{ "model": { "rank": 2221, "code": "thing-q41228", "model_id": "vr.tr.southern-hemisphere", "name": "Southern Hemisphere", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Earth's Southern Hemisphere, determine how places and spatial datasets relate to it, and judge when hemisphere-based interpretation or action is justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q41228/", "tier": 2, "score": 112, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 112, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q41228", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41228", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:42:56Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01208836, "turns": 1, "seconds": 221.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 130.6, "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: 01a07b70-ea08-7b43-905a-100845189556\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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(φ < 0), and in astronomy the corresponding half of the sky with south declination (δ < 0).", "scope_statement": "This model owns the geographic Southern Hemisphere as the half of Earth south of the equator, including its defining boundary, spatial membership rules and limits on hemisphere-based inference; Earth is the working interpretation of the otherwise undefined registry entry.", "in_scope": [ "Identity as a geographic hemisphere defined by Earth's equator and South Pole", "Treatment of the equator and membership of points, routes and areas", "Coordinate conventions and uncertainty affecting hemisphere classification", "Southern Hemisphere framing of seasonal and daylight questions", "Rules for filtering, comparing and summarising information by hemisphere" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The southern celestial hemisphere and astronomical sky-coordinate systems", "Magnetic hemispheres and the positions of magnetic poles", "The Global South as a political or socioeconomic grouping", "Detailed models of individual countries, oceans, ecosystems and settlements", "Local weather, climate dynamics and ecological seasons", "Other planets' hemispheres and Earth's internal geophysical structure" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its geographic membership is determined relative to Earth's equator, not by an object's position below the centre of a displayed map.", "For signed geographic latitude, locations with latitude below zero are southern; equatorial locations require an explicit boundary convention.", "It contains the geographic South Pole and excludes the geographic North Pole, irrespective of longitude convention.", "A country or region crossing the equator overlaps both hemispheres; a southern capital or centroid does not establish complete Southern Hemisphere membership.", "Membership does not imply membership in the Global South, proximity to a magnetic pole or location in the southern celestial hemisphere." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Reference body", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Earth; alternative interpretation requires explicit resolution", "why_it_matters": "The registry has no definition, so the geographic referent must be made explicit." }, { "name": "Defining geographic references", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Earth's equator and geographic South Pole", "why_it_matters": "These distinguish the hemisphere from political, magnetic and map-relative notions of south." }, { "name": "Geographic latitude", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees; southern interior satisfies -90 <= latitude < 0 under a signed convention", "why_it_matters": "Latitude provides the primary test for point membership." }, { "name": "Equator inclusion convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Excluded boundary, shared boundary, or explicitly assigned boundary", "why_it_matters": "Filtering and aggregation require a declared rule for exactly equatorial locations." }, { "name": "Spatial relationship to hemisphere", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Wholly within, partially overlapping, boundary-touching, outside, or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Extended features cannot always be classified with a single latitude." }, { "name": "Southern share of a feature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "0-1 fraction or percentage, with area, length, population or another denominator specified", "why_it_matters": "Different denominators answer different questions about trans-equatorial features." }, { "name": "Membership determination state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Determinate, boundary-sensitive, or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Coordinate precision and missing geometry may prevent a defensible classification." }, { "name": "Seasonal interpretation convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Astronomical, meteorological, locally defined, or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Hemisphere alone does not identify the applicable seasonal calendar or local conditions." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a georeferenced point as southern, equatorial or outside, with uncertainty recorded.", "Determine whether a route or area lies wholly or partly south of the equator.", "Filter or clip geographic datasets to a declared Southern Hemisphere boundary convention.", "Calculate hemisphere-level summaries with explicit coverage, denominators and treatment of crossing features.", "Check hemisphere-sensitive season and daylight interpretations against location, date and the relevant convention.", "Reject unsupported political, climatic or operational conclusions drawn from southern membership alone." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-southern-hemisphere", "title": "Southern Hemisphere", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere", "what_it_supports": "Conventional geographic definition, land/ocean contrast, population share, and everyday naming", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iers-tn36", "title": "IERS Conventions (2010), IERS Technical Note No. 36", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official definition of the terrestrial and celestial equatorial planes, poles, and latitude/declination that bound the hemisphere", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "iso-6709", "title": "ISO 6709: Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Sign convention that encodes the Southern Hemisphere as negative geographic latitude" }, { "id": "antarctic-treaty-1959", "title": "The Antarctic Treaty (1959)", "url": "https://www.ats.aq/e/antarctictreaty.html", "what_it_supports": "The principal legal regime covering the high-latitude sector of the terrestrial Southern Hemisphere", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "geographic-identity", "name": "Geographic identity", "description": "Establishes what Southern Hemisphere denotes and which references define it.", "rationale": "An undefined registry label needs a clear geographic interpretation before an agent can classify anything against it.", "layers": [ { "id": "terrestrial-referent", "name": "Terrestrial referent", "description": "Separates the Earth's geographic hemisphere from other uses of southern hemisphere.", "findings": [ { "id": "earth-geographic-meaning", "name": "Earth geographic meaning", "description": "Record whether the entry denotes Earth's geographic Southern Hemisphere and what supports that interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this entry explicitly mean the geographic Southern Hemisphere of Earth?", "kind": "definition", "id": "earth-geographic-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Which registry decision or authoritative geographic reference establishes that meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "earth-geographic-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "equator-and-pole", "name": "Equator and pole", "description": "Establishes the equator as the dividing boundary and the geographic South Pole as the southern endpoint.", "findings": [ { "id": "southern-half-boundary", "name": "Southern 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"latitude-evidence", "name": "Latitude evidence", "description": "Record latitude, coordinate reference and precision rather than inferring south from display position or an unexplained sign.", "questions": [ { "text": "What geographic latitude follows from the supplied coordinate reference system, axis order and hemisphere notation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "latitude-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could the location's stated uncertainty place it on either side of the equator?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "latitude-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "crossing-features", "name": "Crossing features", "description": "Handles countries, islands, routes and other geometries that may cross or touch the equator.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-based-membership", "name": "Extent-based membership", "description": "Record the relationship of the actual feature extent to the hemisphere and distinguish it from centroid or label-point classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the feature lie wholly south, cross the equator, only touch it or remain outside?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "extent-based-membership-q01" }, { "text": "If a southern proportion is reported, what geometry, measurement method and denominator define it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "extent-based-membership-q02" }, { "text": "Does the intended task require clipping the feature, retaining it as an overlap or applying a documented representative-point rule?", "kind": "action", "id": "extent-based-membership-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "season-and-daylight-context", "name": "Season and daylight context", "description": "Controls interpretations that depend on being south of the equator without treating the hemisphere as one climate zone.", "rationale": "Southern membership is relevant to seasonal orientation but cannot determine local weather, ecological seasons or daylight duration by itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-conventions", "name": "Seasonal conventions", "description": "Identifies which seasonal framework a hemisphere-sensitive statement uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "season-label-meaning", "name": "Season label meaning", "description": "Record the calendar and local applicability behind labels such as southern summer or winter.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the seasonal label follow astronomical events, meteorological months or a locally defined calendar?", "kind": "definition", "id": "season-label-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "What source supports applying that convention to the specific Southern Hemisphere location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "season-label-meaning-q02" }, { "text": "Is hemisphere membership sufficient for the requested calendar conversion, or is a local seasonal model needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "season-label-meaning-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "latitude-dependent-daylight", "name": "Latitude-dependent daylight", "description": "Distinguishes hemisphere-wide orientation from daylight conditions that vary with latitude and date.", "findings": [ { "id": "daylight-inference-limits", "name": "Daylight inference limits", "description": "Record the location and time evidence needed before making claims about daylight or polar day and night.", "questions": [ { "text": "What latitude and date are available for the requested daylight assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "daylight-inference-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Does the location require equatorial, mid-latitude or polar treatment in the linked daylight model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "daylight-inference-limits-q02" }, { "text": "Which daylight calculation or external model should resolve the question beyond hemisphere membership?", "kind": "action", "id": "daylight-inference-limits-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hemisphere-based-operations", "name": "Hemisphere-based operations", "description": "Governs spatial selection and interpretation of information presented for the Southern Hemisphere.", "rationale": "Agents need explicit rules to avoid double-counting crossing 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"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": [ "Geographic (terrestrial) Southern Hemisphere - Earth south of the geographic equator", "Celestial Southern Hemisphere - the sky south of the celestial equator", "Geomagnetic Southern Hemisphere - south of the magnetic dip equator", "Austral meteorological hemisphere - climate, seasons, 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the Magellanic Clouds instead of Polaris", "Ozone-hole and Southern Annular Mode monitoring over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean", "GNSS and satellite planning (sun-synchronous overpasses, Antarctic ground stations, SH ionosphere)", "Biosecurity and biogeography of Gondwanan lineages and SH invasive-species pathways" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Southern Hemisphere 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": "Geographic latitude", "typical_range": "0 to 90 south", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "Land fraction of the hemisphere's surface", "typical_range": "about 19-20", "unit": "percent" }, { "quantity": "Share of Earth's land area", "typical_range": "about 32", "unit": "percent" }, { "quantity": "Share of world population", "typical_range": "about 10-13", "unit": "percent" }, { "quantity": "Coriolis parameter f = 2Ω sin φ", "typical_range": "0 at the equator to about −1.458e-4 at the south pole", "unit": "s^−1" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Southern Hemisphere 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": [ "Software and media defaulting to northern-hemisphere seasons, map cues, and Coriolis sign (summer = June, anticlockwise cyclones)", "Opposite tropical-cyclone rotation and an austral season (roughly November-April) causing forecast and public-warning errors if NH rules are copied", "Clinical, agricultural, and retail seasonal guidance applied six months out of phase", "Star-chart, planetarium, and telescope-goto mismatch between geographic hemisphere and celestial declination", "Antarctic ozone depletion raising UV exposure over SH mid-latitudes in austral spring", "Large magnetic variation and dip over the Southern Ocean degrading magnetic compass use" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Southern Hemisphere 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": [ "Scientific English often says 'austral' where public English says 'Southern Hemisphere'", "Australia and New Zealand treat December-February as unmarked 'summer'; northern publications usually qualify it", "Spanish hemisferio sur and Portuguese hemisfério sul are ordinary geographic frames in much of South America", "'Down Under' names Australia and New Zealand only, not the hemisphere", "'Global South' includes most of Africa and Asia, which lie mainly in the Northern Hemisphere", "Equator-straddling states (Indonesia, Kenya, Brazil, Ecuador) are not nationally 'southern-hemisphere' in practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Southern Hemisphere 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 becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Northern Hemisphere", "difference": "The geographic equator (φ = 0) is the boundary; south latitude is Southern, north latitude is 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"evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Southern Hemisphere this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Earth's geographic Southern Hemisphere, and how should that interpretation relate to its XCT / XCT.QLT classification?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this entry to link to it instead of establishing another model?", "Should Vercy prescribe a shared equator boundary convention or require each use to declare its convention?", "Does the intended scope cover only Earth's surface, or must membership extend to positions above and below it through a specified spatial reference?", "Which authoritative references and neighbouring Vercy models should establish geographic definitions, coordinate handling and seasonal interpretation?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 112 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 Southern Hemisphere from another, and a Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What Southern Hemisphere is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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"How is Southern Hemisphere operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Southern Hemisphere and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Southern Hemisphere?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Southern Hemisphere?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Southern Hemisphere came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an 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do once a claim about a Southern Hemisphere 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 Southern Hemisphere is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere, 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 Southern Hemisphere is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }