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"https://www.onlineordbog.dk/wordnet/en/c4/tablet.php", "what_it_supports": "Registry sense: a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription; hypernym slab; WordNet hyponyms abacus and slate.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "getty-aat-writing-tablets", "title": "Art & Architecture Thesaurus: writing tablets (information artifacts), AAT 300262572", "url": "http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300262572", "what_it_supports": "Museum vocabulary for hand-held flat writing supports, typically coated with clay, plaster or wax and incised with a stylus; parent class tablets (information artifacts).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-vindolanda-tablets", "title": "Vindolanda tablets", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets", "what_it_supports": "Roman wooden leaf tablets as a documentary writing support: postcard-sized birch, alder or oak sheets 0.25-3 mm thick, typically about 20 × 8 cm, written in carbon ink and folded as diptychs; distinct from imported 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"what_it_supports": "Reusable stone writing tablets, commonly 4×6 or 7×10 inches in a wooden frame; school use in India by the early eleventh century and widespread European use from the later eighteenth century.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-tablets-of-stone", "title": "Tablets of Stone", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablets_of_the_Law", "what_it_supports": "Stone covenant tablets as a named object type in biblical and later Jewish tradition, including Talmudic dimensions (about 50 cm square and 25 cm thick) and later round-topped display forms modelled on hinged writing tablets.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "babelnet-bn00075830n", "title": "BabelNet synset bn:00075830n (tablet)", "url": "https://www.babelnet.org/synset?id=bn%3A00075830n&lang=EN", "what_it_supports": "Aligns the WordNet slab sense with the broader inscriptional use of clay slabs in Wiktionary, while treating tablet as a kind of slab.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tablet-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Tablet identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what device is being modelled and whether the tablet-computer interpretation fits.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and both the word tablet and neighbouring device classes create material ambiguity.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-meaning", "name": "Registry meaning", "description": "Connects the registered term to the intended physical thing.", "findings": [ { "id": "tablet-sense", "name": "Intended meaning of tablet", "description": "Record evidence for the tablet-computer interpretation and retain unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry intend tablet computer, medicinal tablet, inscribed tablet or another meaning?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tablet-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which registry context or curator decision establishes the intended meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tablet-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "device-classification", "name": "Device classification", "description": "Distinguishes the actual device from phones, laptops, e-readers and host-dependent input surfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-factor-evidence", "name": "Form-factor evidence", "description": "Record exact product identity, independent computing capability and keyboard relationship.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact model and hardware variant identify this device, and where was that identity read?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "form-factor-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can it run user applications and support ordinary touchscreen use without a host computer or attached keyboard?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "form-factor-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does an existing registry entry or world model already own this device class?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "form-factor-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "screen-and-input", "name": "Screen and input", "description": "Captures whether the tablet's primary 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"battery-and-charging", "name": "Battery and charging", "description": "Assesses remaining charge, practical endurance and the actual charging combination.", "findings": [ { "id": "power-readiness", "name": "Power readiness", "description": "Record observed charge and charging behaviour without inferring endurance from a percentage alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What charge level and runtime evidence are available for the intended workload, with what observation dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "power-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed charger and cable combination charge this tablet reliably during the intended use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "power-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Is power sufficient for the proposed session, update or data-transfer operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "power-readiness-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "enclosure-and-heat", "name": "Enclosure and heat", "description": "Assesses the physical assembly and temperature-related behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-constrained-use", "name": "Condition-constrained use", "description": "Record visible damage, separation, liquid exposure evidence and thermal warnings as observations rather than unverified diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there cracks, bending, screen lifting, damaged ports or reported temperature warnings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-constrained-use-q01" }, { "text": "What model-specific guidance determines whether the observed condition permits use, charging or requires service?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-constrained-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "platform-access-and-connections", "name": "Platform access and connections", "description": "Determines whether the tablet's software, restrictions and interfaces permit the intended task or lifecycle action.", "rationale": "A physically functional tablet may remain unusable because of unsupported software, unavailable applications, account binding or incompatible 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"connections-and-control", "name": "Connections and control", "description": "Assesses usable interfaces and the authority and restrictions governing device changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-connections", "name": "Verified connections", "description": "Distinguish physical connectors and advertised radios from connections that support the required operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required network, data-transfer or external-display connections have been tested successfully?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-connections-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended peripheral require a capability this tablet's port or operating system does not provide?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "verified-connections-q02" } ] }, { "id": "authorised-lifecycle-actions", "name": "Authorised lifecycle actions", "description": "Record access prerequisites and consequences of configuration, repair, erasure or reassignment without storing credentials.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes who may authorise changes, erasure or transfer of this tablet?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authorised-lifecycle-actions-q01" }, { "text": "Which screen locks, account bindings or management restrictions affect the proposed action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authorised-lifecycle-actions-q02" }, { "text": "What data preservation and account-release steps must be completed before an authorised reset or transfer?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-lifecycle-actions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 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Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (UNESCO): export control and restitution of inscribed antiquities.", "Object ID (ICOM and Getty): minimum description used to identify movable inscribed tablets after theft.", "ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums (ICOM): acquisition, documentation, conservation and display of inscribed objects in museum custody." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of tablet 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": [ "Roman military and civilian correspondence and accounts written on folded wooden leaf tablets (Vindolanda; comparable ink tablets from Roman London).", "Greco-Roman and medieval note-taking, schooling and documentary practice on waxed wooden or ivory diptychs and polyptychs.", "Wall-mounted memorial tablets in churches, civic buildings and monuments naming donors, office-holders or the dead.", "Temple dedications on stone votive plaques in early Mesopotamia, often perforated and deposited in sacred precincts.", "Reusable school slates in South Asian and later European classrooms.", "Museum and excavation recording of inscribed wooden boards and stone slabs as archaeological finds (for example the Dura-Europos wooden tabella at Yale).", "Liturgical and public display of Decalogue tablets as paired inscribed slabs.", "Inscribed wooden boards used as durable documents or ritual texts, including Egyptian writing boards and Easter Island rongorongo tablets." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of tablet 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": "Face size of portable ink leaf tablets", "typical_range": "about 20 × 8 (postcard-sized; one published tablet 182 mm long)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Thickness of wooden ink leaf tablets", "typical_range": "0.25-3", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "School writing-slate face size", "typical_range": "4×6 or 7×10", "unit": "in" }, { "quantity": "Side length of Mesopotamian stone votive tablets (Weihplatten)", "typical_range": "8-50", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Wooden inscribed board thickness", "typical_range": "about 0.8 (Dura-Europos tabella) to 1.6 (Large Washington rongorongo tablet)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Talmudic Decalogue tablet size (traditional, not archaeological)", "typical_range": "about 50 × 50 face, 25 thick", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of tablet 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": [ "Wooden tablets decay, warp, split, or are eaten by insects except where waterlogged or otherwise anaerobic burial preserves them.", "Wax beds of stylus tablets are lost, leaving only the wooden or ivory frame.", "Carbon ink on leaf tablets abrades or becomes illegible once the object dries or is handled.", "Stone tablets weather, spall, or suffer salt damage, vandalism and theft, especially when wall-mounted outdoors.", "Inscribed boards and slabs break in burial, robbery or fire (the Giza writing board was smashed by grave robbers; some rongorongo tablets are fire-damaged).", "Unprovenanced inscribed tablets enter the market, raising forgery and illicit-excavation problems.", "A poorly fixed wall tablet can fall and injure people.", "The English name collides with computing and pharmaceutical senses, producing misidentification in records and in public interpretation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of tablet 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": [ "Latin tabula/tabella and Greek pinax/deltos name the object; English tablet overlaps with plaque, slab and slate.", "German distinguishes Weihplatte (votive plaque) from Gedenktafel (memorial tablet) and Schreibtafel (writing tablet).", "Hebrew luach (לוח) covers writing boards and the stone tablets of the covenant.", "In China and Japan, lasting inscriptions on metal or stone are treated as jinshiwen/kinsekibun; buried epitaph slabs (muzhi) are a distinct Chinese practice.", "Roman Britain used locally made ink leaf tablets of birch, alder or oak and separately imported stylus (wax) tablets.", "In Mesopotamia the ordinary writing tablet is clay; stone tablets there are mainly votive or monumental, not everyday documents.", "School slates are documented in India by the early eleventh century, centuries before their industrial European spread from Welsh slate quarries." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of tablet 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 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industrial or dedicated communication devices remain variants here or link to separate registered models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 17, "questions": 30 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a tablet, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a tablet computer, assess its usability and condition, and decide which interactions, connections, maintenance or transfers are appropriate.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: dentifrice tablet, sublingual tablet, film-coated tablet, orally disintegrating tablet, orodispersible tablet, drinking tablet, caplet, effervescent tablet.", "8 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 64 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 tablet, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "dentifrice tablet", "sublingual tablet", "film-coated tablet", "orally disintegrating tablet", "orodispersible tablet", "drinking tablet", "caplet", "effervescent tablet" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 8 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 tablet from another, and a tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", 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movement", "description": "Where a tablet 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 tablet is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 tablet is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tablet, 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 tablet, 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 tablet 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 } } } }