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{ "id": "tenure-and-condition", "name": "Ownership, permitting and condition", "description": "Who holds spider web, what it is permitted for, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A structure is not the organisation that uses it, and its permission to exist is separate from its condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "tenure", "name": "Ownership and permission", "description": "Title, occupancy and the permits in force.", "findings": [ { "id": "tenure-record", "name": "Title, occupier and permits", "description": "Who owns, who occupies, and what is permitted.", "questions": [ { "id": "tenure-record-q01", "text": "Who owns and who occupies spider web, and which permits or consents are in force?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "tenure-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes the structure from the organisation that operates in it?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inspection", "name": "Condition and inspection", "description": "Inspection regime, defects and remaining service life.", "findings": [ { "id": "inspection-record", "name": "Inspections and defects", "description": "What is inspected, how often, and what was found.", "questions": [ { "id": "inspection-record-q01", "text": "What inspection regime applies to spider web, at what interval, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "inspection-record-q02", "text": "What finding takes it out of service, and who may authorise its return?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a spider web came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and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 spider web and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a spider web, 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 spider web, 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 spider web 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 spider web is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a spider web, 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 spider web, 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 spider web is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }