{ "model": { "rank": 5670, "code": "thing-q193893", "model_id": "vr.tr.capital-q193893", "name": "capital", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise capital committed or available to an activity, assess its capacity and constraints, and determine which uses, transfers or preservation actions are feasible.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q193893/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "sculpture capital", "Indo-Corinthian capital", "cul-de-lampe", "leave capital", "volute capital", "Ancient Egyptian capitals", "Roman capital", "cushion capital", "calyx capital", "iconic capital", "tectonic capital" ], "aliasCount": 11, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.capital-location", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q193893", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193893", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T08:57:02Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 15.8, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 76.5, "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: 01a07b14-aa09-7ec1-98f7-e956e9075726\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: capital\nRegistry id: vr.tr.capital-q193893\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q193893", "registryId": "vr.tr.capital-q193893", "name": "capital", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q193893/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.capital-q193893", "name": "capital", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise capital committed or available to an activity, assess its capacity and constraints, and determine which uses, transfers or preservation actions are feasible.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This draft models capital as a stock of resources or funding held for productive use or future returns, including its composition, valuation, deployment and maintenance; the intended economic meaning of the registry entry remains to be verified.", "in_scope": [ "The boundary of a capital stock, its holder and the activity it supports", "The distinction between productive resources, financing claims and funds available for deployment", "Capital valuation at a stated date under an explicit measurement basis", "Deployment, liquidity, commitment and restrictions on use", "Capital formation, consumption, impairment and maintenance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Detailed specifications, condition histories and operations of individual productive assets", "Complete accounting records and financial statements of the capital holder", "Full contractual terms and lifecycle management of loans, shares and other financing instruments", "Production workflows and the goods or services they produce", "Labour capabilities, natural resources and social relationships except where an explicitly chosen capital concept includes them", "Capital cities and uppercase letters" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A capital amount describes a stock at a stated time; income, expenditure and investment flows describe changes over an interval.", "A resource belongs within this capital boundary because of its productive or return-seeking role, rather than merely because it has a price.", "Money is capital within this model when it is held or committed for the relevant activity; a cash balance alone does not establish that role.", "A productive asset and the financial claim funding it represent different views; counting both requires an explicit aggregation rule.", "Capital is not automatically equity or net worth: whether liabilities are deducted depends on the declared capital concept." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Capital concept", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Productive capital, financial capital, or another explicitly defined concept", "why_it_matters": "Determines which resources and claims belong in the model and which measures are comparable." }, { "name": "Holder and supported activity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to the owning or controlling party and the enterprise, project or activity", "why_it_matters": "Establishes whose capital is being assessed and what it is expected to enable." }, { "name": "Capital composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared classes such as fixed productive assets, circulating inputs, deployable funds and financial claims", "why_it_matters": "Different components provide capacity, turn over and lose value in different ways." }, { "name": "Measured capital stock", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Currency amount or component-specific physical units, with valuation date and basis", "why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to assess scale without treating incompatible measurements as equivalent." }, { "name": "Deployment status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Available, committed, deployed, idle, impaired or being withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Separates recorded capital from capital that can support a new action." }, { "name": "Redeployment time", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Estimated days or months under a stated release, sale or conversion scenario", "why_it_matters": "Indicates when capital could become usable elsewhere." }, { "name": "Use and transfer constraints", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to applicable ownership rights, approvals, pledges and contractual restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Determines which actions the controlling agent is permitted to initiate." }, { "name": "Capital consumption", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Currency or productive-capacity loss per stated period, with estimation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of whether continued use is depleting the capital base." }, { "name": "Maintenance objective", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Nominal financial amount, purchasing power, productive capacity or another declared objective", "why_it_matters": "Defines what must be preserved before an apparent surplus can be treated as distributable." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify resources and claims against a declared capital boundary.", "Reconcile opening and closing capital stocks with additions, withdrawals, consumption and revaluations.", "Identify capital available for deployment after commitments and restrictions are considered.", "Compare retention, reinvestment, conversion and withdrawal scenarios using explicit assumptions.", "Flag impairment, concentration or maintenance shortfalls for review.", "Determine which proposed uses or transfers require additional authority or evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "capital-concept-and-boundary", "name": "Capital concept and boundary", "description": "Defines which meaning of capital applies and which resources or claims constitute the assessed stock.", "rationale": "Capital measures become misleading when productive resources, funding and residual ownership are treated as interchangeable.", "layers": [ { "id": "economic-role", "name": "Economic role", "description": "Establishes why the included resources or funds count as capital.", "findings": [ { "id": "capital-inclusion-test", "name": "Capital inclusion test", "description": "Records the chosen capital concept and the role that qualifies each component for inclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does capital here mean productive resources, financial means, or another explicitly bounded concept?", "kind": "definition", "id": "capital-inclusion-test-q01" }, { "text": "What productive use or expected future return justifies including each component?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "capital-inclusion-test-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holder-and-aggregation", "name": "Holder and aggregation", "description": "Bounds the capital stock by holder, activity and aggregation level.", "findings": [ { "id": "capital-perimeter", "name": "Capital perimeter", "description": "Identifies the assessed holder and prevents overlapping representations from inflating the stock.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose capital is being assessed, for which activity, and at what organisational level?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "capital-perimeter-q01" }, { "text": "How are underlying productive assets and financing claims distinguished to prevent double counting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capital-perimeter-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capital-composition-and-valuation", "name": "Capital composition and valuation", "description": "Describes what the capital consists of and how its quantity or value is established.", "rationale": "A single capital total can conceal differences in productive capacity, valuation basis and real purchasing power.", "layers": [ { "id": "productive-and-financial-forms", "name": "Productive and financial forms", "description": "Separates components according to how they support activity and circulate through it.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-role-and-turnover", "name": "Component role and turnover", "description": "Distinguishes enduring productive resources, inputs consumed through operations and financial means or claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components provide repeated productive services, circulate through an operating cycle, or provide financial means?", "kind": "definition", "id": "component-role-and-turnover-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the classification and expected turnover of each material component?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "component-role-and-turnover-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stock-measurement", "name": "Stock measurement", "description": "Makes capital estimates interpretable across dates, components and measurement methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-capital-estimate", "name": "Dated capital estimate", "description": "Records the stock estimate together with its date, units, valuation basis and deductions.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what date and on what basis is capital measured: acquisition cost, replacement cost, market value, physical capacity or another basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-capital-estimate-q01" }, { "text": "Which deductions produce any reported net figure, and how are depreciation, impairment and liabilities kept distinct?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-capital-estimate-q02" }, { "text": "Which observations or records support the estimate, and which components remain uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-capital-estimate-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capital-deployment-and-control", "name": "Capital deployment and control", "description": "Connects the capital stock to current commitments, alternative uses and authority to act.", "rationale": "Recorded capital may be committed, inaccessible or unsuitable for the activity an agent proposes.", "layers": [ { "id": "commitment-and-convertibility", "name": "Commitment and convertibility", "description": "Assesses how much capital can be used or moved, and under what practical conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "redeployable-capital", "name": "Redeployable capital", "description": "Separates immediately available capital from amounts requiring release, sale or conversion.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much capital is available, committed, deployed or idle, and over what time horizon?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "redeployable-capital-q01" }, { "text": "What delay, conversion loss or disruption would arise if each material component were redeployed?", "kind": "action", "id": "redeployable-capital-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights-and-permitted-uses", "name": "Rights and permitted uses", "description": "Distinguishes economic availability from permission to allocate or transfer capital.", "findings": [ { "id": "allocation-authority", "name": "Allocation authority", "description": "Records the rights and restrictions relevant to proposed capital actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may allocate, pledge, transfer or withdraw this capital, and what evidence establishes that authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "allocation-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which commitments, restrictions or required approvals constrain the proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "allocation-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capital-reproduction-and-preservation", "name": "Capital reproduction and preservation", "description": "Tracks how the capital base changes and whether its intended value or capacity is being sustained.", "rationale": "An increase in recorded value does not by itself establish new productive capacity or a surplus available for withdrawal.", "layers": [ { "id": "stock-change-reconciliation", "name": "Stock change reconciliation", "description": "Explains movement between capital observations without confusing investment flows and valuation changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "sources-of-capital-change", "name": "Sources of capital change", "description": "Separates formation and withdrawal from 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capability?", "kind": "definition", "id": "maintained-capital-base-q01" }, { "text": "What return or surplus remains after the maintenance requirement, and what assumptions govern its attribution to this capital?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maintained-capital-base-q02" }, { "text": "What replenishment, replacement or retention action is needed to avoid depletion under the proposed use?", "kind": "action", "id": "maintained-capital-base-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry id vr.tr.capital-q193893 denote productive capital, financial capital or a broader economic concept, and what does its INF / INF.MED placement imply?", "Which authoritative sources should define the capital boundary and its relationship to wealth, assets, equity and money?", "Should human, natural, intellectual and social capital be included, linked as neighbouring models or explicitly excluded?", "Which valuation and capital-maintenance conventions are required for the intended agent tasks?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it instead of creating a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 18 } }, "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. 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 capital, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise capital committed or available to an activity, assess its capacity and constraints, and determine which uses, transfers or preservation actions are feasible.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: sculpture capital, Indo-Corinthian capital, cul-de-lampe, leave capital, volute capital, Ancient Egyptian capitals, Roman capital, cushion capital, calyx capital, iconic capital, tectonic capital.", "11 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 capital, 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": [ { "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": [ "sculpture capital", "Indo-Corinthian capital", "cul-de-lampe", "leave capital", "volute capital", "Ancient Egyptian capitals", "Roman capital", "cushion capital", "calyx capital", "iconic capital", "tectonic capital" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 capital from another, and a capital 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 capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital 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 capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital 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 capital between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a capital 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 capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital 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 capital contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a capital, 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 capital, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event 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{ "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 capital 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 capital 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 capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 capital is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a capital, 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 capital, 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 capital 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 } } } }