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sense of lyre under vr.tr.lyre: a string instrument whose strings extend from a resonating body to a yoke supported by two arms, including surviving instruments, replicas and incomplete examples with explicitly qualified identification.", "in_scope": [ "Lyre identification from body, arms, yoke and string arrangement", "String configuration, attachment, tuning and working tension", "Resonating body, soundboard and string-to-body coupling", "Instrument-specific playing techniques and musical capabilities", "Structural condition, repair history and restrictions on playing", "Evidence supporting attribution, reconstruction and cultural identification" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Harps, lutes and zithers as neighbouring instrument families", "Scores, compositions and performances as independent creative works or events", "The constellation Lyra and symbolic representations of lyres", "Sheet-music holders called lyres", "General accounts of musical traditions and instrument makers", "Raw wood, gut, metal and other constituent materials independently of their use in the instrument" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Look for two arms supporting a transverse yoke that receives the strings; a neck carrying strings along a fingerboard suggests a lute-family instrument instead.", "Assess the string plane relative to the soundboard: a lyre normally carries strings broadly parallel to it, whereas a harp carries them in a plane perpendicular to it.", "Trace the strings between the body-side attachment and the yoke; an instrument with strings stretched across a body but no arm-supported yoke suggests a zither instead.", "Require physical or documentary evidence of a functioning string-instrument structure; a lyre-shaped ornament or sheet-music holder does not qualify by outline alone.", "Do not identify or exclude a lyre solely by plucking technique, string count or an assumed ancient Greek origin; record the construction and the claimed subtype separately." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed lyre | probable lyre | disputed | insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents fragmentary remains or lyre-shaped objects from being treated as securely identified instruments." }, { "name": "Body and yoke construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed body form; soundboard material; arm and yoke arrangement; joint types", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the defining structure and the route by which string tension loads the instrument." }, { "name": "String configuration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Installed string count and independently evidenced intended count; course grouping where present", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the current setup from missing strings or a reconstructed historical configuration." }, { "name": "Vibrating string lengths", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres per string between effective vibrating endpoints", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of string selection, pitch possibilities and replacement compatibility." }, { "name": "String material and dimensions", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Material and construction per string, with diameter in millimetres where measurable", "why_it_matters": "Material and thickness affect tension, tone and whether a proposed setup suits the structure." }, { "name": "Tuning state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Measured fundamental frequency in hertz per string; pitch reference; intended intervals; measurement date", "why_it_matters": "Separates an observed tuning from a proposed tuning or an unsupported historical attribution." }, { "name": "String tension", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Newtons per string and total, measured or estimated with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess loads on the yoke, arms, attachments and resonating body before retuning or restringing." }, { "name": "Supported playing techniques", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Finger plucking | plectrum use | strumming with damping | bowing where evidenced | other documented technique", "why_it_matters": "Connects the specific instrument's geometry and evidence to feasible performance actions." }, { "name": "Playing readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Playable at assessed setup | restricted playing | assessment required | no tension permitted", "why_it_matters": "Makes structural and conservation limits actionable without equating completeness with playability." }, { "name": "Attribution and reconstruction basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to maker records, collection records, examination reports, source objects and reconstruction decisions", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observed features distinct from attributed origins and modern reconstruction choices." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the object as a lyre and qualify uncertain subtype or fragment identifications.", "Document string positions, vibrating lengths, attachments and present tuning.", "Evaluate a proposed restringing or tuning against the assessed load limits of the body, arms and yoke.", "Determine which plucking, damping or other documented techniques the particular instrument supports.", "Diagnose string, bridge, soundboard or joint problems before recommending playing or repair.", "Compare a replica with its cited evidence and expose unsupported reconstruction choices." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lyre-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Lyre identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes whether the object has the defining lyre arrangement and how securely it can be assigned to a named type.", "rationale": "The name and silhouette alone cannot distinguish a playable lyre, a neighbouring instrument or a symbolic object.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-geometry", "name": "Diagnostic geometry", "description": "Examines the relationships between body, arms, yoke and strings.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-arm-yoke-arrangement", "name": "Body, arm and yoke arrangement", "description": "Record visible construction and qualify any missing components inferred from traces or documentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows two arms supporting a yoke that receives strings extending from the body?", "kind": "definition", "id": "body-arm-yoke-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "How does the string plane relate to the soundboard, and does that support a lyre identification rather than a harp or zither?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "body-arm-yoke-arrangement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "type-and-object-status", "name": "Type and object status", "description": "Separates instrument classification from completeness, naming and reproduction status.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-type-assignment", "name": "Qualified type assignment", "description": "Record the proposed lyre type, supporting evidence and whether the object is an original instrument, replica, reconstruction or fragment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which construction features or documented local terms support the proposed lyre type?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-type-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether this is an instrument, an incomplete instrument, a reconstruction or a non-musical representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualified-type-assignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "strings-tuning-and-load", "name": "Strings, tuning and load", "description": "Records the string system as both a musical configuration and a source of structural loading.", "rationale": "A lyre's available pitches and structural demands depend on the actual strings and their tuning, not merely its named type.", "layers": [ { "id": "string-layout-and-attachments", "name": "String layout and attachments", "description": "Maps strings, vibrating endpoints and attachment mechanisms.", "findings": [ { "id": "per-string-configuration", "name": "Per-string configuration", "description": "Record installed and evidenced missing strings individually, including materials, dimensions and attachment paths.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many strings are installed, and what holes, wear marks or records support any different intended count?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "per-string-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "For each string, what are its material, diameter, vibrating length and body-side and yoke-side attachments?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "per-string-configuration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pitch-and-tension-assessment", "name": "Pitch and tension assessment", "description": "Distinguishes measured tuning from proposed pitch arrangements and assesses the resulting load.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessed-tuning-configuration", "name": "Assessed tuning configuration", "description": "Associate each tuning proposal with its pitch reference, evidence, string specification and tension assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured pitches and intended interval relationships, and under what measurement conditions were they recorded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assessed-tuning-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports applying the proposed tuning and string tension to this particular body, arms, yoke and attachment system?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessed-tuning-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "resonator-and-string-coupling", "name": "Resonator and string coupling", "description": "Describes how the instrument transfers string vibration into an audible response.", "rationale": "Similar lyre outlines can conceal materially different resonating bodies, soundboards and coupling arrangements.", "layers": [ { "id": "body-and-soundboard", "name": "Body and soundboard", "description": "Records the actual resonating construction without assuming a single body form or material.", "findings": [ { "id": "resonating-assembly", "name": "Resonating assembly", "description": "Identify the cavity, soundboard, openings and joints that form the resonating assembly.", "questions": [ { "text": "What body form, cavity dimensions, soundboard material and sound openings are observable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "resonating-assembly-q01" }, { "text": "Which resonator components are original, replaced or reconstructed, and what supports those distinctions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "resonating-assembly-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bridge-and-vibration-transfer", "name": "Bridge and vibration transfer", "description": "Examines the bridge or other contact arrangement that couples strings to the body.", "findings": [ { "id": "string-body-contact", "name": "String-to-body contact", "description": "Record contact points and their condition, including whether audible effects are intended, accidental or unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through which bridge or other contact points does each string transmit vibration to the resonating assembly?", "kind": "definition", "id": "string-body-contact-q01" }, { "text": "If playing is permitted, which strings produce weak response, rattling or buzzing, and what evidence distinguishes intended tone from a fault?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "string-body-contact-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "playing-interface-and-musical-use", "name": "Playing interface and musical use", "description": "Connects the instrument's physical arrangement to documented ways of holding, exciting and damping its strings.", "rationale": "String access, spacing and support determine what a player can do; technique should not be inferred from the generic label lyre.", "layers": [ { "id": "holding-and-string-access", "name": "Holding and string access", "description": "Assesses playing orientation, support and access by the hands or playing implement.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-playing-posture", "name": "Supported playing posture", "description": "Record evidenced holding arrangements and the reach they provide without loading fragile components.", "questions": [ { "text": "What playing orientation and body, strap or stand support are documented for this instrument?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-playing-posture-q01" }, { "text": "Which strings and string faces can each hand or implement reach in that arrangement?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-playing-posture-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "excitation-and-pitch-control", "name": "Excitation and pitch control", "description": "Records feasible sound-production techniques and how pitches are selected or modified.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-technique-repertoire", "name": "Evidenced technique repertoire", "description": "Separate documented practice from techniques that merely appear physically possible.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which finger, plectrum, strumming, damping or bowing techniques are evidenced for this instrument or its securely identified type?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-technique-repertoire-q01" }, { "text": "How are sounding pitches selected or modified, and what limits follow from string spacing, access and the present tuning?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-technique-repertoire-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-evidence-led-intervention", "name": "Condition and evidence-led intervention", "description": "Determines whether tension, playing, repair or reconstruction is justified by the object's condition and evidence.", "rationale": "Lyre strings load the arm-and-yoke assembly, while replacement parts can change both musical behaviour and the evidence preserved by the object.", "layers": [ { "id": "loaded-structure-and-playability", "name": "Loaded structure and playability", "description": "Assesses the components carrying string load and establishes current playing restrictions.", "findings": [ { "id": "tension-bearing-condition", "name": "Tension-bearing condition", "description": "Record deformation, cracks, joint movement and attachment damage together with 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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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 lyre is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a lyre, 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 lyre, 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 lyre 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 } } } }