{ "model": { "rank": 5835, "code": "thing-q189862", "model_id": "vr.tr.fez", "name": "fez", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a fez, assess its condition and fitness for an intended use, and choose appropriate handling, wearing or conservation actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q189862/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Aso Oke" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 64, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q189862", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189862", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:35:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00828716, "turns": 1, "seconds": 70.9, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 83, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07b35-71c2-7843-b7dc-9f4d2566140e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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headwear object, including its identifying form, construction, fit, attachments, condition and object-specific use constraints; attribution and cultural meaning must remain linked to supporting evidence.", "in_scope": [ "Brimless crown form and evidence distinguishing a fez from neighbouring cap types", "Crown material, shaping method, lining and internal support", "Head opening, fit, stability and comfort for an intended wearer", "Tassel, attachment point, embroidery, badges and other applied elements when present", "Condition of the crown, lower edge, surface and attachments", "Documented provenance and constraints on wearing, alteration, cleaning and display" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The wearer's identity, beliefs or membership except as documented relations relevant to this object", "Complete uniforms or ceremonial outfits in which a fez may participate", "General histories of religions, states, organisations or dress traditions", "Manufacturing businesses and textile production systems", "Other cap types that resemble a fez but require a separate identification", "The city of Fez and other non-headwear meanings of the name" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for a crown without a projecting brim; a brim requires reconsidering identification or documenting an unusual modification.", "Compare the crown's profile and top with a roughly truncated-cone form and flattened top; distinguish these from a rounded skullcap or a tall cylindrical hat.", "Inspect whether the crown retains a formed shape when unworn rather than behaving solely as a soft, folding cap.", "Record the presence, absence and attachment evidence of a tassel; do not make a tassel or red colour sufficient evidence of identity.", "Where a neighbouring cap shares the same geometry, require documented naming or provenance and retain an uncertain identification if that evidence is missing." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported fez identification | provisional fez identification | unresolved cap type", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an appearance-based guess from becoming an authoritative attribution." }, { "name": "Crown profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "truncated cone | near cylinder | rounded | irregular or deformed | undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and separates intended form from possible damage." }, { "name": "Crown height", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with measurement position and deformation noted", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess proportions, fit and the support needed for storage or display." }, { "name": "Head-opening circumference", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm along the inner lower edge, measured without stretching", "why_it_matters": "Supports a fit decision without forcing the opening onto a wearer or support." }, { "name": "Crown construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed material and construction; felted, woven, supported, composite or undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Determines which handling and cleaning approaches need further material assessment." }, { "name": "Surface colour", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed colour, variation and evidence of fading; original colour unknown unless supported", "why_it_matters": "Records appearance without treating colour as proof of identity or affiliation." }, { "name": "Tassel configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "present and secure | present and loose | detached but associated | absent with attachment evidence | absent without attachment evidence | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes current configuration from an unsupported assumption that an accessory is missing." }, { "name": "Structural and surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "location-specific observations of distortion, splitting, abrasion, staining, fibre loss and suspected pest activity", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to judge whether wearing, handling or display would aggravate damage." }, { "name": "Documented use or affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked wearer, maker, organisation, occasion or collection record, with evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation and use decisions without inferring affiliation from decoration alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the object provisionally as a fez and request evidence where neighbouring cap types remain plausible.", "Assess whether the opening and crown permit wearing without stretching, abrasion or loss of shape.", "Inspect and document the tassel, its anchorage and applied insignia without pulling on them.", "Choose a storage or display support that accommodates the crown and avoids loading fragile attachments.", "Decide whether cleaning, reshaping, repair or alteration requires material identification, contextual checks or specialist assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "britannica-fez", "title": "Fez", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/fez-hat", "what_it_supports": "Form (brimless truncated cone, tassel), Ottoman adoption, and Maghrebi association.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q182296", "title": "fez (Q182296)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Canonical item identifier and aliases (fes, tarboosh as related labels).", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "hat-law-1925", "title": "Hat Law (Şapka Kanunu) of 25 November 1925", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Turkish republican ban on the fez as official and public male headgear." }, { "id": "mahmud-ii-dress", "title": "Mahmud II dress reform (1826-1829)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Replacement of the turban by the fez as Ottoman official headwear." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fez-identification", "name": "Fez identification", "description": "Establish whether the object belongs to this registered headwear concept and preserve uncertainty at its boundaries.", "rationale": "Brimless caps can share colour, tassels and crown profiles, so a fez cannot be identified reliably from a single visual cue.", "layers": [ { "id": "crown-form", "name": "Crown form", "description": "Examine the physical features used in an initial identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identifying-silhouette", "name": "Identifying silhouette", "description": "Record the combination of brim, side profile, top shape and ability to retain form.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the object have a brimless crown with a flattened top and a roughly truncated-cone profile?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identifying-silhouette-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed features distinguish it from a rounded skullcap, cylindrical cap or soft folding cap?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identifying-silhouette-q02" }, { "text": "Could crushing or reshaping explain features that currently conflict with the proposed identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identifying-silhouette-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "naming-and-attribution", "name": "Naming and attribution", "description": "Connect the physical identification to documented terminology without collapsing uncertain cap traditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-object-name", "name": "Supported object name", "description": "Distinguish a documented identification from a seller's label or visual inference.", "questions": [ { "text": "What label, maker record, collection description or owner account identifies this particular cap as a fez?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-object-name-q01" }, { "text": "Does another recorded name denote this same object type or a neighbouring type whose boundary remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-object-name-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crown-construction-and-fit", "name": "Crown construction and fit", "description": "Describe how the crown is formed and how its opening interacts with a wearer or support.", "rationale": "The formed crown and head opening jointly determine whether the fez can be worn or supported without distortion.", "layers": [ { "id": "formed-crown-assembly", "name": "Formed crown assembly", "description": "Identify the crown's textile structure and any lining or concealed support.", "findings": [ { "id": "shape-bearing-materials", "name": "Shape-bearing materials", "description": "Record what appears to maintain the crown's shape and distinguish observation from unverified composition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the crown as felted, woven or composite, and which material claims remain unverified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "shape-bearing-materials-q01" }, { "text": "Are a lining, stiffening layer, seams or other supports visible without dismantling the fez?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shape-bearing-materials-q02" }, { "text": "Which materials or hidden supports must be identified before moisture, heat or reshaping is considered?", "kind": "action", "id": "shape-bearing-materials-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "opening-and-wearer-interface", "name": "Opening and wearer interface", "description": "Assess size and contact points without assuming that a labelled size guarantees safe fit.", "findings": [ { "id": "non-forced-fit", "name": "Non-forced fit", "description": "Determine whether wearing or mounting would stretch the opening or load vulnerable crown areas.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the unstretched inner opening circumference, opening shape and usable internal height?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "non-forced-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Can the intended wearer or support enter the opening without force, edge strain or pressure on the top?", "kind": "action", "id": "non-forced-fit-q02" }, { "text": "Do the inner edge, lining or exposed fasteners create abrasion or discomfort during the proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "non-forced-fit-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tassel-and-applied-identity", "name": "Tassel and applied identity", "description": "Account for attachments and decoration as physical components and as potentially meaningful evidence.", "rationale": "A tassel or insignia can affect both handling and interpretation, but neither its originality nor its meaning should be assumed.", "layers": [ { "id": "tassel-assembly", "name": "Tassel assembly", "description": "Record any tassel, its anchorage and evidence of loss or replacement.", "findings": [ { "id": "tassel-presence-and-security", "name": "Tassel presence and security", "description": "Separate the observed attachment state from conclusions about the fez's intended configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a tassel present, and where and how is it attached to the crown?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tassel-presence-and-security-q01" }, { "text": "If it is absent or detached, what attachment traces or records establish whether this fez previously carried one?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tassel-presence-and-security-q02" }, { "text": "Can the tassel be arranged for use or display without pulling its anchorage, tangling strands or abrading the crown?", "kind": "action", "id": "tassel-presence-and-security-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inscriptions-and-insignia", "name": "Inscriptions and insignia", "description": "Describe applied marks and constrain claims about what they signify.", "findings": [ { "id": "decoration-evidence", "name": "Decoration evidence", "description": "Record lettering, embroidery, badges and marks alongside evidence for their date and association.", "questions": [ { "text": "What lettering, symbols, badges or embroidery appear on the fez, and which parts can be read confidently?", "kind": "definition", "id": "decoration-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects these marks to a maker, wearer, organisation or occasion rather than a decorative imitation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "decoration-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Would removing or replacing an applied element erase evidence or change the object's documented use?", "kind": "action", "id": "decoration-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-permitted-use", "name": "Condition and permitted use", "description": "Translate the fez's material condition and documented context into decisions about wearing, care and presentation.", "rationale": "A fez may remain visually recognisable while its crown, edge or attachments cannot tolerate ordinary wearing or treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "crown-and-fibre-condition", "name": "Crown and fibre condition", "description": "Locate deterioration that affects the formed crown, textile surfaces and lower edge.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-intervention-threshold", "name": "Damage and intervention threshold", "description": "Assess whether observed distortion or textile damage limits handling and requires further examination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are dents, flattening, splits, fibre loss, staining or suspected pest traces, and how extensive are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-and-intervention-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes intended asymmetry or wear history from recent crown deformation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "damage-and-intervention-threshold-q02" }, { "text": "Do the observations justify suspending wearing, separating the fez for inspection or obtaining specialist advice before treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-and-intervention-threshold-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wear-care-and-display", "name": "Wear, care and display", "description": "Select actions compatible with the physical object and any evidenced contextual restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-use-decision", "name": "Contextual use decision", "description": "Determine whether the proposed wearing, cleaning, alteration or display is supported by condition and records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this fez documented as active headwear, a costume item, a keepsake or a collection object, and what use constraints follow from that record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-use-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What support and tassel arrangement will preserve the crown profile without stretching the opening or loading fragile decoration?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-use-decision-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence or assessment is still required before cleaning, reshaping, repairing, altering or wearing this particular fez?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-use-decision-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "Ottoman fes (stiff red felt, black tassel; 19th-century official civil dress)", "Egyptian/Levantine tarboosh (taller, often worn with a wrapped turban or alone)", "Moroccan tarboush/fez (still made in Fes and worn with a djellaba)", "Tunisian chéchia (softer, lower, often without a standing tassel; related but distinct trade)", "Zouave and colonial military fez (uniform issue, sometimes with a neck-flap or badge)", "Shrine/fraternal fez (embroidered temple name, jewels, often maroon rather than scarlet)", "Tourist and costume fez (machine-felt or knit novelty, variable colour)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of fez this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q182296", "note": "Item for the hat; Turkish fes and English fez converge here. Tarboosh is often treated as the same or a near-synonym item." }, { "scheme": "HS (Harmonized System)", "value_or_pattern": "6505 (hats and other headgear, knitted or of felt)", "note": "No fez-specific tariff line; felt fezzes fall with other felt hats." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of fez this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "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": [ "Ottoman dress reform under Mahmud II (c. 1826-1829): fez mandated for officials in place of the turban (imperial decree, not an ISO-type standard).", "Republic of Turkey, Law No. 671 Şapka Kanunu (Hat Law), 25 November 1925: prohibited the fez in favour of European-style hats.", "No ISO, ASTM, or CEN product standard specific to the fez; manufacture is trade practice (felt blocking, dyeing, tassel attachment)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of fez 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": [ "Everyday and ceremonial male dress in Morocco (and historically Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and the Ottoman Balkans).", "Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Ottoman civil-service and urban dress, including the fez factory at Feshane in Istanbul.", "Issue or parade headgear for Zouave, spahi, and some other French, Italian, and British colonial units.", "Regalia of Shriners International (and some other fraternal bodies) in North America and elsewhere.", "Folk performance, film costume, and tourist merchandise." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fez 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": "Crown height", "typical_range": "100-160", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Head opening (inner circumference)", "typical_range": "540-600", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Tassel length", "typical_range": "150-300", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Felt thickness at body", "typical_range": "2-5", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of fez 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": [ "Crushing and permanent crease of the felt body (the hat has no brim and little internal structure).", "Tassel cord pull-out or tassel matting.", "Aniline-red dye bleed onto skin, clothing, or rain-wet felt.", "Moth damage to wool felt in storage.", "Political and legal hazard: wearing one in public in Turkey after 1925 could be prosecuted under the Hat Law; elsewhere it can read as colonial, Orientalist, or fraternal costume rather than local dress." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fez 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 fez / French fez vs Turkish fes vs Arabic ṭarbūsh (tarboush, tarboosh): same family of hats, different height, stiffness, and whether a tassel is expected.", "Tunisia: chéchia is the living related craft (softer, often crimson or black) and is not interchangeable with a stiff Ottoman fes in local usage.", "Morocco: the fez remains ordinary urban and ceremonial wear; Fes is both the namesake city and a production centre.", "Egypt and the Levant: tarboosh largely left everyday wear after mid-20th-century dress change (Egypt after 1952).", "Turkey: almost only historical, theatrical, or tourist after 1925.", "United States and Canada: the embroidered maroon Shrine fez is the dominant living type, not the Ottoman civil fes." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of fez 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": "Chéchia (Tunisian)", "difference": "Softer, lower, and usually without a standing black tassel; a skull-hugging cap rather than a rigid truncated cone." }, { "name": "Taqiyah / kufi", "difference": "Rounded or crocheted skullcap without a truncated-cone body or hanging tassel; Islamic prayer/daily cap, not Ottoman civil dress." }, { "name": "Pillbox hat", "difference": "Brimless cylinder, but typically fabric-covered, brimless fashion or uniform millinery without a crown tassel and without Maghrebi/Ottoman felt construction." }, { "name": "Smoking cap", "difference": "Soft embroidered indoor cap, often tasselled, of Victorian leisure dress; not blocked scarlet felt and not official Ottoman wear." }, { "name": "Turban", "difference": "Wound cloth, not a pre-formed felt hat; the fez was introduced in Ottoman reform specifically to replace it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of fez this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which documented cap traditions and alternative names does the registry intend fez to include, particularly where terminology overlaps with tarboosh or other brimless caps?", "How much variation in crown profile, rigidity and top shape is compatible with a supported fez identification?", "Under which documented variants are tassels absent by design, and what evidence distinguishes those cases from loss?", "Which material identification and conservation guidance applies to the crown, dyes, stiffeners and attachments of the particular fez being modelled?", "What object-specific evidence establishes any affiliation, wearing convention or restriction on alteration and display?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 31 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 fez, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a fez, assess its condition and fitness for an intended use, and choose appropriate handling, wearing or conservation actions.", "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: Aso Oke.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 64 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 fez, 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": [ "Aso Oke" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 64 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 fez from another, and a fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fez 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 fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez 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 fez is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fez, 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 fez, 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 fez is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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