{ "model": { "rank": 3602, "code": "thing-q23856", "model_id": "vr.tr.top", "name": "top", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a top as the uppermost place or region of a specified physical feature, assess its location and condition, and judge whether a proposed use is appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q23856/", "tier": 2, "score": 84, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "earth spinning top", "Reguilete", "Euler's disk", "Gaming top", "paper spinning top", "whip-top", "Strummolo", "rattleback", "tppe top", "Kovalevskaya Top", "fidget spinner", "Beigoma", "Gasing uri", "Spinja", "dreidel" ], "aliasCount": 15, "merged": 15, "knownIn": 84, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.top-4", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q23856", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23856", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:39:45Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.2, "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: 01a07c4e-9dfe-7f91-90eb-0222f05b1d1b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: top\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.PLC\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registered ", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 63.5, "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: 01a07c4e-9e0c-72d0-a144-00810eb913fe\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: top\nRegistry id: vr.tr.top\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.PLC\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for this" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q23856", "registryId": "vr.tr.top", "name": "top", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.PLC" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q23856/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.top", "name": "top", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a top as the uppermost place or region of a specified physical feature, assess its location and condition, and judge whether a proposed use is appropriate.", "definition": "In the physical-place sense, a top is the uppermost point or area of a landform, such as a mountain or hill, relative to its surrounding slopes.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally covers the spatial sense of top in PHY.PLC: an uppermost point, edge, surface or region relative to a host feature, a stated extent and an upward reference direction; the intended registry sense remains unconfirmed.", "in_scope": [ "The host feature and extent within which a top is identified", "The upward direction and criterion used to determine uppermost position", "Point, edge, surface or regional representations of the top", "Multiple, flat or uncertain uppermost locations", "Conditions affecting identification, access and use of the top" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A spinning top as a toy or mechanical device", "A top as an item of clothing", "Top as rank, superiority or interface position", "The complete geometry and behaviour of the host feature", "Administrative territories or populations associated with a named top", "Routes, transport systems and climbing equipment used to reach the top" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A top must be identified relative to a host and comparison extent; a high place alone does not establish that it is the top.", "A top satisfies an uppermost-position criterion under a stated upward direction, rather than merely facing upward.", "A top can occupy an extended region; it need not be a pointed apex or a single summit coordinate.", "A local high point qualifies only when the comparison extent excludes higher parts of the host.", "A top is a place or portion of its host, rather than the whole object or landform." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host feature", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to the physical feature whose top is being identified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an uppermost location from being interpreted independently of what it belongs to." }, { "name": "Comparison extent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Whole host, named subdivision or explicitly bounded region", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the candidate is globally uppermost or only locally highest." }, { "name": "Upward reference", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Gravity-relative vertical, host-defined axis or another explicitly justified direction", "why_it_matters": "Different reference directions can identify different tops." }, { "name": "Top geometry", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Point, edge, surface, region or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls how the location is represented and whether an activity needs more than a coordinate." }, { "name": "Position", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Coordinates in a stated coordinate reference system or host-relative frame, with uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows the top to be located without implying unsupported positional precision." }, { "name": "Uppermost level", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Metres relative to a stated vertical datum or host origin, with observation date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison between candidate uppermost locations." }, { "name": "Included surface", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Underlying host, temporary cover, attached structure or another explicitly stated inclusion rule", "why_it_matters": "Snow, vegetation or attachments may change what counts as uppermost." }, { "name": "Access condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Accessible, restricted, inaccessible or unknown, qualified by activity and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Separates knowing where the top is from having grounds to approach or occupy it." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and label the top within its host feature.", "Compare candidate tops using a consistent extent and upward reference.", "Represent a flat or extended top without forcing it into a single point.", "Determine whether a proposed observation, visit or placement fits the top's geometry and known conditions.", "Flag a top designation for reassessment after changes to the host, its cover or its orientation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "top-sense-and-host", "name": "Top sense and host", "description": "Establishes what top means in this record and what physical feature supplies its reference.", "rationale": "The unqualified word is ambiguous, and the spatial sense cannot be resolved without its host.", "layers": [ { "id": "spatial-sense", "name": "Spatial sense", "description": "Distinguishes an uppermost place from other meanings of top.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-top-sense", "name": "Intended top sense", "description": "Record evidence for the spatial interpretation and whether usage is geometric or conventional.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry source mean an uppermost place, a named geographic feature or another sense of top?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-top-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which source or contextual usage establishes that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-top-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-and-comparison", "name": "Host and comparison", "description": "Defines the feature and comparison extent that make the top uppermost.", "findings": [ { "id": "host-bounded-top", "name": "Host-bounded top", "description": "Identify the host and distinguish its overall top from the top of a selected part.", "questions": [ { "text": "Of which physical feature or explicitly named part is this the top?", "kind": "definition", "id": "host-bounded-top-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison boundary excludes or includes nearby higher locations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "host-bounded-top-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "uppermost-criterion", "name": "Uppermost criterion", "description": "Makes the direction, surface selection and comparison rule explicit.", "rationale": "Uppermost can change with orientation, surface inclusion or the treatment of nearly equal heights.", "layers": [ { "id": "direction-and-level", "name": "Direction and level", "description": "Establishes how upper position is measured.", "findings": [ { "id": "upward-reference-rule", "name": "Upward reference rule", "description": "Specify the reference direction and origin or datum used to compare candidate locations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is upward defined by local gravity, the host's own axis or an explicit convention?", "kind": "definition", "id": "upward-reference-rule-q01" }, { "text": "What datum or host origin and measurement uncertainty apply to the reported uppermost level?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "upward-reference-rule-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-and-ties", "name": "Surface and ties", "description": "Determines which physical material and candidate locations count.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-uppermost-locations", "name": "Qualifying uppermost locations", "description": "Record whether cover or attachments count and how equal or indistinguishable maxima are handled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the top include temporary snow, vegetation or attached structures, or refer to the underlying host surface?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualifying-uppermost-locations-q01" }, { "text": "Are competing highest locations distinguishable at the available measurement precision?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualifying-uppermost-locations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "top-extent-and-representation", "name": "Top extent and representation", "description": "Represents the uppermost place at a scale appropriate to its shape and use.", "rationale": "A coordinate can locate a top while concealing the extent, edge or ambiguity that matters for action.", "layers": [ { "id": "point-or-region", "name": "Point or region", "description": "Distinguishes a strict highest point from the broader place described as the top.", "findings": [ { "id": "top-footprint", "name": "Top footprint", "description": "Specify whether the designation denotes a maximum point, an edge, an upper surface or a surrounding region.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does top denote only the highest location or an extended upper area in this use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "top-footprint-q01" }, { "text": "What observable break, height tolerance or documented convention delimits the top area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "top-footprint-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "location-and-designation", "name": "Location and designation", "description": "Connects measured geometry with names, markers and mapped representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "designated-versus-measured-top", "name": "Designated versus measured top", "description": "Keep the measured uppermost geometry distinguishable from a named location or representative marker.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the measured top in the stated reference frame, and how far is any representative marker from it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "designated-versus-measured-top-q01" }, { "text": "Which survey, map or naming source supports the designation and any geographic identifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designated-versus-measured-top-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "top-condition-and-use", "name": "Top condition and use", "description": "Connects the uppermost location's current physical state with proposed activities.", "rationale": "Being uppermost does not establish that a place remains stable, reachable or suitable for occupation.", "layers": [ { "id": "persistence-of-top", "name": "Persistence of top", "description": "Tracks changes that could move or invalidate the identified top.", "findings": [ { "id": "top-reassessment-triggers", "name": "Top reassessment triggers", "description": "Record the observation time and changes relevant to the host's uppermost geometry.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the top observed, and what evidence describes its surface or cover at that time?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "top-reassessment-triggers-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in erosion, accumulation, construction or host orientation would require locating the top again?", "kind": "action", "id": "top-reassessment-triggers-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "approach-and-occupation", "name": "Approach and occupation", "description": "Assesses a proposed activity at the top using its usable extent and current conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "activity-fit-at-top", "name": "Activity fit at top", "description": "Relate an intended visit, observation or placement to available space, edge conditions, support and access restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows that the top's usable area, slope and support suit the proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "activity-fit-at-top-q01" }, { "text": "Which access restrictions, exposed edges or unstable upper surfaces constrain approaching or occupying this top?", "kind": "action", "id": "activity-fit-at-top-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": [ "No sense is recorded; the interpretation as a landform's uppermost part is inferred from PHY.PLC.", "Check whether the registry intended a generic top, a mountain summit, or a particular named place.", "This is recalled knowledge; no sources or registry records were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of top 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": [ "Mountain summit", "Hilltop", "Flat summit area" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of top this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "GeoNames", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric GeoName identifier", "note": "A named summit or hill may have a gazetteer record; the generic concept has no single place identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of top 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": [ "Naming and locating high points on topographic maps", "Describing destinations and landmarks in walking and mountaineering", "Identifying local high ground in terrain analysis" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of top this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Elevation", "typical_range": "Varies by landform; requires a stated vertical datum.", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Topographic prominence", "typical_range": "Applicable to identifiable summits; depends on the elevation difference from the key saddle.", "unit": "m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of top 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": [ "Mistaking a subsidiary or false summit for the highest point", "Treating a broad summit area as an unambiguously defined point", "Comparing elevations measured against different vertical datums", "Exposure to falls, lightning and severe weather on elevated terrain" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of top 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": [ "Local naming traditions vary in their use of top, peak, summit and equivalent terms." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of top 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": "summit", "difference": "Summit more specifically denotes the highest point or area of a hill or mountain; top is a broader contextual term." }, { "name": "mountain", "difference": "A mountain is the whole elevated landform; its top is an uppermost part." }, { "name": "ridge", "difference": "A ridge is an elongated elevated landform; a top need not be elongated." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of top this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the original registry source use top for a general uppermost place, specifically a landform summit, or a different sense?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate model?", "Should host-axis tops remain within this PHY.PLC entry, or should its scope require gravity-relative uppermost locations?", "What evidence should distinguish a broad top region from a strict maximum when no boundary convention is documented?", "How does the registry distinguish top from summit, peak, apex and upper surface without creating duplicate models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 top, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify a top as the uppermost place or region of a specified physical feature, assess its location and condition, and judge whether a proposed use is appropriate.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: earth spinning top, Reguilete, Euler's disk, Gaming top, paper spinning top, whip-top, Strummolo, rattleback, tppe top, Kovalevskaya Top, fidget spinner, Beigoma.", "15 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 84 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 top, 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" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "earth spinning top", "Reguilete", "Euler's disk", "Gaming top", "paper spinning top", "whip-top", "Strummolo", "rattleback", "tppe top", "Kovalevskaya Top", "fidget spinner", "Beigoma" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 15 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 top from another, and a top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top 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 top is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top 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 top between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a top 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 top, 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 top, 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 top is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What top is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does top perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise top, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How top is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does top have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does top need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about top is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about top hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern top, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a top 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 top and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a top, 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 top, 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 top 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 top is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a top, 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 top, 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 top is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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