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unknown when the denominator is unsupported", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a complete representation from an excerpt or damaged witness." }, { "name": "Sound information retained", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Wording only; segmentation represented; accent represented; chant notation represented; audio available; unassessed; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a representation supports lexical study, accent analysis or recitation comparison." }, { "name": "Transmission evidence state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Contemporary practice documented; historical practice documented; textual witness only located; reported but unverified; unassessed, each dated and scoped", "why_it_matters": "Prevents missing evidence from being misreported as extinction or uninterrupted continuity." }, { "name": "Interpretive attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Passage linked to named commentator, school, translator or researcher and supporting source", "why_it_matters": "Keeps an interpretation distinguishable from the wording it interprets." }, { "name": "Representation use status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Permitted for specified use; 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The four Vedas and major textual divisions provide a starting classification, not proof of any individual attribution. See [IGNCA's overview](https://ignca.gov.in/a-glimpse-of-vedic-literature/).", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish the registered corpus from the much wider range of material described as Vedic.", "layers": [ { "id": "veda-membership", "name": "Veda membership", "description": "Establish the candidate material's supported position within the registered corpus.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-corpus-affiliation", "name": "Supported corpus affiliation", "description": "Record an affiliation claim, its evidence and the boundary convention under which it holds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Veda and named constituent text is this material attributed to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-corpus-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Which consulted witness, catalogue or scholarly treatment supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-corpus-affiliation-q02" }, { "text": "Does inclusion depend on using 'Vedas' for the Samhitas alone or for a broader corpus?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-corpus-affiliation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-strata", "name": "Textual strata", "description": "Represent constituent and embedded textual divisions without forcing every tradition into an identical hierarchy.", "findings": [ { "id": "stratum-and-embedding", "name": "Stratum and embedding", "description": "Record how a named section is classified and whether it is embedded in another constituent text.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this material classified as Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka or Upanishad, and by whom?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stratum-and-embedding-q01" }, { "text": "Is it an embedded section, a separately transmitted text or differently delimited across witnesses?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stratum-and-embedding-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this constituent from a later work claiming a Vedic affiliation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stratum-and-embedding-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shakhas-and-passage-identity", "name": "Shakhas and passage identity", "description": "Keep recensional affiliation and passage references explicit throughout identification and comparison.", "rationale": "A shared title or similar wording cannot by itself establish that two records identify the same textual unit.", "layers": [ { "id": "recensional-affiliation", "name": "Recensional affiliation", "description": "Track attributed shakha and recension relationships independently of modern publication titles.", "findings": [ { "id": "recension-identification", "name": "Recension identification", "description": "Identify the transmitted version and preserve unresolved or competing assignments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shakha or recension does the witness explicitly identify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recension-identification-q01" }, { "text": "For Yajurvedic material, how is the Shukla or Krishna affiliation established, and what more specific recension is supported?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recension-identification-q02" }, { "text": "Which affiliation details are supplied by the witness and which are inferred by an editor or cataloguer?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recension-identification-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-resolution", "name": "Passage resolution", "description": "Resolve units through their own division systems and record qualified correspondences.", "findings": [ { "id": "address-and-correspondence", "name": "Address and correspondence", "description": "Retain local numbering and distinguish identical wording, partial correspondence and adaptation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What complete address identifies this passage in the named recension and edition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "address-and-correspondence-q01" }, { "text": "When wording corresponds across Vedas or recensions, what evidence establishes the extent and type of correspondence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "address-and-correspondence-q02" }, { "text": "Can an agent provide a verified cross-reference, or must it preserve separate passage identities?", "kind": "action", "id": "address-and-correspondence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "vedic-sound-and-recitation", "name": "Vedic sound and recitation", "description": "Record the sound information and transmission context needed to assess a Vedic recitation or its representation. 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See [UNESCO's account of Vedic chanting](https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists?RL=00062).", "rationale": "A readable transcription alone may not preserve the information needed to identify or evaluate a recited form.", "layers": [ { "id": "recitation-form", "name": "Recitation form", "description": "Identify the attributed recitation mode and the evidence connecting a performance to a passage.", "findings": [ { "id": "patha-and-performance-context", "name": "Patha and performance context", "description": "Record the declared patha, recensional affiliation and teacher or performer attribution where documented.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recitation mode is named, such as samhita-patha or pada-patha, and who identifies it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "patha-and-performance-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which performer, teacher attribution and recording context support the claimed transmission affiliation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "patha-and-performance-context-q02" }, { "text": "Does 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of shakhas, recensions and their textual and oral attestation?", "Which passage concordances and accent or chant notation mappings are reliable enough for automated comparison, and where is specialist review required?", "What current evidence and community consultation are needed to assess transmission continuity and representation-specific use protocols without generalizing across traditions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 30 } }, "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Vedas, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify Vedic material within vr.tr.vedas, assess its attestation and transmission state, and determine appropriate citation, comparison, interpretation and reuse.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 126 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 Vedas, 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. 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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 Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas 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 Vedas between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of 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overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas 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 Vedas contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 Vedas is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Vedas, 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 Vedas, 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 Vedas 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 } } } }