{ "model": { "rank": 5664, "code": "thing-q219760", "model_id": "vr.tr.bazaar", "name": "bazaar", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a bazaar as an organised marketplace activity, assess its trading and participation conditions, and determine which actions are permitted or needed.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q219760/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "bazaars in Karachi", "čaršija", "Saddar Bazaar" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q219760", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219760", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T08:57:14Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 15.8, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 88.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07b14-a9e8-7822-b93e-1253ae28b871\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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practices and shared operating rules; its distinction from a permanent market place remains provisional because the registry records no definition.", "in_scope": [ "The identity and continuity of a bazaar across trading sessions", "The assembly of sellers, stalls and offered goods or services", "Buyer access, browsing and movement between selling points", "Bazaar-level exchange conventions and seller-specific exceptions", "Shared operating conditions, permissions and responses to disruption" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The buildings, streets or land hosting the bazaar as physical assets", "Individual sellers as businesses or legal persons", "Individual products, inventories and their detailed specifications", "Individual purchases, payment transfers and contractual disputes", "Supply chains transporting goods to sellers", "Entertainment programmes that accompany but do not constitute the marketplace" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether buyers encounter multiple independently operated selling points within a shared marketplace arrangement; a single retailer with several counters is insufficient by itself.", "Check whether browsing and exchanging goods or services are constitutive activities; a gathering with incidental merchandise stands may instead be a festival or exhibition.", "Check whether the record identifies an operating marketplace or trading session, rather than only a district or building called a bazaar.", "Check whether there is observable coordination of seller presence, access or trading conditions; nearby shops alone do not establish a single bazaar.", "Check the local designation and operating practices before distinguishing a bazaar from a fair, souk, flea market or general market; bargaining, temporary stalls and particular merchandise are not assumed to be universal requirements." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Marketplace manifestation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recurring marketplace activity | single event | continuous operation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether identity and state should be tracked across sessions, an event window or continuous trading." }, { "name": "Trading state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed | assembling | open | partially operating | suspended | closing | ended", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether admitting sellers, directing buyers or closing trading is currently appropriate." }, { "name": "Trading window", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end date-times with timezone; recurrence and exceptions where known", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an inactive interval from cancellation or permanent closure." }, { "name": "Active independent sellers", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count of distinct participating sellers, with observation time and counting basis", "why_it_matters": "Shows how much of the planned marketplace is actually operating without confusing stall count with seller count." }, { "name": "Selling-point occupancy", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Occupied eligible selling points / available eligible selling points, expressed as a percentage", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about admitting sellers, reallocating stalls or reducing the operating footprint." }, { "name": "Offer mix", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally evidenced goods and service categories; mixed or specialised", "why_it_matters": "Helps recognise the bazaar's trading purpose and assess whether proposed offers fit its participation rules." }, { "name": "Price-setting practice", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fixed prices | negotiated prices | mixed | other evidenced practice | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Guides buyer assistance without assuming that bargaining is expected or accepted." }, { "name": "Operating authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Bazaar-to-organiser, steward or other evidenced decision-maker, qualified by responsibility", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who can authorise admission, relocation, suspension or changes to shared rules." }, { "name": "Visitor access condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Open access | conditional entry | capacity-limited | restricted | closed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether and how an agent may direct a visitor into the bazaar." } ], "affordances": [ "Recognise a bazaar candidate and identify unresolved boundaries with markets, fairs and named market districts.", "Find an appropriate trading session and direct a visitor to relevant sellers using current access information.", "Assess a seller's proposed participation against evidenced admission, offer and space-allocation rules.", "Propose stall allocation or relocation using availability, permitted uses and buyer circulation constraints.", "Explain price-setting and purchase conventions while identifying seller-specific terms that require confirmation.", "Recommend or carry out authorised opening, restriction, suspension or closure actions based on current operating conditions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bazaar-identity-and-sessions", "name": "Bazaar identity and sessions", "description": "Establishes what marketplace activity the name denotes and how its operating instances relate.", "rationale": "A bazaar name may refer to a trading activity, a recurring event or its host place; an agent must resolve that reference before assessing state.", "layers": [ { "id": "marketplace-boundary", "name": "Marketplace boundary", "description": "Separates the bazaar activity from its location and neighbouring event types.", "findings": [ { "id": "bazaar-recognition-basis", "name": "Bazaar recognition basis", "description": "Records the observed selling arrangement and local usage that support treating this instance as a bazaar.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies a coordinated marketplace with multiple independently operated selling points?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bazaar-recognition-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Does the name denote the trading activity, its host district or building, or both, and which referent does this model cover?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bazaar-recognition-basis-q02" }, { "text": "Which organiser statement, local account or direct observation supports this interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bazaar-recognition-basis-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "session-continuity", "name": "Session continuity", "description": "Relates trading windows to the continuing bazaar identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "trading-session-identity", "name": "Trading session identity", "description": "Records when trading occurs and what makes successive sessions instances of the same bazaar.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the current trading window, recurrence pattern and known exceptions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "trading-session-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in organiser, location, seller population or purpose would constitute a different bazaar rather than another session?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "trading-session-identity-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a scheduled inactive interval from suspension or termination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "trading-session-identity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seller-assembly-and-offers", "name": "Seller assembly and offers", "description": "Describes who trades, how sellers enter the bazaar and what range of offers they bring.", "rationale": "The bazaar is constituted by an assembly of sellers whose participation and offer mix cannot be inferred from its name or venue.", "layers": [ { "id": "seller-participation", "name": "Seller participation", "description": "Tracks seller eligibility, admission and actual trading presence.", "findings": [ { "id": "admitted-and-active-sellers", "name": "Admitted and active sellers", "description": "Distinguishes proposed, accepted, present and actively trading sellers, including sellers operating several stalls.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many distinct sellers are accepted, present and actively trading, and when were those counts established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "admitted-and-active-sellers-q01" }, { "text": "What participation conditions apply, and who may admit, refuse or remove a seller?", "kind": "action", "id": "admitted-and-active-sellers-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "merchandise-and-service-mix", "name": "Merchandise and service mix", "description": "Captures the bazaar-level composition and limits of what may be offered.", "findings": [ { "id": "offer-fit-and-restrictions", "name": "Offer fit and restrictions", "description": "Records represented offer categories and evidenced requirements for accepting additional categories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which goods or service categories are actually represented, and is the bazaar organised around a particular offer theme?", "kind": "definition", "id": "offer-fit-and-restrictions-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed offers require approval or are excluded, and what recorded rule supports that decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "offer-fit-and-restrictions-q02" }, { "text": "Which details belong to the individual seller or product rather than to the bazaar's shared offer conditions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "offer-fit-and-restrictions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stalls-access-and-browsing", "name": "Stalls, access and browsing", "description": "Represents the operating arrangement through which sellers occupy space and buyers reach and compare offers.", "rationale": "Stall placement and shared routes affect whether a bazaar can function as an accessible marketplace and whether new participation is feasible.", "layers": [ { "id": "selling-point-allocation", "name": "Selling-point allocation", "description": "Relates sellers to usable pitches, stalls or other recognised selling points.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-and-allocated-selling-points", "name": "Usable and allocated selling points", "description": "Records the operating footprint, allocation conditions and current availability of selling points.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which selling points are usable, allocated and occupied during this session, and which seller controls each occupied point?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-and-allocated-selling-points-q01" }, { "text": "What allocation, adjacency or trading-use conditions must be checked before placing or relocating a seller?", "kind": "action", "id": "usable-and-allocated-selling-points-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "buyer-entry-and-circulation", "name": "Buyer entry and circulation", "description": "Captures entry conditions and the routes by which visitors browse the operating bazaar.", "findings": [ { "id": "browsing-access-condition", "name": "Browsing access condition", "description": "Records whether visitors can enter and reach selling areas under current restrictions and route conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which entrances and browsing routes are currently usable, and what barriers or restrictions affect access to selling areas?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "browsing-access-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What admission conditions apply to visitors, including any fees, opening windows or capacity limits?", "kind": "definition", "id": "browsing-access-condition-q02" }, { "text": "Who can restrict entry or change a route when congestion or an obstruction prevents access?", "kind": "action", "id": "browsing-access-condition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exchange-practices-and-operating-control", "name": "Exchange practices and operating control", "description": "Makes shared trading conventions and bazaar-level operational decisions explicit.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish marketplace-wide rules from individual seller terms and identify the authority needed to change trading conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "buyer-seller-exchange", "name": "Buyer-seller exchange", "description": "Describes how buyers approach offers and establish the terms of a purchase.", "findings": [ { "id": "shared-and-seller-specific-trade-terms", "name": "Shared and seller-specific trade terms", "description": "Records evidenced pricing and payment conventions without treating them as universal across stalls.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are prices fixed, negotiable or otherwise determined, and what evidence supports guidance given to a buyer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "shared-and-seller-specific-trade-terms-q01" }, { "text": "Which payment, collection or return conditions are bazaar-wide, and which must be confirmed with the particular seller?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "shared-and-seller-specific-trade-terms-q02" }, { "text": "What must an agent confirm before negotiating or committing to a purchase on someone's behalf?", "kind": "action", "id": "shared-and-seller-specific-trade-terms-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-trading-readiness", "name": "Shared trading readiness", "description": "Assesses whether the bazaar can operate and how shared problems are handled.", "findings": [ { "id": "opening-and-intervention-basis", "name": "Opening and intervention basis", "description": "Records the current trading state, evidenced operating prerequisites and responsibility for intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which applicable permissions, shared services and access conditions must be satisfied for this bazaar session to open or continue?", "kind": "definition", "id": "opening-and-intervention-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What observed condition currently limits trading, which selling areas are affected, and when was it checked?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "opening-and-intervention-basis-q02" }, { "text": "Who may authorise partial restriction, suspension, reopening or closure, and what evidence is required for that action?", "kind": "action", "id": "opening-and-intervention-basis-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend bazaar primarily as an ACT marketplace activity, or must this entry also cover a permanent market place?", "What evidenced boundary separates bazaar from neighbouring registered concepts such as market, fair, souk and flea market, and does an existing world model already own this concept?", "Does the intended scope include online bazaars, single-organisation charity bazaars or other cases that challenge the provisional independent-seller test?", "Which participation, exchange and coordination features recur across relevant examples, and which are specific to a locality or organiser?", "What evidence is sufficient to preserve bazaar identity across relocation, changes of organiser or substantial turnover in participating sellers?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 bazaar, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a bazaar as an organised marketplace activity, assess its trading and participation conditions, and determine which actions are permitted or needed.", "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: bazaars in Karachi, čaršija, Saddar Bazaar.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 bazaar, 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": [ "bazaars in Karachi", "čaršija", "Saddar Bazaar" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 bazaar from another, and a bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a bazaar 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar 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 bazaar?", "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 bazaar?", "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 bazaar 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 bazaar and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 bazaar is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a bazaar, 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 bazaar, 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 bazaar 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 } } } }