{ "model": { "rank": 6338, "code": "thing-q273815", "model_id": "vr.tr.rabi-ii", "name": "Rabi II", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Rabi II and resolve, compare and use its yearly occurrences without confusing calendar conventions or local declarations.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q273815/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q273815", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273815", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:52:11Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00709002, "turns": 1, "seconds": 40.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 77.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c22-dbc6-7c43-b945-6862711302e3\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Islamic Relief](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/rabi-al-thani/)", "A reference to Rabi II alone identifies a recurring month; a particular interval additionally requires a Hijri year and calendar context.", "Its spring-related name does not restrict it to a solar season: Islamic lunar months move through the solar year. 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astronomical; tabular; other documented method; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains how boundaries were obtained and whether two mappings are comparable." }, { "name": "Applicable authority and community", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named calendar issuer or decision authority and the community or jurisdiction adopting its dates", "why_it_matters": "Determines which occurrence boundaries apply to the intended use." }, { "name": "Occurrence length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "29 or 30 calendar days when resolved; otherwise unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether a proposed day 30 exists in the selected occurrence." }, { "name": "Boundary resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved; forecast; calculated under a specified convention; declared; disputed; superseded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a forecast or convention-specific result from being presented as a universally settled date." }, { "name": "Boundary interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start inclusive and next-month start exclusive, with location, time zone and day-boundary convention where needed", "why_it_matters": "Enables precise membership checks and scheduling." } ], "affordances": [ "Normalise an attested Rabi II name while preserving its source form.", "Identify a yearly occurrence using a Hijri year and calendar context.", "Validate a day number against that occurrence's resolved length.", "Convert qualified Rabi II dates into Gregorian dates or intervals with stated assumptions.", "Compare competing boundary assignments and explain their differing methods or authorities.", "Schedule or revise dependent actions according to the required level of date certainty." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wk-rabi-al-thani", "title": "Rabi' al-Thani", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi%27_al-Thani", "what_it_supports": "Name variants, position as fourth hijri month, 29/30-day length, and that it is not a month of obligatory fasting or hajj.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wk-islamic-calendar", "title": "Islamic calendar", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar", "what_it_supports": "Lunar month structure, crescent-sighting versus tabulated civil calendars, and the twelve-month hijri sequence that places Rabi' al-Thani fourth.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "timeanddate-rabi", "title": "Rabi' al-Thani / Rabi' al-Akhir", "url": "https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/months/rabi-al-thani.html", "what_it_supports": "Civil usage of the month name, typical length, and correspondence to shifting Gregorian dates.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "rabi-ii-recognition", "name": "Rabi II recognition", "description": "Establish which month a name or date expression denotes.", "rationale": "The paired Rabi names and Roman numeral can produce incorrect month identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "rabi-name-equivalence", "name": "Rabi name equivalence", "description": "Recognise alternative names without silently merging ambiguous expressions.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-rabi-ii-label", "name": "Attested Rabi II label", "description": "Record the original label, its language and the evidence supporting its interpretation as Rabi II.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the expression explicitly identify Rabi II, Rabi al-Thani or Rabi al-Akhir, or does it merely say Rabi?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-rabi-ii-label-q01" }, { "text": "Which source establishes that this spelling or local name denotes Rabi II?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-rabi-ii-label-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fourth-month-position", "name": "Fourth-month position", "description": "Disambiguate the second Rabi month from the second month of the year.", "findings": [ { "id": "rabi-sequence-check", "name": "Rabi sequence check", "description": "Use month position and neighbouring names to detect misidentification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record place this month fourth, after Rabi I and before Jumada I?", "kind": "definition", "id": "rabi-sequence-check-q01" }, { "text": "Does an accompanying numeric date conflict with the written Rabi II label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rabi-sequence-check-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "yearly-rabi-ii-occurrence", "name": "Yearly Rabi II occurrence", "description": "Distinguish the recurring month from a calendar-specific occurrence.", "rationale": "Rabi II alone cannot identify a Gregorian interval or determine whether the month is current.", "layers": [ { "id": "hijri-year-binding", "name": "Hijri year binding", "description": "Attach an occurrence to its explicit year and era.", "findings": [ { "id": "occurrence-identification", "name": "Occurrence identification", "description": "Record whether the reference means Rabi II generally or Rabi II in a particular Hijri year.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a recurring reference to every Rabi II or one occurrence in a specified Hijri year?", "kind": "definition", "id": "occurrence-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Is the year and its era explicit, inferred from context or still missing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "occurrence-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendar-context-binding", "name": "Calendar context binding", "description": "Identify the method and adopted calendar that qualify the occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-rabi-ii-calendar", "name": "Applicable Rabi II calendar", "description": "Keep observation-based declarations, calculated calendars and tabular results distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which calendar method and issuer determine this occurrence of Rabi II?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-rabi-ii-calendar-q01" }, { "text": "For which community, jurisdiction or historical context are those dates applicable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-rabi-ii-calendar-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rabi-ii-boundaries", "name": "Rabi II boundaries", "description": "Resolve entry from Rabi I and exit into Jumada I.", "rationale": "The validity of dates and the duration of the occurrence depend on both transitions.", "layers": [ { "id": "rabi-i-to-rabi-ii", "name": "Rabi I to Rabi II", "description": "Establish the start of the selected occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "first-day-determination", "name": "First-day determination", "description": "Record the evidence and status of the assigned first day of Rabi II.", "questions": [ { "text": "What declaration, observation report or calculation assigns the first day of this Rabi II?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "first-day-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Is that assignment a forecast, a result under a fixed convention or an adopted declaration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "first-day-determination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rabi-ii-to-jumada-i", "name": "Rabi II to Jumada I", "description": "Establish the end of the occurrence and valid final day.", "findings": [ { "id": "last-day-validity", "name": "Last-day validity", "description": "Resolve whether this occurrence contains day 30 from the applicable calendar evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this occurrence contain 29 or 30 days under the selected calendar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "last-day-validity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes the transition into Jumada I and therefore whether 30 Rabi II is valid?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "last-day-validity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rabi-ii-date-mapping", "name": "Rabi II date mapping", "description": "Translate qualified Rabi II dates into usable civil dates and intervals.", "rationale": "Date conversion must account for year, calendar method and the meaning of a day's boundary.", "layers": [ { "id": "gregorian-correspondence", "name": "Gregorian correspondence", "description": "Preserve the assumptions behind a Gregorian mapping.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-conversion", "name": "Qualified conversion", "description": "Record the conversion basis and any unresolved alternative dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Gregorian date or candidate dates correspond to the specified Rabi II day under the selected calendar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-conversion-q01" }, { "text": "Which published calendar or converter version supports that mapping?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-conversion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evening-and-civil-day", "name": "Evening and civil day", "description": "Distinguish a displayed civil date from the full interval intended by a Hijri day.", "findings": [ { "id": "day-interval-interpretation", "name": "Day interval interpretation", "description": "Record whether the use requires a sunset-based interval, a civil date label or another explicit convention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of a Rabi II date denote a sunset-to-sunset interval or a civil calendar date label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "day-interval-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which location, time zone and boundary rule are required to determine whether an instant falls within that day?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "day-interval-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rabi-ii-operational-use", "name": "Rabi II operational use", "description": "Determine when a Rabi II date is sufficiently resolved for an intended action.", "rationale": "Calendar disagreement and later declarations can change scheduling without changing the identity of the month.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-month-assignments", "name": "Competing month assignments", "description": "Retain differences between applicable calendar determinations.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-selection", "name": "Assignment selection", "description": "Choose an occurrence mapping according to the intended user's calendar context while preserving alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the competing Rabi II boundaries reflect different methods, adopted authorities or revisions by the same issuer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assignment-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which assignment should govern this action, and what explicit user or organisational rule selects it?", "kind": "action", "id": "assignment-selection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rabi-ii-dependent-actions", "name": "Rabi II dependent actions", "description": "Connect date certainty to scheduling and references to separately modelled observances.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-readiness-and-revision", "name": "Action readiness and revision", "description": "Record whether an action can use a forecast and what must happen if the adopted dates change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the intended action use a provisional Rabi II date, or must it await an adopted declaration?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-and-revision-q01" }, { "text": "Which dependent schedules must be recalculated if the start or length of Rabi II changes?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-and-revision-q02" }, { "text": "If an action concerns an observance within Rabi II, which separate observance model establishes its date and applicable community?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "action-readiness-and-revision-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Rabi' al-Thani as a lunar-sighted religious month", "Rabi' al-Thani as a tabulated 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Rabi' al-Akhir are both standard Arabic names for the same month." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Saudi Umm al-Qura calendar (Umm al-Qura, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) - tabulated civil hijri dates used for Saudi official business.", "Crescent-sighting practice under national moon-sighting committees (varies by country; not a single ISO standard) - determines the religious start of the month.", "ISO 8601-2:2019 (ISO) - calendar extensions that can represent Islamic calendar dates in information systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Printed and digital hijri calendars label the fourth month Rabi' II / Rabi' al-Thani for civil dating of contracts, government gazettes, and mosque notices.", "Muslim communities use it as a dating frame for births, deaths, waqf deeds, and historical chronicles written in AH.", "Some regions mark popular commemorations in this month (for example Mawlid-related or saint-day observances that fall after Rabi' I), but these are local custom, not a canonical ritual of the month itself.", "Software and almanacs convert AH-YYYY-04-DD to Gregorian dates; the mapping shifts ~11 days earlier each solar year." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Month length", "typical_range": "29 or 30", "unit": "day" }, { "quantity": "Position in hijri year", "typical_range": "4 of 12", "unit": "ordinal month" }, { "quantity": "Mean synodic offset vs Gregorian", "typical_range": "about 10-12 days earlier each solar year", "unit": "day per year" }, { "quantity": "Day-of-month numbering", "typical_range": "1-29 or 1-30", "unit": "hijri day" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Civil tabulated date and locally sighted crescent disagree, so the same event is dated on different days in different countries.", "Confusion with Rabi' I (Rabi' al-Awwal) in records, especially abbreviated 'Rabi' without I/II.", "Software that assumes a fixed 30-day month or a fixed Gregorian mapping produces off-by-one or off-by-month errors.", "Historical documents using Rabi' al-Akhir vs Rabi' al-Thani can be misread as two different months." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each 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normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Rabi' al-Awwal (Rabi I)", "difference": "Rabi I is the third hijri month; Rabi II is the fourth. Test: ordinal position 3 vs 4, or Arabic awwal/thani (first/second)." }, { "name": "Jumada al-Ula (Jumada I)", "difference": "Jumada I is the fifth month, immediately after Rabi II. Test: following month in the hijri sequence; name contains Jumada not Rabi'." }, { "name": "Gregorian April or any fixed solar month", "difference": "Rabi II is lunar and walks through the solar year. Test: it does not stay aligned with a named Gregorian month." }, { "name": "Rabia as a personal name", "difference": "Homophone/orthographic overlap only. Test: calendar context (AH year + day) vs anthroponym." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Rabi II this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend the recurring fourth Hijri month exclusively, or also historically distinct uses of the same month name?", "Which regional names and transliterations should be recognised automatically, and which require contextual disambiguation?", "Which calendar methods, issuers and historical periods must the first implementation support?", "What rule should select a calendar authority when the user's community or jurisdiction is unspecified?", "Does an existing Vercy calendar or world model already own Rabi II's identity or occurrence logic, requiring a link instead of duplicate ownership?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "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. 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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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Rabi II, 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Rabi II, 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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II 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 Rabi II, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Rabi II is recorded 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"text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Rabi II is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Rabi II and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Rabi II, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Rabi II, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Rabi II is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What Rabi II studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does Rabi II take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does Rabi II establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where Rabi II is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark Rabi II as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place Rabi II, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Rabi II 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 Rabi II and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Rabi II, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with 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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 Rabi II, 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 Rabi II is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }