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"Material and finish", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented substrate and coating, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports maintenance decisions without guessing composition from appearance." }, { "name": "Point and body condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per-feature observations of tip damage, wear, corrosion, cracking and deformation; uninspected permitted", "why_it_matters": "Provides the evidence needed to decide whether the hook remains usable." }, { "name": "Installed relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Connected line, leader, connector or lure, including attachment location and method", "why_it_matters": "Makes compatibility and replacement decisions specific to the actual assembly." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and compare a hook using its geometry, markings and documented product identity.", "Inspect each point, barb, bend and attachment feature for damage or obstruction.", "Attach or replace the hook in a compatible rig or lure 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"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-50/part-635", "what_it_supports": "U.S. gear rules that treat circle hooks as a regulated class distinct from J-hooks in billfish and related bait fisheries.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fao-nedelec-prado", "title": "Definition and classification of fishing gear categories - Nédélec, C. and Prado, J., FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Placement of baited hooks in longline, handline, pole-and-line and related capture methods as used in fisheries statistics." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hook-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Hook identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes what counts as this hook and how it is recognised within fishing tackle.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a hook from neighbouring tackle and know whether it is assessing a component or a complete assembly.", "layers": [ { "id": "capture-form", "name": 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"measured-hook-profile", "name": "Measured hook profile", "description": "Describe gape, shank length, wire section and point alignment using reproducible observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the gape, shank length and wire thickness, and which endpoints or locations define each measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-hook-profile-q01" }, { "text": "How does each point align with its shank and bend, including inward turn and any out-of-plane offset?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-hook-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "barbs-and-retention-features", "name": "Barbs and retention features", "description": "Distinguishes point barbs from features intended to hold bait along the shank.", "findings": [ { "id": "retention-feature-configuration", "name": "Retention feature configuration", "description": "Record the location, form and modification state of each barb or bait-retaining projection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which points carry barbs, and are there separate bait-retaining barbs on the shank?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retention-feature-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Is an absent or flattened barb an original design feature, a documented modification or an unresolved observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retention-feature-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rig-and-bait-interfaces", "name": "Rig and bait interfaces", "description": "Describes how the hook connects to tackle and accommodates bait or lure material.", "rationale": "An intact hook can still be unsuitable if its connection is insecure or its capture geometry is obstructed.", "layers": [ { "id": "line-and-lure-connection", "name": "Line and lure connection", "description": "Assesses the hook-side interface for a specified line connection or mounting.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachment-fit-and-security", "name": "Attachment fit and security", "description": "Record eye or spade geometry, contact surfaces and the fit of the proposed connection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What attachment feature is present, and what are its opening, orientation and relevant contact-surface dimensions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attachment-fit-and-security-q01" }, { "text": "Can the specified connection seat and remain retained without an observed gap, sharp edge or restricted movement compromising it?", "kind": "action", "id": "attachment-fit-and-security-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bait-clearance-and-hook-movement", "name": "Bait clearance and hook movement", "description": "Evaluates the hook in its proposed baited or lure-mounted configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-point-exposure", "name": "Working point exposure", "description": "Record how bait, lure bodies and adjacent hardware affect point exposure, gape and movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "With the intended bait or lure fitted, how much gape remains and where is each point exposed, covered or deliberately embedded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-point-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Does the installed hook move as the intended rig requires without fouling the lure, leader or another hook?", "kind": "action", "id": "working-point-exposure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hook-condition-and-serviceability", "name": "Hook condition and serviceability", "description": "Assesses the penetrating tips, load-bearing body and attachment surfaces.", "rationale": "Small local defects can affect hook function, and multi-point hooks require point-by-point inspection.", "layers": [ { "id": "point-and-barb-inspection", "name": "Point and barb inspection", "description": "Records tip and barb condition separately for each point.", "findings": [ { "id": "point-readiness", "name": "Point readiness", "description": "Distinguish an inspected point from an assumed sharp point and record the assessment method.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each point, what inspection method and observations indicate sharpness, rounding, rolling, breakage or obstruction?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "point-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Does tip or barb damage warrant further inspection, supported maintenance or retirement under the chosen acceptance criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "point-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-and-attachment-integrity", "name": "Body and attachment integrity", "description": "Assesses the shank, bends, joints and line-contact features for deterioration.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-condition", "name": "Structural condition", "description": "Record observed deformation, corrosion, cracks and joint or eye defects without assigning an unsupported strength rating.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are deformation, corrosion, cracking, joint movement or eye-opening defects visible, and how extensive are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "structural-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What known snagging, overload, straightening or other use history could affect the decision to retain this hook?", 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"Which applicable requirements concerning point count, barb state, pattern or dimensions must be checked before use?", "kind": "action", "id": "hook-selection-decision-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "maintenance-and-point-control", "name": "Maintenance and point control", "description": "Governs hook-specific maintenance, modification and handling of exposed points.", "findings": [ { "id": "maintain-protect-or-retire", "name": "Maintain, protect or retire", "description": "Choose a supported next action and preserve evidence of changes to the point, barb or body.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is sharpening, cleaning or barb flattening supported for this hook, and what inspection must follow the proposed change?", "kind": "action", "id": "maintain-protect-or-retire-q01" }, { "text": "How will every exposed point be contained during storage, transport or disposal, including points on a damaged multi-point hook?", "kind": "action", "id": "maintain-protect-or-retire-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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bycatch on pelagic longlines.", "Inland and recreational byelaws requiring barbless or single hooks on designated catch-and-release waters (UK Environment Agency and many U.S. state wildlife agencies).", "Lead-tackle restrictions in some jurisdictions (U.S. states, parts of the EU/UK) that mainly hit jig heads and weights rather than the hook wire itself." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of fishing hook 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": [ "Tied or snelled to a recreational line as the point of a bait, lure or fly presentation.", "Fished in thousands on commercial pelagic and demersal longlines, each hook on a snood.", "Used in pole-and-line, handline, drop-line and ice-fishing.", "Factory-fitted to hard baits as trebles, or as siwash singles replacing trebles on spoons and plugs.", "Sold loose in size/pattern boxes, and packed in military and survival fishing kits.", "Preserved as archaeological and ethnographic objects in bone, shell, wood, bronze and iron." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fishing hook 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": "trade size", "typical_range": "#22 (tiny fly) through #1, then 1/0 to about 20/0 (tuna/shark)", "unit": "dimensionless (hook-size series)" }, { "quantity": "gape (gap)", "typical_range": "2-60", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "wire diameter", "typical_range": "0.3-4", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "shank length", "typical_range": "8-80 for most recreational patterns; longer on Aberdeen and some bait hooks", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "mass", "typical_range": "0.05-25 for typical recreational singles; heavier on large commercial and shark hooks", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "point offset (kirb/reversed)", "typical_range": "0-15", "unit": "degree" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of fishing hook 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": [ "Wire yield: the bend opens or straightens under a fish or a snag.", "Point rolls, chips or dulls on bone, enamel or rock.", "Carbon-steel corrosion and later fracture in salt water; stainless can still fail at the eye or barb.", "Eye deformation or cut-through of the knot or snell.", "Deep-hooking and post-release mortality, especially swallowed J-hooks with bait; circle hooks are used to shift hook-ups toward the jaw corner.", "Tissue tearing from barbs; barbless hooks drop fish more easily and are mandated on some waters.", "Puncture wounds to anglers and subsequent marine infection.", "Longline bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds and sharks, sensitive to hook type, size and offset.", "Foul-hooking or dedicated snagging, often illegal.", "Galvanic corrosion when a carbon or stainless hook is moulded into a lead jig head." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fishing hook this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "circle hook" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 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 fishing hook from another, and a fishing hook 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a fishing hook is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a fishing hook, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a fishing hook, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a fishing hook is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a fishing hook, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a fishing hook, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and 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actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a fishing hook is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a fishing hook is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a fishing hook, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a fishing hook, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a fishing hook is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a fishing hook, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a fishing hook, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a fishing hook 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fishing hook 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What fishing hook is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does fishing hook perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise fishing hook, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How fishing hook is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does fishing hook have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does fishing hook need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about fishing hook is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about fishing hook hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern fishing hook, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a fishing hook 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 fishing hook and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook 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 fishing hook is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fishing hook, 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 fishing hook, 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 fishing hook is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }