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    "model": {
        "rank": 1796,
        "code": "thing-q28602",
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        "name": "Aramaic",
        "purpose": "Let an agent describe Aramaic as a language family with its historical stages and modern varieties, relay codes, scripts and speaker information from linguistic sources, present its religious and cultural significance with attribution, and route questions about specific varieties to their entries.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Information and virtual systems",
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        "score": 126,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "Judeo-Aramaic",
                "Jewish Literary Aramaic",
                "Palmyrene Aramaic",
                "Neo-Aramaic languages",
                "Northeastern Neo-Aramaic",
                "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
                "Bohtan Neo-Aramaic",
                "Hértevin",
                "Mandaic",
                "Syriac",
                "Western Aramaic",
                "Eastern Aramaic",
                "Western Neo-Aramaic",
                "Nabataean Aramaic",
                "Aramaic of Hatra",
                "Betanure Jewish Neo-Aramaic",
                "Southern Northeastern Neo-Aramaic",
                "Imperial Aramaic",
                "Armazic",
                "Elymaean Aramaic",
                "Koy Sanjaq Jewish Neo-Aramaic",
                "Sanandaj Jewish Neo-Aramaic",
                "Challa Jewish Neo-Aramaic",
                "Urmia Northeastern Neo-Aramaic",
                "Northern Northeastern Neo-Aramaic",
                "Classical Mandaic",
                "Neo-Mandaic",
                "Christian Palestinian Aramaic",
                "Lebanese Syriac",
                "Old Syriac",
                "Qatrayith",
                "Ashurian Aramaic",
                "Koy Sanjaq Syriac",
                "Central Neo-Aramaic"
            ],
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            "merged": 34,
            "knownIn": 126,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q28602",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28602",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
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            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T20:49:57Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q28602",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.aramaic",
                "name": "Aramaic",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
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                    "INF.MED"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.aramaic",
                "name": "Aramaic",
                "purpose": "Let an agent describe Aramaic as a language family with its historical stages and modern varieties, relay codes, scripts and speaker information from linguistic sources, present its religious and cultural significance with attribution, and route questions about specific varieties to their entries.",
                "definition": "A Northwest Semitic language family first attested about 1100 BCE, once the common language of the Near East under the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires, the language of parts of the Hebrew Bible and of the Talmud, spoken in Judea in the time of Jesus, and surviving today as Neo-Aramaic languages spoken by Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Jewish communities in the Middle East and the diaspora, several of them endangered.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Communication, scripture and liturgy across three millennia.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain stages and varieties",
                    "relay codes, scripts and speaker estimates",
                    "explain religious and cultural significance with attribution",
                    "route to specific varieties"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Long continuous history",
                    "Lingua franca of ancient empires",
                    "Scriptural and liturgical roles in several religions",
                    "Endangered modern varieties"
                ],
                "appearance": "Written in the Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and other scripts; heard today in Neo-Aramaic varieties.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Northwest Semitic language family",
                    "Stages: Old, Imperial, Middle, Late and Neo-Aramaic",
                    "Hebrew and Arabic are related but distinct Semitic languages"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "Neo-Aramaic speakers",
                        "typical_range": "a few hundred thousand",
                        "unit": "people",
                        "note": "estimates vary; many varieties endangered"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "first attestation",
                        "typical_range": "about 1100",
                        "unit": "BCE",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Old and Imperial Aramaic",
                    "Biblical and Jewish Literary Aramaic",
                    "Syriac and other Middle and Late Aramaic",
                    "Palmyrene and Nabataean Aramaic",
                    "Northeastern Neo-Aramaic including Assyrian and Chaldean",
                    "Western Neo-Aramaic",
                    "Judeo-Aramaic varieties"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Northwest Semitic language",
                        "why": "the branch"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Syriac",
                        "why": "a major variety"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "Hebrew",
                        "why": "a sister language"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is used in",
                        "target": "liturgy",
                        "why": "in several churches and traditions"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "ISO 639-2",
                        "value_or_pattern": "arc",
                        "note": "Official Aramaic"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "ISO 639-3",
                        "value_or_pattern": "arc, syc, aii, cld and others",
                        "note": "per variety"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "Glottolog",
                        "value_or_pattern": "aram1259",
                        "note": "the family"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "ISO 639 language codes",
                    "Minority language recognition in some countries such as Iraq",
                    "UNESCO endangered language classifications"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Treating Aramaic as one language",
                    "Language loss in modern communities",
                    "Contested identity labels among speaker communities presented as settled"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identify",
                        "name": "Identify",
                        "description": "What Aramaic is.",
                        "rationale": "Identity.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "family",
                                "name": "Family",
                                "description": "The family and stages.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "family-finding",
                                        "name": "Family",
                                        "description": "Family.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is Aramaic, and what are its historical stages and modern varieties?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about the family, a stage or a specific variety?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "scripts",
                                "name": "Scripts",
                                "description": "Scripts and codes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "scripts-finding",
                                        "name": "Scripts",
                                        "description": "Scripts.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which scripts and codes are used for Aramaic varieties?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific variety?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "History.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "ancient",
                                "name": "Ancient",
                                "description": "Ancient and imperial.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "ancient-finding",
                                        "name": "Ancient",
                                        "description": "Ancient.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Aramaic become the lingua franca of the Near East, and how is it attested?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "religious",
                                "name": "Religious",
                                "description": "Scripture and liturgy.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "religious-finding",
                                        "name": "Religious",
                                        "description": "Religious.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What roles does Aramaic play in Jewish, Christian and Mandaean texts and liturgy, with attribution?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "modern",
                        "name": "Modern",
                        "description": "Living varieties.",
                        "rationale": "Present.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "speakers",
                                "name": "Speakers",
                                "description": "Communities and numbers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "speakers-finding",
                                        "name": "Speakers",
                                        "description": "Speakers.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who speaks Neo-Aramaic today, where, and how many, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Are community self-designations used?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "endangerment",
                                "name": "Endangerment",
                                "description": "Endangerment and revival.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "endangerment-finding",
                                        "name": "Endangerment",
                                        "description": "Endangerment.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the vitality of the varieties, and what revitalisation efforts exist?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits language endangerment?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "study",
                        "name": "Study",
                        "description": "Learning and scholarship.",
                        "rationale": "Study.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "learning",
                                "name": "Learning",
                                "description": "Learning resources.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "learning-finding",
                                        "name": "Learning",
                                        "description": "Learning.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can Aramaic varieties be learned, and which grammars and dictionaries exist?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Semitic studies?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "linguistics",
                                "name": "Linguistics",
                                "description": "Classification.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "linguistics-finding",
                                        "name": "Linguistics",
                                        "description": "Linguistics.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do linguists classify Aramaic varieties, and where do they disagree?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Semitic languages?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should each stage and variety be a separate entry?",
                "How should speaker estimates be sourced?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases for many varieties; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "work, medium or creative form",
            "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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Aramaic, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe Aramaic as a language family with its historical stages and modern varieties, relay codes, scripts and speaker information from linguistic sources, present its religious and cultural significance with attribution, and route questions about specific varieties to their entries.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted",
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Judeo-Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Palmyrene Aramaic, Neo-Aramaic languages, Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Bohtan Neo-Aramaic, Hértevin, Mandaic, Syriac, Western Aramaic, Eastern Aramaic.",
                "34 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 126 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Aramaic, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "read it and act on what it says",
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. 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": [
                        "Judeo-Aramaic",
                        "Jewish Literary Aramaic",
                        "Palmyrene Aramaic",
                        "Neo-Aramaic languages",
                        "Northeastern Neo-Aramaic",
                        "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
                        "Bohtan Neo-Aramaic",
                        "Hértevin",
                        "Mandaic",
                        "Syriac",
                        "Western Aramaic",
                        "Eastern Aramaic"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 126 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 34 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 Aramaic from another, and a Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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 Aramaic is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Aramaic, 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 Aramaic, 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 Aramaic 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
            }
        }
    }
}