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        "id": "vr.tr.operator-topology",
        "code": "thing-q2026614",
        "url": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2026614/",
        "name": "operator topology",
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            "weak operator topology",
            "strong operator topology",
            "ultrastrong topology",
            "ultraweak topology"
        ],
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        "status": "draft-generated",
        "version": "vr.draft.v3",
        "language": "en",
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            "family": "Thing Registry",
            "category": "Cross-cutting context",
            "entryKind": "abstract concept",
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            "domain": [
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        "whatItIs": "A cross-cutting notion registered under XCT.QLT. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.",
        "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a operator topology, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
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            "out": [],
            "boundaries": []
        },
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            "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: weak operator topology, strong operator topology, ultrastrong topology, ultraweak topology.",
            "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
            "Described in 9 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
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                    "id": "identity-and-classification",
                    "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                    "description": "How an agent tells one operator topology from another, and a operator topology 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": [
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                            "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 operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                            "kind": "provenance",
                                            "answer_data": [
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                                                "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 operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                    "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                    "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                    "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                    "questions": [
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                                            "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a operator topology, 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 operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                }
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                            "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                            "name": "Classification and granularity",
                            "description": "Where a operator topology sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
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                                    "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                    "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                    "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
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                                            "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        {
                                            "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                            "kind": "provenance",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "authority",
                                                "method",
                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                },
                                {
                                    "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                    "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                    "description": "What separates a operator topology from the things most often confused with it.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                            "kind": "definition",
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                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                            "kind": "provenance",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "authority",
                                                "method",
                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
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                    ]
                },
                {
                    "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                    "name": "State and lifecycle",
                    "description": "The states a operator topology 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 operator topology between them.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                            "kind": "definition",
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                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        {
                                            "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                            "kind": "provenance",
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                                                "authority",
                                                "method",
                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                        {
                                            "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                        {
                            "id": "observations-and-status",
                            "name": "Observations and current status",
                            "description": "What is observed about a operator topology, how often and by whom.",
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                                {
                                    "id": "observation-record",
                                    "name": "Observation record",
                                    "description": "How an observation of a operator topology 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 operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "identifiers",
                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "authority",
                                                "method",
                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
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                    ]
                },
                {
                    "id": "definitions-in-contest",
                    "name": "Definitions and who holds them",
                    "description": "What operator topology is taken to mean, and by whom.",
                    "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.",
                    "layers": [
                        {
                            "id": "competing-definitions",
                            "name": "Competing definitions",
                            "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.",
                            "findings": [
                                {
                                    "id": "definition-map",
                                    "name": "Definitions and their holders",
                                    "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "definition-map-q01",
                                            "text": "Which definitions of operator topology are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?",
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                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "definition-map-q02",
                                            "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?",
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                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                        {
                            "id": "operationalisation",
                            "name": "Operationalisation",
                            "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.",
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                                    "id": "operational-record",
                                    "name": "Measures and proxies",
                                    "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "operational-record-q01",
                                            "text": "How is operator topology operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?",
                                            "kind": "measurement"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "operational-record-q02",
                                            "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?",
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                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
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                    ]
                },
                {
                    "id": "instances-and-use",
                    "name": "Instances, use and consequence",
                    "description": "What counts as an instance of operator topology and what follows from calling something that.",
                    "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.",
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                            "id": "instances",
                            "name": "What counts as an instance",
                            "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.",
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                                    "id": "instance-tests",
                                    "name": "Tests for an instance",
                                    "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.",
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                                            "id": "instance-tests-q01",
                                            "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of operator topology?",
                                            "kind": "boundary"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "instance-tests-q02",
                                            "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?",
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                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
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                        {
                            "id": "consequence",
                            "name": "Consequence of application",
                            "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.",
                            "findings": [
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                                    "id": "consequence-record",
                                    "name": "What the label licenses",
                                    "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "consequence-record-q01",
                                            "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as operator topology?",
                                            "kind": "action"
                                        },
                                        {
                                            "id": "consequence-record-q02",
                                            "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?",
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                            ]
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                    "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                    "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                    "description": "Where every claim about a operator topology 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.",
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                            "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
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                                            "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                            "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a operator topology, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "types and classes",
                                                "values with units",
                                                "explicit unknowns"
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                                            "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a operator topology, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "evidence",
                                                "event time",
                                                "knowledge time"
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                                            "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
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                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
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            "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
            "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
            "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?"
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            "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 operator topology, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "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": [
                "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "weak operator topology",
                        "strong operator topology",
                        "ultrastrong topology",
                        "ultraweak topology"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 9 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 operator topology from another, and a operator topology 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology 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 operator topology between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a operator topology 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "definitions-in-contest",
                        "name": "Definitions and who holds them",
                        "description": "What operator topology is taken to mean, and by whom.",
                        "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competing-definitions",
                                "name": "Competing definitions",
                                "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-map",
                                        "name": "Definitions and their holders",
                                        "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which definitions of operator topology are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "operationalisation",
                                "name": "Operationalisation",
                                "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "operational-record",
                                        "name": "Measures and proxies",
                                        "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q01",
                                                "text": "How is operator topology operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "instances-and-use",
                        "name": "Instances, use and consequence",
                        "description": "What counts as an instance of operator topology and what follows from calling something that.",
                        "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "instances",
                                "name": "What counts as an instance",
                                "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "instance-tests",
                                        "name": "Tests for an instance",
                                        "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q01",
                                                "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of operator topology?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q02",
                                                "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "consequence",
                                "name": "Consequence of application",
                                "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "consequence-record",
                                        "name": "What the label licenses",
                                        "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as operator topology?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a operator topology 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 operator topology and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology 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 operator topology is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a operator topology, 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 operator topology, 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 operator topology is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 5,
                "layers": 10,
                "findings": 12,
                "questions": 32
            }
        }
    }
}