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about worship, pilgrimage and religious life.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, textual boundaries, transmission, characteristic contents and situated authority of a work identified as a Purana, treating the registry entry as a literary and religious category rather than one particular book; its initial working scope is Hindu Puranic literature, with other uses of the designation requiring explicit boundary decisions.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of a particular Purana through titles, textual evidence and attributed classification", "Relations among the named work, recensions, manuscript witnesses, editions, translations and excerpts", "Puranic narrative, genealogical, cosmological, ritual and sacred-geographical contents", "Attributed authorship, composition history and evidence of textual change", "Religious authority, interpretation, recitation and use in identified communities", "Evidence and permissions needed for quotation, comparison, translation and reuse" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A comprehensive model of Hinduism, its traditions or its institutions", "Independent biographies of deities, sages, rulers or other narrative figures", "Historical verification of every event narrated in a Purana", "Generic manuscript conservation, printing or digital-file management", "Complete models of the Vedas, epics, Tantras or other neighbouring textual categories", "Detailed management of temples, pilgrimage routes or ritual events described by the text" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identification requires a recorded basis for calling the work a Purana, such as textual self-designation, a named traditional classification or scholarly attribution; a modern title alone leaves the classification provisional.", "Creation, cosmic renewal, genealogies and accounts of ancestral or dynastic succession are useful Puranic content indicators, but their presence or absence must not function as an automatic acceptance or rejection rule.", "An account shared with an epic or another religious text does not establish that the containing work is the same work or belongs to the same textual category.", "A named Purana must be distinguished from a particular recension, translation, printed edition or manuscript, since claims about passages depend on the version examined.", "A separately circulated section, local sacred-site account or anthology attributed to a Purana requires evidence of its relationship to that parent work before being treated as either the whole Purana or an independent one." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Purana designation and classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded designation; Mahapurana, Upapurana, other attributed category, disputed or unclassified; each with an attribution", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition without treating one classification tradition as universally authoritative." }, { "name": "Title and alternative-title identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Preferred 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attribution, narrator, interlocutor, compiler, redactor, scribe, editor or translator linked to a stated evidential role", "why_it_matters": "Keeps religious attribution and narrative voice distinct from claims about textual production." }, { "name": "Composition and redaction dating", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unknown, proposed or contested, with date ranges, affected textual strata and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assigning a single confident date to passages that may have different histories." }, { "name": "Religious orientation and reception", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Deities, traditions and receiving communities associated with specified passages or uses, with attributed descriptions", "why_it_matters": "Supports contextual interpretation without assuming the entire text has one uniform affiliation." }, { "name": "Passage traceability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Located, cross-version aligned, partially aligned, unverified or disputed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can responsibly quote or compare a passage." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a Purana title to a documented work identity and an explicitly selected textual version.", "Locate and compare corresponding passages while preserving variant wording, numbering and omissions.", "Map narrative frames, cosmological accounts, genealogies and sacred places as claims made within the text.", "Explain a passage using its narrative speaker, religious setting and documented reception.", "Assess whether a proposed summary, quotation or translation has adequate textual evidence and applicable reuse permission.", "Identify uncertain classifications, unsupported attributions and missing witnesses for further research." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "puranic-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Puranic identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which work is being identified and why it is treated as a Purana.", "rationale": "The category, title and extent of a Purana cannot safely be inferred from a catalogue label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-traditional-placement", "name": "Designation and traditional placement", "description": "Records evidence for the Purana designation and its placement in attributed classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-purana-identification", "name": "Basis of Purana identification", "description": "The model must preserve who classifies the work as a Purana and the textual or documentary basis for that classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What textual self-designation, traditional list or scholarly description identifies this work as a Purana?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-purana-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which source assigns its classification, and do other consulted sources disagree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-purana-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "whole-work-and-dependent-texts", "name": "Whole work and dependent texts", "description": "Distinguishes the named Purana from aliases, sections, supplements and independently circulated materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "section-and-title-boundaries", "name": "Section and title boundaries", "description": "The model must establish whether an encountered title denotes the whole work, a version, a section or material whose parent attribution remains uncertain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this title identify the whole Purana, a khanda, a mahatmya, a supplement or a modern selection?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "section-and-title-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects the separately circulating material to this Purana, and is that connection version-dependent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "section-and-title-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-transmission-and-location", "name": "Textual transmission and location", "description": "Connects the work to the recensions, witnesses and editions through which its contents can be examined.", "rationale": "A statement that a passage occurs in a Purana is insufficient unless the consulted version and location are recoverable.", "layers": [ { "id": "recensions-witnesses-and-editions", "name": "Recensions, witnesses and editions", "description": "Records the textual basis of an edition, translation or passage claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "consulted-textual-basis", "name": "Consulted textual basis", "description": "The model must identify the consulted text and distinguish documented relationships among versions from assumed ones.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manuscript, edition or translation was consulted, and what recension or textual basis does it report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "consulted-textual-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits an agent to generalize an observation from this witness to the named Purana?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consulted-textual-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-alignment-and-completeness", "name": "Passage alignment and completeness", "description": "Supports comparison across differing textual divisions, numbering systems and extents.", "findings": [ { "id": "recoverable-passage-location", "name": "Recoverable passage location", "description": "The model must retain version-specific references and explicit uncertainty where equivalent passages cannot be established.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the passage located by section, chapter, verse, page or folio in the consulted version?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recoverable-passage-location-q01" }, { "text": "When another version lacks the passage or numbers it differently, should the agent record an omission, a correspondence or an unresolved alignment?", "kind": "action", "id": "recoverable-passage-location-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "puranic-content-and-narrative", "name": "Puranic content and narrative", "description": "Represents the work's cosmological, genealogical, 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"kind": "boundary", "id": "internal-time-and-lineage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "narrative-frames-and-sacred-settings", "name": "Narrative frames and sacred settings", "description": "Locates accounts within speaker-listener relationships and the sacred places or practices they explain.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-narrative-claim", "name": "Situated narrative claim", "description": "The model must retain who speaks, to whom, in which embedded account, and with what connection to a place, deity or practice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who narrates this account, who receives it, and how is that exchange nested within the surrounding narrative?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-narrative-claim-q01" }, { "text": "How does the passage connect its narrative to a deity, sacred place, pilgrimage, observance or promised religious benefit?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-narrative-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-history-and-authority", "name": "Attribution, 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range, and does that range concern the whole work or a particular textual stratum?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-versus-dating-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-reception-and-use", "name": "Community reception and use", "description": "Records how identified communities interpret, authorize and use the work.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-religious-authority", "name": "Situated religious authority", "description": "The model must attribute claims of authority and devotional use to particular communities, periods and practices.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which community and period is this Purana documented as authoritative, recited, taught or used in observance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-religious-authority-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent explain differing interpretations or rankings of the work without presenting one community's position as universal?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-religious-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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"provenance", "id": "translation-claim-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "Which religious terms, speaker changes or interpretive disagreements must remain explicit when the agent summarizes the passage?", "kind": "action", "id": "translation-claim-traceability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "edition-and-reproduction-permissions", "name": "Edition and reproduction permissions", "description": "Connects proposed reuse to the actual translation, editorial material, manuscript image or digital reproduction involved.", "findings": [ { "id": "reuse-target-and-permission", "name": "Reuse target and permission", "description": "The model must assess reuse at the relevant textual or reproduction level rather than infer permission from the antiquity of the underlying work.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed reuse concern the underlying text, a modern translation, editorial notes, a manuscript image or a digital transcription?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reuse-target-and-permission-q01" }, { "text": "What documented rights status, licence or access terms support the proposed quotation, redistribution or adaptation?", "kind": "action", "id": "reuse-target-and-permission-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 intended sense is inferred as the literary category, chiefly Hindu, rather than one particular 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and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "IFLA Library Reference Model, issued by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, provides work, expression, manifestation and item distinctions useful for cataloguing Puranic texts.", "ISO 2108, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, specifies ISBN identification for eligible published editions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Purana 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": [ "Recitation and exposition in religious gatherings.", "Teaching devotional practices, religious narratives and ethical ideals.", "Explaining the sacred significance of pilgrimage places and temples.", "Providing narrative material for visual art, theatre, dance and other retellings.", "Research into religious traditions, textual transmission and historical representations of society." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Purana 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": [ "Treating a Purana as a single fixed text despite differences among manuscripts and recensions.", "Assigning one composition date to a text that accumulated material through successive periods.", "Reading cosmological narratives or dynastic genealogies as independently verified historical records.", "Mistaking traditional attribution to Vyasa for established authorship by one historical individual.", "Conflating an underlying work with a translation, printed edition, digital file or individual manuscript." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Purana 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": [ "Sanskrit Puranas circulate alongside regional-language translations, adaptations and retellings.", "Place-specific Puranic traditions can emphasize local temples, deities and pilgrimage landscapes.", "Jain traditions also use the designation Purana for religious narrative works; these should not automatically be classified within the Hindu Mahapurana corpus." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these 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} ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Purana this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Purana to cover Hindu Puranic literature only, or also works designated Purana in Jain or other traditions?", "Which traditional lists and scholarly references should ground classification when titles, category assignments or counts differ?", "Which named works already have authoritative registry or world-model entries that should be linked rather than duplicated?", "How should separately transmitted mahatmyas, regional works and supplements be related to parent Puranas when their textual affiliation is disputed?", "Which accessible editions and manuscript catalogues provide sufficient evidence to establish version relationships and passage correspondences for the first modeled instances?" ], "statistics": { 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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 Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana 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 Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana 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 Purana between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Purana 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 Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Purana says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Purana contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Purana, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Purana, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Purana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Purana and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Purana, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Purana, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Purana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of Purana a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For Purana, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of Purana exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made Purana and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to Purana, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in Purana, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Purana 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 Purana and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana 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 Purana is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Purana, 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 Purana, 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 Purana is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }