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Mitchell at Supermarine and developed through numerous marks primarily for fighter and photographic-reconnaissance service before, during and after the Second World War.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the distinguishing characteristics and assessment questions of the Supermarine Spitfire family under vr.tr.supermarine-spitfire, including relationships between marks, modifications and individual airframes; it supplies a family-level framework rather than an individual aircraft record or operating manual.", "in_scope": [ "Spitfire family identity, mark designations and documented variant relationships", "Relationships among airframe, wing, engine, propeller and role-specific equipment", "Configuration-dependent dimensions, performance and operating limitations", "Evidence needed to assess surviving airframes, restorations and reproductions", "Spitfire-specific maintenance dependencies and prerequisites for proposed activities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General aerodynamics and aircraft systems already covered by broader aircraft models", "Standalone models of Merlin or Griffon engines, propellers and installed equipment", "The related Supermarine Seafire family, except identification and derivation relationships", "Complete biographies of individual airframes, pilots, manufacturers or squadrons", "Campaign histories and combat narratives", "Flight procedures, weapons employment instructions and maintenance instructions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require documentary identification connecting a design or airframe to the Spitfire family; an elliptical-looking wing or painted insignia alone is insufficient.", "Compare the wing, cockpit and retractable landing-gear arrangement with the claimed configuration; these were defining elements of the developed design. [RAF Museum](https://cms.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/the-first-flight-of-the-spitfire/)", "Treat the engine installation as configuration evidence rather than a family identifier: documented Spitfires include both Merlin- and Griffon-powered variants. [RAF Museum](https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/things-to-see-and-do/london-aircraft/)", "Check documented type designation and naval adaptation history when distinguishing a Spitfire from a related Seafire.", "Distinguish an original airframe, reconstructed aircraft and replica through construction and restoration records rather than external resemblance." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Mark and designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented mark, role prefix, suffix and designation date; unresolved permitted", "why_it_matters": "Selects the relevant configuration evidence without assuming that the mark describes every subsequent modification." }, { "name": "Configuration provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to drawings, manuals, modification records and dated airframe evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates a supported configuration from one inferred from appearance." }, { "name": "Installed powerplant and propeller", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Engine family and exact model; 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altitude in m; climb rate in m/s; range in km; test conditions required", "why_it_matters": "Makes performance comparisons conditional on engine, loading, atmosphere and configuration." }, { "name": "Role equipment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented fighter, reconnaissance, training or other configuration; installed, removed or unknown equipment", "why_it_matters": "A role label alone does not establish the equipment currently present." }, { "name": "Physical and operational condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Separate dated assessments for completeness, structural condition, system serviceability and authorised activities", "why_it_matters": "An externally complete exhibit may lack the evidence needed for engine operation or flight." }, { "name": "Identity continuity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links among serial claims, surviving structure, replacement assemblies and restoration records", "why_it_matters": "Keeps historical identity claims distinct from material originality and present airworthiness." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate Spitfire and record unresolved conflicts between its appearance and documentation.", "Compare marks or restored configurations using explicitly matched conditions and sources.", "Select configuration-applicable manuals and flag unsupported assumptions about interchangeable equipment.", "Assess whether evidence supports display, movement, maintenance, engine running or flight, referring operational decisions to the responsible qualified authority.", "Explain the historical configuration represented by an exhibit and identify modern substitutions.", "Generate targeted research questions for missing configuration, provenance or condition evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "family-and-mark-identity", "name": "Family and mark identity", "description": "Establish what qualifies as a Spitfire and what a particular designation establishes.", "rationale": "Spitfire family identity, mark identity and individual-airframe identity must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-boundary", "name": "Family boundary", "description": "Locate the entry among aircraft types, derivatives and representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-spitfire-membership", "name": "Documented Spitfire membership", "description": "Use documentary type identity alongside physical evidence; resolve related types and reproductions explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacturer, service or collection record identifies the subject as a Supermarine Spitfire?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-spitfire-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Is the subject a Spitfire configuration, a Seafire derivative, a replica or a representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-spitfire-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designation-and-change", "name": "Designation and change", "description": "Interpret marks against dated configuration evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "mark-versus-installed-configuration", "name": "Mark versus installed configuration", "description": "Record the claimed mark separately from later alterations and the configuration actually observed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact mark, prefix and suffix are supported, and by which dated record?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mark-versus-installed-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented conversions or modifications explain differences from that designation's reference configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mark-versus-installed-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wing-and-airframe-configuration", "name": "Wing and airframe configuration", "description": "Describe the structural and external features needed to interpret a Spitfire configuration.", "rationale": "The familiar silhouette cannot substitute for evidence about wing assemblies, cockpit changes and structural compatibility.", "layers": [ { "id": "wing-identity", "name": "Wing identity", "description": "Separate wing designation, tip geometry and installed equipment.", "findings": [ { "id": "wing-evidence-and-geometry", "name": "Wing evidence and geometry", "description": "Treat wing assembly identity and tip form as independently documented characteristics.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which drawings or assembly records establish the fitted wing and tip configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wing-evidence-and-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "What is the wingspan of this configuration, and does it agree with the cited reference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wing-evidence-and-geometry-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fuselage-cockpit-and-undercarriage", "name": "Fuselage, cockpit and undercarriage", "description": "Capture configuration differences beyond the wing.", "findings": [ { "id": "airframe-configuration-consistency", "name": "Airframe configuration consistency", "description": "Check cockpit, canopy, tail and undercarriage features against the configuration being represented.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cockpit, canopy, tail and undercarriage arrangements are documented for the subject?", "kind": "definition", "id": "airframe-configuration-consistency-q01" }, { "text": "Are observed differences supported by modification records or evidence of restoration substitutions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "airframe-configuration-consistency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "powerplant-and-system-integration", "name": "Powerplant and system integration", "description": "Link the installed engine and propeller to their supporting systems.", "rationale": "A Spitfire mark label does not alone establish engine, propeller, cooling or servicing requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "engine-propeller-pairing", "name": "Engine and propeller pairing", "description": "Identify the actual propulsion installation and its documented applicability.", "findings": [ { "id": "installation-specific-evidence", "name": "Installation-specific evidence", "description": "The Mk V arose through installation of the Merlin 45 in the Mk I airframe, illustrating why engine and airframe relationships need explicit treatment. [RAF Museum](https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/supermarine-spitfire-vb/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact engine and propeller models are installed, and which records support their pairing with this airframe?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installation-specific-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which configuration-specific limitations and control descriptions apply to that pairing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "installation-specific-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "supporting-systems", "name": "Supporting systems", "description": "Connect propulsion to fuel, cooling, lubrication and starting arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "system-and-consumable-applicability", "name": "System and consumable applicability", "description": "Require installation-specific evidence before assigning consumables, capacities or servicing requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which fuel, oil and coolant specifications and capacities are documented for the installed systems?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "system-and-consumable-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Which records establish whether replacement components or modern consumables are acceptable for this aircraft?", "kind": "action", "id": "system-and-consumable-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-and-performance", "name": "Role and performance", "description": "Relate mission equipment and loading to configuration-specific capability.", "rationale": "A family-wide performance figure or fighter label can obscure the configuration being assessed.", "layers": [ { "id": "mission-configuration", "name": "Mission configuration", "description": "Distinguish role designation from installed mission equipment.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-equipment-evidence", "name": "Role equipment evidence", "description": "Spitfire photographic reconnaissance service is documented separately from fighter use; role assessment therefore needs equipment evidence. [RAF Air Historical Branch](https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/second-world-war-thematic-studies/photographic-reconnaissance-vol-ii-may-1941-august-1945/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish the aircraft's fighter, reconnaissance, training or other role at the relevant date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-equipment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What mission equipment was fitted then, and what remains installed now?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-equipment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditional-performance", "name": "Conditional performance", "description": "Make numerical capability claims traceable to a configuration and test condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "performance-applicability", "name": "Performance applicability", "description": "Treat published performance as conditional evidence, separately from operating limits applicable to a surviving aircraft.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which engine settings, altitude, loading and airspeed convention accompany each quoted performance figure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "performance-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Does the tested configuration match the subject closely enough for the comparison being proposed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "performance-applicability-q02" }, { "text": "Which current aircraft-specific document establishes the limits relevant to a proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "performance-applicability-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "survival-condition-and-permitted-use", "name": "Survival, condition and permitted use", "description": "Evaluate surviving examples through identity evidence, restoration history and current technical status.", "rationale": "Historical authenticity, structural condition and permission to operate answer different questions for surviving Spitfires.", "layers": [ { "id": "restoration-and-identity", "name": "Restoration and identity", "description": "Trace historical identity through repairs, replacement structure and chosen presentation.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-and-material-continuity", "name": "Identity and material continuity", "description": "Document separately the identity claimed, surviving historical material and configuration represented by a restoration.", "questions": [ { "text": "What chain of records connects the claimed serial to the present structure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-material-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which major assemblies are original, historical replacements or newly manufactured?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-and-material-continuity-q02" }, { "text": "Do the displayed markings represent this airframe's history or another aircraft?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-and-material-continuity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-activity-gates", "name": "Condition and activity gates", "description": "Connect proposed handling or operation to applicable evidence and responsible assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-proposed-use", "name": "Evidence for proposed use", "description": "Assess proposed activities using the aircraft's documented condition, applicable maintenance requirements and present authorisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated inspections address the installed wing attachments, landing gear, engine mounts and other structures identified as critical by applicable documentation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-proposed-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which outstanding defects, life limits or preservation restrictions constrain the proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-for-proposed-use-q02" }, { "text": "Who is responsible for confirming that the evidence supports movement, engine running or flight in the relevant jurisdiction?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-for-proposed-use-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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The registry holds no appearance data, so what a Supermarine Spitfire looks like has to come from research." ], "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": [ "Supermarine Seafire", "Seafire IIC", "Seafire XV", "Spitfire PR", "Spitfire PR VI", "Spitfire FR", "Spitfire LF", "Griffon-powered Spitfire", "late Merlin-powered Spitfire", "early Merlin-powered Spitfire", "Spitfire FR XIV", "Spitfire IV" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 33 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 Supermarine Spitfire from another, and a Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Supermarine Spitfire is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a Supermarine Spitfire is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Supermarine Spitfire is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Supermarine Spitfire is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Supermarine Spitfire is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Supermarine Spitfire is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a Supermarine Spitfire and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a Supermarine Spitfire is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Supermarine Spitfire performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a Supermarine Spitfire.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Supermarine Spitfire at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Supermarine Spitfire, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a Supermarine Spitfire, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire 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 Supermarine Spitfire is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire, 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 Supermarine Spitfire is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 13, "findings": 15, "questions": 45 } } } }