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Own the meaning, evidence, acceptance and practical consequences of that designation for the person. Usage is context-dependent and contested; see [Merriam-Webster's discussion of otaku](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-otaku-mean-in-japanese).", "in_scope": [ "Self-identification or externally attributed otaku designation, including acceptance, rejection and context", "Specific interests, specialisms and distinctions the person considers relevant to that identity", "Current patterns of consuming, studying, collecting or creating material associated with those interests", "Participation in relevant fan communities and the separation of public and private identities", "Preferences and permissions governing fandom-related assistance and use of the otaku label" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's complete biography, demographics or general capabilities", "Full descriptions of anime, manga, games, idols or other subjects of interest", "Item-level ownership, condition and valuation of collections", "Governance and membership administration of fan communities or conventions", "Clinical assessment of addiction, social withdrawal or mental health", "Copyright ownership, licensing and commercial transaction execution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for an explicit, contextualized otaku designation; enjoying anime or purchasing merchandise alone does not establish this model's applicability.", "Separate self-identification from an outsider's description: a rejected attribution must remain a recorded attribution rather than become an accepted identity.", "Record the interest domain actually named; do not substitute anime fandom for an unspecified or different specialism.", "Treat cosplay, collecting, gaming and fan creation as independently evidenced activities, rather than interchangeable tests for otaku identity.", "Check that the referent is a person described through an enthusiast identity, rather than a product, fictional work or organization named Otaku." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Designation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "self-identified; externally attributed only; accepted attribution; rejected attribution; former identification; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the agent may describe the person as otaku or must qualify the designation." }, { "name": "Usage context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded language, community, setting, date and intended meaning; unknown where unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one speaker's meaning or tone from being imposed on another context." }, { "name": "Interest specialisms", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person-to-topic links with the person's preferred names and boundaries", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what the person's enthusiasm concerns without assuming a universal otaku interest." }, { "name": "Familiarity by topic", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-described familiarity or task-specific demonstrated knowledge, with supporting context", "why_it_matters": "Supports suitable explanations without ranking the person's authenticity." }, { "name": "Engagement modes", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Viewing; reading; playing; researching; collecting; creating; discussing; attending; other stated activity", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the activities for which assistance would actually be useful." }, { "name": "Engagement trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Active; intermittent; paused; historical; unknown, separately for each interest", "why_it_matters": "Prevents old interests or temporary inactivity from being mistaken for current preferences or identity rejection." }, { "name": "Optional activity commitment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "User-provided hours per stated period or currency-denominated budget per stated period", "why_it_matters": "Constrains requested plans without turning time or expenditure into an identity threshold." }, { "name": "Fandom participation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to voluntarily disclosed communities, events or collaborators, with role and visibility", "why_it_matters": "Supports relevant participation while preserving boundaries between audiences and personas." }, { "name": "Assistance preferences", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Topic exclusions; spoiler boundary; language or edition preference; recommendation frequency; label visibility; action permissions", "why_it_matters": "Makes recommendations and other assistance appropriate to this person's particular fandom experience." } ], "affordances": [ "Ask the person what otaku means to them and record or correct the designation with its context.", "Recommend works, references or events using stated specialisms, familiarity and spoiler boundaries.", "Help organize voluntary reading, viewing, playing, research or collecting plans within stated limits.", "Support requested fan projects by identifying relevant reference material and collaborators.", "Explain a contextual use of the label while preserving uncertainty about the person's own identification.", "Revise or retire outdated interest records and apply the person's requested visibility boundaries." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "enwiki-otaku", "title": "Otaku - English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku", "what_it_supports": "Working definition, script variants (おたく/オタク/ヲタク), hobby kinds, the 1989 Miyazaki media panic, Akihabara geography, and transnational spread of the label.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "azuma-2009", "title": "Hiroki Azuma, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (orig. 動物化するポストモダン, Kodansha, 2001)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Specialist account of otaku as a postmodern consumer type organized around database-like character and moe elements rather than narrative wholes." }, { "id": "kinsella-1998", "title": "Sharon Kinsella, \"Japanese Subculture in the 1990s: Otaku and the Amateur Manga Movement,\" Journal of Japanese Studies 24(2), 1998", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "How 1980s-90s Japanese media constructed otaku as a stigmatized amateur-manga public, and how that differs from ordinary fandom." }, { "id": "galbraith-2019", "title": "Patrick W. Galbraith, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Duke University Press, 2019", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Ethnography of contemporary Japanese otaku practice (Akihabara, moe, maid cafés, male-oriented retail) and of the fight over who may claim the name." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "otaku-designation", "name": "Otaku designation", "description": "Establish what the designation means for this person and who is applying it.", "rationale": "Recognition depends on contextual evidence about the label, rather than an agent's stereotype of an enthusiast.", "layers": [ { "id": "meaning-in-context", "name": "Meaning in context", "description": "Locate the intended sense within a particular conversation or community.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-otaku-sense", "name": "Intended otaku sense", "description": "Record the speaker's intended meaning and whether it concerns a person, an identity or an unrelated named entity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does otaku 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"interest-specialisms", "name": "Interest specialisms", "description": "Describe the particular interests that give this person's otaku designation practical meaning.", "rationale": "An agent cannot infer suitable topics, depth or recommendations from the label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "specialism-boundaries", "name": "Specialism boundaries", "description": "Identify the person's own divisions between interests and adjacent subjects.", "findings": [ { "id": "named-interest-territory", "name": "Named interest territory", "description": "Record relevant subjects at the specificity the person uses, including explicit exclusions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which media, franchises, creators, technologies or other subjects does the person associate with their otaku identity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "named-interest-territory-q01" }, { "text": "Which nearby subjects should not be treated as interests merely because they share a medium or fandom?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "named-interest-territory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-and-discovery", "name": "Knowledge and discovery", "description": "Determine where the person wants depth, orientation or new material.", "findings": [ { "id": "topic-specific-familiarity", "name": "Topic-specific familiarity", "description": "Capture useful evidence of familiarity without creating a test of whether the person is a real otaku.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person report already knowing, completing or studying within each specialism?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "topic-specific-familiarity-q01" }, { "text": "Do they want introductory guidance, detailed comparison, obscure references or discovery beyond their current interests?", "kind": "action", "id": "topic-specific-familiarity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fandom-practice-and-continuity", "name": "Fandom practice and continuity", "description": "Record how particular interests are pursued and how participation changes over time.", "rationale": "The same designation can accompany different activities, and an enduring identity need not imply continuous activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "forms-of-engagement", "name": "Forms of engagement", "description": "Distinguish consuming, studying, collecting and creating within each specialism.", "findings": [ { "id": "actual-fandom-activities", "name": "Actual fandom activities", "description": "Identify activities the person reports or requests help with, without requiring purchases or public participation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which activities does the person actually undertake within each named interest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "actual-fandom-activities-q01" }, { "text": "Which activities are merely assumed from the otaku label and still need confirmation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actual-fandom-activities-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "changing-engagement", "name": "Changing engagement", "description": "Separate current involvement, temporary pauses and changes in identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "interest-state-and-limits", "name": "Interest state and limits", "description": "Record current engagement and any voluntarily supplied limits relevant to assistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which interests are active, intermittent, paused or historical, and when was that status confirmed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interest-state-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What time, spending or scheduling limits should govern assistance with these interests?", "kind": "action", "id": "interest-state-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fandom-belonging-and-personas", "name": "Fandom belonging and personas", "description": "Represent chosen participation and audience boundaries around the person's fandom identity.", "rationale": "Community involvement and identity visibility affect assistance but must be established separately from the otaku designation.", "layers": [ { "id": "participation-context", "name": "Participation context", "description": "Record whether and how the person chooses to engage with other enthusiasts.", "findings": [ { "id": "chosen-fandom-relationships", "name": "Chosen fandom relationships", "description": "Capture disclosed communities and roles without treating solitary engagement as a deficiency.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which fan communities, events or collaborations does the person choose to participate in, if any?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "chosen-fandom-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Would they like support for discussion, attendance, collaboration or independent pursuit of their interests?", "kind": "action", "id": "chosen-fandom-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "persona-boundaries", "name": "Persona boundaries", "description": "Preserve the person's chosen separation between fandom identities and other contexts.", "findings": [ { "id": "label-and-handle-visibility", "name": "Label and handle visibility", "description": "Record where the otaku designation and any disclosed fan 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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) - industrial policy that treats otaku culture as an export and tourism asset rather than a legal definition of the type." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of otaku 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": [ "Self-label and othering term in Japanese media, workplaces, families, and fandoms.", "Retail and tourism geography: Akihabara (male-oriented anime/game/figure trade), Ikebukuro Otome Road (female-oriented), Nakano Broadway, and specialist figure/idol shops.", "Periodic mass gathering and grey-market production at Comic Market (Comiket) and smaller dōjin events.", "Industry market segment (character goods, anime discs, gacha, idols, garage kits) tracked by Japanese trade research.", "Academic and policy object: subculture studies, Cool Japan branding, and debates over youth, sexuality, and copyright.", "Loanword identity among overseas anime/manga fans, often with weaker stigma than in Japan." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of otaku 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": "Comic Market (Comiket) attendance", "typical_range": "about 500000-750000 in peak 2000s-2010s editions", "unit": "persons per event" }, { "quantity": "Broad Japanese \"otaku market\" (industry estimates; scope of goods included varies widely)", "typical_range": "roughly 1.2-2.0 trillion", "unit": "JPY 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goods, with household-finance harm.", "Copyright and obscenity enforcement against dōjinshi, scanlation, and adult anime/games.", "In-group harassment, stalking of idols, doxxing, and exclusionary gatekeeping.", "Export of the word as a slur that polices fandom intensity abroad." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of otaku 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": [ "Japan: still ambivalent; オタク names a marked social type; male Akiba-kei and female Ikebukuro/otome geographies are distinguished in practice.", "English-speaking fandom: often a self-chosen badge for anime/manga fans, with weaker criminal-pathology association than in 1990s Japan.", "Sinosphere: 御宅族 and 宅 (zhai) as calques; 宅 can mean a homebody gamer rather than the full Japanese type.", "Korea: 오타쿠 is understood as a Japanese loan; 덕후 (deokhu) is the unmarked local intense-fan term.", "Anglophone internet further splits \"otaku\" from pejoratives such as weeaboo/weeb, which target performed Japaneseness rather than Japanese hobby identity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of otaku 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": "Hikikomori", "difference": "Hikikomori is prolonged social withdrawal; otaku is a hobby-organized identity that is often enacted in shops, events, and online publics. 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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 otaku, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to record a person's contextual identification as otaku, understand their particular interests and current engagement, and offer assistance consistent with their preferences.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: densha otaku, weeaboo.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 otaku, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "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": [ "densha otaku", "weeaboo" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 otaku from another, and a otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a otaku is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku 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 otaku and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 otaku is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a otaku, 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 otaku, 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 otaku 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 } } } }