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"scope_statement": "This model owns cult image as an image recognised or used within religious practice as a focus of worship, veneration, offerings, or sacred presence, recording whose interpretation supports that classification without asserting theological claims as facts.", "in_scope": [ "The image's religious identity and the communities that recognise it", "Relationships among the represented subject, image design, physical embodiment, and particular ritually recognised item", "Ritual status, uses, obligations, and restrictions", "Sacred placement, movement, accessibility, and custody", "Material changes and their implications for religious continuity" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Religious organisations and their full governance structures", "Complete descriptions of ceremonies involving the image", "Temple or shrine architecture beyond relationships affecting the image", "General religious iconography without evidence of a cultic role", "Full conservation treatment specifications", "Cult films, celebrity fandom, and other nonreligious uses of the word cult" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record evidence of a religious practice or recognised religious role involving the image; sacred subject matter alone does not establish cult-image status.", "Distinguish an image addressed, approached, or treated as a religious focus from an illustration used chiefly to explain a religious narrative.", "Identify the community and period supporting the classification; a museum label or outside observer's description may differ from practitioners' understanding.", "Distinguish the represented being from the image and its particular embodiment while recording traditions that understand their relationship differently.", "Do not assume that a visually identical copy inherits the ritual identity, permissions, or standing of its exemplar." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Represented or associated sacred subject", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named subject or subjects, unidentified, contested, or not applicable, with attributed interpretations", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification without forcing every image into a simple depiction relationship." }, { "name": "Recognising religious community", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community, lineage, congregation, household, or other recognising group, qualified by time", "why_it_matters": "Cultic standing depends on a situated religious relationship." }, { "name": "Attributed image-subject relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally stated terms, optionally mapped to representation, presence, embodiment, intermediary, memorial, other, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Different understandings can entail different forms of address and treatment." }, { "name": "Ritual standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Community-defined status with date and evidence; unknown or disputed where necessary", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether particular uses, interventions, or retirement procedures are appropriate." }, { "name": "Recognised embodiment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Particular item, ensemble, renewed embodiment, copy, or other locally recognised unit", "why_it_matters": "Separates visual similarity from religious identity and continuity." }, { "name": "Ritual placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Associated shrine, domestic setting, procession route, storage location, or other setting, with temporal qualifiers", "why_it_matters": "Placement and orientation may affect access and permitted practice." }, { "name": "Image-specific permissions", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Action-by-role permissions for viewing, touching, dressing, moving, photographing, reproducing, and treating", "why_it_matters": "Prevents physical access or ownership from being mistaken for permission." }, { "name": "Material and ritual fitness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Separate attributed assessments of physical condition and suitability for religious use", "why_it_matters": "Material stability and ritual acceptability need not coincide." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate image using attributed evidence of religious recognition and practice.", "Link an image's design, copies, embodiments, and sacred subject without treating them as interchangeable.", "Check proposed handling, display, documentation, or movement against recorded permissions.", "Track changes in ritual standing, placement, adornment, and material condition.", "Identify the authorities to consult before restoration, reproduction, relocation, or retirement." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cultic-identification", "name": "Cultic identification", "description": "Establish why this image counts as a religious focus and for whom.", "rationale": "Religious subject matter or artistic classification alone cannot establish cultic standing.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-and-practice", "name": "Recognition and 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for the relationship between image and sacred subject without treating a theological interpretation as an objective property.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who or what is represented, associated with, or understood to be present through the image?", "kind": "definition", "id": "image-subject-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account defines this relationship, and which competing interpretations must remain distinct?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "image-subject-relationship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embodiment-and-continuity", "name": "Embodiment and continuity", "description": "Identify the religiously significant unit and its relationship to designs, copies, and replacements.", "rationale": "Cultic identity may attach to a particular embodiment rather than to reproducible visual content.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-bearing-unit", "name": "Identity-bearing unit", "description": "Determine whether the relevant image is an item, ensemble, or another recognised unit.", "findings": [ { "id": "embodiment-boundary", "name": "Embodiment boundary", "description": "Separate the image's visual form from the embodiment and associated elements treated as constitutive of its religious identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the recognised image include its pedestal, clothing, contained objects, or accompanying figures?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "embodiment-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which names and records identify this particular embodiment rather than its iconographic type?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "embodiment-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "copies-and-succession", "name": "Copies and succession", "description": "Track reproduction, substitution, renewal, and continuity claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-continuity", "name": "Recognised continuity", "description": "Record whether and by whose authority a copy or renewed embodiment continues an earlier image's religious identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what locally recognised conditions does repair, replacement, or remaking preserve this image's identity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognised-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes a copy's standing as an independent image, authorised substitute, or reproduction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognised-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-standing-and-service", "name": "Ritual standing and service", "description": "Record the image's ritual state and the practices that sustain or express its role.", "rationale": "An image's current religious use cannot be inferred solely from its appearance or history.", "layers": [ { "id": "standing-transitions", "name": "Standing transitions", "description": "Describe locally recognised changes in religious status.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-authorisation", "name": "Status and authorisation", "description": "Record any initiation, dedication, interruption, renewal, or retirement relevant to this image without assuming such transitions are universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the image's current ritual standing in the recognising community's own terms?", "kind": "definition", "id": "status-and-authorisation-q01" }, { "text": "Which event and recognised authority established or most recently changed that standing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "status-and-authorisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "image-directed-practices", "name": "Image-directed practices", "description": "Identify practices specifically directed toward or performed upon the image.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-and-contact", "name": "Service and contact", "description": "Record relevant offerings, dressing, washing, address, or other practices together with responsible roles and restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which recurring or occasion-specific practices involve this image, and who may perform them?", "kind": "action", "id": "service-and-contact-q01" }, { "text": "What preparations, timing, or restrictions govern contact with the image and removal of offerings?", "kind": "action", "id": "service-and-contact-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "presence-access-and-custody", "name": "Presence, access, and custody", "description": "Connect sacred placement and visibility to the authority governing access and movement.", "rationale": "Viewing, moving, and reproducing a cult image may carry distinct permissions that ownership alone does not resolve.", "layers": [ { "id": "placement-and-visibility", "name": "Placement and visibility", "description": "Record how location, orientation, concealment, and movement affect religious use.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-of-encounter", "name": "Conditions of encounter", "description": "Describe when, where, and by whom the image may be encountered, including restrictions on mediated viewing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which placement, orientation, covering, or viewing schedule matters to the image's religious role?", "kind": "definition", "id": "conditions-of-encounter-q01" }, { "text": "What permissions govern direct viewing, photography, reproduction, and online display?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-of-encounter-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "custody-and-displacement", "name": "Custody and displacement", "description": "Separate physical possession, ownership claims, and religious authority over the image.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-over-movement", "name": "Authority over movement", "description": "Record custodial history and unresolved claims relevant to procession, lending, relocation, or return.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who holds the image, who claims ownership, and who has recognised religious authority over its movement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-over-movement-q01" }, { "text": "What documented transfers or displacements explain its present location, and which remain contested?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-over-movement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-alteration-and-retirement", "name": "Care, alteration, and retirement", "description": "Assess material interventions in relation to ritual fitness and continuing identity.", "rationale": "Removing deposits, changing surfaces, or replacing parts can affect religious meaning as well as physical condition.", "layers": [ { "id": "condition-and-accretions", "name": "Condition and accretions", "description": "Distinguish damage from valued or required traces of religious use.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpreting-material-change", "name": "Interpreting material change", "description": "Record physical changes alongside practitioner and conservation assessments of their significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wear, cracking, deposits, repainting, or repairs are documented, and how were they assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpreting-material-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which surface layers or additions are considered integral, ritually significant, renewable, or removable, and by whom?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpreting-material-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-end-of-use", "name": "Intervention and end of use", "description": "Determine acceptable care and disposition when the image is altered or leaves active use.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-treatment-and-disposition", "name": "Permitted treatment and disposition", "description": "Connect proposed treatment, replacement, storage, or disposal to relevant authorities and any required religious procedures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who must authorise cleaning, sampling, repair, replacement of parts, or removal from religious use?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-treatment-and-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "If the image becomes unusable or is retired, what procedures govern its remaining material and any successor image?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-treatment-and-disposition-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": [ "This describes the religious and art-historical sense of cult image; cult here does not imply a socially coercive religious group.", "An object's ritual status must be established from its use and community interpretation, not inferred solely from its appearance.", "The category spans an image's representational content and particular material objects; consecration, provenance and ritual treatment may 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"note": "Identifies a particular collected object, not the sacred figure or image type; no universal cult-image identifier is implied." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of cult image 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": [ "Providing a focus for prayer, offerings and devotional attention", "Serving as a sacred presence in temples, shrines or domestic settings", "Participating in processions and religious festivals", "Receiving ritual dressing, washing or feeding in traditions that prescribe these practices", "Providing a destination for pilgrimage" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cult image 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": [ "Material deterioration from handling, moisture, smoke, light or offerings", "Theft, illicit trade and loss of provenance", "Iconoclasm or deliberate desecration", "Conservation treatments that damage materials or conflict with ritual requirements", "Removal or exhibition that disregards a community's religious authority or access restrictions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cult image this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In many Hindu 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Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "enigmatic tablet", "honzon", "lar", "Statue of Yuanshi Tianzun", "yoni", "Slavic paganism idols", "murti", "idol", "Cult image (islam)", "Joss", "Mars Balearicus", "linga" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 69 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 20 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 cult image from another, and a cult image from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image 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 cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image 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 cult image between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cult image 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 cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image 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 cult image contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of cult image a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For cult image, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of cult image exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made cult image and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to cult image, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in cult image, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cult image 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 cult image and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 cult image is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cult image, 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 cult image, 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 cult image 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 } } } }