{ "model": { "rank": 2909, "code": "thing-q31528", "model_id": "vr.tr.beak", "name": "beak", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a beak, record its functional condition and biological context, and judge which observations or interventions are appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q31528/", "tier": 2, "score": 94, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "tactile-foraging waterfowl beak" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 94, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q31528", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31528", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:38:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00550494, "turns": 1, "seconds": 22.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 68.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c16-b9d0-7611-b2e0-8fbc729a57c7\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: beak\nRegistry id: vr.tr.beak\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model s" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q31528", "registryId": "vr.tr.beak", "name": "beak", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q31528/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.beak", "name": "beak", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a beak, record its functional condition and biological context, and judge which observations or interventions are appropriate.", "definition": "A keratinous, toothless rostrum of paired rhamphothecae covering the bony jaws in birds (and analogous keratinous jaws in some other vertebrates and cephalopods), used for feeding, preening, and manipulation.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a biological beak as a distinct mouthpart assembly, including its working surfaces, opposing components, attachment, geometry and condition; it records the bearer and anatomical interpretation without assuming that all structures called beaks share the same construction.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of a biological beak and the anatomical components included in the instance", "Geometry of tips, edges, opposing surfaces and opening", "Material coverings, structural support and attachment where established", "Condition, wear, damage and changes in shape or alignment", "Observed use in feeding, manipulation and other bearer-specific activities", "Observation limits and conditions governing handling or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The bearer's complete anatomy, health history and behaviour", "Whole-animal diet, nutrition and husbandry plans", "Teeth, lips, tongues and neighbouring tissues except at their interfaces with the beak", "Artificial tools, architectural projections and decorative objects named or shaped like beaks", "Taxonomic classification and evolutionary relationships beyond identifying the beak's anatomical context" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Confirm that the structure is a biological mouthpart rather than a beak-shaped projection elsewhere on a body or manufactured object.", "Identify the structure used as the beak's working tip, edge or opposing surface; a pointed snout alone does not establish that it is a beak.", "Establish from observation or a suitable anatomical reference which coverings and supporting components constitute the beak; do not treat an exposed jaw or tooth as sufficient identification.", "Check the bearer's anatomical context before using bird-specific recognition criteria for another organism.", "Treat 'bill' as a possible alternative name requiring contextual resolution, rather than assuming it identifies a separate kind of mouthpart." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Bearer and anatomical interpretation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Bearer reference, supported taxonomic identification and anatomical reference", "why_it_matters": "Determines which structures, expected forms and functional comparisons apply." }, { "name": "Component completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete assembly, partial assembly, isolated component, fragment or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a fragment or single opposing component from being assessed as a complete beak." }, { "name": "Attachment context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attached to living bearer, attached to remains, detached specimen or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes what can be observed and whether an action may affect living tissue." }, { "name": "Landmarked dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length, width and depth in mm, with landmarks, method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports repeatable shape comparisons without assuming one length convention fits every beak." }, { "name": "Tip and edge profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Described curvature, taper, edge relief and tip form, with image or reference", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish normal working geometry from wear or loss of material." }, { "name": "Opposing-component alignment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Expected relation, offset, crossing, unexpected gap or undetermined, relative to an applicable reference", "why_it_matters": "Alignment affects contact and use, but an unusual appearance alone does not establish a defect." }, { "name": "Surface and structural integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Location and extent of wear, cracks, chips, missing material, deformation or obscured areas", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes visible condition from assumptions about underlying damage." }, { "name": "Observed opening", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Gap in mm or angle in degrees, with posture, landmarks and observation conditions", "why_it_matters": "Records usable opening while separating voluntary movement from unobserved mechanical limits." }, { "name": "Demonstrated task performance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed task, success or difficulty, context and observation date; unobserved where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether appearance corresponds to actual ability to use the beak." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and document the beak's components and boundaries using bearer-specific anatomical evidence.", "Compare landmarked images and measurements to track changes in tip, edge and alignment.", "Observe how the bearer opens, closes and uses the beak during ordinary activities.", "Map visible damage or obstruction and flag uncertainty requiring qualified assessment.", "Assess whether proposed contact, restraint, sampling or modification is appropriate for the beak's attachment and tissue context.", "Document and preserve a detached beak specimen under an applicable collection protocol." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "pending", "title": "Research in progress", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "beak-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Beak identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish what counts as this beak and which anatomical interpretation applies.", "rationale": "The name alone does not specify construction, component boundaries or an appropriate comparison group.", "layers": [ { "id": "bearer-and-naming", "name": "Bearer and naming", "description": "Connect the beak designation to an identified bearer and evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "anatomical-identification", "name": "Anatomical identification", "description": "Record the basis for identifying this mouthpart as a beak, including unresolved naming.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism bears or originally bore this structure, and what evidence supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "anatomical-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What anatomical usage establishes this structure as a beak, and is 'bill' an alternative name in that usage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "anatomical-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "component-membership", "name": "Component membership", "description": "Set the instance boundary around the beak's identifiable parts.", "findings": [ { "id": "included-beak-components", "name": "Included beak components", "description": "Distinguish the complete assembly from a covering, supporting structure or fragment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this instance include both opposing components, their coverings and their support, or only a specified subset?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-beak-components-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the beak end and the neighbouring jaw, facial tissue or other mouthpart begin under the chosen anatomical convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-beak-components-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "working-geometry-and-construction", "name": "Working geometry and construction", "description": "Describe the surfaces and construction through which the beak contacts and acts on material.", "rationale": "Beak-specific decisions depend on tips, edges and opposing surfaces rather than overall size alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "tips-edges-and-contact", "name": "Tips, edges and contact", "description": "Capture repeatable shape measurements and relations between working surfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-surface-profile", "name": "Working surface profile", "description": "Record tip shape, curvature, edge features and closure geometry against explicit landmarks.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured length, width, depth and curvature, and which landmarks and posture define each measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-surface-profile-q01" }, { "text": "How do the tips and edges meet, overlap or remain separated during observed closure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-surface-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "covering-support-and-attachment", "name": "Covering, support and attachment", "description": "Identify established material regions and their connection to the bearer.", "findings": [ { "id": "beak-construction-evidence", "name": "Beak construction evidence", "description": "Separate externally visible surfaces from supported claims about internal structure and living tissue.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which coverings, supporting structures and attachment regions are established for this beak by observation or an anatomical source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "beak-construction-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Where are the boundaries between exposed working material and underlying or adjoining living tissue, and which boundaries remain unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "beak-construction-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "beak-condition-and-change", "name": "Beak condition and change", "description": "Assess visible integrity and changes relative to a suitable baseline.", "rationale": "Wear, growth, damage and normal variation can produce similar appearances but imply different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "integrity-and-alignment", "name": "Integrity and alignment", "description": "Locate defects and deviations without diagnosing from appearance alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-map", "name": "Condition map", "description": "Record affected tips, edges, surfaces and attachment regions with evidence and visibility limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cracks, chips, missing material, deformation or surface changes visible, and what is their observable extent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-map-q01" }, { "text": "What reference supports treating the observed tip relationship or surface appearance as expected variation or a possible abnormality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-wear-and-history", "name": "Growth, wear and history", "description": "Track changes while preserving uncertainty about their cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "longitudinal-beak-change", "name": "Longitudinal beak change", "description": "Compare dated observations and distinguish documented events from inferred mechanisms.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have beak dimensions, edge profiles and alignment changed between comparable dated observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "longitudinal-beak-change-q01" }, { "text": "What documented growth, wear exposure, injury or intervention could explain the change, and which explanations remain unverified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "longitudinal-beak-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "beak-use-and-intervention", "name": "Beak use and intervention", "description": "Connect demonstrated beak use to decisions about observation, contact and modification.", "rationale": "A beak's appearance does not by itself establish function or justify an intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "opening-and-task-performance", "name": "Opening and task performance", "description": "Record movement and task outcomes in the bearer's ordinary context.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-beak-function", "name": "Demonstrated beak function", "description": "Capture observed opening, closure and use without assigning function solely from shape.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which observed activities does the bearer use the beak, and what shows successful contact, grasping or processing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-beak-function-q01" }, { "text": "What opening, closing or contact difficulties are visible, and under what task and observation conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-beak-function-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-modification-decisions", "name": "Contact and modification decisions", "description": "Determine prerequisites for actions affecting the beak or its specimen value.", "findings": [ { "id": "beak-action-prerequisites", "name": "Beak action prerequisites", "description": "Link a proposed action to attachment, tissue knowledge, functional evidence and appropriate expertise.", "questions": [ { "text": "Given attachment status and known tissue boundaries, which observations can proceed without forcing the beak open or altering its working surfaces?", "kind": "action", "id": "beak-action-prerequisites-q01" }, { "text": "What qualified assessment, authorization and bearer-specific or specimen-specific protocol are required before restraint, trimming, repair, sampling or preservation?", "kind": "action", "id": "beak-action-prerequisites-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "avian rhamphotheca (upper and lower mandibles)", "tomial-toothed / serrated beak", "hooked raptorial beak", "filter-feeding lamellate beak", "probing / needle beak", "crushing granivorous beak", "cephalopod beak (chitinous jaws)", "chelonian rhamphotheca" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of beak this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend 'beak' to include all biological structures conventionally given that name, or a narrower anatomical group?", "Should the canonical beak instance include its supporting jaw structures, or treat them as related parts whose boundaries vary by bearer?", "Which anatomical sources and measurement conventions should govern each included bearer group?", "What reference evidence distinguishes expected shape, growth and wear from impaired condition across life stages and bearer groups?", "Which validated assessment and intervention protocols apply to each included beak type and attachment context?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 9, "questions": 17 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 beak, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a beak, record its functional condition and biological context, and judge which observations or interventions are appropriate.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: tactile-foraging waterfowl beak.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 94 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 beak, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "tactile-foraging waterfowl beak" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 94 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 beak from another, and a beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak 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 beak is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak 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 beak between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a beak 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 beak, 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 beak, 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 beak is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What beak is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does beak perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise beak, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How beak is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does beak have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does beak need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about beak is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about beak hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern beak, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a beak 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 beak and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak 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 beak is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a beak, 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 beak, 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 beak is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }