{ "model": { "rank": 4496, "code": "thing-q201851", "model_id": "vr.tr.spinose-structure", "name": "spinose structure", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a spinose structure, distinguish its anatomical origin from its pointed appearance, assess its condition, and choose appropriate observation or handling actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q201851/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "petiolar spine", "leaflet spine", "stipular spine", "prickle", "Sacra Spina", "Radiole" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q201851", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201851", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:21:12Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.1, "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: 01a087d3-ef3f-7f41-9d1f-2618ec4c9486\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: spinose structure\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 100", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.5, "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: 01a087d3-ef35-7ab2-a713-ab3bbd6d7617\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: spinose structure\nRegistry id: vr.tr.spinose-structure\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entr" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q201851", "registryId": "vr.tr.spinose-structure", "name": "spinose structure", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q201851/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.spinose-structure", "name": "spinose structure", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a spinose structure, distinguish its anatomical origin from its pointed appearance, assess its condition, and choose appropriate observation or handling actions.", "definition": "A spinose structure is a stiff, sharp-pointed plant projection, such as a thorn, spine or prickle, whose anatomical origin determines its botanical classification.", "scope_statement": "This draft models vr.tr.spinose-structure in PHY / PHY.OBJ provisionally as a botanical pointed outgrowth or modified organ, encompassing thorns, spines, and prickles without treating them as anatomically equivalent; the registry's intended biological breadth remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "The individual pointed structure and its attachment to a supporting plant organ", "Anatomical evidence distinguishing a thorn, spine, prickle, or unresolved pointed outgrowth", "Tip geometry, shaft form, branching, and arrangement on the supporting organ", "Development, hardening, damage, and attachment condition", "Evidence for contact effects and biological function" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The complete organism and its taxonomic description", "The supporting stem, leaf, or other organ beyond the attachment interface", "Animal spines and other nonbotanical structures pending confirmation of registry scope", "Manufactured spikes, needles, and piercing tools", "Clinical treatment of puncture injuries", "A plant's complete chemical defence system" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a discrete pointed projection with a traceable base; general surface roughness alone does not establish membership.", "Record the supporting organ and developmental origin before assigning a thorn, spine, or prickle subtype; pointed shape alone cannot resolve that distinction.", "Distinguish a flexible hair or bristle from a hardened pointed structure using observed anatomy and mechanical behaviour, with unresolved cases retained explicitly.", "Distinguish a naturally developed projection from a broken stem, torn leaf, or preparation artefact by examining its base and developmental context.", "Separate an individual pointed structure from an organ described as spinose because it bears multiple projections." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Anatomical subtype", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "thorn | spine | prickle | other supported subtype | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Similar shapes can have different developmental origins and attachment properties." }, { "name": "Supporting organ and position", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to supporting organ, with position such as node, internode, stipule position, or leaf margin", "why_it_matters": "Locates the structure and supplies evidence for anatomical interpretation." }, { "name": "Base-to-tip length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm; specify straight-line distance or centreline length", "why_it_matters": "Describes reach and permits comparisons without conflating curved and straight structures." }, { "name": "Tip radius", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "µm, with imaging method and resolution limit", "why_it_matters": "Characterises tip bluntness without assuming a measured puncture capability." }, { "name": "Shaft and tip form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "straight | curved | hooked; branched | unbranched; barbed | unbarbed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Geometry affects possible contact, snagging, and identification." }, { "name": "Local arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "solitary | paired | clustered | serial | scattered; specify inspected organ region", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an individual feature from a repeated pattern." }, { "name": "Attachment condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | loosened | partly detached | detached | unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the structure can be interpreted and handled in its original context." }, { "name": "Tip and shaft condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | blunted | bent | cracked | broken; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Damage can alter recognition and contact behaviour." }, { "name": "Flexural response", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Force in N versus deflection in mm, with loading direction and specimen hydration", "why_it_matters": "Supports evidence-based assessments of flexibility rather than judgments from appearance." }, { "name": "Functional interpretation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unknown | proposed | observed | experimentally supported; record the specific function separately", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a pointed appearance from being treated as proof of defence, attachment, or another role." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and document a pointed structure with scale, orientation, and supporting-organ context.", "Assign or defer an anatomical subtype using attachment and developmental evidence.", "Measure tip and shaft geometry without contacting the tip directly.", "Compare equivalent structures across developmental stages or specimen conditions.", "Identify exposed tips and possible snagging directions when planning specimen handling.", "Choose further imaging or authorised sampling needed to resolve anatomical uncertainty." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-anatomical-origin", "name": "Identity and anatomical origin", "description": "Establish what counts as the structure and which anatomical interpretation is justified.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and botanical terminology distinguishes anatomical origin from a generally spiny appearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "spinose-sense-and-boundary", "name": "Spinose sense and boundary", "description": "Resolve whether the name denotes a pointed structure or a larger structure bearing points.", "findings": [ { "id": "provisional-botanical-sense", "name": "Provisional botanical sense", "description": "Botanical usage supports a pointed or spiny interpretation, but does not establish the registry's exact boundary. The University of Texas glossary applies spinose to leaves bearing sharp marginal projections: [University of Texas botanical glossary](https://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/K12/Glos.html).", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry source mean an individual pointed outgrowth or an organ bearing multiple outgrowths?", "kind": "definition", "id": "provisional-botanical-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which source identifier or definition supports restricting this entry to plants?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "provisional-botanical-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-origin-and-attachment", "name": "Organ origin and attachment", "description": "Separate morphological resemblance from evidence of anatomical identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "subtype-requires-origin-evidence", "name": "Subtype requires origin evidence", "description": "Record supporting-organ position, tissue continuity, and developmental observations before committing to an anatomical subtype; retain unresolved classifications when those observations are absent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supporting organ and developmental tissue give rise to this projection?", "kind": "definition", "id": "subtype-requires-origin-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations establish its attachment and tissue continuity rather than merely its outward resemblance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "subtype-requires-origin-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "point-geometry-and-distribution", "name": "Point geometry and distribution", "description": "Describe the pointed element and the pattern in which equivalent elements occur.", "rationale": "Tip form, curvature, and spacing provide more useful recognition and contact information than the word spiny alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "tip-and-shaft-geometry", "name": "Tip and shaft geometry", "description": "Characterise the projection from its attachment base to its terminal point.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-with-explicit-landmarks", "name": "Geometry with explicit landmarks", "description": "Record length, basal width, curvature, and tip form against explicit landmarks and image resolution; distinguish an intact point from a fractured end.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the base-to-tip length, basal width, and tip radius, and how were their landmarks defined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-with-explicit-landmarks-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed terminal shape represent the natural tip or a damaged surface?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "geometry-with-explicit-landmarks-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "arrangement-on-support", "name": "Arrangement on support", "description": "Describe repetition and orientation relative to the supporting organ.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-pattern-with-sampling-frame", "name": "Local pattern with sampling frame", "description": "Record solitary, paired, clustered, or repeated occurrence within a defined organ region; report spacing or density only with the sampled length or area.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are projections positioned and oriented relative to the organ axis, nodes, or margin?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-pattern-with-sampling-frame-q01" }, { "text": "What sampled length or surface area underlies the reported spacing or density?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-pattern-with-sampling-frame-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-mechanical-condition", "name": "Development and mechanical condition", "description": "Track maturation, flexibility, attachment, and damage affecting interpretation or use.", "rationale": "A young, flexible projection and a mature, broken point should not receive the same condition assessment solely because their anatomical identity matches.", "layers": [ { "id": "maturation-and-hardening", "name": "Maturation and hardening", "description": "Relate apparent rigidity and form to developmental stage and specimen condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "hardness-is-contextual", "name": "Hardness is contextual", "description": "The Australian National Botanic Gardens glossary uses spinose for rigid pointed features in its Vachellia treatment. This supports recording rigidity explicitly, without importing a universal numerical threshold: [Vachellia glossary](https://www.anbg.gov.au/jmiller/factsheets/Vachellia/glossary.htm).", "questions": [ { "text": "What developmental stage and hydration or preservation condition apply to the specimen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "hardness-is-contextual-q01" }, { "text": "What observed or measured flexural response supports describing the structure as rigid?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hardness-is-contextual-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-retention", "name": "Damage and retention", "description": "Inspect tip integrity, shaft damage, and attachment stability.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-changes-contact-form", "name": "Damage changes contact form", "description": "Record blunting, bending, fracture, and partial detachment separately; preserve evidence of whether damage occurred during growth, collection, preparation, or later handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts of the tip, shaft, and base remain intact, and what evidence dates the damage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "damage-changes-contact-form-q01" }, { "text": "Should the specimen be supported or isolated before further examination because its point or attachment is unstable?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-changes-contact-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-function-and-examination", "name": "Contact, function, and examination", "description": "Connect observed point geometry to supported biological interpretations and practical examination decisions.", "rationale": "Pointed structures invite assumptions about defence and piercing; the model must distinguish documented effects from hypotheses.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-evidence", "name": "Functional evidence", "description": "Evaluate proposed roles without inferring them from sharpness alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-needs-independent-support", "name": "Function needs independent support", "description": "Record any proposed defensive, attachment, or other role together with the observation or study supporting it; allow multiple supported roles and an unknown state.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or experiment supports the proposed role of this structure in this organism?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "function-needs-independent-support-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern this specific structure, the species generally, or an analogy with another organism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "function-needs-independent-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-aware-examination", "name": "Contact-aware examination", "description": "Plan observation and sampling around exposed points and potential loss of anatomical evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "preserve-tip-and-base-evidence", "name": "Preserve tip and base evidence", "description": "Choose viewing, support, and sampling methods that retain the tip and attachment interface. Treat puncture, snagging, breakage, and any chemical effects as separate assessments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exposed tips and orientations could contact the handler, packaging, or adjacent specimens during the planned action?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserve-tip-and-base-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can imaging resolve the anatomical question, or is authorised sampling of the base necessary?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserve-tip-and-base-evidence-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is unrecorded; this description assumes the botanical umbrella term for thorns, spines and prickles.", "Everyday usage often interchanges thorn, spine and prickle; botanical classification requires checking anatomical origin.", "Dimensions and mechanical properties vary substantially by species and structure type, so no general typical range is supplied." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of spinose structure 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": [ "Thorn: a modified shoot or branch", "Spine: a modified leaf or leaf part", "Prickle: an outgrowth of surface tissues rather than a modified shoot or leaf" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of spinose structure this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Plant identification using the origin, arrangement and form of pointed structures", "Deterrence of herbivores", "Attachment and support during climbing in some plants", "Defensive hedging using thorny or prickly plants" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of spinose structure this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Punctures and scratches during handling", "Detached tips or fragments can remain embedded in tissue", "Eye injury from contact with sharp projections" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of spinose structure this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Thorn", "difference": "A thorn is specifically shoot-derived; spinose structure is the broader morphological category." }, { "name": "Spine", "difference": "In botanical usage, a spine is leaf-derived; the broader category also includes structures with other tissue origins." }, { "name": "Prickle", "difference": "A prickle originates from surface tissues rather than representing a modified shoot or leaf." }, { "name": "Trichome", "difference": "A trichome is an epidermal appendage, commonly a hair; being a trichome does not itself imply a stiff, sharp-pointed structure." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of spinose structure this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry concept cover botanical thorns, spines, and prickles, or a broader class that includes animal and other biological structures?", "Does spinose structure identify an individual pointed element, a structure bearing such elements, or both?", "Does an existing Vercy model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which anatomical criteria and terminology should govern borderline cases such as hardened hairs, marginal teeth, and small pointed outgrowths?", "Which taxon-specific sources establish developmental origin, mechanical behaviour, and biological function for representative instances?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "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 spinose structure, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a spinose structure, distinguish its anatomical origin from its pointed appearance, assess its condition, and choose appropriate observation or handling actions.", "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: petiolar spine, leaflet spine, stipular spine, prickle, Sacra Spina, Radiole.", "6 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 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 spinose structure, 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": [ "petiolar spine", "leaflet spine", "stipular spine", "prickle", "Sacra Spina", "Radiole" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 spinose structure from another, and a spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 spinose structure is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a spinose structure, 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 spinose structure, 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 spinose structure 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 } } } }