{ "model": { "rank": 5629, "code": "thing-q200814", "model_id": "vr.tr.suitcase", "name": "suitcase", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a suitcase, assess its packing and transport readiness, and decide how it may be packed, moved, secured or repaired.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q200814/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "portmanteau", "trolley suitcase", "cellaret", "travel suitcase", "dye pack", "Gladstone bag", "leather suitcase" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q200814", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200814", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:48:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0885a-8282-74d0-9f1f-d5beb44916ef\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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electronic trackers, batteries or powered accessories" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its principal role is enclosing and transporting packed travel belongings; a container dedicated to protecting a particular instrument or tool requires a boundary check against specialised cases.", "It provides a substantial packing enclosure with closable access and an intended hand-carry interface; rigidity, wheels and a rectangular outline are not individually required.", "An opening that exposes a broad packing face supports recognition as a suitcase, while a mainly tubular, top-access enclosure suggests a duffel; hybrid designs need explicit classification.", "Shoulder straps alone do not make an item a suitcase: for convertible luggage, record whether suitcase-style packing and hand or wheel transport are primary or secondary.", "Distinguish it from a travel trunk through intended portability, packing arrangement and handling interfaces, without assuming an unsupported size cutoff." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Enclosure construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "hard-sided | soft-sided | hybrid | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Changes how the suitcase deforms, protects contents and exposes damage." }, { "name": "External envelope", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "height × width × depth in mm, with measurement orientation and protrusions included", "why_it_matters": "Supports fit checks for storage and separately supplied transport limits." }, { "name": "Mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, identified as empty or packed", "why_it_matters": "Separates the suitcase's own burden from the load being transported." }, { "name": "Usable packing capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "L, with method and expansion state recorded", "why_it_matters": "Indicates usable space without equating an exterior bounding box with interior capacity." }, { "name": "Expansion configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not 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"kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "absent | unlocked | locked | jammed | unknown; integrated or removable", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes being closed from being secured and identifies access problems." }, { "name": "Documented load guidance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "manufacturer instruction or rating, identifying the product and applicable component", "why_it_matters": "Supports load decisions without inventing a universal suitcase carrying limit." } ], "affordances": [ "Pack, unpack and organise belongings using the available compartments and restraints.", "Open, close, expand or contract the enclosure where its design permits.", "Lock or unlock compatible closures using authorised access.", "Carry, pull or roll it using interfaces verified as functional.", "Measure and weigh it in its intended travel configuration for a supplied fit or allowance check.", "Inspect, clean and repair suitcase components using applicable material and product guidance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "packing-envelope", "name": "Packing envelope", "description": "The travel enclosure, its usable space and the configurations that change its footprint.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a suitcase from neighbouring luggage kinds and determine whether the intended load and storage space are compatible.", "layers": [ { "id": "suitcase-boundary", "name": "Suitcase boundary", "description": "Recognition through travel purpose, enclosure and intended handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "travel-packing-identity", "name": "Travel packing identity", "description": "Record the combination of features supporting classification, including ambiguous convertible designs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What enclosure, opening and handling features make this a suitcase?", "kind": "definition", "id": "travel-packing-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does its primary use or construction instead place it with duffels, backpacks, trunks or specialised cases?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "travel-packing-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "space-and-configuration", "name": "Space and configuration", "description": "External fit and internal packing space in a stated configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "configured-capacity", "name": "Configured capacity", "description": "Separate measured exterior dimensions from usable capacity, accounting for expansion and internal obstructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are its external dimensions including wheels, handles and packed bulging in the intended configuration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configured-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "How much usable space remains after lining, wheel housings, handle channels and dividers, and how was it established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configured-capacity-q02" }, { "text": "Can the proposed contents fit without forcing closure or exceeding documented load guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "configured-capacity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-containment", "name": "Access and containment", "description": "How the suitcase opens, retains packed items and restricts access.", "rationale": "A suitcase must retain its load through handling; an apparently closed or locked case may still have compromised containment.", "layers": [ { "id": "opening-and-retention", "name": "Opening and retention", "description": "Packing access, internal restraints and external closure engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "packing-access-and-closure", "name": "Packing access and closure", "description": "Record opening geometry, packing restraints and whether the loaded case closes correctly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does access use two packing halves, a lid or another arrangement, and what space is needed to open it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "packing-access-and-closure-q01" }, { "text": "Are contents clear of closure tracks, and are zippers or latches fully engaged without visible strain?", "kind": "action", "id": "packing-access-and-closure-q02" }, { "text": "Which dividers, straps or pockets can restrain the proposed load during movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "packing-access-and-closure-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "locking-and-access", "name": "Locking and access", "description": "Lock interfaces, their current state and evidence behind security claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "closure-security", "name": "Closure security", "description": "Assess locking separately from structural containment and avoid treating a lock as proof of tamper resistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which openings does the fitted lock actually secure, and which remain independently accessible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "closure-security-q01" }, { "text": "What documentation supports any claimed inspection compatibility or security performance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "closure-security-q02" }, { "text": "Can the authorised user operate the lock and reopen the suitcase before departure?", "kind": "action", "id": "closure-security-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "carrying-and-rolling", "name": "Carrying and rolling", "description": "The interfaces and packed-load conditions that enable movement.", "rationale": "Suitcase handling depends on distinct carrying and rolling components whose capabilities and failures must be assessed separately.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifting-interfaces", "name": "Lifting interfaces", "description": "Carry handles, attachment integrity and packed mass.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-lifting", "name": "Supported lifting", "description": "Identify intended lifting points and their condition rather than assuming every handle can lift the packed case.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which handles are intended for lifting, and what product instructions establish that use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-lifting-q01" }, { "text": "What is the packed mass, and do carry handles or their attachments show looseness, tearing or deformation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-lifting-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rolling-and-standing", "name": "Rolling and standing", "description": "Wheel operation, pull-handle deployment and stability in the packed configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "rolling-readiness", "name": "Rolling readiness", "description": "Assess the available rolling mode and whether the packed suitcase can move and stand as intended.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the wheel arrangement support tilted pulling, upright rolling or both?", "kind": "definition", "id": "rolling-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Do wheels rotate and swivel where intended, and does the telescoping handle hold its selected position?", "kind": "action", "id": "rolling-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Does the packed case stand stably, and where will the intended route require carrying instead of rolling?", "kind": "action", "id": "rolling-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-and-service", "name": "Protection and service", "description": "Enclosure 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"id": "cleaning-and-repair", "name": "Cleaning and repair", "description": "Suitcase-specific cleaning, replaceable components and return-to-use checks.", "findings": [ { "id": "restoring-travel-readiness", "name": "Restoring travel readiness", "description": "Determine whether cleaning or component repair can restore the functions needed for the next journey.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cleaning and drying methods are compatible with the shell or fabric, lining, adhesives and fitted hardware?", "kind": "action", "id": "restoring-travel-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which wheels, handles, zipper parts or latches can be replaced, and what identifies compatible replacements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "restoring-travel-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "After service, what checks confirm closure, carrying and rolling function for the intended packed load?", "kind": "action", "id": "restoring-travel-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who 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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Measurement ranges are approximate descriptions of common adult travel suitcases, not specification limits or baggage allowances.", "Cabin suitability requires checking current carrier rules against actual external dimensions, including wheels and handles.", "Neighbour boundaries overlap in commercial naming; no suitcase-specific standard is asserted from recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of suitcase this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Hard-shell suitcase", "Soft-sided suitcase", "Two-wheel rolling suitcase", "Four-wheel spinner suitcase", "Cabin suitcase", "Expandable suitcase" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of suitcase this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), administered by GS1", "value_or_pattern": "Common 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 suitcase is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a suitcase, 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 suitcase, 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 suitcase 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 } } } }