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"THING-Q3624153", "registryId": "vr.tr.medieval-art", "name": "medieval art", "version": "0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3624153/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.medieval-art", "name": "medieval art", "purpose": "Let an agent describe medieval art and its periods and regions with attribution to art history, identify works and styles, relay museum and heritage information, and separate medieval art from ancient, Renaissance and non-European art of the same centuries.", "definition": "The art of Europe, the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance, roughly the fifth to the fifteenth century, including Early Christian, Byzantine, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic art in architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscript illumination, metalwork, mosaic and textiles.", 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works.", "rationale": "Content.", "layers": [ { "id": "media", "name": "Media", "description": "Media.", "findings": [ { "id": "media-finding", "name": "Media", "description": "Media.", "questions": [ { "text": "What media did medieval artists use, from illumination to stained glass?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific medium?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identify", "name": "Identify", "description": "Identifying works.", "findings": [ { "id": "identify-finding", "name": "Identify", "description": "Identify.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are medieval works dated and attributed, and with what uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Patronage and meaning.", "rationale": "Interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "patronage", "name": "Patronage", "description": "Patronage and function.", "findings": [ { "id": "patronage-finding", "name": "Patronage", "description": "Patronage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who commissioned medieval art, and what functions did it serve?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits medieval church history?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation", "name": "Interpretation", "description": "Interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretation-finding", "name": "Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have historians interpreted medieval art, and where do they disagree, with attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access", "description": "Collections and study.", "rationale": "Access.", "layers": [ { "id": "collections", "name": "Collections", "description": "Collections and sites.", "findings": [ { "id": "collections-finding", "name": "Collections", "description": "Collections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is medieval art seen, in museums, churches and digitised manuscripts?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific museum?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "study", "name": "Study", "description": "Study.", "findings": [ { "id": "study-finding", "name": "Study", "description": "Study.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is medieval art studied and taught, and which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits art history?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each period style be a separate entry?", "How should museum collections be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases for regional pre-Romanesque art; 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": "discipline or field of knowledge", "method": "Written from the 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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. 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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 medieval art, 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art 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 medieval art 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art 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 medieval art from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a medieval art, 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art 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 medieval art 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 medieval art between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a medieval art, 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 medieval art, 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 medieval art 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 medieval art, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": 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