{ "model": { "rank": 6236, "code": "thing-q276469", "model_id": "vr.tr.blister", "name": "blister", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a suspected skin or mucosal blister, record its condition and possible causes, and identify what evidence is needed before choosing an action.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q276469/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "pimple", "burn blister", "vesicle", "skin blisters", "bulla", "Nipple bleb", "bleb", "delayed blister" ], "aliasCount": 8, "merged": 8, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.blister", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q276469", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276469", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:57:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.4, "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: 01a08863-6843-71d2-a9be-ae54b37e19b7\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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mucosa, including its observable morphology, integrity, evolution and relationship to a possible underlying condition; this interpretation remains provisional because the registry provides no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Individual suspected blisters and their membership in a local cluster or wider eruption", "Fluid content, surface covering, dimensions and anatomical location", "Intact, leaking, ruptured and healing lesion states", "Associated symptoms and effects on movement or daily activities", "Evidence connecting the lesion to friction, injury, exposure or an underlying condition", "Observations needed to support assessment, protection and follow-up" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Blister packaging and its manufacturing specifications", "Blistering defects in coatings, materials or manufactured surfaces", "Complete models of burns, infections or blistering diseases", "General skin anatomy and wound-healing physiology", "Prescribing medication or independently diagnosing an underlying disease" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An intact blister presents as a localised fluid-containing elevation beneath a surface covering; a solid elevation requires a different lesion classification.", "A ruptured blister may present as an erosion with residual covering, so recognition may depend on earlier observations rather than its current appearance alone.", "Record whether fluid appears clear, blood-containing or pus-like instead of treating every fluid-containing lesion as the same lesion type.", "Distinguish a blister from a deeper swelling by recording whether a superficial fluid cavity and covering are actually observable.", "Distinguish the individual blister from the disease or exposure that may have produced it; appearance alone does not establish its cause." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Anatomical site", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named skin region or mucosal site, with laterality", "why_it_matters": "Location affects interpretation, exposure hypotheses and functional consequences." }, { "name": "Lesion dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Maximum length and perpendicular width in mm, with observation time", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time and application of an explicitly named size classification." }, { "name": "Surface covering integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, leaking, partly detached, absent, uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates a closed fluid cavity from an exposed lesion and changes what can be observed." }, { "name": "Visible fluid appearance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Clear, cloudy, blood-containing, pus-like, mixed, not visible, uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Preserves an observation without converting appearance into an unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Covering tension", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tense, flaccid, collapsed, indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Captures morphology that may inform subsequent assessment." }, { "name": "Associated symptoms", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pain, itch, burning or altered sensation; severity and timing recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Connects the lesion to discomfort, change over time and impaired activity." }, { "name": "Surrounding tissue appearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed colour change, swelling, skin breakdown or no visible change, with uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the blister cavity from changes in adjacent tissue." }, { "name": "Eruption membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Isolated lesion or member of an identified cluster or eruption", "why_it_matters": "Prevents observations about one blister from being confused with the distribution of many." }, { "name": "Suspected cause", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked exposure, injury or condition, with supporting evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps causal hypotheses separate from established observations." }, { "name": "Temporal course", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "New, enlarging, stable, leaking, ruptured, resolving, recurrent, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes progression and recurrence visible across observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Document a suspected blister using site, dimensions, fluid appearance and covering integrity.", "Compare successive observations for enlargement, rupture, resolution or new neighbouring lesions.", "Associate the blister with possible friction, injury or exposure while retaining competing explanations.", "Link individual blisters into a cluster or eruption without losing lesion-level observations.", "Identify missing evidence and route uncertain or concerning presentations for appropriate assessment.", "Record protective measures and subsequent changes against an applicable care plan." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "blister-identity", "name": "Blister identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed lesion fits the 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categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "fluid-cavity-evidence", "name": "Fluid cavity evidence", "description": "Preserve the evidence for a superficial fluid-containing cavity, including evidence available before rupture.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation supports a fluid-containing cavity rather than a solid elevation or deeper swelling?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fluid-cavity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "If only an erosion remains, what earlier observation supports identifying it as a ruptured blister?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fluid-cavity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cavity-and-covering", "name": "Cavity and covering", "description": "Describe the fluid cavity and the surface that contains it.", "rationale": "Fluid appearance and covering integrity distinguish blister states that size alone cannot capture.", "layers": [ { "id": "dimensions-and-fluid", "name": "Dimensions and fluid", "description": "Record measurable extent and visible contents.", "findings": [ { "id": "cavity-description", "name": "Cavity description", "description": "Capture dimensions and fluid appearance with observation limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the maximum length and perpendicular width in millimetres, and when were they measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cavity-description-q01" }, { "text": "Is the visible fluid clear, cloudy, blood-containing or pus-like, and how certain is that observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cavity-description-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "covering-condition", "name": "Covering condition", "description": "Describe whether the blister retains its surface covering.", "findings": [ { "id": "integrity-and-tension", "name": "Integrity and tension", "description": "Distinguish tension of an intact covering from leakage, detachment and exposure after rupture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the covering intact, leaking, partly detached or absent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "integrity-and-tension-q01" }, { "text": "If intact, does the covering appear tense or flaccid; if ruptured, what surface is exposed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "integrity-and-tension-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-and-cause", "name": "Distribution and cause", "description": "Connect local lesion observations to distribution and possible causal context.", "rationale": "An isolated blister at a contact point and multiple unexplained blisters require different evidence, without either pattern proving a cause.", "layers": [ { "id": "lesion-pattern", "name": "Lesion pattern", "description": "Locate the blister within an isolated, clustered or more extensive presentation.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-and-companions", "name": "Site and companions", "description": "Record the lesion's site and relationship to other affected areas.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this blister isolated, clustered with others or part of an eruption affecting separate sites?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-and-companions-q01" }, { "text": "Does its location correspond to a reported contact, rubbing or exposure area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "site-and-companions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causal-evidence", "name": "Causal evidence", "description": "Represent explanations as evidence-supported hypotheses.", "findings": [ { "id": "trigger-and-alternatives", "name": "Trigger and alternatives", "description": "Keep reported triggers, timing and alternative explanations distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What friction, injury, exposure, illness or medication change was reported before onset, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "trigger-and-alternatives-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed cause, and which competing explanations remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "trigger-and-alternatives-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-burden", "name": "Course and burden", "description": "Track how the blister changes and how it affects the person.", "rationale": "A single image cannot establish progression, recurrence or the practical burden of a blister.", "layers": [ { "id": "lesion-evolution", "name": "Lesion evolution", "description": "Maintain the timeline from first detection through rupture or resolution.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-and-recurrence", "name": "Change and recurrence", "description": "Distinguish changes in the same blister from formation of new lesions.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the blister first noticed, and how have its size, contents and covering changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-and-recurrence-q01" }, { "text": "Does apparent recurrence concern the same location after healing or additional blisters elsewhere?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "change-and-recurrence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptoms-and-function", "name": "Symptoms and function", "description": "Record discomfort and site-specific interference with activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "experienced-burden", "name": "Experienced burden", "description": "Capture reported symptoms separately from observed activity limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pain, itch, burning or altered sensation is reported, and is it changing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "experienced-burden-q01" }, { "text": "Does the blister interfere with walking, gripping, eating or another activity associated with its location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "experienced-burden-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-and-care-context", "name": "Assessment and care context", "description": "Record the evidence and care context needed to decide what may happen next.", "rationale": "The agent must distinguish documenting a blister from having enough information to recommend or perform an intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-needs", "name": "Assessment needs", "description": "Identify uncertainty and accompanying changes relevant to review.", "findings": [ { "id": "review-relevant-context", "name": "Review-relevant context", "description": "Record surrounding tissue changes, broader symptoms and applicable assessment criteria without inferring a diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What surrounding tissue changes, additional lesions or broader symptoms accompany this blister?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "review-relevant-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which applicable clinical guidance determines whether its site, progression or person-specific context requires assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "review-relevant-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-record", "name": "Intervention record", "description": "Connect any care measure to its rationale and observed result.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-and-response", "name": "Care and response", "description": "Record protection, exposure reduction or other interventions without embedding an unsupported treatment protocol.", "questions": [ { "text": "What protective or other care measures have been taken, under whose guidance, and was the covering altered?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "care-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up observation will establish whether discomfort, integrity or surrounding tissue condition has changed?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-and-response-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": [ "The skin-lesion sense is assumed because no sense is recorded; blister also names raised defects in materials and packaging cavities.", "The listed kinds mix causes and contents and are not mutually exclusive.", "Check the intended dermatological convention before fixing the vesicle-bulla size threshold." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of blister 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": [ "Friction blister", "Burn blister", "Blood blister", "Blister associated with contact dermatitis", "Infection-associated blister", "Blister associated with autoimmune blistering disease" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of blister 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": [ "Blister morphology and distribution help clinicians distinguish mechanical injury, inflammatory disease and infection.", "Blister occurrence is used to assess footwear fit and friction-related skin injury.", "Blister formation contributes to clinical assessment of some burns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of blister 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": "Lesion diameter", "typical_range": "Variable; vesicles are smaller and bullae larger, with terminology commonly using a 5 or 10 mm dividing 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Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "pimple", "burn blister", "vesicle", "skin blisters", "bulla", "Nipple bleb", "bleb", "delayed blister" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 8 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 blister from another, and a blister from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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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 blister 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 blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a blister 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 blister, 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 blister, 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 blister is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a blister says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a blister contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a blister, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a blister, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a blister 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 blister and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 blister is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a blister, 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 blister, 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 blister 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 } } } }