{ "model": { "rank": 6084, "code": "thing-q23775", "model_id": "vr.tr.aragonite", "name": "aragonite", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify aragonite, assess its material condition and select investigations or interventions that preserve or deliberately change its calcium carbonate phase.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q23775/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "conchite", "tarnowizite", "zeiringite" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.aragonite", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q23775", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23775", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:26:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0021182, "turns": 1, "seconds": 17.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 88.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b9d-a67a-7522-9bd8-34cce8a12e04\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: aragonite\nRegistry id: vr.tr.aragonite\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.MAT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Ver" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q23775", "registryId": "vr.tr.aragonite", "name": "aragonite", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.MAT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q23775/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.aragonite", "name": "aragonite", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify aragonite, assess its material condition and select investigations or interventions that preserve or deliberately change its calcium carbonate phase.", "definition": "Aragonite is the orthorhombic polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), metastable relative to calcite at ambient surface conditions and the dominant biomineral of many marine skeletons and of high-pressure/high-temperature inorganic precipitates.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the recognition, composition, texture, condition and intervention constraints of aragonite under vr.tr.aragonite in PHY / PHY.MAT, including identifiable aragonite portions of mixed materials.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence establishing aragonite phase identity and distinguishing mixtures or replacements", "Composition and impurities of the identified aragonite portion", "Crystal habit, twinning, grain texture and attachment to surrounding material", "Formation context and subsequent treatment relevant to interpreting the material", "Dissolution, phase change, physical damage and suitability for proposed actions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Calcite, vaterite and other mineral species except as identification alternatives or associated phases", "Whole-rock classification and geological deposit models", "Organism biology and whole-shell or skeletal function", "Manufactured composite products and their complete performance specifications", "Water-body chemistry and carbonate cycling beyond conditions affecting the assessed aragonite" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require a phase-sensitive result, such as a reference-matched diffraction pattern, to distinguish aragonite from calcite and vaterite; the shared CaCO3 composition does not settle identity. Aragonite is orthorhombic. [Handbook of Mineralogy](https://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aragonite.pdf)", "Use repeated contact twinning and an apparently hexagonal outline as supporting observations: aragonite can form pseudohexagonal twins, so external outline alone does not establish crystal symmetry. [Handbook of Mineralogy](https://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aragonite.pdf)", "For a suitable clean specimen, compare measured density with approximately 2.95 g/cm³ and hardness with Mohs 3.5-4; these are consistency checks, not standalone identification criteria. [Handbook of Mineralogy](https://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aragonite.pdf)", "Where optical mineralogy is feasible, check for biaxial negative behavior alongside other evidence; report whether grain size, orientation or opacity prevents interpretation. [Handbook of Mineralogy](https://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aragonite.pdf)", "Test suspected replacement or mixed material at multiple locations; an aragonite-like outer form must not substitute for evidence of the phase currently present." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Aragonite identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "suspected | supported | confirmed within tested region | contradicted | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent may treat aragonite-specific conclusions as established." }, { "name": "Phase-sensitive identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to diffraction or spectroscopic record, reference match, sampled region and interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification inspectable and limits it to the material actually tested." }, { "name": "Aragonite phase fraction", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mass % with method, uncertainty, detection limits and denominator; unknown if unmeasured", "why_it_matters": "Separates a predominantly aragonite material from a trace occurrence or partly transformed specimen." }, { "name": "Elemental composition and substitutions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Element-specific mass %, mol % or mg/kg with analytical basis and sampled region", "why_it_matters": "Supports composition checks and distinguishes lattice chemistry from inclusions or coatings." }, { "name": "Habit and aggregate texture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed habit, twin interpretation, grain arrangement and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Guides identification, representative sampling and protection of fragile structures." }, { "name": "Crystal or grain dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "µm or mm with size distribution, measurement direction and method", "why_it_matters": "Determines which analyses can resolve individual grains and what handling is practical." }, { "name": "Host and associated phases", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to host material, contacting minerals, organic matrix and mapped interfaces", "why_it_matters": "Prevents bulk measurements and treatment responses from being assigned solely to aragonite." }, { "name": "Formation attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "biogenic | abiogenic natural | synthetic | mixed | unknown, with supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Frames interpretation without treating origin claims as proof of phase identity." }, { "name": "Surface and structural condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Recorded extent of cracking, detached grains, surface loss, coatings and suspected replacement", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether sampling, cleaning or transport could destroy relevant evidence." }, { "name": "Exposure and treatment history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated records of fluid contact, heating, mechanical processing, cleaning and consolidation", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish original material features from changes introduced after formation." } ], "affordances": [ "Select and document a phase-identification method appropriate to specimen size and permitted sample loss", "Map aragonite against associated or replacement phases before assigning bulk properties", "Choose sampling locations that preserve diagnostic twins, needles and growth interfaces", "Monitor changes in phase fraction, surface condition or specimen integrity across exposures", "Evaluate a proposed cleaning, fluid-contact or thermal treatment against specimen-specific evidence", "Route an identified material toward a proposed use only after checking the required phase purity, texture and contamination limits" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "phase-identity", "name": "Phase identity", "description": "Establish whether the examined material currently contains aragonite and how far that conclusion extends.", "rationale": "A calcium carbonate composition or familiar crystal outline cannot by itself establish aragonite identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "polymorph-discrimination", "name": "Polymorph discrimination", "description": "Resolve aragonite against alternative calcium carbonate phases using inspectable evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-assignment", "name": "Phase assignment", "description": "Record the diagnostic result, reference used and limitations of the aragonite assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measured features support aragonite, and what reference and interpretation were used?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phase-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence distinguish aragonite from calcite, vaterite and unresolved mixed material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phase-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-coverage", "name": "Identity coverage", "description": "Separate an identified grain or surface from conclusions about the complete specimen.", "findings": [ { "id": "spatial-phase-extent", "name": "Spatial phase extent", "description": "Establish where aragonite occurs and whether external form conceals a different internal phase.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which surfaces, grains or interior regions were tested, and what remains unexamined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "spatial-phase-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Could the specimen be an intergrowth, coating or replacement retaining an earlier aragonite-like form?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spatial-phase-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-associations", "name": "Composition and associations", "description": "Describe the chemistry of the aragonite portion separately from surrounding constituents.", "rationale": "An agent needs to know whether measured chemistry belongs to aragonite, another phase or an added treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "aragonite-chemistry", "name": "Aragonite chemistry", "description": "Characterize composition at the scale needed for identification and intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-attribution", "name": "Composition attribution", "description": "Tie chemical measurements to identified aragonite and retain uncertainty about substitutions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What composition was measured specifically in regions independently identified as aragonite?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates lattice substitutions from inclusions, surface residues or analytical overlap?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "composition-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mixed-material-context", "name": "Mixed material context", "description": "Account for phases and matrices that affect bulk observations and treatment behavior.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-material-map", "name": "Associated material map", "description": "Record the amount and arrangement of non-aragonite constituents.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mineral phases, organic components or applied coatings contact or enclose the aragonite?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "associated-material-map-q01" }, { "text": "What material and normalization basis does the reported aragonite fraction describe?", "kind": "definition", "id": "associated-material-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crystal-texture-and-integrity", "name": "Crystal texture and integrity", "description": "Capture the aragonite geometry and damage that determine recognition and physical handling.", "rationale": "Diagnostic crystal arrangements and fragile projections can be lost during otherwise routine examination.", "layers": [ { "id": "habit-and-twinning", "name": "Habit and twinning", "description": "Separate observed external geometry from crystallographic interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-growth-geometry", "name": "Diagnostic growth geometry", "description": "Record grain dimensions, aggregate arrangement and the evidence supporting a twin interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What crystal dimensions, elongation, aggregate texture and apparent symmetry are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-growth-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "Is the proposed twinning established crystallographically or inferred only from external shape?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-growth-geometry-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fracture-and-attachment", "name": "Fracture and attachment", "description": "Assess whether grains and projections can survive the proposed manipulation.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-sensitive-structures", "name": "Handling-sensitive structures", "description": "Locate cracks, loose grains and weak attachment points before physical intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cracks, detached needles, crumbling aggregates or weakened host interfaces present?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-sensitive-structures-q01" }, { "text": "Which supports, contact points and sampling locations preserve the diagnostic structure?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-sensitive-structures-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "formation-and-change", "name": "Formation and change", "description": "Distinguish formation evidence from later alteration and processing.", "rationale": "Present aragonite identity, inferred origin and subsequent material change require separate evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation-evidence", "name": "Formation evidence", "description": "Connect the identified phase to its claimed natural, biological or synthetic origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-attribution", "name": "Origin attribution", "description": "Record the basis and limits of the formation interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What locality, host, biological association or synthesis record supports the claimed origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which formation conditions are directly documented, and which are inferred from the material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "origin-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alteration-evidence", "name": "Alteration evidence", "description": "Assess suspected phase replacement or surface loss without assigning an unsupported rate or cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-material-change", "name": "Documented material change", "description": "Tie observed changes to dated measurements and exposure records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do comparable observations show a change in aragonite fraction, surface relief or material quantity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-material-change-q01" }, { "text": "What fluid, thermal or processing history could explain the change, and what causal evidence is missing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-material-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "investigation-and-treatment-decisions", "name": "Investigation and treatment decisions", "description": "Translate identification and condition evidence into bounded analytical and treatment choices.", "rationale": "Testing or processing may consume material or change the phase and texture an agent is trying to evaluate.", "layers": [ { "id": "analytical-intervention", "name": "Analytical intervention", "description": "Choose an investigation that resolves the actual uncertainty with acceptable specimen impact.", "findings": [ { "id": "fit-for-question-analysis", "name": "Fit-for-question analysis", "description": "Match the required phase or composition evidence to resolution and sample-loss constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unresolved decision requires bulk phase quantification, local phase mapping or chemical analysis?", "kind": "action", "id": "fit-for-question-analysis-q01" }, { "text": "What sample consumption, spatial resolution and preparation effects are acceptable for this aragonite material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fit-for-question-analysis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatment-and-use", "name": "Treatment and use", "description": "Evaluate proposed interventions against the desired aragonite state and associated material constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-acceptance", "name": "Intervention acceptance", "description": "Define observable success and stop conditions before cleaning, exposure, heating or processing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Must the action preserve aragonite identity, crystal texture and host attachment, or deliberately change specified features?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "What specimen-specific evidence supports the treatment conditions, and what measured change requires stopping?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-acceptance-q02" }, { "text": "Which phase-purity, grain-size and contamination requirements must be verified for the proposed use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intervention-acceptance-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "inorganic hydrothermal/vein aragonite", "sedimentary marine aragonite mud and ooids", "biogenic aragonite (mollusc nacre, coral, pteropod)", "speleothem/anthodite aragonite", "aragonite as a high-pressure metamorphic index mineral", "witherite-strontianite solid-solution members sometimes sold as 'aragonite'" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of aragonite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What minimum analytical evidence and reporting limits should qualify an aragonite identification as confirmed across single crystals, powders and biological composites?", "Under which specimen-specific fluid and temperature conditions do dissolution or conversion become significant over the intended storage or use period?", "How should substituted compositions be bounded against neighboring mineral species using authoritative mineral nomenclature?", "Which cleaning, mounting and consolidation methods preserve both aragonite and its associated matrices in each relevant specimen class?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this mineral concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it instead of receiving a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "chemical substance or material", "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 aragonite, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify aragonite, assess its material condition and select investigations or interventions that preserve or deliberately change its calcium carbonate phase.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: conchite, tarnowizite, zeiringite.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a aragonite, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "conchite", "tarnowizite", "zeiringite" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 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 aragonite from another, and a aragonite 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite 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 aragonite 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite 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 aragonite from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a aragonite is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a aragonite is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a aragonite is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a aragonite is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a aragonite is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a aragonite is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a aragonite 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 aragonite 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 aragonite between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite 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 aragonite, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a aragonite 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a aragonite and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a aragonite is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a aragonite performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a aragonite.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a aragonite at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a aragonite there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a aragonite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a aragonite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What aragonite is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name aragonite unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of aragonite exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How aragonite behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of aragonite, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is aragonite incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How aragonite can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is aragonite classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover aragonite, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a aragonite 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 aragonite and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite 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 aragonite is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a aragonite, 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 aragonite, 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 aragonite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }