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rehearsal.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, attributed roles, representations and source-dependent states of Apophis for vr.tr.apophis; the local registry code thing-q190511 resolves to the Egyptian serpent deity through [Wikidata Q190511](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190511).", "in_scope": [ "Names, epithets and evidence connecting an attestation to Apophis.", "Source-specific opposition to the sun god and cosmic order.", "Serpent representations and the contextual evidence needed to identify them.", "Narrative encounters, defeat states and their limits within particular accounts.", "Ritual references to Apophis, including distinctions between the referent and a ritual substitute.", "Differences among ancient attestations, scholarly interpretations and later adaptations." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Orbital properties and impact assessments of the asteroid named Apophis.", "Biographies of historical rulers bearing the name Apophis or Apepi.", "Independent fictional characters named Apophis and their franchise continuity.", "Complete models of Egyptian cosmology, the sun god or other deities.", "Physical conservation, ownership and handling of papyri, reliefs and ritual objects.", "Biological properties of actual snakes." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Resolve the name through its context: an Egyptian mythological attestation supports this identity, whereas an astronomical designation, royal titulary or franchise identifier points elsewhere.", "Require an inscription, textual identification or diagnostic scene context before identifying a serpent image as Apophis.", "Test for the role of serpent adversary of the sun god, as documented by the [British Museum authority record](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG52861).", "Distinguish hostile and protective serpent roles; Egyptian serpent imagery does not by itself establish Apophis, as the [British Museum explains](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA52831).", "Treat a named image or ritual substitute as a representation of Apophis rather than a separate deity or the physical presence of the mythological referent." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested name and identification basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Recorded name linked to a passage, inscription or authority identification; explicit, inferred, disputed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Allows name normalisation without merging unrelated bearers of Apophis or Apepi." }, { "name": "Attestation context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Mythological narrative, ritual prescription, funerary text, image, scholarly interpretation or later adaptation", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a statement describes an episode, prescribes an act or interprets older evidence." }, { "name": "Solar opposition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source-named opponent, threatened process and attributed mode of interference", "why_it_matters": "Makes Apophis recognisable through relationships rather than through a generic label such as evil." }, { "name": "Represented serpent form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-described bodily form, posture, markings and identifying inscription; unspecified allowed", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification while preventing one depiction from becoming a universal anatomical description." }, { "name": "Episode state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Threatening, opposed, restrained, injured, defeated, destroyed as stated, or unresolved; qualified by episode", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a local defeat from being recorded as an enduring condition across all traditions." }, { "name": "Ritual target relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Apophis linked to a named image, written name, effigy or other substitute when attested", "why_it_matters": "Separates symbolic action upon a representation from claims about a physical entity." }, { "name": "Attestation date", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Year or bounded date range in BCE/CE, with uncertainty and distinction between composition and surviving witness", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison across periods without projecting later formulations into earlier evidence." }, { "name": "Claim support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly attested, contextually inferred, disputed, contradicted or unexamined", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the agent may assert, qualify or defer an identification or interpretation." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify an Apophis reference and explain the evidence separating it from namesakes.", "Compare portrayals of solar opposition without collapsing different witnesses into one account.", "Annotate a serpent depiction with a supported identification or an explicit unresolved status.", "Reconstruct an encounter's state changes within the boundaries of its source.", "Explain a recorded ritual against Apophis while distinguishing prescription, performance evidence and claimed effect.", "Generate source-qualified descriptions or adaptations and label additions that lack ancient attestation." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "jpl-ssd-apophis", "title": "99942 Apophis (2004 MN4) - JPL Small-Body Database", "url": "https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=99942", "what_it_supports": "Designation, orbit class, close-approach geometry, and physical parameters used in the definition and measurements.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iau-wgsbn-naming", "title": "Naming of minor planet 99942 Apophis", "url": "https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/", "what_it_supports": "Official IAU name after the Egyptian serpent of chaos; distinguishes the asteroid from the mythological figure.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "nasa-apophis-2029", "title": "Apophis 2029 Earth close approach - NASA Planetary Defense", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/", "what_it_supports": "2029 flyby as a real-world observation campaign and the ruling-out of a 2029 impact.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "apophis-identity", "name": "Apophis identity", "description": "Establish which uses of the name denote the registered Egyptian mythological referent.", "rationale": "Apophis has unrelated namesakes, and a name match alone cannot justify identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-attestations", "name": "Names and attestations", "description": "Connect recorded name forms to identifiable witnesses.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-equivalence", "name": "Name equivalence", "description": "Require evidence for each proposed equivalence between Apophis and another spelling or epithet.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passage or authority establishes that this name form denotes Apophis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Is this expression a personal name, an epithet, a translation or a modern editorial label?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "namesake-boundaries", "name": "Namesake boundaries", "description": "Separate the deity from similarly named rulers, astronomical objects and adaptations.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-resolution", "name": "Referent resolution", "description": "Use contextual evidence to accept or reject assignment to vr.tr.apophis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this reference concern the Egyptian deity, a historical ruler, an asteroid or a fictional derivative?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits linking the reference to this entry, and when must the agent leave it unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "referent-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "solar-opposition", "name": "Solar opposition", "description": "Record how particular sources place Apophis in opposition to the sun god and ordered existence.", "rationale": "The nature and target of opposition are more informative than an undifferentiated category of chaos.", "layers": [ { "id": "threatened-solar-process", "name": "Threatened solar process", "description": "Identify the process endangered in an encounter.", "findings": [ { "id": "obstruction-and-target", "name": "Obstruction and target", "description": "Capture what Apophis threatens and how the source describes that threat.", "questions": [ { "text": "What solar movement, renewal or other process does Apophis threaten in this account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "obstruction-and-target-q01" }, { "text": "Which words or scene details support the proposed mechanism of interference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "obstruction-and-target-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "opponents-and-cosmic-meaning", "name": "Opponents and cosmic meaning", "description": "Distinguish named participants from interpretations of their cosmic roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-specific-antagonism", "name": "Source-specific antagonism", "description": "Record who opposes Apophis and whether the account explicitly connects this conflict to order or chaos.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who opposes Apophis in this witness, and what action is attributed to each participant?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-specific-antagonism-q01" }, { "text": "Is the language of chaos or cosmic order present in the source or supplied by an interpreter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-specific-antagonism-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "serpent-representation", "name": "Serpent representation", "description": "Assess images and descriptions attributed to Apophis without treating every Egyptian serpent as the same figure.", "rationale": "Identification depends on inscriptions, actions and surrounding figures as well as bodily form.", "layers": [ { "id": "visual-identification", "name": "Visual identification", "description": "Evaluate the evidence supporting an image attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-scene-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic scene evidence", "description": "Separate observable features from the inference that the depicted serpent is Apophis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inscription, accompanying figure or depicted action identifies the serpent as Apophis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-scene-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could the same visible features represent a protective serpent or another named being?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-scene-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "depiction-and-referent", "name": "Depiction and referent", "description": "Keep the properties of an image distinct from attributes assigned to Apophis.", "findings": [ { "id": "representational-limits", "name": "Representational limits", "description": "Constrain conclusions drawn from size, bodily damage and pose in individual representations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a recorded size describe the artifact, the pictured serpent or an explicit textual magnitude?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "representational-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which depicted features may the agent describe locally without asserting that all portrayals of Apophis share them?", "kind": "action", "id": "representational-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "encounter-and-defeat", "name": "Encounter and defeat", "description": "Track Apophis's condition within individual confrontations and any explicitly stated recurrence.", "rationale": "Defeat imagery requires episode boundaries so that a temporary or ritual outcome does not become a universal final state.", "layers": [ { "id": "encounter-sequence", "name": "Encounter sequence", "description": "Record the sequence and participants supported by a particular witness.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-state-transition", "name": "Bounded state transition", "description": "Distinguish an attested confrontation from a reconstructed sequence; one museum example depicts Ra piercing Apophis from the solar barque. [British Museum ostracon EA29509](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA29509).", "questions": [ { "text": "What condition of Apophis is shown or stated before and after the opposing action?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-state-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Does the witness present a sequence, a single scene or an outcome whose preceding events are unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-state-transition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "outcome-and-recurrence", "name": "Outcome and recurrence", "description": "Qualify the duration and meaning of any defeat.", "findings": [ { "id": "defeat-finality", "name": "Defeat finality", "description": "Preserve differences among restraint, injury, destruction language and later reappearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source claim temporary restraint, destruction within the episode or a lasting end?", "kind": "definition", "id": "defeat-finality-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits connecting this defeat with another appearance rather than treating the accounts separately?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "defeat-finality-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-against-apophis", "name": "Ritual against Apophis", "description": "Model Apophis as the named target of ritual texts and representations; the Bremner-Rhind papyrus includes the Book of Overthrowing Apep and Names of Apep. [British Museum papyrus EA10188-8](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10188-8).", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish opposition to Apophis from worship, and an action on a substitute from an action on its referent.", "layers": [ { "id": "target-and-substitute", "name": "Target and substitute", "description": "Establish how a ritual identifies what stands for Apophis.", "findings": [ { "id": "ritual-target-binding", "name": "Ritual target binding", "description": "Require source support for the relationship between Apophis and a named or manufactured ritual target.", "questions": [ { "text": "What name, formula or instruction identifies the ritual target as a representation of Apophis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ritual-target-binding-q01" }, { "text": "Is the prescribed action directed at a written name, an image, an effigy or another attested substitute?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ritual-target-binding-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prescription-and-performance", "name": "Prescription and performance", "description": "Separate ritual instructions, evidence of enactment and claims about results.", "findings": [ { "id": "ritual-evidence-limits", "name": "Ritual evidence limits", "description": "Record the intended effect against Apophis without presenting that effect as an independently observed event.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence prescribe a rite, document a performance or report a claimed outcome?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ritual-evidence-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What may the agent explain or reconstruct from this witness, and which missing steps must remain unspecified?", "kind": "action", "id": "ritual-evidence-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "apophis-tradition-variants", "name": "Apophis tradition variants", "description": "Keep historical witnesses, interpretations and later reuses distinguishable when claims about Apophis diverge.", "rationale": "A single composite biography would conceal variation and turn later additions into purported ancient attributes.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-witnesses", "name": "Historical witnesses", "description": "Locate claims within the chronology and context of their evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-claim-context", "name": "Dated claim context", "description": "Attach disputed attributes and relationships to their actual witnesses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What date range belongs to the surviving witness, and what separately supports a proposed composition date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-claim-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which witness supports this origin story, epithet or relationship, and do other witnesses disagree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-claim-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-reuse", "name": "Interpretation and reuse", "description": "Distinguish ancient attribution from scholarly comparison and creative adaptation.", "findings": [ { "id": "reuse-without-identity-collapse", "name": "Reuse without identity collapse", "description": "Permit links to later uses while preserving the boundary of the registered referent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this asserted equivalence an ancient identification, a scholarly analogy or a later creative borrowing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reuse-without-identity-collapse-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent incorporate the claim with qualification, link to a neighbouring model or exclude it from Apophis's ancient attributes?", "kind": "action", "id": "reuse-without-identity-collapse-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": [ "Aten-class near-Earth asteroid (99942 Apophis)", "Egyptian chaos serpent (Apep/Apophis) as the namesake", "radar-characterized binary-candidate / tumbling elongated body", "planetary-defense flyby target (13 April 2029)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Apophis 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": "MPC / IAU minor-planet designation", "value_or_pattern": "99942 Apophis (provisional 2004 MN4)", "note": "Numbered minor planet; packed designation K04M04N." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q136811", "note": "Item for the asteroid; mythological Apep is a separate item (Q207273)." }, { "scheme": "SPK-ID (JPL)", "value_or_pattern": "2099942", "note": "Used in SPICE and Horizons ephemerides." }, { "scheme": "NASA JPL SBDB", "value_or_pattern": "99942", "note": "Canonical lookup key on the Small-Body Database." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Apophis 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": [ "IAU / MPC designation and naming rules for minor planets (Minor Planet Center; WG Small Body Nomenclature)", "IAU planetary-defense coordination and NEO confirmation process (IAWN / SMPAG under UN COPUOS endorsement)", "UN COPUOS recommendations on near-Earth object impact threat (International Asteroid Warning Network)", "NASA PDCO / ESA SSA-NEO observational reporting conventions for radar, optical, and spacecraft tracking" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Apophis 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": [ "Planetary-defense rehearsal: the 13 April 2029 ~32,000 km Earth flyby is treated as a live tracking, radar, and public-communication exercise.", "Ground-based planetary radar (Goldstone, formerly Arecibo) and optical astrometry to refine non-gravitational forces (Yarkovsky).", "Mission-study target (e.g. ESA RAMSES, NASA OSIRIS-APEX extended mission to Apophis after Bennu).", "Public risk communication case study: 2004-2006 Palermo/Torino scale alerts later retired as the orbit was constrained." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Apophis 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": "Absolute magnitude H", "typical_range": "19.1-19.7", "unit": "mag" }, { "quantity": "Mean diameter", "typical_range": "340-370", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Rotation period (tumbling / non-principal-axis)", "typical_range": "30-31 (plus longer precession)", "unit": "h" }, { "quantity": "Geometric albedo", "typical_range": "0.23-0.33", "unit": "dimensionless" }, { "quantity": "2029 Earth flyby geocentric distance", "typical_range": "31000-38000", "unit": "km" }, { "quantity": "Bulk density (estimated, Sq/S-type rubble-pile analogue)", "typical_range": "1.9-3.5", "unit": "g cm^-3" }, { "quantity": "Earth minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID)", "typical_range": "~0.0002-0.0004", "unit": "au" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Apophis 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": [ "Impact hazard (now ruled out for 2029 and 2036; residual risk is in later centuries and is dominated by orbit-prediction and Yarkovsky uncertainty).", "Tidal perturbation in 2029 may alter spin state, surface, or binary status - a scientific opportunity and a prediction-model failure mode.", "False-alarm / communication hazard: early Torino Scale 4 listings caused public alarm that later data could not fully walk back in popular memory.", "Radar and optical coverage gaps around the flyby could leave post-encounter orbit (and any mass/shape change) under-constrained.", "Spacecraft or Earth-satellite conjunction risk is negligible at ~6 Earth radii but is routinely checked because the path crosses GEO altitude." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Apophis 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 and planetary-science usage: 'Apophis' almost always means 99942; Egyptological and popular-culture usage still means the serpent Apep (Greek Ἄποφις).", "Greek form Apophis vs Egyptian Apep/Apepi; some languages keep Apep for the deity and Apophis for the asteroid.", "Impact-risk communication differed by country in 2004-2006 (Torino Scale headlines vs technical Palermo Scale), which still shapes local public recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Apophis 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": "Apep / Apophis (Egyptian deity)", "difference": "Mythological chaos serpent; no MPC number, no osculating elements. The asteroid is the numbered body 99942 / 2004 MN4." }, { "name": "101955 Bennu", "difference": "B-type carbonaceous rubble pile ~490 m, OSIRIS-REx sample-return target; Apophis is an Sq/S-type stony Aten ~350 m with a much closer 2029 Earth approach." }, { "name": "162173 Ryugu", "difference": "Cg-type C-complex, Hayabusa2 target; different taxonomy, larger, and not an Earth-coorbital-class close-flyby object in 2029." }, { "name": "99942 vs other 2004 MN-provisional NEOs", "difference": "Packed designation K04M04N and permanent number 99942 uniquely identify this object in MPC/JPL catalogues." }, { "name": "Potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) class in general", "difference": "PHA is a population cut (H ≤ 22 and MOID ≤ 0.05 au). Apophis is one PHA; membership is not identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Apophis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which ancient corpora and periods should form the minimum evidence base, and what are the earliest securely dated named attestations?", "Which spellings and epithets can be confidently normalised to Apophis, particularly where names overlap with rulers or other beings?", "How do accounts differ about Apophis's origin, opponents and the recurrence or finality of defeat?", "Which visual features identify Apophis reliably when no inscription survives, and which require an unresolved attribution?", "What evidence distinguishes prescribed rites against Apophis from documented performances, including their practitioners, locations and frequency?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 32 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Apophis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Apophis as the Egyptian mythological referent, assess source-specific portrayals and ritual states, and decide which identifications, comparisons and representations are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "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 Apophis, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Apophis from another, and a Apophis 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis 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 Apophis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Apophis 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Apophis says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Apophis contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Apophis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Apophis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Apophis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Apophis and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Apophis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Apophis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Apophis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of Apophis a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For Apophis, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of Apophis exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made Apophis and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to Apophis, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in Apophis, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Apophis 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 Apophis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 Apophis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Apophis, 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 Apophis, 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 Apophis 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 } } } }