{ "model": { "rank": 2505, "code": "thing-q42278", "model_id": "vr.tr.magma", "name": "magma", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise magma, assess its physical and chemical state, and judge which observations, interpretations or interventions its evidence supports.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q42278/", "tier": 2, "score": 104, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "secondary magma", "sub-alkaline magma" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 104, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q42278", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42278", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:39:16Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0050898, "turns": 1, "seconds": 11.9, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 85.7, "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: 01a07b3b-2f9d-7ef0-bc43-f5d95d14e4c1\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns a bounded occurrence or parcel of subsurface rock melt together with its associated crystals and gas, including its composition, phase state, mobility and evolution at a stated place and time.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of a magma occurrence or parcel", "Composition of the melt and associated crystals and gas", "Temperature, pressure and phase proportions", "Rheological state, segregation and capacity for movement", "Cooling, crystallisation, mixing, volatile exsolution and decompression", "Evidence and uncertainty connecting observations to inferred magma state" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Lava flows and their surface emplacement after magma emerges", "Fully solidified igneous rocks and their subsequent alteration", "Volcanoes, conduits and reservoirs as geological structures", "Regional tectonic processes and mantle source systems", "Hydrothermal fluids and groundwater outside the magma", "Eruption hazard zoning, exposure and 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"unit_or_values": "Major components in wt%; trace components in ppm; analytical and normalisation basis stated", "why_it_matters": "Supports compositional identification and interpretation of phase behaviour." }, { "name": "Bulk magma composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Composition of melt, crystals and gas together, with included phases and calculation basis stated", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the whole assemblage from its liquid component." }, { "name": "Temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°C or K, with uncertainty, method and reference time", "why_it_matters": "Constrains phase state and interpretations of crystallisation and mobility." }, { "name": "Pressure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "MPa, with uncertainty and pressure type stated", "why_it_matters": "Constrains phase equilibria and volatile behaviour without treating depth as a direct measurement." }, { "name": "Phase proportions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Melt, crystal and gas fractions on an explicit mass or volume basis", "why_it_matters": "Describes the assemblage and supports assessment of its mechanical state." }, { "name": "Crystal assemblage and texture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Mineral identities, crystal size distribution, shape, zoning and connectivity", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish suspended crystals from a load-bearing framework and constrains process history." }, { "name": "Volatile inventory and partitioning", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Species-specific dissolved concentrations and exsolved gas amounts, with phase and units stated", "why_it_matters": "Separates volatile abundance from gas already present and available to escape." }, { "name": "Effective rheology", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Apparent viscosity in Pa·s and, where supported, yield stress in Pa; temperature and deformation conditions stated", "why_it_matters": "Supports conditional estimates of deformation and transport." }, { "name": "Melt and gas connectivity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Connected, isolated, mixed or unresolved for each phase at a stated scale", "why_it_matters": "Constrains whether liquid or gas can move independently of the crystal assemblage." }, { "name": "Process trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Evidence-supported cooling, heating, crystallising, remelting, mixing, decompressing or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates a snapshot from the direction of change relevant to future behaviour." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate occurrence as magma or retain an unresolved identification with explicit evidence gaps.", "Compare measured and inferred magma states while preserving their spatial, temporal and analytical bases.", "Assess plausible melt, crystal and gas movement under specified conditions.", "Evaluate conditional responses to cooling, decompression, mixing or volatile loss.", "Select observations or sample analyses that discriminate between competing state interpretations.", "Identify when emergence or complete solidification requires linking to a neighbouring material model." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "usgs-volcanoes-magma", "title": "Magma, Lava, Lava Flows, Lava Lakes, and Lava Tubes", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Official USGS distinction of magma as subsurface molten rock versus lava at the surface, and the melt-crystal-gas mixture.", "url_status": "dead" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "magma-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Magma identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which melt-bearing material is being modelled and where its identity begins and ends.", "rationale": "A magma parcel, a partly molten region and a magma reservoir are different modelling subjects.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-identification", "name": "Material identification", "description": "Tests whether the subject is subsurface rock melt with associated phases.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-rock-melt", "name": "Evidence of rock melt", "description": "Records the basis for identifying a rock-derived liquid rather than hot solid rock or aqueous fluid.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or inference establishes that rock melt is present?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-of-rock-melt-q01" }, { "text": "Could the same evidence instead represent hot solid rock or hydrothermal fluid?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-of-rock-melt-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "spatial-and-material-continuity", "name": "Spatial and material continuity", "description": "Defines the represented parcel or occurrence and its transitions to neighbouring subjects.", "findings": [ { "id": "represented-magma-unit", "name": "Represented magma unit", "description": "Makes the chosen extent and persistence of the magma subject explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record follow a material parcel or describe material occupying a fixed region at a stated time?", "kind": "definition", "id": "represented-magma-unit-q01" }, { "text": "Where does emergence, complete solidification or separation of a phase require a linked record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "represented-magma-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-phase-inventory", "name": "Composition and phase inventory", "description": "Separates the chemistry of the liquid from the composition and proportions of the whole magma.", "rationale": "Whole-rock, glass, crystal and gas observations cannot be substituted for one another without interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-basis", "name": "Chemical basis", "description": "Identifies which material each compositional observation represents.", "findings": [ { "id": "melt-versus-bulk-chemistry", "name": "Melt versus bulk chemistry", "description": "Records analytical basis and the relationship between sampled components and the modelled magma.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does each analysis describe liquid, quenched glass, individual crystals or the bulk assemblage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "melt-versus-bulk-chemistry-q01" }, { "text": "What sampling, alteration or reconstruction steps affect its interpretation as magma composition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "melt-versus-bulk-chemistry-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coexisting-phases", "name": "Coexisting phases", "description": "Describes crystals and gas alongside the liquid at the relevant state.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-abundances-and-identities", "name": "Phase abundances and identities", "description": "Captures phase amounts without confusing mass fractions, volume fractions or observations from different stages.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which minerals and gas species coexist with the melt, and what are their estimated proportions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phase-abundances-and-identities-q01" }, { "text": "On what fraction basis and at what pressure, temperature and time were these proportions determined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phase-abundances-and-identities-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thermal-and-volatile-state", "name": "Thermal and volatile state", "description": "Connects temperature and pressure with phase stability and volatile partitioning.", "rationale": "Composition alone does not establish whether magma is crystallising, gas-bearing or capable of further exsolution.", "layers": [ { "id": "pressure-temperature-constraints", "name": "Pressure and temperature constraints", "description": "Records the conditions represented by measurements and reconstructions.", "findings": [ { "id": "state-estimate-validity", "name": "State estimate validity", "description": "Distinguishes current conditions from conditions preserved by earlier mineral or melt records.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature and pressure ranges are supported, and by which measurements or calibrations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "state-estimate-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Do these estimates represent the current magma, an earlier equilibration stage or several unresolved stages?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "state-estimate-validity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "volatile-partition-and-release", "name": "Volatile partition and release", "description": "Separates dissolved volatiles, exsolved gas and gas already lost from the subject.", "findings": [ { "id": "dissolved-and-exsolved-inventory", "name": "Dissolved and exsolved inventory", "description": "Captures the evidence needed to evaluate volatile redistribution under changing conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What volatile amounts remain dissolved, occur as gas or have escaped, and which amounts are unresolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dissolved-and-exsolved-inventory-q01" }, { "text": "Under a specified pressure or temperature change, what evidence supports further exsolution or gas dissolution?", "kind": "action", "id": "dissolved-and-exsolved-inventory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "magma-mobility-and-segregation", "name": "Magma mobility and segregation", "description": "Describes deformation of the assemblage and movement of its constituent phases.", "rationale": "The presence of melt does not by itself establish that the whole magma can flow or that melt and gas can escape.", "layers": [ { "id": "assemblage-rheology", "name": "Assemblage rheology", "description": "Relates effective mechanical behaviour to liquid properties, crystals, bubbles and imposed deformation.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-flow-behaviour", "name": "Conditional flow behaviour", "description": "Records rheological estimates together with the conditions under which they apply.", "questions": [ { "text": "What effective viscosity or yield behaviour is supported at the stated temperature, phase fractions and deformation rate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-flow-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "Under the specified driving stress, can the assemblage deform or move, and what remains uncertain?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-flow-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "phase-connectivity-and-separation", "name": "Phase connectivity and separation", "description": "Examines independent migration of melt, crystals and gas.", "findings": [ { "id": "connected-transport-pathways", "name": "Connected transport pathways", "description": "Distinguishes movement of the bulk magma from segregation through or within it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are melt and gas connected at the relevant scale, and is there evidence for a supporting crystal framework?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "connected-transport-pathways-q01" }, { "text": "Which phases could separate under the proposed conditions, and what connectivity evidence supports that assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "connected-transport-pathways-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "magma-evolution-and-evidence", "name": "Magma evolution and evidence", "description": "Connects observations to competing histories and conditional future changes.", "rationale": "A magma state may preserve several episodes, so an agent must distinguish observed features from process interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "process-history", "name": "Process history", "description": "Organises evidence for changes in composition, phase state and material exchange.", "findings": [ { "id": "competing-evolution-paths", "name": "Competing evolution paths", "description": "Tests explanations involving crystallisation, recharge, mixing, assimilation or decompression.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations support the proposed process sequence, and which alternative sequences also fit?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competing-evolution-paths-q01" }, { "text": "What material or heat exchange across the magma boundary must each interpretation account for?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competing-evolution-paths-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-relevant-observations", "name": "Decision-relevant observations", "description": "Identifies evidence needed before a state interpretation can support a proposed action.", "findings": [ { "id": "resolve-magma-state-ambiguity", "name": "Resolve magma state ambiguity", "description": "Connects unresolved magma properties to targeted observations and conditional assessments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observation or analysis would best distinguish the competing interpretations of melt fraction, volatile state or mobility?", "kind": "action", "id": "resolve-magma-state-ambiguity-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is required before using this magma record to assess a proposed sampling or physical intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "resolve-magma-state-ambiguity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against 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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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Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "secondary magma", "sub-alkaline magma" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 104 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one magma from another, and a magma 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 magma, 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 magma, 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 magma 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 magma, 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 magma, 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 magma 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 magma 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 magma, 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 magma, 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 magma 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 magma from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a magma, 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 magma, 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 magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a magma is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a magma is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a magma is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a magma is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a magma is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a magma is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a magma 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 magma 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 magma between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a magma, 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 magma, 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 magma 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 magma, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a magma 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 magma, 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 magma, 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 magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a magma and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a magma is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a magma performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a magma.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a magma at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a magma there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a magma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a magma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What magma is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name magma unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of magma exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How magma behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of magma, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is magma incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How magma can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is magma classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover magma, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a magma 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 magma and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a magma, 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 magma, 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 magma 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 magma is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a magma, 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 magma, 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 magma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }