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        "schema": "https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0",
        "id": "vr.tr.file-association",
        "code": "thing-q4071522",
        "url": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q4071522/",
        "name": "file association",
        "alternateNames": [],
        "kind": "thing",
        "status": "draft-generated",
        "version": "vr.draft.v3",
        "language": "en",
        "classifiers": {
            "family": "Thing Registry",
            "category": "Information and virtual systems",
            "entryKind": "discipline or field of knowledge",
            "plane": "INF",
            "domain": [
                "INF.KNW"
            ],
            "industry": [],
            "navPath": "",
            "tags": [],
            "facets": []
        },
        "whatItIs": "An informational thing registered under INF.KNW. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.",
        "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a file association, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
        "scope": {
            "in": [],
            "out": [],
            "boundaries": []
        },
        "distinguishingFeatures": [
            "Described in 5 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
        ],
        "structure": {
            "bundles": [
                {
                    "id": "identity-and-classification",
                    "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                    "description": "How an agent tells one file association from another, and a file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association from the things most often confused with it.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association between them.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association, how often and by whom.",
                            "findings": [
                                {
                                    "id": "observation-record",
                                    "name": "Observation record",
                                    "description": "How an observation of a file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association contains and in what form it is held.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association and the period it survives.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes access to a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association and how confident it is.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association is retired without being erased.",
                                    "questions": [
                                        {
                                            "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                            "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                            "kind": "action",
                                            "answer_data": [
                                                "permitted actions",
                                                "preconditions",
                                                "refusals",
                                                "escalation"
                                            ]
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
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            "requiresHuman": []
        },
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            "affectedParties": []
        },
        "owners": {
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            "masterSystems": []
        },
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            "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 file association, and on what evidence are they told apart?",
            "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a file association is known, and what must it refuse?",
            "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a file association is known, and what must it refuse?",
            "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a file association is known, and what must it refuse?"
        ],
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            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q4071522",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4071522",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge",
            "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 file association, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "An informational thing registered under INF.KNW. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Described in 5 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 file association, 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": [],
            "standing": "Described in 5 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one file association from another, and a file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a file association 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 file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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 file association is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a file association, 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 file association, 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 file association 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
            }
        }
    }
}