse would affect caravan-related spaces and their legibility.", "Prioritise investigation or conservation of features needed to understand the caravan stop.", "Identify missing evidence that prevents a decision about identity, condition or permissible work." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iranica-caravansary", "title": "Caravansary", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/caravansary", "what_it_supports": "Definition, Persian terminology (kārvānsarā), four-iwan plans, spacing along routes, and distinction of roadside versus urban types.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "unesco-persian-caravanserai", "title": "The Persian Caravanserai", "url": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1668", "what_it_supports": "Heritage identification of the building type, typical measurements and siting, and international listing of fifty-four Iranian examples (2023).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "hillenbrand-islamic-architecture", "title": "Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Architectural typology of khan, caravanserai, ribat, and funduq; Seljuk Anatolian hans; functional programme of court, stables, mosque, and portal." }, { "id": "ei-khan", "title": "Khān", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Arabic and Ottoman usage of khan/han, relation to funduq, and urban versus rural lodging." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-stopping-context", "name": "Identity and stopping context", "description": "Establishes why this complex is identified as a caravanserai and where its stopping function belongs in time and place.", "rationale": "Names, building forms and route associations need to support an identification together rather than substitute for evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-identification", "name": "Functional identification", "description": "Separates evidenced caravan reception from inherited labels and architectural analogy.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-caravan-reception", "name": "Evidence for caravan reception", "description": "Records the basis and limits of identifying accommodation for travelling caravans.", "questions": [ { "text": "What physical or documentary evidence indicates reception of travelling caravans, and to which period does it apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-caravan-reception-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes the evidenced use from an inn, warehouse, market court or fortified residence?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-for-caravan-reception-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-and-route-boundaries", "name": "Site and route 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passages and handling spaces, not simply the presence of rooms.", "layers": [ { "id": "gateways-and-thresholds", "name": "Gateways and thresholds", "description": "Examines entry points, their usable dimensions and their historical control.", "findings": [ { "id": "entry-capability-and-control", "name": "Entry capability and control", "description": "Relates gateway form and condition to access and the handling of arrivals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the minimum clearances, level changes and obstructions along each surviving entrance passage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "entry-capability-and-control-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence identifies original entrances and any closing, guarding or admission arrangements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "entry-capability-and-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "internal-movement-and-handling", "name": "Internal movement and handling", "description": "Traces connections among arrival spaces, accommodation, animal areas and storage.", "findings": [ { "id": "caravan-circulation", "name": "Caravan circulation", "description": "Records evidenced movement paths and the spaces available for unloading and holding.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which paths connected entrances to animal accommodation, goods storage and traveller rooms in each phase?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "caravan-circulation-q01" }, { "text": "What usable dimensions and gradients constrain movement or unloading in the courts, halls and passages?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "caravan-circulation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "accommodation-and-provisioning", "name": "Accommodation and provisioning", "description": "Examines the facilities that allowed travellers, animals and goods to remain at the stop.", "rationale": "A caravanserai model must explain the combined stopping function while distinguishing observed facilities from inferred ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "people-animals-and-goods", "name": "People, animals and goods", "description": "Assigns supported functions to accommodation areas and records shared or uncertain uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "accommodation-function", "name": "Accommodation function", "description": "Links room and hall interpretations to evidence rather than assigning uses from position alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports identifying particular spaces as traveller lodging, animal accommodation or goods storage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accommodation-function-q01" }, { "text": "Which spaces had shared, seasonal or changing uses, and where must their function remain unresolved?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accommodation-function-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-and-stop-services", "name": "Water and stop services", "description": "Records water and other evidenced services supporting occupation of the complex.", "findings": [ { "id": "provisioning-dependencies", "name": "Provisioning dependencies", "description": "Distinguishes facilities within the caravanserai from supplies or services obtained outside it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies water collection, storage, distribution, drainage or animal-watering installations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "provisioning-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidenced needs, such as food preparation, fodder storage or sanitation, were met inside the complex and which depended on external facilities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "provisioning-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fabric-phases-and-condition", "name": "Fabric, phases and condition", "description": "Assesses how surviving construction and later alterations preserve or obscure the caravanserai arrangement.", "rationale": "The visible complex may combine several periods, and its present condition controls what can be inspected or used.", "layers": [ { "id": "construction-and-alteration", "name": "Construction and alteration", "description": "Separates historical phases, losses and reconstruction in functionally important spaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-specific-layout", "name": "Phase-specific layout", "description": "Records which gateway, court, room and hall arrangements can be attributed to each phase.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts of the caravan-serving layout are original to the identified phase, later alterations or modern reconstructions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "phase-specific-layout-q01" }, { "text": "Where have blocked passages, subdivisions or losses changed the relationship between lodging, animal areas and storage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phase-specific-layout-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "deterioration-and-access", "name": "Deterioration and access", "description": "Connects observed deterioration to the usability of specific caravanserai spaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-constrained-use", "name": "Condition-constrained use", "description": "Records defects and assessment limits affecting passage through or occupation of the complex.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated observations or assessments describe defects in gateway passages, roofs, walls, courts and water installations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-constrained-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which spaces require restricted access, further assessment or stabilisation before their proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-constrained-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stewardship-and-compatible-use", "name": "Stewardship and compatible use", "description": "Connects current control and use with decisions affecting the surviving caravanserai.", "rationale": "Physical feasibility alone does not establish authority to act or compatibility with the complex's significance.", "layers": [ { "id": "occupation-and-authority", "name": "Occupation and authority", "description": "Identifies present activities and the parties responsible for different parts of the complex.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-and-decision-rights", "name": "Use and decision rights", "description": "Records who occupies, manages and can authorise changes to caravanserai spaces.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who currently occupies or manages the lodging ranges, courts, halls and service areas, and what evidence establishes their roles?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-and-decision-rights-q01" }, { "text": "Whose authorisation and which documented conditions apply to access, recording, maintenance or alteration of each affected area?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-and-decision-rights-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reuse-and-functional-legibility", "name": "Reuse and functional legibility", "description": "Evaluates proposed work against the features that explain the historical caravan stop.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-effects", "name": "Intervention effects", "description": "Examines how changes would affect evidenced circulation, accommodation and provisioning relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would the proposed use or intervention remove, conceal or sever evidence connecting arrival, animal handling, storage and traveller accommodation?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-effects-q01" }, { "text": "What investigation or design revision is needed before deciding whether the affected caravanserai features can accommodate the proposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-effects-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Roadside or rural caravanserai, sited a day's march apart on intercity routes", "Urban khan or han, a city warehouse-inn serving wholesale merchants rather than a desert halt", "Royal or sultan han, a state-commissioned monumental inn (Seljuk, Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal)", "Fortified caravanserai, with thick walls, towers, and a defensible single entrance", "Covered or winter han, an Anatolian type with a vaulted hall in addition to or instead of an open court", "Funduq, the Maghrebi and Mediterranean warehouse-inn, often for foreign merchants in port cities", "Wikala, the Egyptian urban commercial inn-warehouse", "Mountain or pass caravanserai, smaller and more enclosed, built for cold-climate routes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of caravanserai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "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": "Q186851", "note": "Item for caravanserai as a building type." }, { "scheme": "UNESCO World Heritage List", "value_or_pattern": "1668", "note": "Serial property 'The Persian Caravanserai' (inscribed 2023), fifty-four component sites in Iran." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of caravanserai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972), World Heritage Committee - inscription and state-party protection of listed caravanserais and Silk Roads properties.", "ICOMOS International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (Venice Charter, 1964) - conservation of historic fabric.", "ICOMOS Charter on Cultural Routes (2008) - treatment of caravanserais as nodes on trade and pilgrimage routes.", "Iran: national heritage registration and protection under the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.", "Turkey: Law No. 2863 on the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Property, Ministry of Culture and Tourism - registration of hans and kervansarays as immovable cultural property." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of caravanserai 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 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major courtyard caravanserai", "typical_range": "40-80", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Enclosure wall thickness", "typical_range": "1-3", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Enclosure wall height (fortified examples)", "typical_range": "6-12", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Lodging cells in a typical large inn", "typical_range": "20-60", "unit": "rooms" }, { "quantity": "Animal capacity of a major station", "typical_range": "50-200", "unit": "pack animals" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of caravanserai 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": [ "Seismic collapse of vaults, iwans, and portal structures.", "Failure of cisterns, wells, or qanats, rendering the halt unusable.", "Abandonment after a trade or pilgrimage route shifts, followed by stone robbing.", "Fire in stables and fodder stores.", "Moisture, salts, and freeze-thaw decay of masonry and plaster.", "Adaptive reuse that erases the courtyard-stable plan or blocks the single portal.", "Banditry and siege when walls and gates are weak; conversely, military reuse that overwrites commercial fabric." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of caravanserai 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": [ "Persian world: kārvānsarā; four-iwan courtyard plans are common; many Safavid examples on the Isfahan-Mashhad and Gulf roads.", "Anatolia: rural kervansaray and urban han; Seljuk sultan hans often combine an open court with a covered winter hall.", "Arabic-speaking lands: khan; funduq in the Maghreb and Mediterranean ports; ribat used for some frontier or Maghrebi compounds.", "Central Asia: rabāt / rabat as a related roadside lodging term.", "South Asia: serai / sarai (Mughal imperial serais on the Grand Trunk Road and related routes).", "Caucasus and Armenian highlands: mountain-pass caravanserais on trans-Caucasian trade roads." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of caravanserai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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": "Ribat", "difference": "A ribat is primarily a fortified religious-military frontier 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a caravanserai, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a caravanserai, assess its surviving capacity and condition, and determine appropriate access, use and intervention.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: okelle.", "1 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 caravanserai, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "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. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "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": [ "okelle" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 caravanserai from another, and a caravanserai 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a caravanserai 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a caravanserai.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a caravanserai and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a caravanserai, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a caravanserai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a caravanserai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a caravanserai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a caravanserai and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a caravanserai sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a caravanserai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a caravanserai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a caravanserai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What caravanserai is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does caravanserai take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of caravanserai, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in caravanserai and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of caravanserai may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does caravanserai have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a caravanserai 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 caravanserai and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 caravanserai is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a caravanserai, 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 caravanserai, 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 caravanserai 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 } } } }