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"This model owns the identity, composition, organisation and operational state of an audio programme associated with a film, episode, game or other host work, including separately released soundtrack presentations while distinguishing them from the host work, constituent musical works, recordings and carriers.", "in_scope": [ "The soundtrack's relationship to a specific host work, edition or interactive experience", "Included music, dialogue, effects, ambience and silence, with their roles and boundaries", "Linear synchronisation, cue placement and interactive playback behaviour", "Full mixes, alternate mixes, language versions, stems and separately released soundtrack presentations", "Soundtrack-specific credits, provenance, permissions and delivery readiness" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The host work's complete narrative, visual content and production history", "Independent identity and musical structure of constituent compositions", "Independent recording histories unrelated to their inclusion in this soundtrack", "Playback equipment, storage media and individual physical copies", "General music catalogues, playlists and albums with no established relationship to a host work" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A soundtrack has an identifiable relationship to a host work; a playlist sharing its mood does not establish that relationship.", "A full soundtrack may include dialogue, effects and ambience as well as music; a score identifies composed music rather than necessarily the complete audio programme.", "An integrated soundtrack follows the host work's timeline or interaction rules; a soundtrack album has its own release sequence and may omit, extend or rearrange material.", "A soundtrack version is distinguished by audible content, alignment or playback behaviour; a new file encoding alone need not establish a new version.", "A physical disc or audio file carries a soundtrack presentation but is not interchangeable with the soundtrack's creative identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Soundtrack presentation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "integrated audio programme | music-only presentation | separately released album | other declared presentation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a complete host-work soundtrack from being mistaken for an album or score selection." }, { "name": "Host-work association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked host work and edition, with association type and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which work the soundtrack accompanies or represents." }, { "name": "Audio-component coverage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "music | dialogue | effects | ambience, each present, absent or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether the available presentation can fulfil the intended playback or production role." }, { "name": "Playback organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "fixed timeline | event-driven | adaptive | hybrid | standalone sequence", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether alignment requires timestamps, interaction rules or an album track order." }, { "name": "Duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds, qualified by version and playback path; variable or unknown where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Supports runtime checks without treating an interactive soundtrack as having one fixed duration." }, { "name": "Language and accessibility variant", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "declared dialogue languages, instrumental status and audio-description presence", "why_it_matters": "Helps select a presentation appropriate to the audience and host edition." }, { "name": "Mix presentation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "declared channel layout or spatial-audio representation, with full-mix or stem role", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes listening presentations from production components." }, { "name": "Verification state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | incomplete | awaiting review | verified for a stated host version and use", "why_it_matters": "Makes readiness conditional on a concrete playback or delivery context." }, { "name": "Use-authorisation evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "evidence linked to a component or presentation and a specified action, territory and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports use decisions without assuming that association with a host work authorises every reuse." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the soundtrack presentation associated with a particular host-work edition.", "Inspect component coverage and locate missing, substituted or alternate audio.", "Align cues to scenes or inspect the rules that trigger interactive playback.", "Compare mixes, language variants and album presentations without collapsing their identities.", "Assess whether a proposed playback, edit, extraction or reuse has sufficient supporting permission evidence.", "Validate a delivery against its declared host version and playback requirements." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "soundtrack-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Soundtrack identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what the registered soundtrack denotes and how it relates to its host and released presentations.", "rationale": "The term can denote a complete audio programme, its music or a separately released album; an agent must resolve that distinction before acting.", "layers": [ { "id": "host-work-association", "name": "Host-work association", "description": "Connects the soundtrack to the work and edition it accompanies or represents.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-host-and-edition", "name": "Associated host and edition", "description": "Record the host relationship at sufficient precision to distinguish cuts, episodes, releases and interactive builds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which host work and specific cut, episode or build does this soundtrack accompany?", "kind": "definition", "id": "associated-host-and-edition-q01" }, { "text": "What credits, release documentation or production records establish that association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "associated-host-and-edition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "presentation-boundary", "name": "Presentation boundary", "description": "Separates integrated audio, score selections, albums and their carriers.", "findings": [ { "id": "soundtrack-referent", "name": "Soundtrack referent", "description": "Declare whether the model instance denotes the host's audio programme or a distinct presentation derived from or associated with it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this instance denote the complete audio programme, music only or a standalone soundtrack release?", "kind": "definition", "id": "soundtrack-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which related albums, recordings, files and physical copies require separate identities rather than being treated as this soundtrack?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "soundtrack-referent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "audio-content-and-cue-coverage", "name": "Audio content and cue coverage", "description": "Describes what is audible and how constituent material contributes to the soundtrack.", "rationale": "A soundtrack cannot be assessed solely from a music track list when dialogue, effects, ambience and deliberate silence may be essential.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-inventory", "name": "Component inventory", "description": "Accounts for audio components and their intended presence.", "findings": [ { "id": "included-audio-roles", "name": "Included audio roles", "description": "Identify included component types and distinguish intentional omission from missing material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which music, dialogue, effects and ambience components belong to this presentation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "included-audio-roles-q01" }, { "text": "Which silent or absent passages are intentional, and which indicate incomplete audio?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-audio-roles-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cue-and-recording-lineage", "name": "Cue and recording lineage", "description": "Links audible occurrences to their source material and soundtrack-specific treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "cue-source-and-treatment", "name": "Cue source and treatment", "description": "Keep the source composition or recording distinct from an edited, looped, layered or rerecorded soundtrack occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which composition, recording or created sound supplies each identifiable cue?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cue-source-and-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "What editing, looping, layering or rerecording distinguishes the audible cue from its source?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cue-source-and-treatment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "synchronisation-and-playback", "name": "Synchronisation and playback", "description": "Captures when audio occurs and how it responds to the host work.", "rationale": "Timing and interaction can define a soundtrack's function even when its source recordings remain unchanged.", "layers": [ { "id": "linear-alignment", "name": "Linear alignment", "description": "Places fixed audio against a declared host timeline.", "findings": [ { "id": "cue-timing-reference", "name": "Cue timing reference", "description": "Record cue boundaries against an explicit timeline and timebase where linear synchronisation applies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What host timeline, timebase and start offset govern this presentation's synchronisation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cue-timing-reference-q01" }, { "text": "Where do cues enter, exit or overlap, and which timing deviations would fail the intended delivery?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cue-timing-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interactive-audio-behaviour", "name": "Interactive audio behaviour", "description": "Describes conditional playback for games and other interactive hosts where applicable.", "findings": [ { "id": "triggers-loops-and-transitions", "name": "Triggers, loops and transitions", "description": "Record the rules that select, combine and transition audio rather than assuming a single definitive sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events or host states select cues, alter layers or trigger transitions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "triggers-loops-and-transitions-q01" }, { "text": "Which playback paths, loop boundaries and interruptions must an agent exercise to verify continuity?", "kind": "action", "id": "triggers-loops-and-transitions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions-mixes-and-delivery", "name": "Versions, mixes and delivery", "description": "Distinguishes audible variants and determines whether available assets satisfy a stated use.", "rationale": "A mix may be complete for one language, cut or playback configuration and unsuitable for another.", "layers": [ { "id": "variant-relationships", "name": "Variant relationships", "description": "Tracks differences among full mixes, language variants, stems and album presentations.", "findings": [ { "id": "audible-version-differences", "name": "Audible version differences", "description": "Record changes to content, sequence, language or spatial presentation and relate each variant to its intended use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which audible changes distinguish this variant from the referenced soundtrack presentation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "audible-version-differences-q01" }, { "text": "Which host edition and audience is each mix or language variant intended to serve?", "kind": "definition", "id": "audible-version-differences-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "delivery-readiness", "name": "Delivery readiness", "description": "Assesses available audio against declared playback and production requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "asset-completeness-and-quality", "name": "Asset completeness and quality", "description": "Check that required assets are present, correctly identified and verified for the intended presentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the required full mixes or stems present, and do their duration and channel assignments match the delivery specification?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "asset-completeness-and-quality-q01" }, { "text": "What checks remain for synchronisation, missing cues, audible defects and required loudness or peak limits before delivery?", "kind": "action", "id": "asset-completeness-and-quality-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "credits-and-permitted-uses", "name": "Credits and permitted uses", "description": "Connects soundtrack contributions and intended actions to documentary evidence.", "rationale": "Compositions, recordings, performances and assembled presentations can require distinct attribution and use assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "contribution-attribution", "name": "Contribution attribution", "description": "Identifies contributors at the component or presentation level supported by credits.", "findings": [ { "id": "credited-soundtrack-roles", "name": "Credited soundtrack roles", "description": "Distinguish composition, performance, recording, music supervision, sound design, editing and mixing contributions where documented.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is credited for each documented role, and does that credit apply to a cue, recording or complete presentation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "credited-soundtrack-roles-q01" }, { "text": "Which credit sources conflict or leave a contribution unattributed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "credited-soundtrack-roles-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-specific-permissions", "name": "Action-specific permissions", "description": "Assesses evidence for the proposed use of the soundtrack and its included material.", "findings": [ { "id": "proposed-use-coverage", "name": "Proposed-use coverage", "description": "Keep permission conclusions scoped to a concrete action and the components it uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence covers the proposed playback, host distribution, standalone release, extraction or reuse, including its territory and period?", "kind": "action", "id": "proposed-use-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which included components have unresolved restrictions or require additional authorisation for that action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "proposed-use-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of soundtrack this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISRC", "value_or_pattern": "12 alphanumeric characters, commonly displayed as CC-XXX-YY-NNNNN", "note": "Identifies an individual sound recording, including a separately released soundtrack track; it does not identify the underlying composition or an entire album." }, { "scheme": "ISWC", "value_or_pattern": "T followed by nine digits and a check digit", "note": "Identifies an underlying musical work, such as a score composition, rather than its recording." }, { "scheme": "GTIN", "value_or_pattern": "8, 12, 13 or 14 digits", "note": "GS1 identifier for a trade item, potentially a particular soundtrack album product or edition." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of soundtrack this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 3901, issued by ISO, specifies the International Standard Recording Code.", "ISO 15707, issued by ISO, specifies the International Standard Musical Work Code.", "ITU-R BS.1770, issued by the International Telecommunication Union, specifies algorithms for measuring audio programme loudness and true-peak level.", "EBU R 128, issued by the European Broadcasting Union, recommends loudness normalisation and permitted maximum levels for broadcast audio.", "The Berne Convention, administered by WIPO, provides an international copyright framework relevant to musical and audiovisual works." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of soundtrack 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": [ "Combining dialogue, music, ambience and effects to support audiovisual storytelling.", "Releasing music associated with a film, television programme or game as an album.", "Providing separate dialogue and music-and-effects materials for dubbing and localisation.", "Delivering different mixes for cinema, broadcast, streaming and home playback.", "Adapting music and sound to player actions in interactive games." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of soundtrack 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": "Digital audio sampling frequency", "typical_range": "48 commonly used in audiovisual production", "unit": "kHz" }, { "quantity": "PCM bit depth", "typical_range": "16-24", "unit": "bits per sample" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of soundtrack 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": [ "Audio and picture become perceptibly out of synchronisation.", "Music or effects mask dialogue and reduce intelligibility.", "Clipping, excessive compression or unsuitable loudness degrades playback.", "Incorrect channel routing or downmixing alters balance or causes cancellation.", "Missing permissions for compositions or recordings prevent lawful distribution or reuse." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of soundtrack this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Copyright ownership, protection terms and licensing arrangements vary by jurisdiction.", "Broadcast loudness requirements and delivery specifications vary among territories and broadcasters.", "Localised releases may replace dialogue, songs or licensed recordings and therefore contain different soundtracks." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of soundtrack this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Film score", "difference": "A score is music composed for a film; its soundtrack can additionally contain existing songs, dialogue and sound effects." }, { "name": "Soundtrack album", "difference": "An album is a separately issued audio release and may omit, reorder or re-record material heard in the audiovisual work." }, { "name": "Sound recording", "difference": "A sound recording need not be associated with an audiovisual work; soundtrack identifies that association or function." }, { "name": "Audio file", "difference": "A file is a digital encoding or delivery object; the same soundtrack can be embodied in multiple files and formats." }, { "name": "Sound design", "difference": "Sound design is the practice of creating and arranging sonic elements; a soundtrack is an audio result incorporating those elements." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of soundtrack this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend soundtrack to cover the complete accompanying audio programme, music releases associated with a host work, or both?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or a portion of its scope that should be linked rather than duplicated?", "How should research distinguish a soundtrack album from an album marketed as inspired by a host work when some tracks never occur in it?", "Which changes establish a new soundtrack work or expression, and which establish only a mix, manifestation or carrier variant under the catalogue's chosen bibliographic alignment?", "Which authoritative sources and identification practices should govern cue lineage, interactive versions and action-specific permission assessments?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "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 soundtrack, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a soundtrack, assess its relationship to a host work and its available versions, and determine appropriate playback, editing, delivery and reuse actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: video game soundtrack, television soundtrack, anime soundtrack, Highway in the Gale, laugh track, film soundtrack, photoplay music.", "7 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 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 soundtrack, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "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": [ "video game soundtrack", "television soundtrack", "anime soundtrack", "Highway in the Gale", "laugh track", "film soundtrack", "photoplay music" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 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 soundtrack from another, and a soundtrack 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a soundtrack 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a soundtrack says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a soundtrack contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a soundtrack, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a soundtrack, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a soundtrack is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a soundtrack and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a soundtrack, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a soundtrack, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a soundtrack is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What soundtrack studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does soundtrack take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does soundtrack establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where soundtrack is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark soundtrack as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place soundtrack, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a soundtrack 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 soundtrack and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 soundtrack is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a soundtrack, 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 soundtrack, 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 soundtrack 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 } } } }