{ "model": { "rank": 5437, "code": "thing-q214912", "model_id": "vr.tr.hitchhiking", "name": "hitchhiking", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a hitchhiking attempt, assess its progress and conditions, and identify appropriate next actions given the traveller's intentions, driver consent and unresolved constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q214912/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "slugging" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q214912", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214912", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:22:44Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08843-4cce-7ae0-896e-4015d1ec1a4e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: hitchhiking\nRegistry id: vr.tr.hitchhiking\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q214912", "registryId": "vr.tr.hitchhiking", "name": "hitchhiking", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q214912/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hitchhiking", "name": "hitchhiking", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a hitchhiking attempt, assess its progress and conditions, and identify appropriate next actions given the traveller's intentions, driver consent and unresolved constraints.", "definition": "Hitchhiking is travel by soliciting and accepting voluntary rides, usually without payment, from passing drivers with whom the traveller has no prior transport arrangement.", "scope_statement": "This model owns hitchhiking as an activity in which a traveller solicits a discretionary lift from passing drivers outside an established passenger transport service, including unsuccessful attempts and journeys assembled from multiple accepted lifts.", "in_scope": [ "The traveller's intended direction, destination and acceptable intermediate drop-off points", "Soliciting lifts through roadside presence, gestures, signs or direct approaches at stopping places", "Negotiating and accepting or declining an offered lift", "Waiting, boarding, travelling, alighting and attempting onward lifts", "Encounter-specific consent, uncertainty, access conditions and exit options" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Operating taxis, buses or other established passenger transport services", "Routine carpooling and rides arranged between known participants before the journey", "Vehicle engineering, maintenance and driving competence", "Road design and traffic regulation as independent systems", "Freight transport and figurative or biological uses of hitchhiking" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A traveller actively seeks a lift; merely receiving an unsolicited ride does not by itself establish a hitchhiking attempt.", "A prospective driver encounters the request while passing or at a stopping place, rather than fulfilling an established passenger booking.", "The driver individually decides whether to offer carriage, and the traveller separately decides whether to accept the specific offer.", "The traveller may accept a lift covering only part of the intended journey and then solicit another lift.", "Payment is not presumed to be a service fare; requests for money or other consideration require explicit recording and a boundary assessment." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attempt stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "preparing | soliciting | discussing-offer | accepted | riding | alighted | paused | abandoned | completed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes seeking a lift from having one and identifies which decisions remain possible." }, { "name": "Solicitation method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "gesture | destination-sign | direct-approach | combination | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records how the traveller communicates the request and how a driver encounters it." }, { "name": "Route compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relationship between intended direction, offered route and proposed drop-off point; confirmed | partial | incompatible | unknown", "why_it_matters": "An offered lift may help only part of the journey or leave the traveller poorly placed for the next attempt." }, { "name": "Elapsed solicitation time", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "minutes per attempt, with pauses distinguished", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about continuing, relocating or using another form of transport without assuming a universal waiting-time threshold." }, { "name": "Proposed exchange", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "no-consideration-requested | voluntary-contribution | required-payment | other-condition | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes unexpected conditions visible and supports distinguishing a discretionary lift from a commercial transport offer." }, { "name": "Mutual agreement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not-discussed | pending | mutually-accepted | declined-by-traveller | declined-by-driver | withdrawn | unclear", "why_it_matters": "A driver stopping does not alone establish agreement to carry the traveller on acceptable terms." }, { "name": "Party and carrying requirements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Travellers, companions, luggage, animals and accessibility requirements associated with the requested lift", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the actual offer accommodates the travelling party." }, { "name": "Local permission assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified | apparently-permitted | conditional | apparently-restricted | conflicting-evidence; linked to location, activity and dated evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps rules about solicitation, pedestrian presence and vehicle stopping separate from assumptions about hitchhiking generally." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an encounter as a hitchhiking attempt or flag a boundary case for review.", "Compare an offered route and drop-off point with the traveller's intended journey.", "Surface unresolved lift conditions before the traveller accepts.", "Track attempts and ride legs without treating an unsuccessful request as a completed journey.", "Identify missing evidence about solicitation access, stopping conditions and onward travel.", "Support a traveller's decision to continue, decline, pause or switch transport while preserving their control over acceptance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hitchhiking-identity", "name": "Hitchhiking identity", "description": "Establishes what activity is occurring and where its boundaries lie.", "rationale": "A roadside request, a booked ride and an informal lift can look similar while involving different expectations.", "layers": [ { "id": "request-and-encounter", "name": "Request and encounter", "description": "Records how a lift request reaches a prospective driver.", "findings": [ { "id": "solicited-discretionary-lift", "name": "Solicited discretionary lift", "description": "Record the traveller's request and the circumstances in which a driver encounters it; do not infer hitchhiking solely from travelling in someone else's vehicle.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable request or participant account establishes that the traveller was seeking a lift?", "kind": "definition", "id": "solicited-discretionary-lift-q01" }, { "text": "Did the driver encounter the request while passing or stopping, or was carriage arranged beforehand?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "solicited-discretionary-lift-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-exchange-boundaries", "name": "Service and exchange boundaries", "description": "Examines prior arrangements and conditions that may change the classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "lift-versus-transport-service", "name": "Lift versus transport service", "description": "Record booking arrangements, required payment and other consideration explicitly, leaving ambiguous cases qualified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the driver offering an individually chosen lift or fulfilling a passenger transport service arrangement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lift-versus-transport-service-q01" }, { "text": "What payment or other condition was requested, by whom, and at what stage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lift-versus-transport-service-q02" }, { "text": "Does the applicable working definition include this exchange, or should the encounter remain a boundary case?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lift-versus-transport-service-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "solicitation-setting", "name": "Solicitation setting", "description": "Models the place and communication through which a traveller seeks a lift.", "rationale": "Hitchhiking depends on drivers encountering and understanding a request at a place where an interaction can occur.", "layers": [ { "id": "request-communication", "name": "Request communication", "description": "Records the signal, its intended audience and uncertainties in interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "direction-and-party-signal", "name": "Direction and party signal", "description": "Represent what the gesture, sign or spoken request communicates about direction, destination and the travelling party.", "questions": [ { "text": "What destination or direction is actually communicated, and does it match the traveller's intention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "direction-and-party-signal-q01" }, { "text": "Are companions and carrying requirements apparent to a driver considering the request?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "direction-and-party-signal-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the intended interpretation of the gesture or wording in this setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "direction-and-party-signal-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "waiting-and-stopping-place", "name": "Waiting and stopping place", "description": "Distinguishes the traveller's waiting position from the place a vehicle could stop.", "findings": [ { "id": "encounter-location-constraints", "name": "Encounter location constraints", "description": "Record pedestrian access, visibility, stopping space and applicable restrictions as separate location-specific considerations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where would the traveller wait, where would a driver stop, and what observations describe access and separation from moving traffic?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "encounter-location-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated sources address pedestrian presence, solicitation and stopping at this exact type of location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "encounter-location-constraints-q02" }, { "text": "What unresolved site condition would justify pausing the attempt or considering another location?", "kind": "action", "id": "encounter-location-constraints-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lift-agreement-and-control", "name": "Lift agreement and control", "description": "Models the offer, mutual acceptance and the traveller's continuing ability to make decisions.", "rationale": "Stopping to talk does not settle the route, conditions, capacity or consent needed for an accepted lift.", "layers": [ { "id": "offer-negotiation", "name": "Offer negotiation", "description": "Makes the proposed ride leg concrete before acceptance.", "findings": [ { "id": "specific-lift-terms", "name": "Specific lift terms", "description": "Record the offered destination, anticipated deviations, party accommodation and exchange conditions, including what remains unspecified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does the driver propose to take the traveller, and what route or stops have been discussed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "specific-lift-terms-q01" }, { "text": "Can the offered lift accommodate every traveller and their stated carrying or accessibility requirements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "specific-lift-terms-q02" }, { "text": "Which unresolved terms need clarification before this traveller can decide whether to accept?", "kind": "action", "id": "specific-lift-terms-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-and-exit", "name": "Consent and exit", "description": "Tracks voluntary agreement, changes to conditions and available ways to end participation.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuing-traveller-choice", "name": "Continuing traveller choice", "description": "Record each party's agreement and any later withdrawal, distinguishing stated preferences from the practical ability to stop or leave.", "questions": [ { "text": "Have both traveller and driver accepted the same lift conditions without an unresolved objection?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuing-traveller-choice-q01" }, { "text": "If the route or conditions change, what does the traveller want to do and what practical options are available?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuing-traveller-choice-q02" }, { "text": "What communication, stopping or assistance options are known, and which are merely assumed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuing-traveller-choice-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attempts-and-journey-continuity", "name": "Attempts and journey continuity", "description": "Connects waiting attempts, accepted lifts and onward decisions into a journey.", "rationale": "A useful lift may end before the destination, and an attempt may end without any ride.", "layers": [ { "id": "attempt-progress", "name": "Attempt progress", "description": "Tracks solicitation episodes and their outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "waiting-and-attempt-outcome", "name": "Waiting and attempt outcome", "description": "Record when solicitation begins and pauses, offers received and whether the attempt ends in acceptance, relocation or abandonment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How long has this attempt involved active solicitation, excluding pauses?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "waiting-and-attempt-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Did the attempt produce an accepted lift, a declined offer, a relocation or no lift?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "waiting-and-attempt-outcome-q02" }, { "text": "Which traveller-defined time, daylight, weather or resource limits should trigger reconsideration?", "kind": "action", "id": "waiting-and-attempt-outcome-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "drop-off-and-onward-travel", "name": "Drop-off and onward travel", "description": "Assesses a ride leg's endpoint relative to the remaining journey.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-intermediate-endpoint", "name": "Usable intermediate endpoint", "description": "Record the actual drop-off point and remaining options; reduced distance alone does not establish a useful outcome.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where did the lift actually end, and how does that location relate to the intended destination?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-intermediate-endpoint-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about onward solicitation, alternative transport, shelter and communication at that endpoint?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-intermediate-endpoint-q02" }, { "text": "Should the traveller attempt another lift, pause, change transport or mark the journey complete under their stated criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-intermediate-endpoint-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 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"evidence": [ "Roadside hitchhiking using a gesture", "Hitchhiking with a destination sign", "Soliciting rides at service stations or rest stops", "Organised hitchhiking races or charity challenges" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of hitchhiking this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Low-cost travel over short or long distances", "Recreational and adventure travel", "Occasional transport where public transport is unavailable", "Organised travel challenges and fundraising events" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of hitchhiking this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Waiting time before obtaining a ride", "typical_range": "Highly dependent on location, traffic, time and driver willingness; no general range asserted", "unit": "minutes or hours" }, { "quantity": "Distance travelled per accepted ride", "typical_range": "Varies with the driver's route and the agreed drop-off point", "unit": "kilometres" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of hitchhiking 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": [ "Collision exposure while waiting beside roads or entering and leaving vehicles", "Harassment, assault, theft 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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 hitchhiking, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a hitchhiking attempt, assess its progress and conditions, and identify appropriate next actions given the traveller's intentions, driver consent and unresolved constraints.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: slugging.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 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 hitchhiking, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "slugging" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 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 hitchhiking from another, and a hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a hitchhiking proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a hitchhiking, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a hitchhiking and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a hitchhiking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a hitchhiking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a hitchhiking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a hitchhiking consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a hitchhiking takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a hitchhiking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a hitchhiking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a hitchhiking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What hitchhiking is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of hitchhiking are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is hitchhiking operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of hitchhiking and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of hitchhiking?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as hitchhiking?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 hitchhiking is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking, 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 hitchhiking 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 } } } }