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original statue's material identity or provenance." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Moai attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported original attribution | provisional attribution | disputed attribution | modern representation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents visual resemblance or an inherited catalogue label from becoming an unsupported identity claim." }, { "name": "Sculptural configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded head, torso, arms, hands, lower-body features and distinctive carving details; obscured and absent features distinguished", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without reducing moai to a generic head-shaped silhouette." }, { "name": "Stone and component materials", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identified material by component, identification method and confidence; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Material differences affect attribution, deterioration assessment and treatment choices." }, { "name": "Extent and dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Metres for height, width and depth; specify exposed, reconstructed or total extent and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates measured surviving form from dimensions inferred through burial or missing portions." }, { "name": "Production and placement state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Carving stage, attachment or detachment, position, burial and assembly recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Avoids confusing an unfinished statue with a damaged or displaced completed one." }, { "name": "Setting and component associations", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to quarry context, ahu, landscape location, attributed pukao or eye elements, with evidence and dates", "why_it_matters": "Associations can be culturally significant without establishing that every moai possessed every component." }, { "name": "Surface and structural condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of 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site conditions and recorded permissions.", "Represent known and reconstructed portions separately in an image, catalogue entry or digital model.", "Trace placement and movement claims while preserving disputes and gaps in the record." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "moai-identity-and-form", "name": "Moai identity and form", "description": "Establishes which sculptural entity is being described and why it is identified as a moai.", "rationale": "Moai records must distinguish originals, fragments and unfinished works from lookalikes and later representations.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-and-record-matching", "name": "Attribution and record matching", "description": "Connects the statue to the moai tradition and reconciles names or identifiers.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-moai-identity", "name": "Evidence for moai identity", "description": "Records the basis and uncertainty of identification, including whether multiple records describe the same 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"boundary", "id": "surviving-and-obscured-form-q01" }, { "text": "What dimensions were measured directly, and do they describe the exposed portion, surviving whole or an inferred original form?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "surviving-and-obscured-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stone-and-carving-history", "name": "Stone and carving history", "description": "Describes the material body and evidence for how far its production progressed.", "rationale": "A moai's quarry relationship and carving stage affect how an agent interprets its shape, position and apparent incompleteness.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-and-quarry-attribution", "name": "Material and quarry attribution", "description": "Separates identification of the stone from attribution to a source location.", "findings": [ { "id": "stone-source-evidence", "name": "Stone source evidence", "description": "Records material identifications and the evidence connecting the statue to a quarry.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stone has been identified for the statue and any associated components, using which observational or analytical method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stone-source-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a particular quarry attribution, and is it specific to this statue or inferred from a broader group?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stone-source-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "carving-and-completion", "name": "Carving and completion", "description": "Interprets carving traces, attachment and finishing without equating incompleteness with damage.", "findings": [ { "id": "production-stage-assessment", "name": "Production stage assessment", "description": "Distinguishes unfinished work, later loss and features whose intended state is unknown.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tool traces, unfinished surfaces or remaining bedrock connections support the proposed production stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "production-stage-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which apparently incomplete features reflect interrupted carving, subsequent damage or an interpretation that remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "production-stage-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "placement-and-associated-elements", "name": "Placement and associated elements", "description": "Tracks where the moai stood or lay and which structures or components are associated with it.", "rationale": "Present position and assembly may reflect several historical episodes and cannot automatically stand for an original arrangement.", "layers": [ { "id": "setting-and-orientation", "name": "Setting and orientation", "description": "Records dated spatial relationships to ahu, quarry contexts and surrounding landscape features.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-placement", "name": "Documented placement", "description": "Separates observed present placement from reconstructed earlier settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the statue's recorded position and orientation relative to an 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whose account supports each statement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specific-meaning-and-knowledge-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretations apply specifically to this statue, and which are broader accounts whose applicability remains unconfirmed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "specific-meaning-and-knowledge-limits-q02" }, { "text": "What restrictions or protocols govern recording, translating or sharing the associated knowledge?", "kind": "action", "id": "specific-meaning-and-knowledge-limits-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "custody-and-permission", "name": "Custody and permission", "description": "Distinguishes physical custody, cultural authority and documented authorisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-specific-authority", "name": "Action-specific authority", "description": "Connects a proposed use to the relevant authorities and any unresolved claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who holds physical custody, who is identified as a relevant Rapa Nui cultural authority, and what 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evidence of change and the information required before proposing treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cracks, surface loss, erosion or other changes documented, and what repeat observations establish their progression?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-change-and-care-needs-q01" }, { "text": "Which repairs, consolidants, supports or re-erection operations are documented, and how might they affect present condition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-change-and-care-needs-q02" }, { "text": "What specialist assessment and authorisation are required before the proposed cleaning, stabilisation or other intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "material-change-and-care-needs-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "images-casts-and-digital-models", "name": "Images, casts and digital models", "description": "Links derivative representations to the particular moai and state they document.", "findings": [ { "id": "representation-fidelity-and-reuse", "name": "Representation fidelity and 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"evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of moai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Weathering and erosion of carved stone surfaces", "Fire damage, including cracking and loss of surface material", "Toppling, breakage and damage during handling", "Coastal erosion affecting statues and their platforms", "Damage from climbing, touching or vandalism" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of moai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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distinct from the monumental stone statues described here." }, { "name": "sculpture", "difference": "Sculpture is the broader artistic category; moai are a culturally and historically specific tradition of Rapa Nui statuary." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of moai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.moai specifically denote the Rapa Nui sculptural tradition, and how should its INF / INF.MED classification link to physical statue instances?", "Which existing Vercy world model, if any, already owns this concept and should remain its single source of truth?", "What attribution criteria should govern unusually formed, unfinished or fragmentary candidates without excluding documented variation?", "Which Rapa Nui authorities and sources should guide terminology, cultural interpretation and knowledge-sharing protocols?", "Which chronological, quarry, component-association and movement claims can be substantiated for individual moai, and which must remain competing interpretations?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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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 moai, 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 moai, 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 moai 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 moai, 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 moai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"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 moai 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 moai from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a moai, 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 moai, 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 moai 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 moai 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 moai between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a moai, 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 moai, 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 moai 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 moai, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a moai 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 moai, 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 moai, 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 moai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a moai says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a moai contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a moai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a moai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a moai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a moai and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a moai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a moai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a moai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of moai a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For moai, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of moai exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made moai and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to moai, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in moai, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a moai 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 moai and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a moai, 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 moai, 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 moai 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 moai is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a moai, 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 moai, 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 moai 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 } } } }