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sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era

vr.tr.sporting-boycott-of-south-africa-during-the-apartheid-era · thing-q2923011

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems INF.MED

Generated draft, first pass

This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Derived, awaiting review

6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era from another, and a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era from things that resemble it.

Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.

Names and identifiers

The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.

Preferred name, aliases and local names

Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.

  1. What identifies and describes the name of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Stable identifiers and external keys

Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.

  1. What identifies and describes an identifier for a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.

Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds

The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.

  1. What identifies and describes the kind of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era passes through and the events that move it between them.

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.

Lifecycle stages

From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.

Stages and transitions

The stages worth naming and what moves a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era between them.

  1. What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Observations and current status

What is observed about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action
Content, encoding and access What a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era says, how it is encoded and who may read it.

An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.

Content and encoding

The content itself, its format and its language.

Content, format and language

What a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era contains and in what form it is held.

  1. What identifies and describes the content of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the content of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the content of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Access, rights and retention

Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.

Access rules and retention

The permissions attached to a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era and the period it survives.

  1. What identifies and describes access to a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about access to a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once access to a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action
Temporal extent and dating When sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era began and ended, and who says so.

Dates for events are conventions held by historiographies that disagree, and a single confident date hides the disagreement.

Dating and calendar

Start, end, granularity and the calendar used.

Dates, granularity and authority

What is dated, how precisely, and on whose account.

  1. What start and end are conventionally given for sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, at what granularity, in which calendar? definition
  2. Which accounts date it differently, and on what grounds? provenance

What counts as part of it

Sub-events included or excluded, and by whom.

Inclusion and exclusion

The episodes treated as inside the event and those left out.

  1. Which episodes are counted as part of sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and which are treated as separate? boundary
  2. Whose framing is being followed in that inclusion, and who frames it otherwise? provenance
Participants, causes and consequences Who took part in sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era and what is claimed to follow from it.

Causation around events is asserted rather than observed, so each claim needs the party asserting it.

Participants and roles

Parties involved and what each did.

Parties and their roles

Who is recorded as involved and in what capacity.

  1. Which parties took part in sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, in what roles, and on whose account? provenance
  2. Where do accounts disagree about who was involved? boundary

Causes and consequences

What is claimed to have caused it and followed from it.

Causal claims and who makes them

Antecedents and outcomes as attributed claims.

  1. What causes and consequences are attributed to sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and by whom? provenance
  2. What would an agent need before treating such a claim as settled rather than contested? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era came from and when it held.

A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.

Source and authority

Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.

Claim provenance and confidence

The authority behind each claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Time, versions and supersession

When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.

Validity period and supersession

How an old claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Information and virtual systems
Entry kind
event or period
Plane
INF
Domain
INF.MED

What it is Derived, awaiting review

An informational thing registered under INF.MED. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.

Why it exists Derived, awaiting review

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

  • Described in 10 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review

May

  • read it and act on what it says
  • observe it, measure it, record its state

Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Owners Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Links to other meta-models Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • Made of: content that has to be carried by something else
  • 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.

Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review

  • Not a thing to see. Recognised by when it happened and who was involved, on the account of somebody.

Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review

  • read and interpreted
  • observed and measured

Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Context of use required Derived, awaiting review

  • Described in 10 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.

Sources Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Open questions

  • 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 sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era, and on what evidence are they told apart?
  • What may an agent decide or do once the name of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse?
  • What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse?
  • What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era is known, and what must it refuse?

Machine files

Provenance

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