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usability; identification as an agora remains provisional where supported only by a name.", "in_scope": [ "The extent and spatial organisation of the shared gathering ground", "Evidence establishing the place's identification and historical phases as an agora", "Relationships between the gathering ground and surrounding civic, commercial or sacred premises", "Patterns of access, assembly, exchange and movement within the place", "Present physical condition and constraints on use or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Detailed architectural models of individual stoas, temples or other surrounding buildings", "The constitution and procedures of civic institutions associated with the place", "Individual markets, ceremonies, assemblies or protests as events", "The settlement's complete street network and urban development", "Individual artefacts and their collections or conservation records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require contextual evidence of identification as an agora; an open square or a modern development named Agora is insufficient by itself.", "Test for an evidenced relationship to shared civic gathering, rather than identifying any trading area as an agora.", "Distinguish the shared ground from an adjoining council house, theatre or other dedicated assembly building.", "Distinguish an agora from a Roman forum using the site's historical identification and development, while allowing documented conversion or overlapping terminology.", "Distinguish the spatial place from the assembly, market or other activity that occupies it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documentary identification; archaeological interpretation; current civic designation; name only; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the agent may treat the place as an established agora or only a candidate." }, { "name": "Spatial extent by phase", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mapped boundary and area in square metres, with date or phase and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the surviving remains or present square from being mistaken for the entire historical agora." }, { "name": "Civic and exchange roles", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "evidenced roles by phase: gathering; political activity; trade; ritual; other; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without assuming every agora performed the same combination of functions." }, { "name": "Edge relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "connections to surrounding premises, porticoes, streets and monuments, qualified by phase and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Explains how adjacent places supported, bounded or interrupted the shared ground." }, { "name": "Usable gathering area", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "square metres under a stated use scenario, excluding protected, inaccessible or obstructed areas", "why_it_matters": "Separates nominal site size from space that can support a proposed gathering." }, { "name": "Present access regime", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "freely accessible; time restricted; ticketed; permission required; closed; mixed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Historical civic use does not establish present permission to enter or assemble." }, { "name": "Spatial legibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "readable in surviving fabric; partly readable; primarily reconstructed; obscured; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines how confidently an agent can recognise the agora on site and explain its organisation." } ], "affordances": [ "Evaluate whether a candidate place is an agora and record competing identifications.", "Map phase-specific gathering ground, entrances and relationships to surrounding premises.", "Assess a proposed gathering, trading activity or visitor route against usable space and documented restrictions.", "Identify where temporary installations would obstruct circulation or affect protected remains.", "Explain which aspects of the agora are observable, reconstructed or unresolved." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "agora-identification", "name": "Agora identification", "description": "Establishes why this physical place is identified as an agora and how that identification changes through time.", "rationale": "A name, an open area or evidence of trade alone cannot settle the identity of the registered thing.", "layers": [ { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Separates supported attribution from naming and analogy.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-agora-attribution", "name": "Basis for agora attribution", "description": "Record the evidence and reasoning supporting or challenging identification of the place as an agora.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documentary, archaeological or current civic evidence identifies this particular place as an agora?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-agora-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this attribution from identification as an ordinary square, marketplace or forum?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-agora-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-through-change", "name": "Identity through change", "description": "Tracks whether successive uses and layouts belong to the same agora.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-specific-identity", "name": "Phase-specific identity", "description": "Record the periods for which the agora attribution applies and any disputed continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which phases is identification as an agora supported, and by what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "phase-specific-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Do later rebuilding, abandonment or conversion preserve this place's identity or establish a successor place?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phase-specific-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gathering-ground-and-edges", "name": "Gathering ground and edges", "description": "Describes the shared spatial ground and the surrounding elements that organise it.", "rationale": "The agora must be recognisable as a place without absorbing every neighbouring building into its model.", "layers": [ { "id": "shared-ground", "name": "Shared ground", "description": "Locates the ground available for gathering in each evidenced phase.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-and-internal-divisions", "name": "Extent and internal divisions", "description": "Record boundaries, changes in level and subdivisions affecting the continuity of the gathering space.", "questions": [ { "text": "What boundary and area can be established for the shared ground in each phase, and how uncertain are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "extent-and-internal-divisions-q01" }, { "text": "Which monuments, enclosures or changes in level divide the ground into distinct usable areas?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "extent-and-internal-divisions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "civic-frontages", "name": "Civic frontages", "description": "Captures how surrounding premises and routes address the agora.", "findings": [ { "id": "edge-and-entry-relationships", "name": "Edge and entry relationships", "description": "Record entrances and adjoining elements as relationships, distinguishing them from the gathering ground itself.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which streets, passages and adjoining premises open directly onto the agora in the relevant phase?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "edge-and-entry-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether a portico, forecourt or enclosed precinct belongs within the agora's extent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "edge-and-entry-relationships-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "civic-use-and-coexistence", "name": "Civic use and coexistence", "description": "Records the activities that make the ground a civic place and how they share it.", "rationale": "An agora's functional identity depends on evidenced relationships among gathering, exchange and other uses, rather than a 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"description": "Record spatial allocations, participation restrictions and conflicts between simultaneous uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies who could enter, trade, gather or participate during the phase being described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "allocation-and-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "For a proposed present use, which existing activities, routes or reserved areas must remain available?", "kind": "action", "id": "allocation-and-exclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "survival-and-present-action", "name": "Survival and present action", "description": "Connects surviving spatial evidence with present access and permissible uses.", "rationale": "An excavated site, an obscured historical location and an actively used civic square offer different possibilities for recognising and using an agora.", "layers": [ { "id": "surviving-spatial-evidence", "name": "Surviving spatial evidence", "description": "Distinguishes observable ground and edges from 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Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one agora from another, and a agora 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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora 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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora 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 at geographic scale.", "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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 agora is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora 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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora 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 agora between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a agora 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 agora, 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 agora, 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 agora is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a agora and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a agora is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a agora performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a agora, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a agora, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a agora is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a agora.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a agora at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a agora, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a agora, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a agora is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-geometry", "name": "Extent, geometry and naming", "description": "Where agora is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.", "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry", "name": "Geometry and reference system", "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-record", "name": "Geometry, precision and frame", "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.", "questions": [ { "id": "geometry-record-q01", "text": "What geometry describes agora, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "geometry-record-q02", "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names", "name": "Names and endonyms", "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.", "findings": [ { "id": "naming-record", "name": "Names and who uses them", "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.", "questions": [ { "id": "naming-record-q01", "text": "By what names is agora known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "naming-record-q02", "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-access", "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access", "description": "What agora sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.", "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.", "layers": [ { "id": "containment", "name": "Administrative containment", "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-record", "name": "Containing units and effective dates", "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.", "questions": [ { "id": "containment-record-q01", "text": "Which administrative units contain agora, and since when does each containment hold?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "containment-record-q02", "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access and permitted use", "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and their source", "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "Who may enter or use agora, under what conditions, and by whose rule?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a agora 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 agora and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora 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 agora is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a agora, 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 agora, 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 agora is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }