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], "distinguishing_features": [ "Participants supply a live sung vocal part over accompaniment prepared or supplied for the selected song; merely playing a recording does not establish a karaoke performance.", "The intended action is singing rather than silently miming a recorded lead vocal, distinguishing karaoke from lip-sync performance.", "Song selection and accompaniment provision organise participation; singing without supplied accompaniment is ordinarily a neighbouring activity rather than a clear karaoke instance.", "Displayed lyrics and timed cues strongly support recognition but should be recorded separately from the activity classification, since their necessity remains a boundary question.", "Karaoke can use a stage, private room or remote setting; neither a public audience nor competitive scoring alone defines it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Session format", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "hosted stage | private room | home gathering | remote session | other 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attempts to perform songs.", "findings": [ { "id": "performance-unit", "name": "Performance unit", "description": "Identify each song turn within its session, including restarts and unfinished attempts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record describe a karaoke session, a requested song turn or an actual singing attempt?", "kind": "definition", "id": "performance-unit-q01" }, { "text": "Does restarting the same backing track continue the current attempt or create another attempt under this session's rules?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "performance-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "song-and-backing-fit", "name": "Song and backing fit", "description": "Connects a song request to accompaniment and lyrics that the singer can use.", "rationale": "A matching song title does not establish a matching arrangement, language, duration or lyric cue sequence.", "layers": [ { "id": "requested-version", "name": "Requested version", "description": "Identifies the intended song and the particular karaoke arrangement offered.", "findings": [ { "id": "backing-version-match", "name": "Backing version match", "description": "Record the requested song, the selected backing version and any differences requiring the singer's attention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which song, artist-associated version and lyric language did the singer request?", "kind": "definition", "id": "backing-version-match-q01" }, { "text": "Which catalogue or provider identifies the selected backing track, and does it disclose edits or arrangement differences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "backing-version-match-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lyric-and-vocal-support", "name": "Lyric and vocal support", "description": "Determines whether words, timing cues and guide vocals suit the selected backing.", "findings": [ { "id": "cue-usability", "name": "Cue usability", "description": "Assess lyric readability, timing alignment and the requested level of vocal assistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the displayed words and entry cues follow this backing version, including instrumental breaks and duet parts?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cue-usability-q01" }, { "text": "Should guide vocals, lyric presentation or cue timing be adjusted before this singer starts?", "kind": "action", "id": "cue-usability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "singers-and-turns", "name": "Singers and turns", "description": "Organises voluntary participation and access to song turns.", "rationale": "Karaoke coordination depends on who wants to sing, with whom and when, rather than on a playlist alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "participation-arrangement", "name": "Participation arrangement", "description": "Records the people taking a vocal role and their chosen mode of participation.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-singer-assignment", "name": "Agreed singer assignment", "description": "Distinguish submitting a request, nominating another person and agreeing to perform.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has agreed to sing this selection, and is it a solo, duet or group turn?", "kind": "definition", "id": "agreed-singer-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "How can a nominated singer decline, withdraw or change partners before the turn starts?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-singer-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "queue-allocation", "name": "Queue allocation", "description": "Applies the session's stated approach to distributing singing opportunities.", "findings": [ { "id": "turn-eligibility", "name": "Turn eligibility", "description": "Record queue position, readiness and rules affecting repeat singers or shared turns.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this session order requests and count duet participation toward repeat turns?", "kind": "definition", "id": "turn-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "When a called singer is absent or declines, should the request be deferred, reassigned with agreement or removed?", "kind": "action", "id": "turn-eligibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "performance-operation", 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"song-progress-and-recovery", "name": "Song progress and recovery", "description": "Tracks the actual attempt and handles loss of timing, playback or singer readiness.", "findings": [ { "id": "interrupted-song-handling", "name": "Interrupted song handling", "description": "Distinguish planned instrumental passages from interruptions requiring a control decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the current silence an instrumental break, a missed vocal entrance, a playback failure or a singer-requested stop?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interrupted-song-handling-q01" }, { "text": "Who may pause, restart or skip this turn, and what should happen to its place in the singer rotation?", "kind": "action", "id": "interrupted-song-handling-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "audience-feedback-and-capture", "name": "Audience, feedback and capture", "description": "Models how others join, evaluate or record a karaoke performance.", "rationale": "Taking a karaoke turn does not by itself establish 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"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 karaoke 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 karaoke from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a karaoke 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a karaoke 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke 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 karaoke?", "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 karaoke?", "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 karaoke 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 karaoke and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 karaoke is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a karaoke, 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 karaoke, 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 karaoke 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 } } } }