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"relation", "unit_or_values": "associated float lines, weighted lines, frames, rings, bridles, closures and attachment points, each with role and inclusion boundary", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the components that establish and preserve the intended fishing shape." }, { "name": "Deployment mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "set; drifting; towed; encircling; cast; lifted; handheld; other documented mode", "why_it_matters": "Connects the net to the forces and external equipment needed to operate it." }, { "name": "Capture-surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact; torn; abraded; deformed; fouled; tangled; repaired; unassessed, with affected zone and extent", "why_it_matters": "Local defects can change retention, selectivity and the likelihood of further damage." }, { "name": "Operational and recovery state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "stored; prepared; deployed; hauling; recovered; lost; abandoned; retired; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes readiness and custody from physical condition and identifies recovery needs." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify the capture mechanism and identify the net panels and rigging that perform it.", "Measure mesh and working geometry using an explicitly recorded method.", "Assess compatibility with a proposed capture task, environment and deployment system.", "Inspect for tears, fouling, tangles and rigging faults before selecting repair or preparation actions.", "Identify and check applicable escape features, closures and catch-release arrangements.", "Plan retrieval, cleaning, storage or retirement based on condition and the risk of continued capture." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "capture-identity", "name": "Capture identity", "description": "Establishes why the object is a fishing net and how its configuration captures animals.", "rationale": "Fishing nets share mesh construction but differ substantially in capture mechanism and operating 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without assuming all nets operate alike.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does capture occur by gilling, entangling, enclosing, filtering, lifting, casting or landing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mechanism-and-form-q01" }, { "text": "Which features distinguish this configuration from another net type using similar mesh?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mechanism-and-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "netting-and-working-geometry", "name": "Netting and working geometry", "description": "Describes mesh construction and the geometry achieved when netting is mounted and used.", "rationale": "Mesh openings and working shape cannot be inferred reliably from a nominal size or an unmounted sheet of netting.", "layers": [ { "id": "mesh-and-twine", "name": "Mesh and twine", "description": "Characterises the capture surface at the mesh scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "mesh-measurement-and-construction", "name": "Mesh measurement and construction", "description": "Record mesh size and shape alongside twine construction and the measurement conditions needed for comparison.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the mesh dimensions in each functional zone, and under what tension, moisture condition and measurement convention were they obtained?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mesh-measurement-and-construction-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence identifies the fibre, filament construction, twine thickness and knotting method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mesh-measurement-and-construction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mounted-shape", "name": "Mounted shape", "description": "Describes the relationship between panels, mounting lines and the deployed capture envelope.", "findings": [ { "id": "panel-layout-and-opening", "name": "Panel layout and opening", "description": "Record panel arrangement, mounting and relevant working dimensions separately from stretched netting dimensions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What panel layout, seams and hanging ratios establish the intended mesh orientation and fullness?", "kind": "definition", "id": "panel-layout-and-opening-q01" }, { "text": "What are the relevant working dimensions, and were they measured laid out, suspended or deployed under load?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "panel-layout-and-opening-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rigging-and-deployment", "name": "Rigging and deployment", "description": "Connects net shape and capture function to support components, operating forces and handling sequences.", "rationale": "A net's usable configuration depends on how it is supported, moved, opened, closed and retrieved.", "layers": [ { "id": "shape-control", "name": "Shape control", "description": "Identifies the rigging and external forces that establish the working shape.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-and-force-paths", "name": "Support and force paths", "description": "Identify how buoyancy, ballast, frames, towing forces or manual support maintain the capture geometry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which floats, weights, frames, lines or external spreading devices maintain this net's working shape?", "kind": "definition", "id": "support-and-force-paths-q01" }, { "text": "Where do operating loads enter the net, and what documented limits apply to those attachments?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "support-and-force-paths-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "setting-and-hauling", "name": "Setting and hauling", "description": "Describes net-specific preparation, deployment and recovery dependencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-sequence-and-compatibility", "name": "Handling sequence and compatibility", "description": "Record the handling sequence and equipment interfaces needed to avoid misdeployment, snagging and uncontrolled entanglement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What preparation and setting sequence allows this net to open or spread correctly?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-sequence-and-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which hauling, release and isolation provisions are needed at its interfaces with people and powered equipment?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-sequence-and-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "selectivity-and-use-constraints", "name": "Selectivity and use constraints", "description": "Records intended catch, unintended capture pathways and context-dependent conditions of use.", "rationale": "A physically intact net may still be unsuitable for a target catch or impermissible in a particular fishing context.", "layers": [ { "id": "retention-and-escape", "name": "Retention and escape", "description": "Connects capture geometry to intended retention and escape opportunities.", "findings": [ { "id": "catch-profile-and-selective-features", "name": "Catch profile and selective features", "description": "Record intended catch and evidence about selective performance without treating mesh size as a universal predictor.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which animals and size ranges are intended to be retained, and what evidence supports that expectation for this configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "catch-profile-and-selective-features-q01" }, { "text": "Which mesh zones, escape openings or other selective features must be checked before deployment?", "kind": "action", "id": "catch-profile-and-selective-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-of-use", "name": "Context of use", "description": "Links net characteristics to the proposed location, season and operating conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-use-conditions", "name": "Applicable use conditions", "description": "Associate the net with verified external requirements and documented environmental suitability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current authoritative requirements apply to this net type, mesh measurement, marking and proposed location and date of use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-use-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports suitability for the proposed depth, current, substrate and deployment duration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-use-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-recovery", "name": "Condition and recovery", "description": "Tracks defects, repairs and the net's disposition throughout use and retirement.", "rationale": "Net damage can alter capture behaviour, while loss can leave the capture surface active beyond the intended operation.", "layers": [ { "id": "inspection-and-restoration", "name": "Inspection and restoration", "description": "Assesses netting and rigging defects in relation to the intended configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "defects-and-repair-integrity", "name": "Defects and repair integrity", "description": "Locate damage and establish whether restoration preserves mesh geometry, attachment integrity and selective features.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are tears, broken meshes, abrasion, fouling, tangles or failed attachments, and what is their extent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "defects-and-repair-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "What repair, cleaning 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a fishing net 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 fishing net, 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 fishing net, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, 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"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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 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"position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a fishing net, 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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 fishing net, 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 fishing net, 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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 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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 fishing net, 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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 fishing net 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 fishing net hold for every one 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a fishing net 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 fishing net is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fishing net, 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 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