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alertness dip, and in some places a civic pause in commerce.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a particular intended or actual siesta: a bounded daytime rest episode associated with a midday or early-afternoon pause, including its relationship to the participant's main sleep period, activities, setting, and local understanding of siesta.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that a rest episode is understood or organised as a siesta", "Intended and actual timing, duration, and relationship to the participant's daily routine", "Whether the episode involves sleep, quiet wakeful rest, or an uncertain mixture", "Conditions that enable the siesta and permissions governing interruptions", "How the episode ends and whether the participant is ready to resume intended activities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The participant's overall sleep pattern or any sleep disorder", "Medical assessment or treatment of fatigue and daytime sleepiness", "A workplace's general break and staffing policies", "The full history or cultural distribution of siesta practices", "The properties of a bedroom, bed, or other rest facility independently of its use for this siesta" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The episode is identified as a siesta by the participant or supported by an explicit local practice; daytime timing alone is insufficient.", "The episode is organised around rest; a midday meal or business closure without a participant's rest episode is not itself a siesta.", "It is a bounded pause within the participant's activity period rather than their principal sleep period, including when that principal sleep occurs during daylight.", "Actual sleep is recorded separately from siesta identity, allowing a locally recognised siesta to consist of quiet wakeful rest.", "An unplanned doze is not automatically a siesta; its relationship to an intended midday rest practice must be established." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Siesta identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "participant designation | documented local practice | provisional interpretation | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating every daytime nap or break as a siesta." }, { "name": "Episode status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed | scheduled | underway | ended | cancelled | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether scheduling, protection from interruption, or follow-up actions are relevant." }, { "name": "Intended rest mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "sleep | quiet wakeful rest | either acceptable | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Allows the episode to be assessed against the participant's intention without assuming sleep is required." }, { "name": "Observed rest mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "reported sleep | reported wakeful rest | mixed | uncertain | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Separates what happened from what was planned and avoids equating inactivity with sleep." }, { "name": "Timing within the daily routine", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "relationship to local midday, meals, principal sleep, and adjacent activities", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition while exposing cases where conventional midday assumptions do not fit." }, { "name": "Planned and actual rest duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "minutes, with unknown values permitted and rest duration distinguished from sleep duration", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether the episode fits its available window without inventing a universal ideal length." }, { "name": "Interruption permission", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "no routine interruptions | named exceptions | interruptions allowed | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Constrains notification and waking actions during the siesta." }, { "name": "Participant-assessed result", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "purpose met | partly met | not met | not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Grounds assessment in the intended benefit rather than presumed effects of daytime rest." }, { "name": "Readiness to resume", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "ready | requests transition time | requests continued rest | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates the end of rest from the participant's reported readiness for the next activity." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate rest episode as a siesta or flag its identity as unresolved.", "Propose or adjust a siesta window around the participant's routine and obligations.", "Arrange authorised quiet conditions, notification suppression, and wake-up reminders.", "Record actual rest, possible sleep, interruptions, and departures from the plan.", "Apply agreed interruption and ending rules within the agent's permissions.", "Compare the participant's intended purpose with their reported result to inform future siesta planning." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "rae-dle-siesta", "title": "siesta - Diccionario de la lengua española, Real Academia Española", "url": "https://dle.rae.es/siesta", "what_it_supports": "Spanish lexical sense: sleep taken after eating; the core Hispanic meaning of the word.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-siesta", "title": "Siesta - Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta", "what_it_supports": "Cross-cultural naming, historical climate and labour explanations, decline of the long commercial closure, and related rest practices.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "naska-2007-arch-intern-med", "title": "Siesta in healthy adults and coronary mortality in the general population - Naska et al., Archives of Internal Medicine (American Medical Association), 2007", "url": "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/411692", "what_it_supports": "Empirical use of siesta as a measured nap practice in a Mediterranean population and its association with coronary mortality.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "boe-ley-1-2004", "title": "Ley 1/2004, de 21 de diciembre, de Horarios Comerciales - Boletín Oficial del Estado (Spain)", "url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2004-21419", "what_it_supports": "National Spanish framework for retail opening hours, which autonomous communities use to permit or restrict the afternoon commercial pause associated with siesta.", "url_status": "unverified" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "siesta-identity", "name": "Siesta identity", "description": "Establishes why this particular episode counts as a siesta and where its boundaries lie.", "rationale": "A midday nap, meal break, business closure, and principal daytime sleep can resemble a siesta while requiring different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-context", "name": "Designation and context", "description": "Records the participant's terminology and the contextual basis for classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-siesta-designation", "name": "Basis for siesta designation", "description": "Record who calls the episode a siesta and whether that designation refers to personal rest or a broader daily pause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the participant identify this episode as a siesta, and what do they mean by that term?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-siesta-designation-q01" }, { "text": "What participant statement or documented local practice supports the designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-siesta-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-boundaries", "name": "Episode boundaries", "description": "Separates the rest episode from adjacent activities and other forms of sleep.", "findings": [ { "id": "rest-within-a-daytime-pause", "name": "Rest within a daytime pause", "description": "Identify the bounded rest portion and establish whether it is distinct from the participant's principal sleep.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which part of the midday pause is intended for rest rather than eating, travel, or other activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rest-within-a-daytime-pause-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a pause within the participant's activity period or their principal sleep period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rest-within-a-daytime-pause-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "siesta-window", "name": "Siesta window", "description": "Locates the siesta within the participant's daily routine and available time.", "rationale": "A siesta's placement and limits depend on its relationship to midday activities and the obligations that surround it.", "layers": [ { "id": "daily-placement", "name": "Daily placement", "description": "Records clock timing alongside the participant's actual activity and sleep cycle.", "findings": [ { "id": "relationship-to-midday-routine", "name": "Relationship to midday routine", "description": "Describe the intended placement without assuming that every siesta follows lunch or occurs at a fixed hour.", "questions": [ { "text": "When is the siesta intended to begin in local time, and how does that relate to the participant's meals and principal sleep?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "relationship-to-midday-routine-q01" }, { "text": "Is the proposed placement chosen by the participant, customary in this setting, or imposed by an available break?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "relationship-to-midday-routine-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rest-budget", "name": "Rest budget", "description": "Distinguishes time available for the siesta from preparation and return to activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-rest-window", "name": "Usable rest window", "description": "Record desired rest time, any firm ending constraint, and the time needed around the rest episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many minutes are available for rest after allowing for settling down and resuming the next activity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-rest-window-q01" }, { "text": "What ending time or next obligation constrains the siesta, and may the agent adjust the window?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-rest-window-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rest-and-protection", "name": "Rest and protection", "description": "Records the intended form of rest and the conditions under which it may proceed.", "rationale": "Recognising and supporting a siesta requires distinguishing sleep from rest and respecting the participant's wishes about disturbance.", "layers": [ { "id": "rest-mode", "name": "Rest mode", "description": "Separates intended sleep or wakeful rest from evidence of what actually occurred.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-and-actual-rest", "name": "Intended and actual rest", "description": "Record whether sleep is desired, optional, or absent, retaining uncertainty about actual sleep.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the participant intend to sleep, rest while awake, or accept either outcome?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-and-actual-rest-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes actual sleep from quiet wakefulness, and what remains unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-and-actual-rest-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protected-rest-conditions", "name": "Protected rest conditions", "description": "Captures the practical arrangements and interruption permissions specific to this siesta.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-and-interruption-rules", "name": "Conditions and interruption rules", "description": "Record the setting the participant needs, any responsibilities requiring coverage, and authorised exceptions to quiet.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which conditions or responsibility handovers must be in place before this siesta can begin?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-and-interruption-rules-q01" }, { "text": "Which notifications or events may interrupt the siesta, and what may the agent silence or defer?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-and-interruption-rules-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ending-and-result", "name": "Ending and result", "description": "Tracks how the siesta finishes and how the participant judges its result.", "rationale": "Elapsed rest time alone does not establish that the siesta ended as intended or that the participant is ready to resume activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "ending-the-siesta", "name": "Ending the siesta", "description": "Records the agreed ending mechanism and the actual end of the rest episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "planned-and-actual-ending", "name": "Planned and actual ending", "description": "Distinguish an alarm or requested wake-up from spontaneous waking, external interruption, and the eventual decision to stop resting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Should the siesta end naturally, at an agreed time, or on a specified event, and what ending action is authorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "planned-and-actual-ending-q01" }, { "text": "When and why did rest actually end, and did any earlier interruption merely pause it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "planned-and-actual-ending-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "return-to-activity", "name": "Return to activity", "description": "Records the participant's assessment and immediate transition needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "purpose-and-resumption", "name": "Purpose and resumption", "description": "Compare the participant's reason for taking the siesta with their reported experience and desired next step.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did the participant want from this siesta, and do they report that it served that purpose?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "purpose-and-resumption-q01" }, { "text": "Does the participant want to resume the planned activity, allow transition time, or request a change to the remaining schedule?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-and-resumption-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Household post-meal afternoon sleep (the classic domestic siesta after the comida)", "Civic or commercial siesta hours (shops, offices, and public counters closed through the early afternoon)", "Short nap or siestecita (brief, often seated or reclined rest of about 10-30 minutes)", "Recumbent rest without sleep (lying down, quiet, or dozing without a full sleep episode)", "Heat-season field or outdoor-labour rest (work stopped through the hottest hours)", "Institutional afternoon rest (schools, barracks, hospitals, or workplaces with a set rest slot)", "Health-framed daytime nap (siesta advised or studied as a cardiovascular or sleep-hygiene practice)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q193359", "note": "Item labelled siesta (afternoon rest/nap); confirm the Q-id against the live item if disambiguating software or place names." }, { "scheme": "Real Academia Española (DLE lemma)", "value_or_pattern": "siesta", "note": "Headword in the Diccionario de la lengua española." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Spain: Ley 1/2004 de Horarios Comerciales (Cortes Generales / BOE) sets the national frame for shop hours; afternoon closures are authorised locally rather than as a mandated nap.", "Spain: Estatuto de los Trabajadores (rest-break and daily-rest rules for employees) governs work pauses generally, not a named siesta.", "EU: Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (European Parliament and Council) - rest periods and breaks, not siesta as such.", "Greece: municipal and police rules on common quiet hours (ώρες κοινής ησυχίας), typically including a long afternoon window in summer, which functionally protect a mesimeri rest." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In much of Spain and Latin America the word names the after-lunch rest at home; many people rest or sleep, others only stay indoors and quiet.", "Retail and small-business districts in parts of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Latin America still close through the early afternoon, so visitors encounter locked doors rather than a person asleep.", "Agricultural and construction crews in hot climates stop outdoor work through the peak heat and resume in the late afternoon or evening.", "Sleep-medicine and occupational-health advice sometimes recasts a short siesta as a controlled nap to counter the early-afternoon alertness dip.", "Hotels, workplaces, and transport still market or timetable a 'siesta' slot in tourist and Hispanic settings even where urban schedules have otherwise abandoned it." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Episode duration", "typical_range": "10-30 for a short nap; 30-90 for a traditional sleep siesta; longer bouts are now uncommon in cities", "unit": "min" }, { "quantity": "Clock window", "typical_range": "13:00-17:00 local time, most often centred on 14:00-16:00 after the midday meal", "unit": "local clock time" }, { "quantity": "Weekly frequency", "typical_range": "0-7; habitual daily practice in some households, occasional or seasonal in others", "unit": "d/week" }, { "quantity": "Circadian alertness dip (context, not the siesta itself)", "typical_range": "roughly 13:00-15:00 in diurnal schedules", "unit": "local clock time" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Sleep inertia after a nap long enough to enter slow-wave sleep, with grogginess and impaired performance on waking.", "Delayed night sleep or fragmented nocturnal sleep if the siesta is late, long, or taken by people with insomnia.", "Mixed cardiovascular findings: some cohort work associated habitual siesta with lower coronary mortality, other work with higher risk, so duration and confounding (illness, age) matter.", "Heat illness when outdoor workers skip the afternoon rest in hot weather.", "Economic and service friction from commercial closures (lost trade, tourist complaint) and neighbour conflict over enforced afternoon quiet hours." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Spain: the long civic closure has receded in large cities and among office workers; it remains more visible in smaller towns, the south, and family businesses. The word still names the after-lunch rest even when nobody sleeps.", "Hispanic America: siesta is widely understood; practice tracks the comida schedule and climate more than Spanish retail law.", "Philippines: the Spanish loanword remains in use for an afternoon rest.", "Italy: the analogous civic pause is riposo or chiusura pomeridiana, not always involving sleep.", "Greece: mesimeri rest is socially expected and often backed by afternoon quiet-hour rules, especially in summer.", "China: wuxiu (午休) is a scheduled workplace or school midday rest; it is a neighbour practice, not called siesta.", "English usage often treats 'siesta' as a stereotype of Spain rather than a measured nap." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Nap (generic daytime sleep)", "difference": "A nap is any short sleep; a siesta is a nap or rest fixed to the early afternoon and to a cultural daily schedule." }, { "name": "Power nap", "difference": "A power nap is duration-engineered (often ≤20 min) to avoid slow-wave sleep; a siesta is timed by meal and clock, and may be much longer." }, { "name": "Lunch break", "difference": "A lunch break is the meal period; a siesta begins after eating and is rest, not the meal itself." }, { "name": "Sobremesa", "difference": "Sobremesa is lingering talk at the table after the meal; it is social waking time, not recumbent rest." }, { "name": "Riposo (Italy)", "difference": "Riposo names the afternoon shutdown of shops and streets; it may include sleep but is defined by closure, not by a sleep episode." }, { "name": "Qailulah", "difference": "Qailulah is the midday nap recommended in Islamic tradition; it shares timing with siesta but is framed as religious custom rather than Hispanic civic time." }, { "name": "Wuxiu (午休)", "difference": "Chinese scheduled midday rest at work or school; similar clock ecology, different legal and workplace institutions, and a different name." }, { "name": "Nocturnal sleep", "difference": "The main daily sleep episode at night; siesta is a secondary, usually shorter, afternoon rest that should not replace the night bout." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of siesta this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend siesta to cover only individual rest episodes, or also the customary shared midday pause?", "Across the intended contexts of use, when is quiet wakeful rest sufficient for an episode to count as a siesta?", "How should siesta identity be resolved for shift workers or episodes occurring outside local midday and early afternoon?", "What evidence should distinguish a planned siesta from an incidental doze when the participant has not supplied a designation?", "Should interrupted rest followed by renewed rest be treated as one siesta or multiple episodes, and whose interpretation governs?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a siesta, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a siesta, record its intended and actual course, assess whether it served the participant's purpose, and determine appropriate scheduling or interruption actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: coffee nap.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 siesta, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [ "coffee nap" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 siesta from another, and a siesta 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 siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a siesta 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 siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a siesta proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a siesta, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a siesta and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a siesta, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a siesta, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a siesta is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a siesta consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a siesta takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a siesta, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a siesta, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta 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 siesta?", "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 siesta?", "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 siesta 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 siesta and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta 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 siesta is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a siesta, 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 siesta, 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 siesta is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }