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"Metaphorical relics such as obsolete practices or institutions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A physical referent must be identified; calling an institution or custom a relic falls outside this PHY model.", "An attributed connection to a particular person, event, period or sacred context must explain recognition as a relic; age alone does not establish that status.", "A religious image depicts a subject, whereas relic recognition depends on an attributed material, contact or historical connection; an object may satisfy both descriptions.", "A reliquary contains or presents a relic and must be distinguished from its contents unless it independently has relic status.", "A replica reproduces an object's form; any claim that it is itself a relic requires a separate basis of recognition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Relic sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "religious; secular-historical; overlapping; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies which grounds of 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"Recognition community", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "communities, custodians or authorities recognising, rejecting or disputing relic status", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one party's recognition from being presented as universal agreement." }, { "name": "Association evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed; supported; partly supported; disputed; contradicted; indeterminate, evaluated separately for each claim", "why_it_matters": "Keeps confidence in historical association separate from religious or commemorative significance." }, { "name": "Material extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "dimensions in mm, mass in g and fragment count where appropriate and permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification, fragment tracking and detection of loss without requiring intrusive examination." }, { "name": "Physical continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "apparently intact; divided; sampled; mixed; reconstructed; uncertain, with supporting observations", "why_it_matters": "Reveals whether today's referent corresponds to the historically described whole or fragment." }, { "name": "Containment relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reliquary, wrapping, seal or mount, with whether separation is permitted", "why_it_matters": "Containment can preserve evidence, prevent inspection or participate in recognised significance." }, { "name": "Authorised treatment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "permitted, conditional, prohibited or unresolved for each proposed action, with authority and date", "why_it_matters": "Connects examination, display, movement and intervention to applicable permissions." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the physical relic separately from its container, label and attributed history.", "Compare association claims with documentary, contextual and material evidence while preserving disagreements.", "Trace custody, division and transfer to locate gaps in the identity of the present object.", "Assess whether inspection, imaging, sampling, display or devotional contact is authorised.", "Plan preservation around the relic's material condition and restrictions on opening, cleaning or separation.", "Refer contested custody, treatment or return decisions to the relevant custodians and affected communities." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "relic-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Relic identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what physical thing is recognised as the relic and which sense of relic applies.", "rationale": "A relic can be confused with its reliquary, a representation, a fragment of another relic or merely an old object.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-referent", "name": "Physical referent", "description": "Locates the material entity to which relic claims attach.", "findings": [ { "id": "relic-content-boundary", "name": "Relic content boundary", "description": "Record whether relic identity belongs to remains, an object, a fragment or a composite, distinguishing associated packaging.", "questions": [ { "text": "Exactly which remains, object or fragments constitute this relic?", "kind": "definition", "id": "relic-content-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Are the wrapping, mount, reliquary and labels part of the recognised relic or separately associated objects?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "relic-content-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-basis", "name": "Recognition basis", "description": "Identifies the relationship through which the physical referent is treated as a relic.", "findings": [ { "id": "association-that-confers-status", "name": "Association that confers status", "description": "Describe the claimed connection and its religious, historical or overlapping interpretation without treating that interpretation as proof.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attributed connection makes this thing a relic rather than simply an antique, specimen or commemorative object?", "kind": "definition", "id": "association-that-confers-status-q01" }, { "text": "Who identifies it as a relic, and what terminology or classification do they use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "association-that-confers-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "association-and-authentication", "name": "Association and authentication", "description": "Separates inherited attribution from evidence about origin and identity.", "rationale": "A relic's significance can persist despite uncertainty about its attribution, so evidence and recognition require distinct treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-record", "name": "Attribution record", "description": "Tracks the emergence and transmission of claims about the relic.", "findings": [ { "id": "earliest-attested-association", "name": "Earliest attested association", "description": "Identify the earliest accessible evidence for the claimed association and distinguish independent testimony from repetition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the earliest accessible record connecting this physical relic to its attributed person, event or sacred context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "earliest-attested-association-q01" }, { "text": "Which later accounts provide independent evidence, and which repeat an earlier attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "earliest-attested-association-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claim-evaluation", "name": "Claim evaluation", "description": "Assesses the limits of documentary and material evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-and-its-limits", "name": "Evidence and its limits", "description": "Evaluate specific association claims without equating a compatible date or material with proof of personal identity or sacred significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which claims are supported, contradicted or left unresolved by the documents and examinations actually available?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-and-its-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What dating, composition or identification results exist, with what uncertainty and limits on what they establish?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-and-its-limits-q02" }, { "text": "Do labels, seals or authentication documents identify this exact item, and has their connection to it been verified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-and-its-limits-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-continuity-and-preservation", "name": "Material continuity and preservation", "description": "Tracks physical survival, fragmentation and care where material identity carries significance.", "rationale": "Division, replacement, treatment or loss can alter both the evidence for a relic and the physical referent people recognise.", "layers": [ { "id": "fragment-and-whole-continuity", "name": "Fragment and whole continuity", "description": "Relates the present material to earlier descriptions and any distributed portions.", "findings": [ { "id": "division-and-material-change", "name": "Division and material change", "description": "Record divisions, removals, additions and mixtures that affect continuity with the attributed original.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the relic been divided, sampled, mixed with other material or reconstructed, and what records identify the affected portions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "division-and-material-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which parent relic, detached fragments or sibling portions are linked to this item, and how secure are those links?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "division-and-material-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-with-restrictions", "name": "Preservation with restrictions", "description": "Connects observed deterioration to care options compatible with the relic's treatment requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Assess the relic and its immediate enclosure while recording limits imposed by seals, sacred treatment or the presence of remains.", "questions": [ { "text": "What deterioration or material loss is observable, and what remains inaccessible because the enclosure cannot be opened?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-and-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Which conservation actions would remove significant residues, break seals, separate remains or otherwise require specific authorisation?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-and-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "significance-and-encounter", "name": "Significance and encounter", "description": "Records how communities understand the relic and which forms of encounter are appropriate.", "rationale": "Relic status affects behaviour toward an object in ways that material description and historical authentication alone cannot determine.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-interpretations", "name": "Community interpretations", "description": "Preserves distinct accounts of sacred, ancestral, historical or commemorative meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-significance", "name": "Attributed significance", "description": "Attribute meanings and claimed effects to their speakers rather than presenting them as universally accepted properties.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which communities regard this relic as sacred, ancestral, commemorative or historically significant, and why?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-significance-q01" }, { "text": "Where do those communities disagree about its identity, significance or appropriate treatment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-significance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-use", "name": "Access and use", "description": "Defines permitted devotional, commemorative, interpretive and research encounters.", "findings": [ { "id": "encounter-protocols", "name": "Encounter protocols", "description": "Record action-specific conditions for viewing, touching, photographing, moving or examining the relic.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what conditions may people view, touch, photograph or ceremonially use this relic?", "kind": "action", "id": "encounter-protocols-q01" }, { "text": "Who can authorise research access or exceptions, and which restrictions depend on occasion, participant or location?", "kind": "action", "id": "encounter-protocols-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "custody-and-contested-disposition", "name": "Custody and contested disposition", "description": "Connects possession history with present authority over movement, treatment and future disposition.", "rationale": "Relics may involve distinct custodial, ownership, religious and descendant interests that possession alone does not resolve.", "layers": [ { "id": "custody-history", "name": "Custody history", "description": "Traces movements and transfers that bear on continuity and present claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "transfer-and-identity-chain", "name": "Transfer and identity chain", "description": "Record documented custody transitions and gaps, including circumstances that could have enabled substitution or misidentification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented transfers connect the earliest identified relic to the object held today?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transfer-and-identity-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Where do gaps, conflicting inventories, changed containers or missing seals leave continuity uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transfer-and-identity-chain-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-disposition", "name": "Authority and disposition", "description": "Identifies whose decisions and claims govern proposed relocation or changes in custody.", "findings": [ { "id": "decision-authority-and-claims", "name": "Decision authority and claims", "description": "Distinguish physical custody, claimed ownership, religious authority and affected-community interests for each proposed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who holds the relic, who claims authority over it, and what evidence supports each role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "decision-authority-and-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved claims or applicable requirements affect loan, transfer, sale, return, burial or reinterment?", "kind": "action", "id": "decision-authority-and-claims-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded: this description includes religious relics and secular historical survivals, 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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": [ "shrunken head", "relic of a Christian saint", "possessions of Muhammad", "relics associated with Buddha", "Christian relic", "Gaus", "relics of Muhammad", "Trophy head", "Sacred Relic of Saint George", "Relic blood", "Liquefying blood relics" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 relic from another, and a relic from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a relic 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 relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a relic 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 relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 relic is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a relic, 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 relic, 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 relic 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 } } } }