{ "model": { "rank": 4987, "code": "thing-q188488", "model_id": "vr.tr.scale-q188488", "name": "scale", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an animal scale, assess its condition in biological context, and determine appropriate observation, handling or sampling.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q188488/", "tier": 2, "score": 71, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "turtle scale", "Internasal scales", "Nasal scale", "snake scales", "Sublabial scale", "Rostral scale", "Anal scale", "Supralabial scale", "circumorbital scales", "Dorsal scales", "Chin shields", "subocular scale", "Mental scale", "fish scale", "Ventral scales", "Interorbital scales", "labial scale", "Subcaudal scales", "reptile scale", "Occipital scales", "Ocular scales", "Parietal scales", "Prefrontal scales", "Nasorostral scale", "insect scale", "Gular scales", "Supraocular scales", "Temporal scales", "Frontal scale" ], "aliasCount": 29, "merged": 29, "knownIn": 71, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.scale-animal", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q188488", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188488", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:24:41Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0880e-2b16-77d2-87fc-50bb4e5c54cb\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: scale\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 57.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0880e-2b28-7a41-bd4d-0fc8757632b2\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: scale\nRegistry id: vr.tr.scale-q188488\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCont" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q188488", "registryId": "vr.tr.scale-q188488", "name": "scale", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q188488/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.scale-q188488", "name": "scale", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an animal scale, assess its condition in biological context, and determine appropriate observation, handling or sampling.", "definition": "Interpreted here as a scale insect, a scale is a sap-feeding hemipteran of the group Coccomorpha, whose adult females are typically wingless and often sedentary, with many species producing protective wax or a scale-like covering.", "scope_statement": "This model covers scale as an animal integumentary structure, provisionally interpreting registry id vr.tr.scale-q188488 in that sense; it owns the scale and its relationship to the animal bearing it, rather than treating it as an organism.", "in_scope": [ "Individual scales and their arrangement within a defined body region", "Scale morphology, attachment and tissue composition", "Development, growth, replacement and shedding in the relevant animal group", "Condition, damage and relationships to surrounding integument", "Attached and detached scales with recorded biological provenance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Weighing instruments, measurement scales and musical scales", "Scale insects as organisms", "Whole-animal taxonomy, population dynamics and conservation assessments", "Feathers, hair, shells and other neighbouring integumentary structures", "Industrial scale deposits and manufactured scale-like coverings" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify an integumentary structure borne by an animal or demonstrably detached from one; the word scale alone does not establish this sense.", "Distinguish the scale from an organism living on the surface: an attached scale insect is not a scale of its host.", "Use tissue origin, composition and attachment alongside shape to distinguish scales from superficially similar plates or appendages.", "Record the animal group before applying a scale classification; similar-looking scales need not share developmental origin.", "Distinguish an individual scale from a scale-covered skin patch, a shed skin fragment or an artificial replica." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Bearer and anatomical location", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host taxon or specimen identifier; body region; side; position where recoverable", "why_it_matters": "Identification and interpretation depend on which animal and body region produced the scale." }, { "name": "Scale classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named scale type with applicable animal group, diagnostic basis and classification source; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents applying a classification from one animal group to another." }, { "name": "Tissue composition and origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed or documented tissue constituents; epidermal, dermal or combined contribution; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates structures that look alike but differ biologically and in response to handling." }, { "name": "Dimensions and profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, width and thickness in mm or µm; curvature and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison while making orientation and measurement limitations explicit." }, { "name": "Surface and margin morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed ridges, grooves, projections, pigmentation and edge form; magnification recorded", "why_it_matters": "Provides diagnostic evidence and a baseline for detecting wear or alteration." }, { "name": "Attachment and arrangement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Attached, loose, detached or unknown; overlap, orientation and neighbouring-scale relationships", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes natural organisation from displacement or damage." }, { "name": "Growth or replacement context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Developing, established, replacing, shedding, regenerated or unresolved, where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents interpreting normal change as injury or assuming universal replacement behaviour." }, { "name": "Integrity and surrounding condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, worn, cracked, eroded, displaced or missing; adjacent tissue observations", "why_it_matters": "Supports condition assessment without diagnosing a cause from appearance alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Document scale shape, surface and arrangement using calibrated images.", "Compare a scale with references appropriate to its bearer and body location.", "Map damaged or missing scales and monitor change over time.", "Assess whether observed detachment is consistent with documented shedding or requires further investigation.", "Evaluate whether sampling is justified and permissible, then preserve specimen identity and attachment context.", "Assess whether scale markings support a proposed biological inference before using them to estimate age or growth." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "scale-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Scale identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish the anatomical sense, bearer and appropriate scale classification.", "rationale": "Scale is an ambiguous name, and animal scales encompass structures that cannot be identified reliably by silhouette alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-sense", "name": "Anatomical sense", "description": "Determine whether the observed item is an animal integumentary scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "integumentary-membership", "name": "Integumentary membership", "description": "Recognition requires evidence connecting the item to an animal's integument rather than relying on its name or plate-like appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this item as part of an animal's integument?", "kind": "definition", "id": "integumentary-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Could it instead be a scale insect, another integumentary structure or a nonbiological deposit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "integumentary-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bearer-specific-classification", "name": "Bearer-specific classification", "description": "Locate the scale within an explicitly identified animal group and anatomical region.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-with-evidence", "name": "Classification with evidence", "description": "Scale type should be assigned using a relevant reference and observable diagnostic features, with uncertainty retained.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which animal taxon and body region produced this scale, and how securely are they known?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-with-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which diagnostic features and reference support the proposed scale type?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-with-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "scale-construction-and-array", "name": "Scale construction and array", "description": "Describe the scale's material structure, geometry and organisation on the body.", "rationale": "An isolated outline omits the tissue and attachment relationships needed to interpret how the scale functions.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-and-geometry", "name": "Tissue and geometry", "description": "Characterise composition, dimensions and diagnostic surface features.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-morphology", "name": "Material and morphology", "description": "Record measured form separately from inferred tissue composition or developmental origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the scale's dimensions, profile and margin features under a stated orientation and magnification?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-and-morphology-q01" }, { "text": "Which tissue constituents or developmental origins are demonstrated, and which are inferred from the bearer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-and-morphology-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-and-neighbours", "name": "Attachment and neighbours", "description": "Capture how the scale connects to underlying tissue and adjacent scales.", "findings": [ { "id": "scale-array-context", "name": "Scale array context", "description": "Overlap, orientation and attachment must be recorded in place where possible because detachment can erase these relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the scale attached, oriented and positioned relative to neighbouring scales?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scale-array-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observation concern one scale, several overlapping scales or a fragment of scaled integument?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scale-array-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "scale-growth-and-condition", "name": "Scale growth and condition", "description": "Interpret development, replacement and physical changes using the bearer's biology.", "rationale": "Shedding, growth markings and scale loss have different meanings across animal groups and life stages.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-turnover", "name": "Development and turnover", "description": "Relate observed scale state to documented growth and replacement processes.", "findings": [ { "id": "turnover-and-growth-evidence", "name": "Turnover and growth evidence", "description": "Do not assume that every scale is shed, regenerated or suitable for age estimation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What growth, shedding or replacement process is documented for this scale type and life stage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "turnover-and-growth-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "If markings are used to infer age or growth, what validates that interpretation for this animal and sampling location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "turnover-and-growth-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-change", "name": "Damage and change", "description": "Separate observed disruption from hypotheses about its cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "integrity-in-context", "name": "Integrity in context", "description": "Scale damage or absence should be assessed with surrounding tissue, distribution and change over time.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scales are worn, fractured, displaced or missing, and what is the condition of adjacent tissue?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "integrity-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes expected turnover from injury, disease or handling damage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "integrity-in-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "scale-observation-and-sampling", "name": "Scale observation and sampling", "description": "Support observation and specimen handling while preserving biological context.", "rationale": "Removing or preparing a scale can affect the bearer and destroy features needed for later interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "in-place-observation", "name": "In-place observation", "description": "Choose observations that answer the question while retaining attachment and arrangement evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-before-removal", "name": "Observation before removal", "description": "Document the scale in context and assess whether removal is necessary for the intended analysis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can calibrated imaging of the attached scale answer the identification or condition question?", "kind": "action", "id": "observation-before-removal-q01" }, { "text": "If removal is proposed, what bearer-specific handling requirements, permissions and potential tissue effects apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "observation-before-removal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "detached-scale-evidence", "name": "Detached scale evidence", "description": "Maintain provenance and record preparation effects on detached material.", "findings": [ { "id": "specimen-context-and-alteration", "name": "Specimen context and alteration", "description": "A detached scale needs collection and preparation records to support reliable comparisons or biological inferences.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the bearer, anatomical location, collection date and mode of detachment known?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specimen-context-and-alteration-q01" }, { "text": "Could cleaning, drying, preservation or mounting have changed dimensions, pigmentation or surface markings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "specimen-context-and-alteration-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": [ "The sense is unrecorded; the organism context supports the scale-insect interpretation, but the registry entity should be checked before adopting it.", "Coccoidea also appears in classifications of scale insects; verify the intended taxonomic treatment and scope.", "No species is specified, so a binomial, authority, native range, conservation assessment or exact database identifier cannot be assigned." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Armored scales (Diaspididae)", "Soft scales (Coccidae)", "Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Zoological scientific nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "Genus species, with author and year", "note": "Identifies an individual species; 'scale' is a common group name, not a species binomial." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "Requires resolution to a particular taxon." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "Identifies a taxonomic database record rather than an individual insect or infestation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, issued by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, governs scientific animal names." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Some species produce commercially harvested lac resin.", "Cochineal insects produce carminic acid used in red colorants.", "Species identification informs crop protection, nursery inspection and biological control." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Infestations can weaken host plants through sap feeding and cause yellowing, dieback or crop losses.", "Honeydew from many soft scales and mealybugs supports sooty mold; armored scales generally do not produce honeydew.", "Small size and concealed feeding sites can allow infestations to escape detection.", "Protective coverings and differences between life stages can reduce the effectiveness of poorly timed control measures.", "Movement of infested planting material can introduce species into new regions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Species composition, host associations and native or introduced status vary geographically.", "Climate affects outdoor establishment and seasonal development; protected cultivation can support species outside their usual outdoor range." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Aphid", "difference": "Aphids belong to a different hemipteran lineage and generally retain mobile, visibly legged adult females." }, { "name": "Mealybug", "difference": "Mealybugs are a subgroup of scale insects, usually recognizable by powdery or filamentous wax; they are not a separate equivalent of the whole group." }, { "name": "Animal scale", "difference": "A fish or reptile scale is an anatomical covering structure, not an insect." }, { "name": "Weighing scale", "difference": "A weighing scale is a measuring device, not a living organism." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of scale this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry id vr.tr.scale-q188488 explicitly denote an animal integumentary scale, and should the batch's organism classification be corrected?", "Which animal groups and scale-like structures fall within the registry's intended boundary, particularly where terminology overlaps with scutes or denticles?", "Which existing Vercy model, if any, already owns this anatomical concept and should be linked instead of duplicated?", "Which authoritative references establish scale classifications and developmental relationships across the included animal groups?", "For which bearer taxa are scale-based age inference, normal replacement patterns and sampling methods sufficiently validated to support agent decisions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a scale, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise an animal scale, assess its condition in biological context, and determine appropriate observation, handling or sampling.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: turtle scale, Internasal scales, Nasal scale, snake scales, Sublabial scale, Rostral scale, Anal scale, Supralabial scale, circumorbital scales, Dorsal scales, Chin shields, subocular scale.", "29 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 71 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 scale, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "turtle scale", "Internasal scales", "Nasal scale", "snake scales", "Sublabial scale", "Rostral scale", "Anal scale", "Supralabial scale", "circumorbital scales", "Dorsal scales", "Chin shields", "subocular scale" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 71 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 29 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 scale from another, and a scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a scale 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 scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 scale is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a scale, 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 scale, 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 scale 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 } } } }