{ "model": { "rank": 2367, "code": "thing-q19652", "model_id": "vr.tr.public-domain", "name": "public domain", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical public domain, assess its public accessibility and condition, and determine which uses or interventions require further evidence or authorisation.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q19652/", "tier": 2, "score": 108, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature", "copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder", "public domain music", "public domain in the People's Republic of China", "Public domain in Mexico", "state symbols and signs", "national folklore", "ideas, theories, concepts, discoveries and inventions", "means of payment", "simple facts", "Asaokpuaja Health Centre", "Obuda Ward Health Centre", "public domain in India", "public domain in the United States", "No Copyright - United States", "public domain as not covered by copyright law", "public domain due to expiry of copyright", "ineligible for copyright protection", "work of author in whom no copyright is vested", "no known copyright restrictions" ], "aliasCount": 20, "merged": 20, "knownIn": 108, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q19652", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19652", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:51:18Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.05602674, "turns": 3, "seconds": 225.8, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 75, "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: 01a07bb1-ebef-7380-a267-d9639ecc37bd\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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in civil-law systems, domaine public / dominio público, being property of a public person affected to the public's direct use or to a public service and therefore inalienable and imprescriptible.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interpreting PHY / PHY.OBJ as the physical public realm, this model owns the identity, extent, public character, accessibility, shared use and stewardship of a spatially identifiable place; research must confirm that the registry intends this meaning rather than copyright public domain or a public landholding category.", "in_scope": [ "The spatial extent and constituent spaces of a publicly accessible physical realm", "The evidence supporting its public character, including distinctions between ownership and access", "Public access conditions across entrances, user groups and times", "Shared uses, competing activities and temporary occupation", "Stewardship responsibilities and conditions affecting continued public use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Copyright status and intellectual property reuse permissions", "Detailed cadastral records, title histories and land transactions", "Engineering specifications of individual roads, buildings, utilities or landscape assets", "Operation of individual events, businesses or transport services", "Municipal institutions and their internal administrative processes" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A candidate has an identifiable physical extent; a collection of copyright-free works does not satisfy this interpretation.", "Public ownership alone does not establish public accessibility: record whether ordinary members of the public can actually enter and use the place.", "Observed access alone does not establish an enduring public entitlement: distinguish documented access arrangements from permission that may be withdrawn.", "Public visibility does not establish public use: a visible but inaccessible courtyard or frontage needs separate boundary evidence.", "A space serving a defined membership or customer group requires evidence before its access is treated as public." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Public character basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded designation, documented access arrangement, customary use, observed access only, contested, unknown; multiple values possible", "why_it_matters": "Separates the evidence for public character from assumptions based on appearance or ownership." }, { "name": "Spatial extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mapped boundary with coordinate reference system; area in square metres where meaningful; boundary uncertainty recorded", "why_it_matters": "Identifies where assessments and use conditions apply." }, { "name": "Ownership and control relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Place linked separately to evidenced owners, access controllers and stewards", "why_it_matters": "The party owning a place may differ from the party controlling entry or maintaining it." }, { "name": "Access availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Open, conditionally open, partly closed, temporarily closed, inaccessible, disputed, unknown; time and affected area recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about whether the place can currently be entered." }, { "name": "Conditions of entry", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded hours, charges, eligibility conditions, screening requirements and other restrictions; none evidenced or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes exclusions explicit instead of treating public access as universal." }, { "name": "Accessible route continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Continuous, interrupted, unavailable, unassessed; assessed separately for specified mobility and sensory needs", "why_it_matters": "An open entrance does not establish usable access through the place." }, { "name": "Shared-use availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Available, constrained, exclusively occupied, unavailable, unknown; activity, location and time recorded", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes nominal public access from practical opportunities to use the space." }, { "name": "Restriction evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Restriction linked to its source, issuing party, spatial extent, effective period and verification status", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an observed sign or barrier from being treated as sufficient proof of authority." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and map the place while flagging uncertain public-private edges.", "Assess whether a specified person can enter and traverse it at a specified time.", "Compare a proposed activity with evidenced use conditions and identify unresolved permission needs.", "Detect when barriers, exclusive occupation or deterioration reduce practical public use.", "Route maintenance reports or access enquiries to the evidenced responsible party.", "Reassess public accessibility after a closure, management change or physical intervention." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "lii-wex-pdl", "title": "public domain lands", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_domain_lands", "what_it_supports": "Wex definition: lands or interests owned by the United States and administered by Interior through BLM; origin in state cessions; concentration in the eleven western public-land states plus Alaska; disposal under FLPMA planning.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "usc-43-1702", "title": "43 U.S.C. § 1702 - Definitions (Federal Land Policy and Management Act)", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1702", "what_it_supports": "Statutory definition of \"public lands\" as land and interests owned by the United States and administered by BLM, excluding the Outer Continental Shelf and lands held for Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos; also defines withdrawal.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "blm-pls-2023", "title": "Public Land Statistics 2023", "url": "https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2024-08/Public-Land-Statistics-2023_508.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Acquisition of about 1.8 billion acres of public domain (1781-1867); about 1.3 billion acres transferred out; BLM now administers about 244.4 million surface acres and about 712.9 million acres of federal subsurface mineral estate; glossary distinction between public-domain lands and acquired lands.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "crs-if10585", "title": "The Federal Land Management Agencies", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10585", "what_it_supports": "About 640 million acres of federal surface land (about 28% of the United States); BLM 244 million acres concentrated in twelve western states; FLPMA multiple-use and sustained-yield mandate.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q19652", "title": "public domain (Q19652)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19652", "what_it_supports": "The Wikidata item attached to this English name is the copyright-status sense (\"no exclusive intellectual property rights apply\"); Getty AAT 300055611 scope note recorded there names both government land and unprotected publications.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-pd", "title": "Public domain", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain", "what_it_supports": "The homonymous intellectual-property sense: works to which no exclusive IP rights apply because they expired, were waived, or never attached; Creative Commons Public Domain Mark as a label, not a licence.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cc-cc0", "title": "About CC0 - \"No Rights Reserved\"", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0", "what_it_supports": "CC0 as a waiver attempting to place an in-copyright work as nearly as possible into the copyright public domain; Public Domain Mark reserved for works already free of known copyright restrictions worldwide.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fr-wiki-dp-public", "title": "Domaine public en droit public français", "url": "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domaine_public_en_droit_public_fran%C3%A7ais", "what_it_supports": "French public-law definition: immovable or movable property of a public person affected to direct public use or to a public service with indispensable fitting-out (CG3P arts. L. 2111-1 and L. 2112-1).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "conseil-etat-f06", "title": "Fiche 6 - Domaine (famille \"domanialité\")", "url": "https://www.conseil-etat.fr/content/download/224491/file/F06_Domaine.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Conseil d'État teaching note: public-domain property is inalienable and imprescriptible; natural versus artificial public domain; special maritime, fluvial, road, rail, aeronautical and radio-spectrum domains.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "public-character-and-extent", "name": "Public character and extent", "description": "Establishes which physical place is being modelled and why it is considered public.", "rationale": "A public domain cannot be recognised reliably from ownership, appearance or an unqualified label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "meaning-and-public-basis", "name": "Meaning and public basis", "description": "Separates the intended physical meaning from other uses of public domain and records its evidential basis.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-public-character", "name": "Basis for public character", "description": "Record the evidence supporting this place's inclusion and whether that evidence establishes designation, access or customary use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does public domain mean for this registry entry, and does this place satisfy that meaning?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-public-character-q01" }, { "text": "Which records or observations support its public character, and what does each actually establish?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-public-character-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "spatial-inclusion-and-edges", "name": "Spatial inclusion and edges", "description": "Locates the public realm and distinguishes included spaces from adjoining or embedded exclusions.", "findings": [ { "id": "public-domain-boundary", "name": "Public domain boundary", "description": "Record the mapped extent, uncertain edges and internal areas with different access conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does the public domain begin and end at frontages, entrances, level changes and adjoining parcels?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "public-domain-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which internal areas are excluded or conditionally included, and what evidence supports those distinctions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "public-domain-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "public-access-in-practice", "name": "Public access in practice", "description": "Describes who can enter, when access is available and whether entry leads to usable routes.", "rationale": "Public character must be assessed against actual access conditions, including selective and practical exclusions.", "layers": [ { "id": "entry-and-availability", "name": "Entry and availability", "description": "Records entrance conditions and temporal differences in public access.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-entry-conditions", "name": "Effective entry conditions", "description": "Record entry points, opening periods and conditions encountered by different users.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which entrances are usable at the assessment time, and what recurring or temporary closures affect them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-entry-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which charges, eligibility conditions or screening practices limit who can enter?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effective-entry-conditions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inclusive-route-continuity", "name": "Inclusive route continuity", "description": "Assesses whether public access continues beyond the entrance for specified user needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-public-routes", "name": "Usable public routes", "description": "Record connected routes, barriers and usable alternatives between public entrances and destinations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do steps, gates, surface conditions, missing wayfinding or other barriers interrupt routes for the users being assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-public-routes-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative routes remain publicly usable, and do they introduce additional hours, charges or permission requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-public-routes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-use-and-occupation", "name": "Shared use and occupation", "description": "Captures how public activities coexist and how dedicated occupation changes the space available to others.", "rationale": "A place can remain open while passage, gathering or other public uses become substantially constrained.", "layers": [ { "id": "activities-and-use-conditions", "name": "Activities and use conditions", "description": "Distinguishes observed activities from activities supported by evidenced use conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "activity-specific-use-assessment", "name": "Activity-specific use assessment", "description": "Record how a proposed activity relates to the place's documented conditions and other public uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence addresses passage, resting, gathering, play, expression or commerce in the part of the place concerned?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "activity-specific-use-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "For the proposed activity, which conditions are satisfied and which permissions or interpretations remain unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "activity-specific-use-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exclusive-and-competing-occupation", "name": "Exclusive and competing occupation", "description": "Tracks installations or activities that reserve space or displace other users.", "findings": [ { "id": "public-use-displacement", "name": "Public-use displacement", "description": "Record the spatial and temporal effects of terraces, queues, events, works or other occupation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much space and route width remain available during the occupation, and for how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "public-use-displacement-q01" }, { "text": "Which public activities or users are displaced, and where does that effect extend beyond the occupied footprint?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "public-use-displacement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stewardship-and-use-authority", "name": "Stewardship and use authority", "description": "Connects access control, maintenance and intervention decisions to evidenced responsible parties.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish who maintains a public place from who can authorise occupation or alter access.", "layers": [ { "id": "responsibility-and-control", "name": "Responsibility and control", "description": "Separates ownership, operational stewardship and control over public use.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsible-parties", "name": "Responsible parties", "description": "Record the parties responsible for the relevant space and decision, including gaps or overlapping responsibilities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence identifies the owner, maintenance steward and access controller for each relevant part?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "responsible-parties-q01" }, { "text": "Who should receive a maintenance report, access challenge or request to occupy space, and is that responsibility verified?", "kind": "action", "id": "responsible-parties-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restrictions-and-interventions", "name": "Restrictions and interventions", "description": "Assesses the stated basis and reach of measures that change public use.", "findings": [ { "id": "restriction-applicability", "name": "Restriction applicability", "description": "Record a restriction or proposed intervention without assuming that its presence proves its authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source supports the restriction or intervention, who issued it, and is its current applicability verified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "restriction-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "To which locations, activities, users and periods does it apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "restriction-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "public-use-condition-and-change", "name": "Public-use condition and change", "description": "Assesses conditions that sustain public use and records changes that require reassessment.", "rationale": "Public accessibility can deteriorate through physical failure or incremental enclosure even when the place retains its public label.", "layers": [ { "id": "conditions-supporting-public-use", "name": "Conditions supporting public use", "description": "Focuses physical assessment on effects on passage, staying and shared activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "public-use-impairment", "name": "Public-use impairment", "description": "Record observed defects and environmental conditions with their specific effects on public use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed surface defects, lighting failures, drainage problems or obstructions impair public use, and where?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "public-use-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Which affected uses require rerouting, further inspection or a report to the responsible steward?", "kind": "action", "id": "public-use-impairment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-change-and-restoration", "name": "Access change and restoration", "description": "Compares successive states and checks whether promised public access has returned.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-in-public-availability", "name": "Change in public availability", "description": "Record changes in accessible extent, opening conditions and shared-use availability against a dated baseline.", "questions": [ { "text": "Since the last verified assessment, what has changed in public entrances, accessible area, hours or exclusive occupation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-in-public-availability-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence is needed to confirm restoration after a temporary closure or to reassess a lasting reduction in public access?", "kind": "action", "id": "change-in-public-availability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Original public-domain lands (never patented out of United States ownership)", "Lands restored to the public domain or obtained in exchange for public-domain land or timber", "Acquired federal lands administered as FLPMA \"public lands\" (often contrasted with original public domain)", "Withdrawn or reserved public-domain tracts (forests, parks, military, wilderness and similar reservations)", "Federal mineral estate remaining in the public domain under patented or private surface (split estate)", "Civil-law natural public domain (seashore, navigable rivers, ports and similar natural affectations)", "Civil-law artificial public domain (roads, and public-service buildings with indispensable fitting-out)", "Civil-law movable public domain (objects of public historic, artistic, archaeological, scientific or technical interest)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of public domain this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus", "value_or_pattern": "300055611", "note": "AAT \"Public domain\": government-owned land, and also publications or processes unprotected by patent or copyright." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q19652", "note": "Item labelled \"public domain\" is the copyright-status concept, not a cadastral parcel class; do not treat it as an identifier of a tract of land." }, { "scheme": "United States Code", "value_or_pattern": "43 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1787 (FLPMA); \"public lands\" at 43 U.S.C. § 1702(e)", "note": "Statutory name for BLM-administered federal land and interests, which include original public domain and acquired lands." }, { "scheme": "Code of Federal Regulations (mineral leasing split)", "value_or_pattern": "43 C.F.R. § 3100.3 (public-domain oil and gas versus acquired-lands oil and gas)", "note": "Operational identifier of whether a tract's minerals are leased under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 or the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947." }, { "scheme": "French public-property code", "value_or_pattern": "CG3P arts. L. 2111-1 (immovable public domain) and L. 2112-1 (movable public domain)", "note": "Legal tests of belonging, not a parcel serial number." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of public domain this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (Pub. L. 94-579; 43 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq.) - United States Congress; BLM organic act, multiple use and sustained yield, inventory and planning, limited disposal", "43 U.S.C. Title 43 (Public Lands) generally, including the historic general land laws - United States Congress", "Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. § 181 et seq.) - United States Congress; oil and gas in public-domain lands", "Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 (30 U.S.C. § 351 et seq.) - United States Congress; same minerals in acquired lands", "General Mining Law of 1872 - United States Congress; location of mining claims on public-domain minerals", "Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. §§ 1131 et seq.) - United States Congress; wilderness withdrawals from general land laws", "Code général de la propriété des personnes publiques (CG3P), especially arts. L. 2111-1 and L. 2112-1 - France (Parliament / official codification)", "French Civil Code art. 714 (res communis: things belonging to no one, use common to all) - France; neighbouring category, not domaine public", "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - WIPO / Berne Union (governs the homonymous copyright public domain, not land)", "U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. (including § 105 on U.S. government works) - United States Congress (copyright sense only)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of public domain 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": [ "Cadastral and land-status records: a tract is classified as original public domain, acquired, withdrawn, or patented before grazing, mining, rights-of-way or sale can be authorised.", "BLM field offices manage remaining public-domain and other public lands for grazing, recreation, energy leasing, mining claims, rights-of-way and conservation under FLPMA land-use plans.", "Oil and gas lessees must know whether minerals are public-domain or acquired, because the 1920 and 1947 leasing acts and their acreage rules differ.", "Western states still contain large BLM blocks (Nevada and Alaska dominate remaining acreage); the original thirty public-land states are the historic theatre of the General Land Office.", "In France and other civil-law jurisdictions, roads, seashores, ports, court-houses and museum objects are used under public-domain rules: occupation needs a permission, and the property cannot be sold until declassified.", "Surveyors, title companies and GIS layers treat \"public domain\" as a tenure class on plats and master title plats, not as a vegetation or land-cover type.", "The same English words are used in libraries, museums and software to mark works free of copyright; that is a different legal object encountered in catalogues, not on the ground." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of public domain 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": "Original public domain acquired by the United States (1781-1867)", "typical_range": "about 1.8 billion", "unit": "acres" }, { "quantity": "Public-domain and other public lands transferred out of federal ownership", "typical_range": "about 1.3 billion to date", "unit": "acres" }, { "quantity": "BLM-administered surface (current public lands, including original public domain and acquired)", "typical_range": "about 244 million (2023)", "unit": "acres" }, { "quantity": "Federal subsurface mineral estate administered by BLM", "typical_range": "about 713 million (2023)", "unit": "acres" }, { "quantity": "All federal surface land in the United States", "typical_range": "about 640 million; about 28% of U.S. land", "unit": "acres (or percent of national land area)" }, { "quantity": "Statutory cap on federal oil and gas leasehold in one state (public-domain minerals)", "typical_range": "246,080 acres (of which no more than 200,000 under option; Alaska excepted)", "unit": "acres per person or entity per state" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of public domain this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Applying the copyright sense of \"public domain\" to a parcel, or the land sense to a work, so the wrong statute is used.", "Trespass, illegal occupancy, unauthorised off-road use and theft of resources on unfenced public-domain land.", "Wildfire, fuels build-up, overgrazing and watershed damage on multiple-use public lands.", "Split-estate conflict: surface owner versus reserved public-domain minerals; access and damage disputes.", "Checkerboard and inholding patterns that block public access or complicate fire and wildlife management.", "Mining-claim, leasing and right-of-way collisions with cultural sites, listed species and wilderness study areas.", "Attempted adverse possession or quiet-title against land that, in civil-law domaine public, is imprescriptible, or that, in U.S. law, cannot be lost by ordinary prescription.", "Disposal or declassification that strips public-use protection without a lawful planning or déclassement process.", "Unsettled Indigenous title, treaty and subsistence claims over lands labelled public domain.", "In the copyright homonym: copyfraud (claiming rights in a public-domain work), false public-domain marks, and jurisdiction mismatch (a U.S. government work is public domain in the United States but may still be protected abroad)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of public domain 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": [ "United States: \"public domain\" in land law means original federal lands (and exchanges); FLPMA \"public lands\" is the broader BLM estate and includes acquired lands. The original thirteen states and Texas were never part of that public domain in the General Land Office sense.", "Remaining BLM acreage is about 99.8% in twelve western states; Alaska and Nevada together hold nearly half.", "Thirty historic \"public land states\" (Alabama through Wyoming, including Alaska) are the states that once contained public domain at its greatest extent.", "France, Belgium, Spain and much of Latin America use domaine public / dominio público for inalienable public-use property of the state or a commune; the state's alienable holdings are domaine privé / dominio privado, which is still public ownership.", "United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand speak of Crown land or public land, not \"public domain,\" for the territorial estate.", "Louisiana mixes civil-law public things (Civil Code arts. 449-452) with U.S. federal public-domain remnants.", "Copyright \"public domain\" varies by term (life plus 50 versus life plus 70; U.S. 95-year term for many corporate works) and by whether government works are dedicated (17 U.S.C. § 105) - a work can be public domain in one country and in copyright in another." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of public domain 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": "copyright public domain (Wikidata Q19652)", "difference": "Test: does exclusive intellectual-property right still subsist in a work? If the question is about a text, image, dataset or invention, this is the sense; if the question is about a tract's title, affectation and alienability, it is not." }, { "name": "FLPMA public lands", "difference": "Test: is the tract administered by BLM regardless of how the United States acquired it? Public lands include acquired lands; original public domain is the never-alienated (or exchange) subset. OCS and Indian trust lands are excluded from both." }, { "name": "acquired federal lands", "difference": "Test: did the United States obtain the tract by purchase, condemnation, gift or exchange after the original public-domain acquisition, rather than by the 1781-1867 territorial estate? Mineral leasing statutes split on this test." }, { "name": "national forest, national park, wildlife refuge", "difference": "Test: which agency holds jurisdiction and under which organic act? These are typically reserved or withdrawn from the public domain (or separately acquired) and are not BLM \"public lands\" under 43 U.S.C. § 1702(e)." }, { "name": "Crown land", "difference": "Test: is title in the Crown under a Commonwealth legal system? Same family of sovereign territorial estate; the U.S. and civil-law names are not used." }, { "name": "domaine privé of a public person", "difference": "Test: is the property affected to public use or to a specially fitted public service? If not, a French public owner holds it in the private domain: alienable, prescriptible, ordinary civil leases." }, { "name": "res communis / things common to all", "difference": "Test: does a public person own it? Air, the high seas and (in French Civil Code art. 714) some common things belong to no one; public domain is owned by the state or another public person." }, { "name": "commons / common land", "difference": "Test: is the legal form a customary or statutory use-right over land that may still have a private or manorial owner? Public domain is sovereign title (or civil-law public ownership), not a residual common-right overlay." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of public domain this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry entry mean the physical public realm, a jurisdiction-specific public landholding category, or copyright public domain despite its PHY / PHY.OBJ placement?", "What is the intended unit of modelling: an individual public place, a connected network of spaces, or an aggregate public estate?", "Which jurisdictions and authoritative records determine public character, access arrangements and powers to restrict use?", "Should privately owned publicly accessible spaces and spaces open only by customary tolerance be included, and under which explicit distinctions?", "Which accessibility criteria and observation intervals are needed to make public-use assessments dependable for the intended users?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a public domain, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical public domain, assess its public accessibility and condition, and determine which uses or interventions require further evidence or authorisation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder, public domain music, public domain in the People's Republic of China, Public domain in Mexico, state symbols and signs, national folklore, ideas, theories, concepts, discoveries and inventions, means of payment, simple facts, Asaokpuaja Health Centre, Obuda Ward Health Centre.", "20 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 108 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 public domain, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature", "copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder", "public domain music", "public domain in the People's Republic of China", "Public domain in Mexico", "state symbols and signs", "national folklore", "ideas, theories, concepts, discoveries and inventions", "means of payment", "simple facts", "Asaokpuaja Health Centre", "Obuda Ward Health Centre" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 108 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 20 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 public domain from another, and a public domain 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 public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain 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 public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain 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 public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a public domain is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a public domain is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain 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 public domain between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a public domain 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 public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What public domain is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does public domain perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise public domain, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How public domain is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does public domain have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does public domain need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about public domain is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about public domain hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern public domain, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a public domain 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 public domain and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 public domain is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a public domain, 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 public domain, 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 public domain 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 } } } }