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    "model": {
        "rank": 12293,
        "code": "thing-q324457",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.oceanic",
        "name": "Oceanic",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain the Oceanic language branch and its subgroups, relay classification, history and spread from linguistic sources, describe notable languages, and route to entries for subgroups and languages.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Information and virtual systems",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "INF",
        "domain": "INF.MED",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/q324457/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 40,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "Central–Eastern Oceanic",
                "Western Oceanic",
                "Admiralty Islands",
                "Temotu",
                "Yapese",
                "Remote Oceanic",
                "St. Matthias",
                "Nguluwan",
                "Kazukuru",
                "Lungalunga",
                "Meso-Melanesian",
                "Lamogai",
                "Bilur",
                "Bwaidoka",
                "Cheke Holo",
                "Diodio",
                "Papuan Tip",
                "North New Guinea",
                "Gapapaiwa",
                "Ghanongga",
                "Gitua",
                "Vitu",
                "Hakö",
                "Halia",
                "Iwal",
                "Kara",
                "Kilivila",
                "Kusaghe",
                "Lawunuia",
                "Lote",
                "Lungga",
                "Lusi",
                "Madak",
                "Idne",
                "Mandara",
                "Marovo",
                "Mato",
                "Mbula",
                "Mengen",
                "Molima"
            ],
            "aliasCount": 137,
            "merged": 137,
            "knownIn": 40,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q324457",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324457",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T03:39:09Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q324457",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.oceanic",
                "name": "Oceanic",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "INF.MED"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q324457/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.oceanic",
                "name": "Oceanic",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain the Oceanic language branch and its subgroups, relay classification, history and spread from linguistic sources, describe notable languages, and route to entries for subgroups and languages.",
                "definition": "The largest well-established branch of the Austronesian language family, comprising about 450 languages spoken across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia by about 2 million people, descended from Proto-Oceanic spoken around 1500 BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago, and subgrouped into Admiralty Islands, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern Oceanic including Remote Oceanic with Micronesian and Polynesian languages, and outliers such as Yapese; Oceanic languages include Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Maori and Tolai.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a language family branch.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain the branch and subgroups",
                    "relay classification and history",
                    "describe notable languages",
                    "route to subgroups"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Proto-Oceanic ancestor",
                    "Lapita spread",
                    "Deep subgrouping",
                    "Polynesian and Micronesian members"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; languages of the Pacific.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Austronesian branch of the Pacific",
                    "Admiralty, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern and Remote Oceanic; Yapese",
                    "Papuan languages are unrelated; western Austronesian languages such as Malay are outside the branch"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "languages",
                        "typical_range": "about 450",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "speakers",
                        "typical_range": "about 2",
                        "unit": "million",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Proto-Oceanic",
                        "typical_range": "about 1500 BCE",
                        "unit": "date",
                        "note": "Lapita association"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Admiralty Islands languages",
                    "Western Oceanic linkage including North New Guinea, Papuan Tip and Meso-Melanesian",
                    "Temotu languages",
                    "Central-Eastern Oceanic including Southeast Solomonic and Remote Oceanic",
                    "Remote Oceanic including Micronesian, Central Pacific and Polynesian languages",
                    "Yapese and other debated members"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Eastern Malayo-Polynesian",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "descends from",
                        "target": "Proto-Oceanic",
                        "why": "reconstructed ancestor"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Polynesian languages",
                        "why": "as a subgroup"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "spread with",
                        "target": "Lapita culture",
                        "why": "across the Pacific"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "Glottolog",
                        "value_or_pattern": "ocea1241",
                        "note": "Oceanic"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "ISO 639 codes for member languages",
                    "National language policies in Pacific states",
                    "Endangered language documentation programmes"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Presenting debated subgroupings as settled",
                    "Confusing Oceanic with all Pacific languages",
                    "Stale speaker figures"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What Oceanic is.",
                        "rationale": "Linguistics.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition and place in Austronesian.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the Oceanic branch, and how does it fit within Austronesian?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about Oceanic languages, Papuan languages or Austronesian broadly?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "subgroups",
                                "name": "Subgroups",
                                "description": "Subgroups.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "subgroups-finding",
                                        "name": "Subgroups",
                                        "description": "Subgroups.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the Admiralty, Western Oceanic, Temotu, Central-Eastern and Remote Oceanic subgroups, and where does Yapese fit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific subgroup?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History and spread.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "protooceanic",
                                "name": "Proto-Oceanic",
                                "description": "Proto-Oceanic.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "protooceanic-finding",
                                        "name": "Proto-Oceanic",
                                        "description": "Proto-Oceanic.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What has been reconstructed of Proto-Oceanic, and how is it linked to the Lapita culture?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "spread",
                                "name": "Spread",
                                "description": "Spread across the Pacific.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "spread-finding",
                                        "name": "Spread",
                                        "description": "Spread.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Oceanic languages spread to Micronesia and Polynesia, as linguists and archaeologists describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "languages",
                        "name": "Languages",
                        "description": "Languages.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "notable",
                                "name": "Notable",
                                "description": "Notable languages.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "notable-finding",
                                        "name": "Notable",
                                        "description": "Notable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Maori, Tolai and other major Oceanic languages?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific language?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "features",
                                "name": "Features",
                                "description": "Shared features.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "features-finding",
                                        "name": "Features",
                                        "description": "Features.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What grammatical and phonological features characterise Oceanic languages?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Oceanic grammar?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Vitality and study.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "vitality",
                                "name": "Vitality",
                                "description": "Endangerment and revival.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "vitality-finding",
                                        "name": "Vitality",
                                        "description": "Vitality.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which Oceanic languages are endangered, and what revitalisation exists?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits language revitalisation?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "study",
                                "name": "Study",
                                "description": "Scholarship.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "study-finding",
                                        "name": "Study",
                                        "description": "Study.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How has Oceanic linguistics developed, from Dempwolff to the Oceanic Lexicon Project?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Austronesian linguistics?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should Polynesian and Micronesian languages be the primary linked entries?",
                "How should linguistic databases be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming subgroups and one language; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "work, medium or creative form",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Oceanic, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the Oceanic language branch and its subgroups, relay classification, history and spread from linguistic sources, describe notable languages, and route to entries for subgroups and languages.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted",
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Central–Eastern Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Admiralty Islands, Temotu, Yapese, Remote Oceanic, St. Matthias, Nguluwan, Kazukuru, Lungalunga, Meso-Melanesian, Lamogai.",
                "137 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 40 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 Oceanic, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "read it and act on what it says",
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "Central–Eastern Oceanic",
                        "Western Oceanic",
                        "Admiralty Islands",
                        "Temotu",
                        "Yapese",
                        "Remote Oceanic",
                        "St. Matthias",
                        "Nguluwan",
                        "Kazukuru",
                        "Lungalunga",
                        "Meso-Melanesian",
                        "Lamogai"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 40 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 137 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 Oceanic from another, and a Oceanic 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Oceanic 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a Oceanic says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a Oceanic contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Oceanic, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Oceanic, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Oceanic is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a Oceanic and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Oceanic, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Oceanic, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Oceanic is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "work-and-manifestation",
                        "name": "Work, version and copy",
                        "description": "Which level of Oceanic a statement is about.",
                        "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "levels",
                                "name": "Levels of the thing",
                                "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "level-rules",
                                        "name": "What belongs at each level",
                                        "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "For Oceanic, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "versions",
                                "name": "Versions, editions and variants",
                                "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "version-record",
                                        "name": "Versions and canonicity",
                                        "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which versions or editions of Oceanic exist, and how do they differ substantively?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "authorship-and-rights",
                        "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use",
                        "description": "Who made Oceanic and what may be done with it.",
                        "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "authorship",
                                "name": "Authorship and contribution",
                                "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "contribution-record",
                                        "name": "Contributors and roles",
                                        "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who authored or contributed to Oceanic, in what roles, and how is that attested?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "rights",
                                "name": "Rights and permissions",
                                "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "rights-record",
                                        "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts",
                                        "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What rights subsist in Oceanic, in which jurisdictions, and until when?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Oceanic 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 Oceanic and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic 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 Oceanic is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Oceanic, 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 Oceanic, 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 Oceanic is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}