{ "model": { "rank": 2226, "code": "thing-q40540", "model_id": "vr.tr.zodiac", "name": "zodiac", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a zodiac system, assess whether its divisions and assignment rules are sufficiently specified, and determine which classifications or interpretations it can support.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q40540/", "tier": 2, "score": 112, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Rashi" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 112, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.zodiac", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q40540", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40540", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:50:01Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00568276, "turns": 1, "seconds": 269.2, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 138.1, "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: 01a07b75-d3d4-78d0-83f6-193bb640f3e2\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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equal 30-degree signs whose names derive from the classical ecliptic constellations.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a zodiac as a named, tradition-specific system of celestial or calendrical divisions and associated signs, including its reference frame, assignment rules, symbolic correspondences and limits of use; the intended meaning of the undefined registry entry remains provisional.", "in_scope": [ "The zodiac's identity, tradition, version and intended astronomical, calendrical or interpretive use", "Its signs or divisions, their ordering and their boundaries", "The celestial reference frame or calendrical cycle that determines membership", "Rules, required inputs and uncertainty for assigning a position or time to a division", "Tradition-specific symbolic correspondences and the evidence status of associated claims" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual natal charts, horoscopes and readings produced using a zodiac", "Astronomical objects and constellations as independently described entities", "Complete calendar systems beyond the rules needed for zodiac assignment", "People, their biographies and their psychological or medical assessments", "Astrology as a complete practice, including techniques that do not define the zodiac itself" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether the referent defines an ordered system of divisions; a single named sign is a component rather than the whole zodiac.", "Determine whether a celestial position or calendrical input can be assigned to a division by an identifiable rule; a collection of animal symbols alone is insufficient.", "Check whether similarly named signs and constellations have the same boundaries before treating them as equivalent.", "Determine whether the referent specifies reusable classification rules or is an individual chart or interpretation generated from those rules.", "Check the tradition, reference frame and cycle boundary before equating systems that share the name zodiac." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Zodiac family and tradition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attested family, tradition and variant; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which divisions, reference conventions and interpretive rules belong together." }, { "name": "Classification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Celestial position; calendrical position; combined; other documented basis; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what an agent must observe or receive before assigning a sign." }, { "name": "Division count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of divisions in the specified system", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to check completeness without assuming every zodiac has the same membership." }, { "name": "Reference convention", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Connection to a documented celestial origin, constellation boundary convention or calendar", "why_it_matters": "Sign names alone do not establish how membership is determined." }, { "name": "Cycle position", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Angular position in degrees or calendrical position in the system's documented units", "why_it_matters": "Provides the quantity used by the applicable assignment rule." }, { "name": "Boundary convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented interval endpoints, transition rule and treatment of exact boundaries; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents inconsistent assignments near sign or cycle transitions." }, { "name": "Assignment readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Rules and inputs complete; missing inputs; ambiguous convention; conflicting rules", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can assign a division or must request clarification." }, { "name": "Interpretive claim status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Traditional attribution; empirically assessed claim with recorded outcome; disputed attribution; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps a tradition's symbolic meanings distinct from evidence supporting predictions about people or events." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the zodiac tradition and variant from its divisions and reference rules.", "Check whether the division sequence and boundary rules form a coherent system.", "Assign a supplied celestial or calendrical position when the necessary conventions and inputs are available.", "Explain why two zodiac variants assign different signs to the same supplied event or position.", "Retrieve symbolic correspondences with their tradition and source attribution.", "Withhold an assignment or qualify an interpretation when required rules, inputs or evidence are missing." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "evans-1998", "title": "The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Defines the zodiac as the ecliptic belt of twelve 30° signs inherited from Babylonian and Hellenistic astronomy, and distinguishes tropical from sidereal reckoning." }, { "id": "neugebauer-1975", "title": "A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Documents the Babylonian origin of the equal twelve-sign zodiac and its transmission into Greek mathematical astronomy." }, { "id": "iau-constellations", "title": "The IAU constellation boundaries (Delporte 1930; IAU constellation pages)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Shows that modern astronomy uses official constellation boundaries on the celestial sphere, not the twelve equal astrological signs, and that the Sun also traverses Ophiuchus." }, { "id": "pingree-jyotisa", "title": "Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Describes the Indian sidereal rāśi zodiac and its relation to, and difference from, the tropical Hellenistic signs." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "zodiac-identity", "name": "Zodiac identity", "description": "Establishes which meaning and tradition of zodiac the agent is handling.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and the shared name does not establish a single classification mechanism.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-and-family", "name": "Referent and family", "description": "Separates the zodiac system from its components, representations and outputs.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-zodiac-referent", "name": "Intended zodiac referent", "description": "Record whether the referent is a celestial division system, calendrical sign cycle, celestial band or another explicitly documented usage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does zodiac denote in this entry's originating context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-zodiac-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Does the referent define a whole system, a celestial region, one sign or an individual chart?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-zodiac-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tradition-and-variant", "name": "Tradition and variant", "description": "Identifies the lineage and particular convention being represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-system-variant", "name": "Attested system variant", "description": "Record the named tradition, variant and sources that establish its rules without combining incompatible conventions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source establishes this variant's name, divisions and reference convention?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-system-variant-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences distinguish this variant from other systems carrying the same zodiac name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attested-system-variant-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "signs-and-divisions", "name": "Signs and divisions", "description": "Describes the zodiac's membership, sequence and partition rules.", "rationale": "Recognising a zodiac requires more than recognising familiar sign names or symbols.", "layers": [ { "id": "division-inventory", "name": "Division inventory", "description": "Captures the divisions recognised by the selected tradition.", "findings": [ { "id": "ordered-sign-membership", "name": "Ordered sign membership", "description": "Record division names, identifying symbols, aliases and sequence, preserving distinctions between signs and similarly named constellations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which divisions belong to this zodiac, and in what order do they recur?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ordered-sign-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Which names denote equivalent signs, and which denote distinct constellations or tradition-specific divisions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ordered-sign-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "division-extents", "name": "Division extents", "description": "Establishes how the classified domain is partitioned.", "findings": [ { "id": "sign-boundaries-and-coverage", "name": "Sign boundaries and coverage", "description": "Record each division's angular or temporal extent and whether the rules produce gaps, overlaps or unambiguous coverage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What angular or calendrical interval defines each division, and are the intervals equal or variable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sign-boundaries-and-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "How are exact endpoints, overlaps and any positions outside the divisions handled?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sign-boundaries-and-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "celestial-and-calendar-anchors", "name": "Celestial and calendar anchors", "description": "Captures the reference conventions that give sign boundaries operational meaning.", "rationale": "A sign sequence cannot support assignment until its origin, cycle and applicable reference system are known.", "layers": [ { "id": "celestial-reference", "name": "Celestial reference", "description": "Specifies the coordinate and origin conventions for position-based variants.", "findings": [ { "id": "angular-origin-and-frame", "name": "Angular origin and frame", "description": "For celestial variants, record the coordinate frame, zero point and any epoch-dependent correction or adopted boundary authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which coordinate system and origin determine sign position, and does the convention require an epoch or offset such as an ayanamsa?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "angular-origin-and-frame-q01" }, { "text": "Which source specifies the adopted celestial reference or constellation boundaries?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "angular-origin-and-frame-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendar-reference", "name": "Calendar reference", "description": "Specifies the temporal anchor for calendar-based variants.", "findings": [ { "id": "cycle-start-and-rollover", "name": "Cycle start and rollover", "description": "For calendrical variants, record the underlying calendar, cycle anchor, assignment period and transition convention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which calendar and anchor identify the current cycle position, and what event starts the next sign period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cycle-start-and-rollover-q01" }, { "text": "How do time zone, intercalation and competing year-start conventions affect assignments near a transition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cycle-start-and-rollover-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sign-assignment", "name": "Sign assignment", "description": "Determines when and how an agent can classify supplied inputs using the zodiac.", "rationale": "Operational use depends on sufficient inputs and explicit rules, particularly near transitions.", "layers": [ { "id": "assignment-inputs", "name": "Assignment inputs", "description": "Identifies the subject of classification and required observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "required-position-or-time", "name": "Required position or time", "description": "Record whether assignment concerns a celestial body's position, a calendrical period or another tradition-defined input.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is being assigned a sign, and which position, date, time or location inputs does that assignment require?", "kind": "definition", "id": "required-position-or-time-q01" }, { "text": "What input precision is needed to distinguish adjacent signs under the selected rules?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "required-position-or-time-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-decision", "name": "Assignment decision", "description": "Makes the resulting classification reproducible and uncertainty visible.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproducible-sign-result", "name": "Reproducible sign result", "description": "Record the applied convention and whether the inputs yield one sign, multiple possible signs or no supported assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented procedure converts the supplied input into a sign, and what reference examples can check it?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproducible-sign-result-q01" }, { "text": "When uncertainty crosses a sign boundary, should the agent return alternatives or request a more precise input?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproducible-sign-result-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "symbolism-and-interpretation", "name": "Symbolism and interpretation", "description": "Separates sign-associated meanings from classification rules and assessed predictive claims.", "rationale": "Agents must preserve cultural meaning without treating a sign assignment as evidence for an attributed personal trait or outcome.", "layers": [ { "id": "traditional-correspondences", "name": "Traditional correspondences", "description": "Captures meanings and relationships attributed within a specified tradition.", "findings": [ { "id": "sign-symbolic-associations", "name": "Sign symbolic associations", "description": "Record attested associations such as animals, elements, modalities or rulerships only where the selected variant uses them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which symbolic associations belong to each sign in this particular tradition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sign-symbolic-associations-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources support those associations, and where do sources or schools disagree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sign-symbolic-associations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretive-use-limits", "name": "Interpretive use limits", "description": "Establishes what may follow from an assignment and what requires separate justification.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-versus-supported-inference", "name": "Attribution versus supported inference", "description": "Record whether an interpretation is a traditional attribution, a claim evaluated against evidence or a use beyond what the model establishes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence, if any, supports each proposed predictive claim beyond its presence in the tradition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-versus-supported-inference-q01" }, { "text": "Which outputs can the agent provide as classification or attributed symbolism, and which proposed decisions require independent evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "attribution-versus-supported-inference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "Tropical zodiac (Western/Hellenistic: twelve 30° signs measured from the vernal equinox)", "Sidereal zodiac (Indian/Jyotisha and some Western sidereal schools: twelve 30° signs measured from a fixed stellar fiducial)", "Constellational/astronomical ecliptic belt (IAU constellation boundaries along the ecliptic, including a thirteenth, Ophiuchus)", "Chinese zodiac (shengxiao: twelve earthly-branch animals on a twelve-year cycle, not an ecliptic-sign belt)", "Egyptian decan tradition (thirty-six 10° star-clock segments later absorbed into Greco-Egyptian astrology)", "Babylonian zodiac (MUL.APIN to late-Babylonian equal and unequal constellation lists that supplied the twelve-sign scheme)", "Modern astronomical 'zodiacal' usage (zodiacal light, zodiacal dust, and the ecliptic coordinate belt, without astrological signs)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of zodiac 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": "Q7980 (zodiac); Q142101 (astrological sign); Q8928 (ecliptic)", "note": "Q7980 is the usual item for the twelve-sign belt; do not conflate with Q12004085 (Chinese zodiac) or individual sign items." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Zodiac; Zodiacal light; Astrology; Constellations", "note": "LCSH splits the astronomical belt, the optical phenomenon, and the astrological system." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+2648-U+2653 (Aries-Pisces); U+26CE (Ophiuchus)", "note": "Twelve classical sign glyphs plus a later Ophiuchus symbol; these encode signs, not the belt as a whole." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "International Astronomical Union: official constellation names and Delporte (1930) equatorial boundaries used for the astronomical ecliptic belt, not for astrological signs.", "No ISO, IEC, or statutory standard defines astrological zodiac signs; consumer horoscope products are advertising/editorial content, not a metrological standard.", "In several jurisdictions consumer-protection and advertising rules (for example national unfair-commercial-practice laws) constrain paid fortune-telling claims; they do not standardise the zodiac itself." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Celestial-coordinate teaching: the ecliptic belt is the reference for solar, lunar, and planetary longitude in historical and some modern almanacs.", "Western natal and electional astrology: planets and house cusps are placed in tropical signs for horoscopes, software, and print columns.", "Indian calendrics and muhurta: sidereal rāśi and nakṣatra longitudes govern festival dates and ritual timing in pañcāṅga almanacs.", "Cultural naming: birth-year animals in East Asia (Chinese zodiac) used in personal identity, New Year ritual, and commercial branding.", "Planetarium and education media: explaining why astrological signs no longer match the constellations behind the Sun (precession).", "Astronomy of the solar system: 'zodiacal light' and zodiacal dust as observational phenomena concentrated near the ecliptic." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Sign width in the equal-sign zodiac", "typical_range": "exactly 30 (by definition of the twelve-fold equal division)", "unit": "degree of ecliptic longitude" }, { "quantity": "Belt half-width (ecliptic latitude of the classical zodiacal band)", "typical_range": "about 8 to 9 either side of the ecliptic (wider if all planetary latitudes are included)", "unit": "degree of ecliptic latitude" }, { "quantity": "Ayanāṃśa (tropical-sidereal offset due to precession)", "typical_range": "about 20 to 25 in the early 21st century, depending on the chosen fiducial (e.g. Lahiri)", "unit": "degree of longitude" }, { "quantity": "Precession of the equinoxes (rate that moves tropical signs relative to the stars)", "typical_range": "about 50.3 per year; one full circuit in roughly 25 800 years", "unit": "arcsecond per year" }, { "quantity": "Sun's time in IAU constellations (unequal)", "typical_range": "about 7 days (Scorpius) to about 45 days (Virgo); also about 18 days in Ophiuchus", "unit": "day" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Category error: treating twelve equal signs as if they were the IAU constellations (they are not; signs are equal 30° sectors, constellations have irregular boundaries and include Ophiuchus).", "Epoch error: using a tropical chart as if it named the star field behind the Sun, or a sidereal chart as if it used the equinox as zero, without stating the ayanāṃśa.", "Fiducial disagreement: different sidereal schools (Lahiri, Raman, Fagan-Bradley, etc.) disagree on zero-point by up to a degree or more, moving sign cusps.", "Medical or financial harm when horoscopic claims are used in place of evidence-based advice (a use-hazard of the practice, not a physical failure of the belt).", "Encoding confusion: Unicode Ophiuchus (U+26CE) and '13th sign' media stories are mistaken for a change to the tropical twelve-sign system." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Western Europe and the Americas: tropical zodiac from the vernal equinox is the default in popular astrology.", "India and the Hindu diaspora: sidereal rāśi zodiac with nakṣatras is standard in jyotiṣa and many regional calendars.", "East Asia: 'zodiac' in ordinary speech usually means the twelve-animal year cycle (and related hour/month cycles), not ecliptic signs; Vietnam replaces the rabbit with a cat, and other local substitutions occur.", "Islamic astronomical handbooks historically used tropical longitudes for timekeeping while folk astrology mixed Hellenistic signs with lunar mansions (manāzil).", "Tibetan and Mongolian practice combines Indian-style signs with a twelve-animal, five-element cycle." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of zodiac this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it 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Test: a planet can be 'in Leo' (sign) while the question 'what is the zodiac?' names the twelve-fold band." }, { "name": "Chinese earthly branches / shengxiao", "difference": "Named by year (and sometimes hour/month) in a sixty-year stem-branch cycle, not by the Sun's ecliptic longitude on a given date; a Gregorian birth date maps to an animal year, not to a 30° star-longitude sign." }, { "name": "lunar mansions (nakṣatra, manāzil, xiu)", "difference": "Lunar mansions divide the ecliptic into 27 or 28 star-linked sectors for the Moon's motion; the zodiac divides it into twelve. 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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 zodiac, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a zodiac system, assess whether its divisions and assignment rules are sufficiently specified, and determine which classifications or interpretations it can support.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Rashi.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 112 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 zodiac, 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" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "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": [ "Rashi" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 112 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 zodiac from another, and a zodiac 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac 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 zodiac between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a zodiac 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac 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 zodiac contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What zodiac studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does zodiac take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does zodiac establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where zodiac is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark zodiac as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place zodiac, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a zodiac 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 zodiac and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 zodiac is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a zodiac, 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 zodiac, 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 zodiac 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 } } } }