{ "model": { "rank": 5469, "code": "thing-q226887", "model_id": "vr.tr.noh", "name": "noh", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise noh as a Japanese theatrical form, assess the identity and evidential status of its works and performances, and determine appropriate interpretation, documentation and reuse.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q226887/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "maibayashi", "Ogisai Kurokawa Noh", "Sada Shin Noh" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q226887", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q226887", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:26:25Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.6, "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: 01a08846-83f5-7183-8499-28851b5e196c\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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historical and religious traditions.", "scope_statement": "This model owns noh as a theatrical form in vr.tr.noh, including the conventions needed to relate its repertoire, performance traditions and realisations; individual plays, productions, performers and recordings remain linked entities.", "in_scope": [ "The boundary of noh within nōgaku and its relationship to kyōgen", "Repertoire identity, attributed authorship, textual variants and performance variants", "Roles, chant, instrumental accompaniment, movement and dramatic organisation", "Masks, costumes, properties and stage conventions as elements of theatrical expression", "Transmission, school affiliation, performance context and evidence for authenticity claims", "Relationships between plays, live performances, adaptations and documentary carriers" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Kyōgen, kabuki and other theatrical forms as independent traditions", "Biographies, qualifications and employment histories of individual practitioners", "Conservation and ownership of individual masks, costumes or instruments", "Architecture, maintenance and accessibility of particular theatres", "File preservation and technical production of individual recordings", "Japanese religion or history except where needed to interpret a specified work or practice" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify whether practitioners or reliable documentation classify the subject specifically as noh, rather than using nōgaku as though it referred only to noh.", "Assess the combination of role organisation, stylised movement, chant and instrumental accompaniment; a Japanese setting or a mask alone does not establish noh.", "Distinguish a noh play from a particular school's rendering, a performance of that rendering and the recording that documents it.", "Distinguish noh from kyōgen through documented repertoire and performance practice, rather than treating seriousness versus comedy as a sufficient test.", "Separate performances presented within a noh tradition from works described as adaptations or as influenced by noh." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Relationship to noh", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "noh play; noh performance; excerpt; adaptation; noh-influenced work; disputed; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the agent applies noh conventions directly or records a qualified relationship." }, { "name": "Repertoire identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked play record with Japanese title, alternate readings, romanisations and identifying evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents title variants from becoming duplicate works and similarly named works from being merged." }, { "name": "Performance tradition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented school or lineage, qualified by performer role and source", "why_it_matters": "Allows differences in practice to be interpreted within their traditions." }, { "name": "Presentation extent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "complete play; specified excerpt; other documented presentation format; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a partial presentation from being judged against requirements for a complete staging." }, { "name": "Role and ensemble configuration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named dramatic roles, chorus and instrumental parts linked to a particular realisation", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition of the performance arrangement without assuming every play uses the same cast or instruments." }, { "name": "Dramaturgical classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed classifications, including mugen or genzai where applicable; contested; unclassified", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation while retaining the authority and limits of the classification." }, { "name": "Repertoire standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented as currently performed; revived; historically attested; newly created; uncertain, with tradition and date", "why_it_matters": "Separates historical existence from evidence of present performance practice." }, { "name": "Reuse clearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "assessed for specified use and jurisdiction; permission required; permitted under recorded terms; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the age of a play from being treated as permission to reuse a translation, performance or recording." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate as noh, an excerpt, an adaptation or an unresolved case using explicit evidence.", "Resolve play titles and connect textual or performance variants without erasing school-specific distinctions.", "Describe how roles, chant, movement, music and staging contribute to a particular realisation.", "Compare performances while separating interpretive variation from differences in recording or presentation.", "Assess whether a proposed description, excerpt, translation or recording reuse has sufficient attribution and permission.", "Identify missing evidence and route specialist questions to an appropriate practitioner, institution or scholarly source." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "noh-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Noh identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes the theatrical sense of noh and the evidence required to apply that designation.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish noh from neighbouring forms and from works that borrow its visual or theatrical vocabulary.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-neighbours", "name": "Form and neighbours", "description": "Places noh in relation to nōgaku, kyōgen and other theatrical forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "noh-designation", "name": "Evidence for the noh designation", "description": "Record who identifies the subject as noh, what entity the designation concerns and whether the terminology is precise.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source mean noh specifically, the broader category nōgaku, or a programme containing multiple forms?", "kind": "definition", "id": "noh-designation-q01" }, { "text": "What repertoire or practitioner evidence distinguishes this subject from kyōgen, kabuki or a noh-influenced production?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "noh-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-adaptation", "name": "Continuity and adaptation", "description": "Handles contemporary creation and borrowing without imposing an unsupported authenticity threshold.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-traditional-relationship", "name": "Claimed relationship to the tradition", "description": "Record how creators and relevant practitioners describe a work's continuity with noh practice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the work presented as a noh play, a new noh work, an adaptation of a noh play or a work influenced by noh?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claimed-traditional-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account supports that relationship, and do other documented accounts disagree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claimed-traditional-relationship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "repertoire-text-and-variants", "name": "Repertoire, text and variants", "description": "Connects play identity to titles, textual witnesses, attributions and named performance variants.", "rationale": "A noh play must remain recognisable across texts and renderings without collapsing meaningful differences.", "layers": [ { "id": "play-identity-and-attribution", "name": "Play identity and attribution", "description": "Resolves the work independently of a particular edition or translation.", "findings": [ { "id": "titles-and-textual-evidence", "name": "Titles and textual evidence", "description": "Record Japanese titles, alternate names and evidence for authorship or textual history with explicit confidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Japanese title and textual evidence identify this play despite alternate readings or romanisations?", "kind": "definition", "id": "titles-and-textual-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is authorship documented, traditionally attributed, disputed or unknown, and what source supports that status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "titles-and-textual-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "school-renderings-and-performance-variants", "name": "School renderings and performance variants", "description": "Locates differences within repertoire and performance traditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-scope", "name": "Scope of a variant", "description": "Distinguish textual variation, school-specific rendering and a named performance variant such as a kogaki where that designation is documented.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which school and source identify the variant, and what name do they use for it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "variant-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Does the difference concern words, role configuration, music, movement, staging or work identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-scope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dramaturgy-and-performance-language", "name": "Dramaturgy and performance language", "description": "Records the relationships through which a noh performance develops its action and meaning.", "rationale": "Recognition and interpretation depend on coordinated dramatic and performance conventions rather than plot summary alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-dramatic-unfolding", "name": "Roles and dramatic unfolding", "description": "Connects role identities with encounters, narration and changes in the audience's understanding.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-functions-and-revelation", "name": "Role functions and revelation", "description": "Record functions of the shite, waki and other present roles without requiring every play to share one dramatic pattern.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roles are present, and how do their encounters, narration or revelations organise this play?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-functions-and-revelation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a mugen, genzai or other classification, and what aspects of the play resist it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-functions-and-revelation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chant-movement-and-ensemble", "name": "Chant, movement and ensemble", "description": "Relates vocal, bodily and instrumental expression within a specified performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "expressive-coordination", "name": "Expressive coordination", "description": "Record the contributions of performers, jiutai chorus and hayashi ensemble, including documented omissions or presentation-specific changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are dramatic speech and narration distributed between performers and chorus in the passage being described?", "kind": "definition", "id": "expressive-coordination-q01" }, { "text": "Which movement and musical features are documented, and what requires specialist interpretation before an agent can annotate them?", "kind": "action", "id": "expressive-coordination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embodied-staging-and-presentation", "name": "Embodied staging and presentation", "description": "Connects the visible and spatial conventions of noh with the extent and context of a presentation.", "rationale": "Masks, costume, spatial relationships and excerpt formats affect interpretation but must not be mistaken for universal requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "masks-costume-and-properties", "name": "Masks, costume and properties", "description": "Records expressive use of material elements separately from the ownership or conservation of individual objects.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-specific-material-expression", "name": "Role-specific material expression", "description": "Relate a documented mask or unmasked presentation, costume and properties to the role and rendering.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roles are masked or unmasked in this rendering, and what evidence identifies the mask type where one is used?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-specific-material-expression-q01" }, { "text": "What interpretive function is attributed to a costume or property, and is that interpretation specific to the play, school or production?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-specific-material-expression-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stage-space-and-presentation-extent", "name": "Stage space and presentation extent", "description": "Describes spatial conventions and distinguishes complete staging from selected performance material.", "findings": [ { "id": "presentation-conditions", "name": "Presentation conditions", "description": "Record the use of stage areas and the hashigakari where present, alongside the declared presentation format.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a complete staging or an excerpt format such as shimai or su-utai, and how does its documentation define the format?", "kind": "definition", "id": "presentation-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "How does the venue preserve or alter stage relationships relevant to entrances, movement and audience interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "presentation-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-evidence-and-permitted-use", "name": "Transmission, evidence and permitted use", "description": "Assesses tradition-specific authority and separates theatrical content from the materials that transmit or document it.", "rationale": "An agent needs to know whose practice a statement describes and which permissions apply to a proposed use.", "layers": [ { "id": "transmission-and-repertoire-standing", "name": "Transmission and repertoire standing", "description": "Qualifies continuity and repertoire claims by tradition, date and evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-practice-evidence", "name": "Situated evidence of practice", "description": "Record school affiliations by relevant role and distinguish documented performance, revival and historical attestation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which role-specific schools or lineages are documented, and who is the authority for the practice being described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-practice-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence establishes that this play or variant is performed, revived or only historically attested within the specified tradition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-practice-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "documentation-and-reuse", "name": "Documentation and reuse", "description": "Separates play, translation, edition, live realisation and recording when assessing interpretation and reuse.", "findings": [ { "id": "carrier-and-permission-boundaries", "name": "Carrier and permission boundaries", "description": "Attach provenance and use conditions to the particular content or documentary object concerned.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence describe the play, a translation or edition, a particular performance, or an edited recording of that performance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "carrier-and-permission-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "For the proposed quotation, translation, annotation or recording reuse, which applicable permissions, terms and practitioner protocols have been established?", "kind": "action", "id": "carrier-and-permission-boundaries-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 verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is inferred to be Japanese noh theatre; the registry supplies no definition.", "The five kinds listed follow a traditional repertory classification; English category names vary.", "This description is based on recall; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of noh this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "God plays", "Warrior plays", "Woman plays", "Miscellaneous or fourth-category plays, including madness plays", "Demon plays" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of noh 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": [ "Professional performances of traditional repertory", "Training and transmission through established performance schools", "Amateur practice of chanting and dance excerpts", "Performances associated with shrines, temples and ceremonial occasions", "Contemporary productions and newly written plays using noh conventions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of noh 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 noh, its individual plays, particular productions and recordings as the same kind of entity", "Conflating noh with kyogen or using noh and nogaku as exact synonyms", "Assuming all performers wear masks", "Presenting the traditional five play categories as an exhaustive classification of every contemporary work" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of noh 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": [ "The five principal shite performance schools - Kanze, Hosho, Komparu, Kongo and Kita - maintain distinct interpretive and technical traditions; these are school differences rather than a simple regional division.", "Local traditions and performance settings differ across Japan, including outdoor performances associated with religious sites." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of noh 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": "nogaku", "difference": "Nogaku is the encompassing performance tradition that includes both noh and kyogen." }, { "name": "kyogen", "difference": "Kyogen emphasizes spoken dialogue and comedy, whereas noh generally emphasizes chant, music and stylized dramatic movement." }, { "name": "kabuki", "difference": "Kabuki is a separate theatrical tradition with different performance lineages, repertory, staging and acting conventions." }, { "name": "noh play", "difference": "A noh play is an individual dramatic work within the form; noh names the theatrical form and tradition." }, { "name": "noh performance recording", "difference": "A recording fixes a particular performance in a medium; it is distinct from the play, the live event and the theatrical tradition." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of noh this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which registry source confirms that vr.tr.noh denotes the theatrical form specifically rather than nōgaku more broadly?", "Which existing Vercy models already cover noh or adjacent theatrical concepts, and what should this entry link to instead of duplicating?", "Which specialist repertoire and school sources should govern title resolution, authorship attributions and named performance variants?", "How should practitioners from different role-specific traditions validate the model's terminology and treatment of new noh or adaptations?", "Which documentation and reuse protocols vary by practitioner, institution or performance context and therefore require case-specific recording?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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 noh, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise noh as a Japanese theatrical form, assess the identity and evidential status of its works and performances, and determine appropriate interpretation, documentation and reuse.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: maibayashi, Ogisai Kurokawa Noh, Sada Shin Noh.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a noh, 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", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "maibayashi", "Ogisai Kurokawa Noh", "Sada Shin Noh" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 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 noh from another, and a noh 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 noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh 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 noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh 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 noh between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a noh 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 noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh 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 noh contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of noh a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For noh, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of noh exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made noh and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to noh, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in noh, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a noh 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 noh and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 noh is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a noh, 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 noh, 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 noh 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 } } } }