{ "model": { "rank": 2356, "code": "thing-q40157", "model_id": "vr.tr.lava", "name": "lava", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise lava, assess its physical state and behaviour, and determine which observations, access decisions or interventions are justified by available evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q40157/", "tier": 2, "score": 108, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "primary magma", "Niedermendig Lava", "Tossol", "Pele's tears", "Lava delta", "Limu o Pele" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 108, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q40157", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40157", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:45:22Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00213384, "turns": 1, "seconds": 18.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 91.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07bae-8ba9-7481-a5a1-5bdbe6164e72\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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model owns an identified body or parcel of magma that has reached a planetary surface, including its molten interior, developing crust, movement and transition to a solidified lava product; it records connections to the supplying volcanic system and affected surroundings without owning those systems.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of a lava body, parcel, lobe, channel or lake", "Temperature, composition, gas content, crystallinity and resulting flow behaviour", "Supply, emplacement, movement, inflation and drainage", "Crust formation, cooling and degree of solidification", "Contact effects and evidence needed to constrain observation or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Subsurface magma reservoirs, ascent conduits and eruption initiation", "The volcano or volcanic plumbing system as a whole", "Detached airborne volcanic fragments and pyroclastic density currents", "Atmospheric transport of volcanic gases and aerosols", "Regional bedrock history and long-term weathering of solidified lava", "Emergency command, evacuation logistics and infrastructure asset management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the material reached the surface: a melt still confined below ground is magma rather than lava within this scope.", "Establish geological melt provenance: heat, redness or fluidity alone cannot distinguish lava from industrial slag or another molten material.", "Distinguish a coherent surface melt body from detached eruptive fragments or a particle-dominated current; record transitions and ambiguous mixed cases.", "Distinguish ongoing emplacement from a stationary lava deposit using repeat observations of boundaries, supply or deformation rather than appearance alone.", "Distinguish surface crust from complete solidification: a solid-looking exterior does not establish the state of the interior." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Source and emplacement context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked vent or fissure, eruption episode, parent lava body and receiving surface; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects the material to its origin and separates new supply from redistribution of existing lava." }, { "name": "Composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Major-element mass percentages with analytical method, sample location and time", "why_it_matters": "Supports material identification and interpretation of melting, crystallisation and flow behaviour." }, { "name": "Temperature distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees Celsius or kelvin, explicitly distinguishing exposed melt, crust and inferred interior", "why_it_matters": "A surface measurement cannot automatically represent the thermal state of the whole body." }, { "name": "Physical phase proportions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Melt, crystal and gas volume fractions with measurement or inference basis", "why_it_matters": "Constrains whether the material can deform or flow and how its behaviour may change." }, { "name": "Effective rheology", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Effective viscosity in Pa·s and, where applicable, yield stress in Pa; include temperature and deformation conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports conditional estimates of mobility without assuming a single constant viscosity." }, { "name": "Body geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mapped footprint, thickness in m and volume in m³, with timestamp and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Defines what material is being assessed and the scale of emplacement or accumulation." }, { "name": "Supply and discharge", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volumetric rate in m³/s or mass rate in kg/s, with location, interval and measurement basis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes continuing input from a body that is draining or cooling without replenishment." }, { "name": "Motion", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Front advance, internal surface velocity and vertical inflation or subsidence in m/s or m per observation interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates different kinds of movement that have different implications for exposure and flow routing." }, { "name": "Emplacement form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Channelised flow, sheet, lobe, pond or lake, dome, pillow-form body, mixed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the geometries and processes an agent must inspect rather than treating every lava body as an advancing open flow." }, { "name": "Crust and interior condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Exposed melt, partial crust, continuous crust with unresolved interior, confirmed molten interior, substantially solidified or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a visible crust from being treated as evidence of a cold or load-bearing body." }, { "name": "Receiving environment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Contact with terrain, liquid water, ice, sediment, vegetation or built assets", "why_it_matters": "Determines which contact processes and neighbouring models must inform a decision." }, { "name": "Observation support", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked observations, samples and estimates with time, spatial coverage, method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes state judgements traceable and exposes gaps caused by crust, cover or inaccessible interiors." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and map a lava body while recording uncertain or concealed boundaries.", "Compare successive observations to detect advance, inflation, drainage, crust disruption or cooling.", "Estimate mobility and possible emplacement changes under explicit supply, terrain and material assumptions.", "Select remote observations or specialist sampling that resolve a specific uncertainty.", "Flag contact effects and affected locations for assessment by hazard and asset models.", "Evaluate whether evidence and external operating rules support a proposed approach, crossing, sampling or engineered intervention." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "usgs-volcanoes-lava", "title": "Lava flows - Volcano Hazards Program", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/lava-flows-destroy-everything-their-path", "what_it_supports": "Definition as erupted molten rock, flow types, hazards, and typical temperatures.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q39586", "title": "lava (Q39586)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39586", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier and aliases.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lava-identity-and-continuity", "name": "Lava identity and continuity", "description": "Establishes what counts as the lava under assessment and how its identity persists through branching, crust formation and cooling.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish the material from subsurface magma, eruptive fragments and unrelated melts before assessing its state.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-melt-identification", "name": "Surface melt identification", "description": "Tests whether the candidate material belongs to this lava model.", "findings": [ { "id": "lava-identification-basis", "name": "Lava identification basis", "description": "Record the evidence for geological melt provenance and surface emplacement, including unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or sample establishes that this material is surface-emplaced geological melt or its directly tracked cooling product?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lava-identification-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which vent, fissure or earlier lava body supplied it, and how was that connection established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lava-identification-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-boundaries-and-lineage", "name": "Body boundaries and lineage", "description": "Defines the tracked unit within connected, branching or overlapping lava.", "findings": [ { "id": "tracked-lava-unit", "name": "Tracked lava unit", "description": "Record whether the model instance represents a parcel, lobe, flow, lake or other bounded body and how it relates to adjacent units.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observable or operational boundary separates this body from its supply, neighbouring lobes and older lava?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tracked-lava-unit-q01" }, { "text": "When this body branches, merges or solidifies, which identity and parent-child links should be retained?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tracked-lava-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thermal-and-material-condition", "name": "Thermal and material condition", "description": "Captures the temperature and material properties that govern the body's capacity to flow and change state.", "rationale": "Lava appearance alone does not establish its interior temperature, phase proportions or resistance to deformation.", "layers": [ { "id": "thermal-and-phase-state", "name": "Thermal and phase state", "description": "Separates measured surface conditions from inferred interior conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "temperature-and-phase-evidence", "name": "Temperature and phase evidence", "description": "Record where temperatures and melt, crystal or gas fractions were measured or inferred.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperatures are supported for exposed melt, crust and interior, at what times and with what uncertainties?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "temperature-and-phase-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence constrains the proportions of melt, crystals and gas in the material being assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "temperature-and-phase-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-deformation", "name": "Composition and deformation", "description": "Relates sampled composition and material structure to observed or estimated flow resistance.", "findings": [ { "id": "rheological-assessment", "name": "Rheological assessment", "description": "Record a conditional description of deformation behaviour with its compositional and observational basis.", "questions": [ { "text": "How representative is the analysed sample of the moving interior rather than only the cooled surface?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rheological-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What viscosity or yield behaviour is supported, and under which temperature, crystal-content and deformation conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rheological-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-emplacement", "name": "Supply and emplacement", "description": "Tracks lava input, transport, accumulation and changes in occupied ground.", "rationale": "An advancing front, a filling pond and an inflating crusted lobe require different interpretations even when all receive lava.", "layers": [ { "id": "feeding-and-routing", "name": "Feeding and routing", "description": "Identifies how lava enters and moves through the tracked body.", "findings": [ { "id": "supply-path-and-rate", "name": "Supply path and rate", "description": "Record active or suspected feeding connections, transport paths and changes in input.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this body being replenished through an exposed channel, a concealed passage or another connection, and what supports that assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supply-path-and-rate-q01" }, { "text": "What input or discharge rate is supported over the relevant interval, and how much of the transport remains unobserved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supply-path-and-rate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "advance-and-accumulation", "name": "Advance and accumulation", "description": "Distinguishes lateral movement from thickening, inflation, ponding and drainage.", "findings": [ { "id": "emplacement-change", "name": "Emplacement change", "description": "Record changes in footprint, elevation and internal motion as separate observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have the front position, thickness and surface elevation changed between comparable observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "emplacement-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which terrain features, levees or obstructions currently constrain routing, and where is their continuity uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "emplacement-change-q02" }, { "text": "Which changes in supply or containment would require reassessing the expected area of emplacement?", "kind": "action", "id": "emplacement-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crust-and-solidification", "name": "Crust and solidification", "description": "Tracks the development of a solid exterior and the changing condition beneath it.", "rationale": "A stationary or crusted lava surface can conceal melt, ongoing transport or voids, so visible stillness cannot settle its state.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-interior-coupling", "name": "Surface-interior coupling", "description": "Assesses what the crust reveals and conceals about the underlying body.", "findings": [ { "id": "crust-integrity-and-concealed-state", "name": "Crust integrity and concealed state", "description": "Record crust continuity, openings and deformation together with evidence for underlying melt or cavities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the crust intact, fractured, overturning or opening, and how recently was each condition observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crust-integrity-and-concealed-state-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes solid support from underlying melt, a drained passage or an unresolved interior?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crust-integrity-and-concealed-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cooling-and-model-handoff", "name": "Cooling and model handoff", "description": "Defines how cooling is assessed and when a solidified product becomes the primary modelling subject.", "findings": [ { "id": "solidification-assessment", "name": "Solidification assessment", "description": "Record the evidence for progress toward solidification without equating loss of visible glow or motion with completion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations constrain remaining interior heat and melt rather than only surface cooling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "solidification-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence-based criterion permits a handoff to a volcanic-rock or deposit model while preserving lava provenance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "solidification-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-effects-and-action", "name": "Contact effects and action", "description": "Connects lava condition and environmental contact to specific observation and intervention decisions.", "rationale": "What may be done near or to lava depends on concealed state, receiving materials and the evidence supporting the proposed action.", "layers": [ { "id": "environmental-contact", "name": "Environmental contact", "description": "Records interfaces where lava transfers heat, loads surfaces or interacts with water and other materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-process-assessment", "name": "Contact process assessment", "description": "Identify observed and possible contact effects while separating lava-body observations from wider hazard predictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does lava contact liquid water, ice, wet sediment, combustible material or built assets?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contact-process-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which thermal, mechanical, gas-release or fragmentation effects are observed at those contacts, and which remain inferred?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-process-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-evidence", "name": "Decision evidence", "description": "Determines whether current knowledge supports a particular action involving the lava.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-specific-evidence-sufficiency", "name": "Action-specific evidence sufficiency", "description": "Tie each proposed action to current lava conditions, unresolved observations and applicable external operating requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed approach, crossing, sampling or intervention, which lava conditions must be established and which remain unknown?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-specific-evidence-sufficiency-q01" }, { "text": "Which remote observation or specialist measurement would most directly resolve the uncertainty controlling that decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-specific-evidence-sufficiency-q02" }, { "text": "What change in lava supply, crust condition or contact behaviour would invalidate the current action assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-specific-evidence-sufficiency-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "pāhoehoe", "ʻaʻā", "block lava", "pillow lava", "andesitic lava", "dacitic/rhyolitic lava", "komatiite (ultramafic lava)", "carbonatite lava" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of lava this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q39586", "note": "item lava" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of lava this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend lava to include fully solidified lava indefinitely, or should this model hand off to a rock or deposit entry after a defined transition?", "Should non-silicate lava and proposed cryolava share this entry, or do registry boundaries assign them to other material models?", "What identity rules should apply to lava lakes, connected tube-fed lobes and successive flows that merge or overlap?", "Which validated observation methods and uncertainty limits are appropriate for inferring interior melt, concealed transport and crust support in each emplacement setting?", "Which domain-specific sources and operating authorities should govern action criteria for terrestrial, submarine and extraterrestrial lava?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 12, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "chemical substance or material", "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 lava, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise lava, assess its physical state and behaviour, and determine which observations, access decisions or interventions are justified by available evidence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: primary magma, Niedermendig Lava, Tossol, Pele's tears, Lava delta, Limu o Pele.", "6 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 108 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 lava, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "primary magma", "Niedermendig Lava", "Tossol", "Pele's tears", "Lava delta", "Limu o Pele" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 108 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 lava from another, and a lava 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 lava, 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 lava, 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 lava 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 lava, 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 lava, 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 lava 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 lava 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 lava, 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 lava, 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 lava 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 lava from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a lava, 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 lava, 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 lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a lava is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a lava is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a lava is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a lava is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a lava is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a lava is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a lava 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 lava 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 lava between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a lava, 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 lava, 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 lava 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 lava, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a lava 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 lava, 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 lava, 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 lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a lava and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a lava is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a lava performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a lava.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a lava at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a lava there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a lava, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a lava, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What lava is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name lava unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of lava exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How lava behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of lava, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is lava incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How lava can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is lava classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover lava, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a lava 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 lava and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a lava, 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 lava, 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 lava 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 lava is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a lava, 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 lava, 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 lava is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }