{ "model": { "rank": 5228, "code": "thing-q220914", "model_id": "vr.tr.sha-ban", "name": "Sha'ban", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify Sha'ban, resolve its dates under an explicit calendar authority, and contextualise associated observances without treating community-specific practices as universal.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q220914/", "tier": 2, "score": 69, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 69, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q220914", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220914", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:55:53Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 14.8, "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: 01a0882a-9c8d-7c62-8f4e-6f7f7831ce83\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Islamic Relief UK](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/shaban/)", "Denotes the whole month rather than only the mid-month night associated with Shab-e-Barat. [Islamic Relief](https://islamic-relief.org/resources/islamic-calendar/shaban/)", "A specific occurrence requires a Hijri year and calendar convention; the name alone does not identify a Gregorian interval.", "References to Sha'ban fasting or observances describe activities associated with the month and do not define the month itself.", "Calendar context distinguishes the month name from a person's name or an organisation using the same spelling." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Calendar identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Islamic Hijri calendar; month ordinal 8", "why_it_matters": "Anchors recognition independently of spelling or local observances." }, { "name": "Name form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sha'ban; Shaʿbān; شعبان; additional language-tagged forms with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports multilingual matching while avoiding personal-name collisions." }, { "name": "Hijri occurrence year", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Integer year AH", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a particular occurrence from the recurring month." }, { "name": "Boundary determination method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Reported sighting; calculated calendar; tabular calendar; other documented method; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes date assertions interpretable and comparable." }, { "name": "Applicable calendar authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named issuing authority or calendar provider, with community or jurisdiction", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whose month boundaries an agent is applying." }, { "name": "Occurrence boundaries", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start-inclusive and end-exclusive dates or instants, with timezone and day-boundary convention", "why_it_matters": "Supports scheduling and prevents ambiguity between civil dates and religious nights." }, { "name": "Date determination status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Projected; announced by named authority; disputed; superseded; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a forecast from being presented as a settled local date." }, { "name": "Observance attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Practice linked to a named community, tradition or authority and its supporting source", "why_it_matters": "Keeps religious interpretation distinct from calendar identity." } ], "affordances": [ "Recognise Sha'ban references across documented name variants and disambiguate personal names.", "Resolve a dated Sha'ban reference using its Hijri year, location and calendar authority.", "Compare differing announced or calculated boundaries without erasing their provenance.", "Schedule reminders for Sha'ban milestones with explicit date uncertainty and day-boundary conventions.", "Explain associated practices using attributed sources and recorded disagreements.", "Revise dependent reminders when the applicable authority updates the transition to Ramadan." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "month-identity", "name": "Month identity", "description": "Recognise Sha'ban as a particular recurring Hijri month.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and the batch's field-of-knowledge framing does not fit this thing.", "layers": [ { "id": "calendar-position", "name": "Calendar position", "description": "Anchor the month by its sequence and neighbours.", "findings": [ { "id": "eighth-hijri-month", "name": "Eighth Hijri month", "description": "Sha'ban is month eight, between Rajab and Ramadan. [Islamic Relief UK](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/shaban/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the reference denote the eighth Hijri month or another use of the name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "eighth-hijri-month-q01" }, { "text": "Is the record about recurring Sha'ban or its occurrence in a specified Hijri year?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "eighth-hijri-month-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "name-resolution", "name": "Name resolution", "description": "Recognise spelling variants without merging unrelated entities.", "findings": [ { "id": "month-name-context", "name": "Month-name context", "description": "Treat spelling as a recognition aid; require calendar context before linking an ambiguous name to vr.tr.sha-ban.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language, script and transliteration convention produced this name form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "month-name-context-q01" }, { "text": "What surrounding date or calendar information distinguishes this reference from a personal name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "month-name-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dated-occurrence", "name": "Dated occurrence", "description": "Locate a particular Sha'ban in time under an explicit convention.", "rationale": "An agent cannot schedule from a recurring month name without resolving its year and applicable boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "year-and-interval", "name": "Year and interval", "description": "Bind the month to a Hijri year and a stated Gregorian correspondence.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-date-conversion", "name": "Qualified date conversion", "description": "Record each Gregorian correspondence together with the Hijri year and method that produced it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Hijri year and day of Sha'ban are being resolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-date-conversion-q01" }, { "text": "Which calendar provider or conversion method supports the Gregorian correspondence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-date-conversion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "night-and-day-boundaries", "name": "Night and day boundaries", "description": "Make civil-date and religious-night interpretations explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "mid-month-night-interval", "name": "Mid-month night interval", "description": "A reference to the night of mid-Sha'ban needs a local boundary interpretation before it becomes a timestamped event.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which local evening and following daylight period does the source associate with 15 Sha'ban?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mid-month-night-interval-q01" }, { "text": "What location, timezone and sunset or civil-midnight convention determine the interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mid-month-night-interval-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendar-authority", "name": "Calendar authority", "description": "Establish whose determination governs each occurrence and whether it can change.", "rationale": "Competing date assertions require explicit authority and status before an agent can act on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "determination-evidence", "name": "Determination evidence", "description": "Connect Sha'ban boundaries to the evidence and method used by their issuer.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-announcement", "name": "Boundary announcement", "description": "Keep an authority's declared start of Sha'ban separate from a calendar projection or an unattributed date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who issued this start-of-Sha'ban date, and to which community or jurisdiction does it apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "boundary-announcement-q01" }, { "text": "Does the issuer describe the determination as sighting-based, calculated, tabular or another method?", "kind": "definition", "id": "boundary-announcement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disagreement-and-revision", "name": "Disagreement and revision", "description": "Preserve differing determinations and track replacements.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-date-selection", "name": "Applicable date selection", "description": "Select dates using the intended community's authority while retaining alternative determinations and superseded announcements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are differing Sha'ban dates attributable to different authorities, methods or revisions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-date-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which determination should govern this user's calendar, and what dependent entries need updating?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-date-selection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious-associations", "name": "Religious associations", "description": "Represent practices and interpretations associated with Sha'ban through explicit attribution.", "rationale": "Recognising the month does not establish that every associated practice is shared or prescribed.", "layers": [ { "id": "fasting-and-preparation", "name": "Fasting and preparation", "description": "Link descriptions of Sha'ban fasting and Ramadan preparation to their 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[Islamic Relief](https://islamic-relief.org/resources/islamic-calendar/shaban/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source describe voluntary fasting, making up missed fasts or another practice?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-fasting-practice-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority supports the stated practice and any qualifications about its timing within Sha'ban?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-fasting-practice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mid-shaban-observance", "name": "Mid-Sha'ban observance", "description": "Distinguish the mid-month occasion from the month and attribute claims about its significance.", "findings": [ { "id": "observance-and-disagreement", "name": "Observance and disagreement", "description": "Islamic Relief associates Shab-e-Barat with mid-Sha'ban and acknowledges disagreement about special significance; record positions with their sources. [Islamic Relief](https://islamic-relief.org/resources/islamic-calendar/shaban/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community uses this observance name, and what occasion does it denote?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observance-and-disagreement-q01" }, { "text": "Which source supports the claimed significance, and which identified authorities dispute it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observance-and-disagreement-q02" }, { "text": "Does the request concern the month, the religious occasion or a separately organised event?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observance-and-disagreement-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ramadan-transition", "name": "Ramadan transition", "description": "Support actions whose timing depends on Sha'ban ending.", "rationale": "Its adjacency to Ramadan gives Sha'ban a distinct planning role and creates dependencies on boundary announcements.", "layers": [ { "id": "end-of-month-handoff", "name": "End-of-month handoff", "description": "Connect the close of Sha'ban to the applicable determination of Ramadan's start.", "findings": [ { "id": "linked-month-boundaries", "name": "Linked month boundaries", "description": "Within the selected calendar convention, the end of Sha'ban and the start of Ramadan must describe the same transition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the recorded end of Sha'ban and start of Ramadan use the same authority and day-boundary convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "linked-month-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Is the transition projected or supported by the applicable authority's announcement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "linked-month-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reminders-and-updates", "name": "Reminders and updates", "description": "Turn qualified Sha'ban dates into reviewable calendar actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-reminder", "name": "Conditional reminder", "description": "Attach the selected occurrence, authority and date status to reminders for mid-Sha'ban or preparations before Ramadan.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Sha'ban milestone does the user want a reminder for, under which calendar authority?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-reminder-q01" }, { "text": "Should a revised boundary automatically move the reminder or trigger a review?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-reminder-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; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Dating religious, civil and historical events in the Islamic calendar.", "Preparation for Ramadan, including voluntary fasting among many Muslims.", "Mid-Sha'ban religious observances in some Muslim communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Sha'ban 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": "Month length", "typical_range": "29-30", "unit": "days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Sha'ban 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": [ "Treating Sha'ban as having fixed Gregorian dates produces calendar errors.", "Assuming all communities begin the month on the same date overlooks differences in lunar observation and calendar calculation.", "Presenting mid-Sha'ban observances as universally accepted overlooks differences in religious interpretation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Sha'ban 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": [ "Communities and authorities differ in whether they determine month boundaries through local crescent sightings, sightings elsewhere or calculation.", "Mid-Sha'ban observances vary; the occasion is commonly called Shab-e-Barat in South Asia." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Sha'ban 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": "Rajab", "difference": "Rajab is the seventh Islamic month and immediately precedes Sha'ban." }, { "name": "Ramadan", "difference": "Ramadan is the ninth Islamic month and the month of obligatory fasting; fasting in Sha'ban is generally voluntary." }, { "name": "Mid-Sha'ban", "difference": "Mid-Sha'ban denotes an occasion around the fifteenth night of the month, rather than the entire month." }, { "name": "Islamic calendar", "difference": "The Islamic calendar is the complete dating system; Sha'ban is one of its twelve months." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Sha'ban this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own Sha'ban or provide authoritative month-level coverage that this registry entry should reference?", "Which regional name variants are sufficiently evidenced for automatic matching, and which require contextual disambiguation?", "Which calendar authorities and historical date sources must the model support for its intended users?", "Which primary texts and named interpretive authorities support or contest particular mid-Sha'ban practices and fasting restrictions?", "Should INF / INF.KNW be retained for the calendar concept while dated occurrences link to a temporal model, or does the registry's classification policy require correction?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 28 } }, "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. 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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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 Sha'ban is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban, 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 Sha'ban 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 } } } }