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"scope_statement": "This model provisionally treats adhesion as attachment across an interface between distinct bodies and owns the attachment relationship, its formation, condition, performance and release; the intended meaning of adhesion within ACT.ACT remains to be confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "The bodies, surfaces and contact regions participating in an adhesive attachment", "Surface preparation, contact history and conditions under which adhesion develops", "Evidence for the mechanism maintaining attachment across the interface", "Resistance to separation under specified loading and environmental conditions", "Loss of attachment, failure location and consequences of intentional release" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Bulk cohesion and mechanical properties of either body except where they constrain interpretation of adhesion", "Adhesive formulation, manufacture and inventory as material or product models", "Complete joining operations, equipment and production workflows", "Attachments maintained solely by fasteners, geometric capture or externally applied clamping", "Frictional resistance without evidence of attachment across the interface", "Social allegiance, adherence to rules and anatomical adhesions requiring distinct contextual models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify an interface between distinct bodies: rupture wholly within one body is evidence about cohesion and does not by itself establish interfacial adhesion strength.", "Determine whether attachment persists when external clamping is removed; resistance present only during clamping may describe friction rather than adhesion.", "Check whether separation is prevented by interfacial attachment or solely by a fastener, enclosure or geometric lock.", "Distinguish an adhesive substance from an adhesion relationship: possessing or applying adhesive does not demonstrate that attachment formed.", "Record the loading mode and conditions of any separation test; a result from one configuration does not establish performance in every configuration." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Adhering participants and interface", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to participating bodies, surface regions and any intervening layer", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what is attached to what and which interface is being judged." }, { "name": "Contact configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Direct contact, intervening adhesive layer, multiple interfaces, other specified configuration, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines which interfaces need evidence and where separation could occur." }, { "name": "Contact area", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m²; distinguish nominal overlap from measured or estimated actual contact", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of attachment extent and area-normalised test results." }, { "name": "Surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Recorded cleanliness, moisture, treatment, texture and elapsed time since preparation", "why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to connect attachment outcomes to the surfaces actually brought together." }, { "name": "Proposed attachment mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Intermolecular interaction, chemical bonding, electrostatic interaction, interdiffusion, capillary contribution, mechanical interlocking contribution, mixed, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports mechanism-dependent decisions while keeping hypotheses distinct from observations." }, { "name": "Attachment state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not established, developing, established, partially detached, fully detached, indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Separates preparation and formation from demonstrated attachment and subsequent loss." }, { "name": "Measured resistance to separation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Force in N, nominal stress in Pa, peel force per width in N/m, or fracture energy in J/m²; retain method and loading mode", "why_it_matters": "Provides a test-specific basis for judging attachment adequacy without treating unlike measurements as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Exposure and load history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked records of temperature, humidity, fluids, sustained loads, load cycles and exposure durations", "why_it_matters": "Places a current assessment within the conditions that may have changed the attachment." }, { "name": "Observed failure location", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "At an identified interface, within adhesive, within a participating body, mixed, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a joint failure result from being misreported as a direct measurement of interfacial adhesion." }, { "name": "Adequacy for intended use", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Meets stated criterion, fails stated criterion, insufficient evidence, no criterion specified", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to a particular use rather than assigning an unsupported universal quality rating." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the participating surfaces and distinguish demonstrated attachment from contact alone.", "Select a separation test appropriate to the intended loading mode and acceptable specimen damage.", "Compare preparation or attachment options using results obtained under comparable conditions.", "Judge whether available evidence supports continued use under a stated load and environment.", "Investigate detachment by locating failure and relating it to preparation, loading and exposure history.", "Evaluate release or reattachment options against permitted damage, residue and surface changes." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-astm-d907", "title": "ASTM D907 Standard Terminology of Adhesives", "url": "https://www.astm.org/d0907-15.html", "what_it_supports": "Standard terminology distinguishing adhesion from cohesion and naming adhesive joint types.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "src-iso-472", "title": "ISO 472 Plastics - Vocabulary", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/44102.html", "what_it_supports": "ISO vocabulary for adhesion-related polymer and plastics terms.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-iso-10365", "title": "ISO 10365 Adhesives - Designation of main failure patterns", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/72451.html", "what_it_supports": "Standard designation of adhesive-joint failure modes (adhesive, cohesive, substrate).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "src-wikidata-q193438", "title": "Adhesion (Q193438)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193438", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata identifier for the physical/chemical phenomenon of adhesion.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "attachment-boundary", "name": "Attachment boundary", "description": "Establish which bodies and interfaces constitute the adhesion being assessed.", "rationale": "An adhesion judgement is meaningful only when it identifies the attachment relationship and separates it from other restraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "participating-surfaces", "name": "Participating surfaces", "description": "Locate the bodies and contact regions involved.", "findings": [ { "id": "interface-identity", "name": "Interface identity", "description": "Record the specific surface pair and any intervening layer without assuming that every interface has equivalent adhesion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bodies and surface regions are attached, and is contact direct or mediated by an intervening material?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interface-identity-q01" }, { "text": "If an intervening layer creates multiple interfaces, which interface does each observation or assessment concern?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interface-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-evidence", "name": "Attachment evidence", "description": "Distinguish adhesion from contact, friction and external restraint.", "findings": [ { "id": "restraint-discrimination", "name": "Restraint discrimination", "description": "Record what supports an adhesion interpretation and what alternative attachment explanations remain.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation demonstrates resistance to separation across the interface rather than contact alone?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "restraint-discrimination-q01" }, { "text": "Could clamping, a fastener, geometric capture or another restraint account for the observed attachment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "restraint-discrimination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-and-formation", "name": "Surface and formation", "description": "Describe the surfaces and contact history from which the attachment developed.", "rationale": "The identity of the materials alone does not specify the state of their surfaces or demonstrate successful attachment.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-readiness", "name": "Surface readiness", "description": "Capture the condition of each surface when contact occurred.", "findings": [ { "id": "precontact-surface-condition", "name": "Precontact surface condition", "description": "Record preparation and observed surface condition, distinguishing documented treatment from assumed cleanliness or suitability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cleaning, abrasion, activation, priming or other treatment was applied to each surface, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "precontact-surface-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence records contamination, moisture, texture or incomplete contact at the intended attachment region?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "precontact-surface-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-development", "name": "Attachment development", "description": "Track contact conditions and evidence that attachment has developed.", "findings": [ { "id": "formation-history", "name": "Formation history", "description": "Record relevant contact conditions and any waiting, curing or setting requirement without imposing such a requirement on all adhesion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what contact pressure, temperature, duration and material condition was this attachment formed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "formation-history-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes readiness for loading, including any applicable curing, setting or dwell requirement?", "kind": "action", "id": "formation-history-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanism-and-contact", "name": "Mechanism and contact", "description": "Connect hypotheses about attachment to evidence about the actual interface.", "rationale": "Mechanism and contact extent help explain behaviour, but neither should be inferred confidently from material names alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanism-evidence", "name": "Mechanism evidence", "description": "Separate proposed mechanisms from mechanisms supported for this attachment.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-attachment-explanation", "name": "Supported attachment explanation", "description": "Record the proposed contributions to attachment, their evidence and competing explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mechanism or combination of mechanisms is proposed to maintain this attachment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-attachment-explanation-q01" }, { "text": "What observation, test or consulted source supports that explanation for these surfaces under these conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-attachment-explanation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-extent", "name": "Contact extent", "description": "Describe how much of the intended interface participates in attachment.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-contact-region", "name": "Effective contact region", "description": "Distinguish nominal overlap from observed contact and identify gaps or detached regions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the nominal overlap and observed or estimated actual contact area, and how were they determined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-contact-region-q01" }, { "text": "Where are voids, edge lifting or uncontacted regions, and which are included in the reported attachment area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effective-contact-region-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "separation-performance", "name": "Separation performance", "description": "Assess resistance to separation in relation to a stated use and test configuration.", "rationale": "An adhesion result needs loading, geometry and acceptance context before an agent can use it to make a decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "loading-and-test", "name": "Loading and test", "description": "Preserve the conditions that give a separation measurement its meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "test-qualified-resistance", "name": "Test-qualified resistance", "description": "Record the measured response with the method, specimen configuration and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was resistance measured in peel, normal tension, shear or mixed loading, and at what rate and environmental conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "test-qualified-resistance-q01" }, { "text": "What result, units, specimen geometry, normalisation basis and uncertainty were reported?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "test-qualified-resistance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-acceptance", "name": "Use acceptance", "description": "Relate available evidence to the attachment's intended duty.", "findings": [ { "id": "fitness-for-stated-duty", "name": "Fitness for stated duty", "description": "Make adequacy conditional on explicit loads, exposures, duration and acceptance criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What loads, duration, environments and permissible detachment define acceptable performance for this use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "fitness-for-stated-duty-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify use under those conditions, or is an additional test or use restriction required?", "kind": "action", "id": "fitness-for-stated-duty-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "detachment-and-release", "name": "Detachment and release", "description": "Track loss of attachment and evaluate intentional separation or reattachment.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish interfacial loss from damage within a body and understand what release would leave behind.", "layers": [ { "id": "loss-and-failure-location", "name": "Loss and failure location", "description": "Record changes in attachment and locate the separation path.", "findings": [ { "id": "detachment-diagnosis", "name": "Detachment diagnosis", "description": "Relate observed detachment to exposure and loading history while preserving uncertainty about cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What change in attached area or separation resistance was observed after sustained load, cycling or environmental exposure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "detachment-diagnosis-q01" }, { "text": "Did separation occur at a particular interface, within an adhesive layer, within a body or along a mixed path, and what evidence locates it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "detachment-diagnosis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-release", "name": "Controlled release", "description": "Assess intentional detachment against surface preservation and reuse requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "release-and-reattachment-conditions", "name": "Release and reattachment conditions", "description": "Record candidate release actions, their evidential basis and the resulting condition required for reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which release method is supported for this attachment within the permitted force, temperature, chemical exposure, damage and residue limits?", "kind": "action", "id": "release-and-reattachment-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "After release, what inspection, cleaning or replacement is needed before reattachment can be assessed?", "kind": "action", "id": "release-and-reattachment-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "physical (van der Waals / physisorption) adhesion", "chemical (chemisorption / covalent) adhesion", "mechanical interlocking adhesion", "electrostatic adhesion", "diffusion / interdiffusion adhesion", "cell adhesion (biological)", "tissue adhesion (pathological scar bands)", "contract of adhesion (legal)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": 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"evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ASTM D907 - Standard Terminology of Adhesives (ASTM International)", "ISO 10365 - Adhesives - Designation of main failure patterns (ISO)", "ISO 4587 - Adhesives - Determination of tensile lap-shear strength of rigid-to-rigid bonded assemblies (ISO)", "ASTM D1002 - Apparent Shear Strength of Single-Lap-Joint Adhesively Bonded Metal Specimens by Tension Loading (ASTM)", "ASTM D4541 - Pull-Off Strength of Coatings Using Portable Adhesion Testers (ASTM)", "EN 1939 / related PSA peel methods - pressure-sensitive adhesive peel adhesion (CEN / national bodies)", "FDA 21 CFR (device/tissue adhesives) and EMA rules where medical adhesives or anti-adhesion barriers are regulated as devices or combination products" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Structural bonding of metals, composites, glass, and wood in aerospace, automotive, construction, and furniture in place of or with mechanical fasteners.", "Pressure-sensitive tapes, labels, and medical dressings whose function is controlled peel adhesion.", "Coatings, paints, and thin films, where adhesion to the substrate determines service life.", "Cell and platelet adhesion in biology, implant integration, and thrombosis.", "Post-surgical intra-abdominal or pelvic adhesions as a clinical complication.", "Adhesion contracts (standard-form contracts) in consumer and insurance law." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "lap-shear strength", "typical_range": "1-40 (structural epoxies often 10-30)", "unit": "MPa" }, { "quantity": "peel adhesion (180° or 90°)", "typical_range": "1-20 (commodity PSA tapes often 2-10)", "unit": "N/25 mm or N/cm" }, { "quantity": "pull-off (coating) adhesion", "typical_range": "0.5-20", "unit": "MPa" }, { "quantity": "work of adhesion (thermodynamic)", "typical_range": "20-200 (typical organic-solid interfaces; higher if chemisorbed)", "unit": "mJ/m²" }, { "quantity": "contact angle (wetting, related)", "typical_range": "0-180", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "tack (probe or loop)", "typical_range": "0.5-20", "unit": "N" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Adhesive (interfacial) failure: bond separates at the adherend-adhesive interface, often from contamination, poor wetting, or weak boundary layers.", "Cohesive failure in the adhesive or in the substrate, which is not interfacial adhesion failure.", "Environmental degradation: moisture, heat, UV, plasticizer migration, and cyclic stress causing loss of bond strength over time.", "Residual-stress cracking and thermal-expansion mismatch in bonded joints.", "Pathological tissue adhesions causing bowel obstruction, infertility, and chronic pain after surgery.", "Unintended adhesion (sticking, blocking, fouling) of films, medical devices, or process equipment.", "Allergenic or toxic adhesive residues; isocyanate and solvent exposure during bonding.", "In law, adhesion contracts may be unenforceable where terms are unconscionable or not fairly presented." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English 'adhesion' covers physics, medicine, and law; many languages split these (e.g. German Adhäsion vs. Verwachsung/Verklebung; French adhérence vs. adhésion for contracts).", "Medical ICD coding and treatment of postoperative adhesions differ by health system.", "Construction adhesive standards and permitted structural uses differ (Eurocodes/EN vs. ASTM/IBC).", "Pressure-sensitive tape peel methods and units (N/25 mm vs. oz/in) still differ between ISO/EN and older ASTM/PSTC North American practice." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "cohesion", "difference": "Cohesion is attraction within the same material; adhesion is between dissimilar materials. Failure locus: cohesive failure is inside one phase, adhesive failure is at the interface." }, { "name": "adsorption", "difference": "Adsorption is accumulation of molecules at a surface; adhesion is the resulting (or related) mechanical attachment of condensed phases. Adsorption can exist without a usable joint." }, { "name": "wetting", "difference": "Wetting is the spreading of a liquid on a solid (contact angle); it is necessary for many adhesive bonds but is not the bond itself." }, { "name": "friction", "difference": "Friction is resistance to relative tangential motion; it can include adhesive contributions but is a contact-mechanics force, not a bonded joint." }, { "name": "tack", "difference": "Tack is instantaneous stickiness under light pressure and short dwell (especially PSAs); adhesion more generally includes aged, structural, and chemical bonds." }, { "name": "welding / fusion bonding", "difference": "Welding joins by melting and coalescence of the substrates; adhesive bonding inserts a third phase (or relies on surface forces) without bulk melting of both adherends." }, { "name": "mechanical fastening", "difference": "Fasteners transfer load through discrete mechanical interference; adhesion transfers load across an interface by surface forces and/or an adhesive interlayer." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of adhesion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the ACT.ACT registry entry intend physical interfacial adhesion, the act of adhering, or another meaning that would change this scope?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or part of its attachment relationship?", "Should capillary attachment, electrostatic attachment and microscopic mechanical interlocking be included here or linked to neighbouring attachment models?", "Which test methods and acceptance criteria are appropriate for the material systems and uses this registry entry is expected to cover?", "How should biological surface adhesion and anatomical tissue adhesions be divided between this entry and specialised biological or clinical models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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 adhesion, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise adhesion between contacting bodies, assess whether their attachment is adequate under stated conditions, and judge whether to establish, preserve, modify or release it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: glass-to-metal seal.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 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 adhesion, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "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": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "glass-to-metal seal" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one adhesion from another, and a adhesion 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion 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 adhesion between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a adhesion 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a adhesion proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a adhesion, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a adhesion and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a adhesion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a adhesion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a adhesion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a adhesion consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a adhesion takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a adhesion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a adhesion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a adhesion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What adhesion is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of adhesion are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is adhesion operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of adhesion and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of adhesion?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as adhesion?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a adhesion 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 adhesion and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 adhesion is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a adhesion, 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 adhesion, 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 adhesion 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 } } } }