{ "model": { "rank": 4868, "code": "thing-q193472", "model_id": "vr.tr.trunk", "name": "trunk", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a tree trunk, record its structural and biological condition, and identify interventions that require further assessment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q193472/", "tier": 2, "score": 72, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "timber log", "Yule log", "Badnjak" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 72, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.trunk", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q193472", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193472", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:10:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08800-e010-75a2-a047-579fca289f33\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"distinguishing_features": [ "It is identified as a main stem of a tree, rather than simply any woody axis.", "Its lower boundary connects to the root collar; roots extending from that transition belong to the root system.", "Branches arise from it, while forks may create multiple competing main axes requiring an explicit boundary convention.", "It remains part of a standing tree or standing dead tree; a detached segment is ordinarily managed as a log.", "A palm's trunk-like main stem can fall within scope, but its tissue organisation must not be assumed to match that of a typical woody tree." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Parent tree and stem identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Parent-tree reference and locally unique stem identifier", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observations attached to the correct stem, particularly in multi-stemmed trees." }, { "name": "Growth-form context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Woody tree stem; palm main stem; other tree-form 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qualified tree specialist.", "Evaluate proposed attachments, guards, or nearby works for potential trunk injury.", "Track authorised interventions and subsequent changes in trunk condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "trunk-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Trunk identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which main stem is being modelled and where its extent begins and ends.", "rationale": "Trunk observations become ambiguous when stems fork, fuse, or lack a distinct crown transition.", "layers": [ { "id": "parent-tree-and-main-axis", "name": "Parent tree and main axis", "description": "Connects the trunk to its tree and distinguishes it from neighbouring axes.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-main-stem", "name": "Identified main stem", "description": "Record the parent tree, growth form, and evidence for treating this axis as a trunk.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parent tree and individually identifiable main stem does this record describe?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identified-main-stem-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this axis from a branch, basal shoot, or adjacent tree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identified-main-stem-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-collar-crown-and-forks", "name": "Root collar, crown, and forks", "description": "Defines operational boundaries at anatomical transitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-trunk-extent", "name": "Explicit trunk extent", "description": "Record lower and upper landmarks and the convention used at forks or fused stems.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible landmarks define the root-collar and upper trunk boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-trunk-extent-q01" }, { "text": "At each fork or fusion, are the axes recorded as one trunk or separate trunks, and why?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-trunk-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "trunk-form-and-growth", "name": "Trunk form and growth", "description": "Records dimensions and changes in main-stem geometry.", "rationale": "Taper, buttresses, lean, and irregular cross-sections affect both measurement and interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "diameter-taper-and-extent", "name": "Diameter, taper, and extent", "description": "Makes trunk measurements reproducible despite irregular form.", "findings": [ { "id": "repeatable-stem-dimensions", "name": "Repeatable stem dimensions", "description": "Record dimensions with their measurement locations, methods, and exceptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What diameter or circumference was measured, at what height and date, and by which method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "repeatable-stem-dimensions-q01" }, { "text": "How were buttresses, swellings, forks, or a non-circular cross-section handled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "repeatable-stem-dimensions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "orientation-and-change", "name": "Orientation and change", "description": "Tracks lean, curvature, and growth without assuming every asymmetry is a defect.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-form-change", "name": "Documented form change", "description": "Separate established trunk form from changes supported by comparable observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the trunk's lean direction, angle, and curvature relative to recorded reference points?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-form-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated observations establish whether its lean, diameter, or shape has changed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-form-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "trunk-tissues-and-condition", "name": "Trunk tissues and condition", "description": "Organises observations of trunk surfaces and evidence about underlying tissues.", "rationale": "External appearance, internal condition, and growth response are distinct and depend on the tree's anatomy.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomy-and-bark", "name": "Anatomy and bark", "description": "Interprets surface features using the parent tree's growth form.", "findings": [ { "id": "growth-form-specific-surface", "name": "Growth-form-specific surface", "description": "Record bark and surface features without applying unsupported anatomical assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parent-tree identification supports the anatomical interpretation used for this trunk?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "growth-form-specific-surface-q01" }, { "text": "Which surface features are expected for that growth form, and which remain unexplained?", "kind": "definition", "id": "growth-form-specific-surface-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wounds-cavities-and-associated-organisms", "name": "Wounds, cavities, and associated organisms", "description": "Locates damage and biological observations while retaining uncertainty about hidden tissues.", "findings": [ { "id": "located-condition-evidence", "name": "Located condition evidence", "description": "Record the position and extent of wounds, cracks, cavities, and organism signs separately from diagnostic 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crown loading and the root interface.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-structural-assessment", "name": "Contextual structural assessment", "description": "Record relevant loading and site context, including limits of a trunk-only assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which crown sections, major unions, and installed attachments load this trunk?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-structural-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in wind exposure, crown loading, or root support affect the assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-structural-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Which observations require a whole-tree assessment before a structural conclusion can be made?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-structural-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-and-follow-up", "name": "Protection and follow-up", "description": "Defines evidence and constraints for trunk protection, treatment, and monitoring.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-trunk-actions", "name": "Justified trunk actions", "description": "Tie each proposed action to a documented need, relevant authority, and follow-up criterion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed guard, attachment adjustment, investigation, or other trunk intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-trunk-actions-q01" }, { "text": "Which permissions, habitat constraints, and specialist requirements apply to the proposed work?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-trunk-actions-q02" }, { "text": "What trunk changes should be checked afterward, and what would trigger reassessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "justified-trunk-actions-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 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"Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Single trunk", "Forked trunk", "Buttressed trunk" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of trunk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Timber and wood production", "Tree inventory and growth monitoring", "Assessment of tree stability and structural condition", "Habitat for organisms living in bark, wood and cavities", "Estimation of tree biomass and carbon stocks" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of trunk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Wood decay can reduce structural strength.", "Cracks and weak unions can contribute to trunk failure.", "Girdling damage can interrupt transport through the inner bark.", "Boring insects and pathogens can damage trunk tissues.", "Wind, fire and mechanical impacts can injure or break trunks." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of trunk this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Tree inventories use different prescribed heights and conventions for measuring trunk diameter, particularly for sloping ground, 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a trunk 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 trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk 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 trunk, 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 trunk, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a trunk and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 trunk is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk moves on its own.", "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 trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk 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 trunk between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a trunk 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 trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What trunk is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of trunk, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate trunk from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish trunk from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What trunk does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does trunk pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of trunk judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where trunk lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of trunk, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does trunk hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a trunk 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 trunk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk 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 trunk is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a trunk, 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 trunk, 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 trunk is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }