{ "model": { "rank": 5642, "code": "thing-q243519", "model_id": "vr.tr.velvet", "name": "velvet", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify velvet, assess its pile and ground fabric, and select suitable uses, handling and care for a particular piece.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q243519/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Caffoy", "Panekla", "ciselé velvet", "Genoa velvet", "épinglé", "cut velvet", "stamped velvet", "voided velvet", "uncut velvet", "pile-on-pile velvet" ], "aliasCount": 10, "merged": 10, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.velvet", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q243519", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q243519", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:49:58Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0885c-5239-7d91-bd38-453615da4caa\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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pile construction, fibre composition, directional appearance, condition and suitability for intended use; it distinguishes the material kind from a particular fabric specification, lot or finished article.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of velvet through pile and ground construction", "Separate composition and properties of the pile and ground", "Nap direction, lustre, colour appearance and surface finish", "Fabric dimensions, stretch, drape and use-specific performance", "Pile damage, soiling and constraints on cutting, cleaning and storage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Design and construction of complete garments, curtains or upholstered furniture", "Operation and maintenance of velvet-weaving machinery", "Production chemistry of constituent fibres and dyes", "Velveteen, corduroy and velour as independently modelled textile kinds", "Antler velvet and other non-textile uses of the name" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for a raised cut-pile face supported by a ground fabric; a smooth fabric with lustre alone is not sufficient evidence of velvet.", "Inspect the pile-forming system: conventional woven velvet uses a warp pile, whereas velveteen is distinguished by a weft-pile construction.", "Inspect the ground for woven interlacing versus knitted loops when distinguishing woven velvet from knitted fabrics marketed as velvet or velour.", "Check whether the pile forms repeated raised ribs characteristic of corduroy rather than treating every cut-pile textile as velvet.", "Compare appearance and touch along opposite nap directions; record directional effects as supporting evidence, since they are not unique to velvet." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Construction identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "woven warp-pile velvet | knitted velvet-labelled fabric | other pile construction | unverified", "why_it_matters": "Separates structural identification from a supplier's trade name." }, { "name": "Pile and ground composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fibre names and percentages by mass, separately for pile and ground where documented; unknown otherwise", "why_it_matters": "The visible pile and supporting ground may have different behaviour and care requirements." }, { "name": "Pile height", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with method and sampling locations", "why_it_matters": "Helps describe surface character and assess local compression or wear." }, { "name": "Pile coverage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "continuous | patterned | selectively removed | mixed | unverified", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes intended exposed-ground effects from pile loss." }, { "name": "Nap orientation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Pile direction relative to selvedge, roll length and intended panel orientation", "why_it_matters": "Controls how adjoining pieces appear under the same lighting." }, { "name": "Surface finish", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "plain | crushed | panne | embossed | 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instructions, composition records and sample-treatment results", "why_it_matters": "Care decisions cannot safely be inferred from the word velvet alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect the face, reverse and construction evidence to assess whether a velvet identification is justified.", "Compare swatches under consistent lighting and nap orientation before matching panels.", "Plan directional cutting and joining using nap, stretch and usable-width records.", "Assess suitability for garments, curtains or upholstery using evidence for the specific fabric.", "Trial a proposed cleaning or pile-recovery treatment on a representative sample where authorised.", "Choose storage and handling arrangements that limit persistent pile compression and creasing." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "velvet-identity", "name": "Velvet identity", "description": "Establishes what the velvet name refers to and whether textile construction supports that identification.", "rationale": "Similar surface appearances and overlapping trade names can conceal materially different pile fabrics.", "layers": [ { "id": "pile-construction", "name": "Pile construction", "description": "Examines the raised surface and its relationship to the supporting ground.", "findings": [ { "id": "construction-evidence", "name": "Construction evidence", "description": "Record observed or documented pile formation without treating a commercial label as conclusive.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection or manufacturing evidence establishes the pile-forming system and ground construction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "construction-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence distinguish this fabric from velveteen, corduroy or knitted velour?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "construction-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "naming-and-traceability", "name": "Naming and traceability", "description": "Connects the material identification to a supplier specification and identifiable sample or lot.", "findings": [ { "id": "trade-name-resolution", "name": "Trade-name resolution", "description": "Preserve the supplied name alongside the supported construction identity and any unresolved terminology.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which supplier, specification and lot identify the fabric being assessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "trade-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Is velvet being used here as a construction term, a commercial label or a description of surface feel?", "kind": "definition", "id": "trade-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pile-ground-and-finish", "name": "Pile, ground and finish", "description": "Describes the components and treatments that give this velvet its surface and supporting behaviour.", "rationale": "A single whole-fabric description can hide differences between pile fibres, ground fibres and applied finishes.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-properties", "name": "Component properties", "description": "Separates pile composition and geometry from the supporting ground.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-profile", "name": "Component profile", "description": "Record component-specific composition and measurable pile characteristics where evidence permits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fibres make up the pile and ground separately, and which records or tests establish this?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "component-profile-q01" }, { "text": "What are the pile height and fabric mass per area, and how much do they vary across the sample?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "component-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designed-surface-effects", "name": "Designed surface effects", "description": "Identifies deliberate pile modification and patterning.", "findings": [ { "id": "finish-versus-defect", "name": "Finish versus defect", "description": "Establish the intended surface before judging flattening, irregular orientation or exposed ground.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which surface effects are documented as intentional, such as crushing, embossing or selective pile removal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "finish-versus-defect-q01" }, { "text": "Which reference sample or pattern distinguishes the intended finish from later pile damage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "finish-versus-defect-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "nap-and-fabrication", "name": "Nap and fabrication", "description": "Connects directional appearance and fabric behaviour to cutting, joining and placement.", "rationale": "Velvet panels can look mismatched or become visibly marked when nap and pile contact are overlooked.", "layers": [ { "id": "directional-appearance", "name": "Directional appearance", "description": "Records how pile orientation affects the appearance of individual and adjacent pieces.", "findings": [ { "id": "nap-matching", "name": "Nap matching", "description": "Compare pieces with their orientation, illumination and viewing position recorded.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does apparent colour or lustre change when the fabric is rotated relative to the light and viewer?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nap-matching-q01" }, { "text": "Which nap orientation should adjoining panels share to achieve the intended appearance?", "kind": "action", "id": "nap-matching-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cutting-and-joining", "name": "Cutting and joining", "description": "Assesses dimensions, deformation and responses to fabrication methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "fabrication-constraints", "name": "Fabrication constraints", "description": "Determine a workable cutting and joining approach through measurements and representative trials.", "questions": [ { "text": "What usable width, directional stretch and recovery constrain the panel layout?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fabrication-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Which trialled cutting, seam and pressing methods avoid unacceptable pile marking, layer movement or distortion?", "kind": "action", "id": "fabrication-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-condition-and-care", "name": "Service condition and care", "description": "Evaluates performance evidence, current pile condition and justified interventions.", "rationale": "Velvet's suitability and treatment depend on its particular construction and finish, while visible pile changes need careful interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "use-specific-performance", "name": "Use-specific performance", "description": "Matches evidence for the identified velvet to the demands of its intended application.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-suitability", "name": "Service suitability", "description": "Keep performance claims tied to the tested fabric and relevant use conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What abrasion, pile-retention, colourfastness or other test evidence applies to this exact fabric and finish?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "service-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Does that evidence support the intended contact, light exposure, cleaning regime and any applicable fire-performance requirement?", "kind": "action", "id": "service-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Separates surface disturbance, contamination and pile loss before selecting care.", "findings": [ { "id": "pile-treatment-decision", "name": "Pile treatment decision", "description": "Base cleaning, pile recovery and storage decisions on observed condition and applicable treatment evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the pile compressed, matted, soiled or missing, and what evidence distinguishes these conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pile-treatment-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Which cleaning, pile-recovery and storage actions are supported by supplier guidance or a representative sample trial?", "kind": "action", "id": "pile-treatment-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world 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of these check these first hold for the sense of velvet 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": [ "Silk velvet", "Cotton velvet", "Synthetic-fibre velvet", "Crushed velvet", "Cut-and-uncut velvet", "Devoré velvet" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of velvet 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": [ "Eveningwear, jackets and ceremonial clothing", "Furniture upholstery", "Curtains and decorative interior textiles", "Accessories and millinery", "Jewellery presentation and decorative linings" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of velvet 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": [ "Pressure and inappropriate ironing can crush or permanently mark the pile.", "Abrasion can remove pile fibres and expose the ground fabric.", "Cleaning can cause water marks, shrinkage or dye bleeding, depending on fibre composition, dyes and finishing.", "Pieces cut with different nap directions can appear to have different colours when assembled.", "Combustion behaviour depends on fibre composition and treatment; some synthetic velvet fabrics can melt when heated." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of velvet this model covers, 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet 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 velvet is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a velvet, 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 velvet, 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 velvet is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }