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Louisiana French

vr.tr.louisiana-french · INF.MED
Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

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.

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.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Purpose and description

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Louisiana French, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

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

It can be read and interpreted; observed and measured.

Distinguishing features

Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Colonial French, Cajun French.

2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.

Described in 29 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

Physical character

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.

How it is recognised

What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it.

Related models

covers - 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.

Colonial FrenchCajun French

Described in 29 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.

Also called

Colonial FrenchCajun French

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions.

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one Louisiana French from another, and a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a Louisiana French from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French between them.

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

Observations and current status

What is observed about a Louisiana French, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a Louisiana French is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action
Content, encoding and access What a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French contains and in what form it is held.

  1. What identifies and describes the content of a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the content of a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French and the period it survives.

  1. What identifies and describes access to a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about access to a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once access to a Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action
Work, version and copy Which level of Louisiana French a statement is about.

The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.

Levels of the thing

Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.

What belongs at each level

Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.

  1. For Louisiana French, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy? boundary
  2. What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited? definition

Versions, editions and variants

How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.

Versions and canonicity

Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.

  1. Which versions or editions of Louisiana French exist, and how do they differ substantively? definition
  2. Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose? provenance
Authorship, rights and permitted use Who made Louisiana French and what may be done with it.

Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.

Authorship and contribution

Who contributed what, and in what capacity.

Contributors and roles

The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.

  1. Who authored or contributed to Louisiana French, in what roles, and how is that attested? provenance
  2. Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead? boundary

Rights and permissions

Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.

Rights, term and permitted acts

The regime in force and what it allows.

  1. What rights subsist in Louisiana French, in which jurisdictions, and until when? definition
  2. Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Louisiana French, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Louisiana French 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 Louisiana French is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Louisiana French, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Louisiana French, 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 Louisiana French is known, and what must it refuse? action

What the second pass must settle

  • 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 Louisiana French, and on what evidence are they told apart?