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        "rank": 6063,
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        "name": "tumulus",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain tumuli, relay forms, cultures, archaeology and protection from archaeological and heritage sources, describe the named mound types and flag the stone setting alias, advise against unauthorised digging and metal detecting, and distinguish tumuli from cairns, kurgans as a regional term, dolmens, mastabas and natural hills.",
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        "category": "Information and virtual systems",
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        "kind": "thing",
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        "version": "",
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        "score": 63,
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                "hiyokuzuka",
                "treudd",
                "kofun",
                "chambered long barrow",
                "bongbun",
                "kofungun",
                "four corner projections type grave mound",
                "Yayoi mound burial",
                "stone mound tomb",
                "tumuli group",
                "disc barrow",
                "Gravhögar i Europa",
                "square barrow",
                "oval barrow",
                "tumuli in the Netherlands",
                "tumuli in Belgium",
                "round barrow",
                "sopka",
                "Runddysse",
                "aowelo",
                "galgal",
                "bank barrow",
                "Damb",
                "bell barrow",
                "zenpō-kōen-fun",
                "round-topped burial mound",
                "circular kofun",
                "Zenpō-kōhō-fun",
                "Sōhō-chūen Kofun",
                "scallop-shaped kofun",
                "square kofun",
                "end stage kofun",
                "final stage kofun",
                "Ezo caves",
                "decorated kofun",
                "Rectangular Kofun",
                "Makimuku-type keyhole-shaped kofun",
                "Keyhole-shaped kofuns in the southern Korean peninsula"
            ],
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            "merged": 38,
            "knownIn": 63,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q34023",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34023",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
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                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T20:31:57Z",
                "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": 4,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q34023",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.tumulus",
                "name": "tumulus",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.4",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "INF.MED"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.tumulus",
                "name": "tumulus",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain tumuli, relay forms, cultures, archaeology and protection from archaeological and heritage sources, describe the named mound types and flag the stone setting alias, advise against unauthorised digging and metal detecting, and distinguish tumuli from cairns, kurgans as a regional term, dolmens, mastabas and natural hills.",
                "definition": "A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves, one of the most widespread funerary monuments in the world, including prehistoric European barrows such as chambered long barrows, Japanese kofun, keyhole-shaped and other mounded tombs built between the 3rd and 7th centuries and often grouped in clusters called kofungun, with the Mozu-Furuichi group inscribed by UNESCO in 2019, Korean bongbun mounded tombs, and Japanese hiyokuzuka, paired graves associated with lovers; the registry alias treudd names a Scandinavian three-pointed stone setting, a related but different grave monument. Tumuli are protected archaeological sites that must not be dug without authorisation.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Marking and covering burials.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain forms and cultures",
                    "relay archaeology and protection",
                    "describe named mound types",
                    "advise on heritage law"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Earthen mound",
                    "Worldwide",
                    "Status indicators",
                    "Protected heritage"
                ],
                "appearance": "Rounded or elongated earthen mounds in the landscape, sometimes keyhole-shaped and tree-covered.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Burial mound",
                    "Hiyokuzuka, treudd, kofun, chambered long barrow, bongbun, kofungun",
                    "Cairns are stone heaps; kurgans are steppe mounds; dolmens are stone chambers; mastabas are flat-topped Egyptian tombs"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "Daisenryo Kofun length",
                        "typical_range": "about 486",
                        "unit": "m",
                        "note": "largest keyhole kofun"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Mozu-Furuichi UNESCO listing",
                        "typical_range": "2019",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Neolithic long barrows in Britain",
                        "typical_range": "about 3800-3300 BC",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "approximate"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "long barrows",
                    "round barrows",
                    "Japanese kofun and kofun clusters",
                    "Korean bongbun",
                    "kurgans",
                    "related stone settings"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "burial mound",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "kofun",
                        "why": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "long barrow",
                        "why": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "cairn",
                        "why": ""
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Ancient monuments protection laws such as the UK Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979",
                    "Japanese Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties",
                    "UNESCO World Heritage Convention"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Looting and unauthorised digging",
                    "Disrespect to burial sites",
                    "Registry alias for a stone setting"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What a tumulus is.",
                        "rationale": "Definition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is a tumulus, and how does it differ from cairns, kurgans, dolmens, mastabas and natural hills?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about visiting, archaeology, or finding remains, which must be reported and not disturbed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "types",
                                "name": "Types",
                                "description": "Named types.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "types-finding",
                                        "name": "Types",
                                        "description": "Types.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are kofun, kofungun, bongbun, chambered long barrows and hiyokuzuka, and why is a treudd different?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific type?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "archaeology",
                        "name": "Archaeology",
                        "description": "Archaeology.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "construction",
                                "name": "Construction",
                                "description": "Construction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "construction-finding",
                                        "name": "Construction",
                                        "description": "Construction.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How were tumuli built and what burials do they contain?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "society",
                                "name": "Society",
                                "description": "Social meaning.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "society-finding",
                                        "name": "Society",
                                        "description": "Society.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do mound size and grave goods suggest about social hierarchy, as archaeologists interpret?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "protection",
                        "name": "Protection",
                        "description": "Protection.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "law",
                                "name": "Law",
                                "description": "Heritage law.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "law-finding",
                                        "name": "Law",
                                        "description": "Law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are burial mounds protected, and what are the rules on metal detecting?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits scheduled monument?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "imperial",
                                "name": "Imperial tombs",
                                "description": "Imperial tombs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "imperial-finding",
                                        "name": "Imperial tombs",
                                        "description": "Imperial tombs.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Why are some Japanese kofun managed by the Imperial Household Agency with restricted access?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Imperial Household Agency?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Regions.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "japan",
                                "name": "Japan",
                                "description": "Kofun period.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "japan-finding",
                                        "name": "Japan",
                                        "description": "Japan.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What was the Kofun period?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Kofun period?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "europe",
                                "name": "Europe",
                                "description": "European barrows.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "europe-finding",
                                        "name": "Europe",
                                        "description": "Europe.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are notable European tumuli such as West Kennet Long Barrow and Sutton Hoo?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Sutton Hoo?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should kofun and bongbun be separate primary entries?",
                "How should heritage registers be linked?",
                "The registry alias treudd should be moved to stone settings"
            ],
            "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 tumulus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain tumuli, relay forms, cultures, archaeology and protection from archaeological and heritage sources, describe the named mound types and flag the stone setting alias, advise against unauthorised digging and metal detecting, and distinguish tumuli from cairns, kurgans as a regional term, dolmens, mastabas and natural hills.",
            "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: hiyokuzuka, treudd, kofun, chambered long barrow, bongbun, kofungun, four corner projections type grave mound, Yayoi mound burial, stone mound tomb, tumuli group, disc barrow, Gravhögar i Europa.",
                "38 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 63 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 tumulus, 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": [
                        "hiyokuzuka",
                        "treudd",
                        "kofun",
                        "chambered long barrow",
                        "bongbun",
                        "kofungun",
                        "four corner projections type grave mound",
                        "Yayoi mound burial",
                        "stone mound tomb",
                        "tumuli group",
                        "disc barrow",
                        "Gravhögar i Europa"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 38 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 tumulus from another, and a tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus 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 tumulus between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus 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 tumulus contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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 tumulus is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tumulus, 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 tumulus, 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 tumulus 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
            }
        }
    }
}