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poster sense of vr.tr.poster in PHY / PHY.OBJ: a substantially flat graphic object intended for display on a surface or support, presenting visual content for notice, information, persuasion or decoration, while distinguishing its design, edition and individual copies.", "in_scope": [ "Physical poster copies and their relationship to a design, edition or print run", "Displayed text, imagery, message hierarchy and intended audience", "Substrate, dimensions, printing or marking processes and surface treatments", "Mounting, placement, viewing conditions and display duration", "Physical condition, handling, reuse, storage and retirement" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Digital-only posters and electronic display hardware", "Underlying artworks, photographs or texts as independently managed creative works", "Advertising campaigns, events or causes promoted by the poster", "Billboard structures, frames and other reusable display infrastructure", "Flyers, brochures and publications principally intended 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text and action details under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether viewers can use the poster from its intended position without assuming a universal legibility threshold." }, { "name": "Display attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Pasted; taped; pinned; clamped; framed; suspended; freestanding support; other; unattached", "why_it_matters": "Determines installation, removal and damage risks for both poster and supporting surface." }, { "name": "Physical condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed tears, losses, folds, curling, fading, staining, delamination, adhesive residues and other changes, with location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Separates cosmetic changes from loss of information or inability to remain safely displayed." }, { "name": "Message currency", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current; future-dated; expired; superseded; disputed; undetermined; not time-dependent", "why_it_matters": "A materially intact poster may still need replacement because its dates, directions or other information are obsolete." }, { "name": "Display and reproduction permissions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to permission records, licences, rights holders or site authorisations, including unknown status", "why_it_matters": "Supports separate decisions about exhibiting a copy, reproducing its design and placing it at a particular site." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and catalogue a poster copy while linking it to the appropriate design and edition.", "Extract and check displayed dates, locations, contact details and other action information.", "Evaluate message visibility and readability at a proposed display position.", "Select a mounting or removal method using the observed substrate, condition and site constraints.", "Prepare a reproduction request with dimensions, production requirements and permission evidence.", "Choose continued display, replacement, storage or retirement based on message currency and material condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "poster-identity-and-editions", "name": "Poster identity and editions", "description": "Establishes what qualifies as this poster and how its physical copies relate to graphic versions.", "rationale": "Poster designs recur across sizes, reprints and media, so visual similarity alone cannot establish copy or edition identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-poster-boundary", "name": "Physical poster boundary", "description": "Locates the object within the physical display sense of poster.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-display-role", "name": "Intended display role", "description": "Record evidence that the graphic object is intended for display, including mixed uses and ambiguous neighbouring forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this object as a poster intended for display?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-display-role-q01" }, { "text": "Does this example also function as a handbill, banner, sign or billboard sheet, and where should its model boundary fall?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-display-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "design-edition-copy", "name": "Design, edition and copy", "description": "Separates reusable graphic content from production variants and individual objects.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-and-copy-evidence", "name": "Version and copy evidence", "description": "Record identifying inscriptions, credits, production records and observable differences without assuming undocumented edition details.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which marks or records identify the designer, publisher, printer, date or edition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "version-and-copy-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences indicate a changed design or edition, and which are variations or damage affecting only this copy?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "version-and-copy-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "message-and-viewing", "name": "Message and viewing", "description": "Connects poster content and composition to what viewers can perceive and use.", "rationale": "A poster depends on the relationship between its graphic hierarchy, audience and viewing situation.", "layers": [ { "id": "communication-intent", "name": "Communication intent", "description": "Identifies the poster's purpose, audience and essential information.", "findings": [ { "id": "message-and-response", "name": "Message and response", "description": "Record the principal message or decorative intent and any requested viewer response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What should a viewer notice, understand or do, and which text or imagery carries that intent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "message-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which audience, languages and contextual knowledge does the poster assume?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "message-and-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-legibility", "name": "Situated legibility", "description": "Evaluates graphic content at the actual scale, distance and lighting of display.", "findings": [ { "id": "visible-and-usable-content", "name": "Visible and usable content", "description": "Record whether key visual elements remain readable or recognisable under observed display conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what distances and lighting conditions can viewers distinguish the headline, supporting text and essential details?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "visible-and-usable-content-q01" }, { "text": "What changes to size, placement, contrast or content are needed if essential information or a present QR code cannot be used?", "kind": "action", "id": "visible-and-usable-content-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "carrier-and-production", "name": "Carrier and production", "description": "Describes the material sheet or panel and how its graphic surface was made.", "rationale": "Poster production choices determine appearance, reproducibility and compatibility with display and handling methods.", "layers": [ { "id": "format-and-material", "name": "Format and material", "description": "Records the finished geometry and construction of the graphic carrier.", "findings": [ { "id": "finished-poster-construction", "name": "Finished poster construction", "description": "Capture dimensions, substrate, backing and coatings, including joined sheets or unusual outlines.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the finished dimensions, orientation and number of component sheets or panels?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "finished-poster-construction-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence identifies the substrate, coatings and backing, and which materials remain unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "finished-poster-construction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "graphic-production", "name": "Graphic production", "description": "Connects the visible image to its production process and reproduction requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "process-and-reproduction-fidelity", "name": "Process and reproduction fidelity", "description": "Record how the graphic surface was produced and what must be preserved in an authorised reproduction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed features or production records support the identified printing or marking process?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "process-and-reproduction-fidelity-q01" }, { "text": "Which dimensions, colours, margins, image details and finishing features must a reproduction preserve?", "kind": "action", "id": "process-and-reproduction-fidelity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "display-and-permissions", "name": "Display and permissions", "description": "Connects placement, attachment and exposure to the permissions relevant to a proposed use.", "rationale": "A poster's usability depends on where and how it is mounted, while ownership of a copy does not itself document every permission.", "layers": [ { "id": "placement-and-attachment", "name": "Placement and attachment", "description": "Records the relationship between the poster, its support and its viewing environment.", "findings": [ { "id": "mounting-and-exposure", "name": "Mounting and exposure", "description": "Assess support compatibility, exposed edges, obstruction and environmental exposure for the proposed display.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the poster attached, and what evidence shows that the attachment suits its material, size and condition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mounting-and-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "What placement or mounting changes address glare, occlusion, moisture, wind or detachment in this location?", "kind": "action", "id": "mounting-and-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorised-poster-use", "name": "Authorised poster use", "description": "Distinguishes permission to place a poster from permission to reproduce or modify its content.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-permission-evidence", "name": "Use-specific permission evidence", "description": "Link the proposed action to available permission records and identify unresolved conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What records support permission to display this poster at the proposed site and for the proposed duration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-specific-permission-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What permission evidence is needed before reproducing, resizing or modifying this poster's text and imagery?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-permission-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-display-life", "name": "Condition and display life", "description": "Tracks material changes and message currency through display, removal and subsequent care.", "rationale": "Posters can lose their communication value through either physical deterioration or outdated content, and removal can itself cause damage.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-currency", "name": "Damage and currency", "description": "Assesses whether the poster remains physically usable and contextually appropriate.", "findings": [ { "id": "continued-display-assessment", "name": "Continued display assessment", "description": "Record deterioration and obsolete information separately when judging continued display.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are tears, losses, fading, stains or curling, and how much do they impair content or attachment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continued-display-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Do event dates, instructions, destinations or linked resources require the poster to be corrected, replaced or removed?", "kind": "action", "id": "continued-display-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "removal-and-retention", "name": "Removal and retention", "description": "Determines appropriate treatment after display, including retention of historically meaningful copies.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-use-and-care", "name": "Next use and care", "description": "Choose removal, handling and retention actions using material evidence, attachment history and the value assigned to the copy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What removal and handling 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"Presenting research at conferences", "Decorating interiors or displaying collectible artwork" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of poster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Sheet dimensions", "typical_range": "A3 (297 × 420) through A0 (841 × 1189) are common standardized examples; other formats are widespread", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of poster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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"evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of poster this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Flyer", "difference": "A flyer is primarily intended for distribution to individual readers; a poster is primarily intended for display." }, { "name": "Billboard", "difference": "A billboard is a large advertising display structure or surface; a poster can be the printed material mounted on it." }, { "name": "Sign", "difference": "A sign is a broader category of message-bearing display; a poster is generally a sheet or comparable flat display within that broader category." }, { "name": "Art print", "difference": "An art print is defined by its relationship to an artwork and its production; a poster is defined 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "political poster", "travel poster", "circus poster", "propaganda poster", "anschlag", "big-character poster", "bookster", "exhibition poster", "double-sided poster", "stick poster", "official announcement in the Netherlands in World War II", "war poster" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 78 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 46 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 poster from another, and a poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster 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 poster is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster 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 poster between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a poster 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 poster, 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 poster, 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 poster is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What poster is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does poster perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise poster, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How poster is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does poster have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does poster need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about poster is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about poster hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern poster, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a poster 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 poster and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster 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 poster is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a poster, 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 poster, 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 poster is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }