{ "model": { "rank": 4404, "code": "thing-q43471", "model_id": "vr.tr.arm", "name": "arm", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a biological arm, describe its anatomical extent and functional state, and determine which observations or assistance are appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q43471/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "left upper arm", "right upper arm", "bear arm", "left arm", "right arm", "human arm (excluding hand)" ], "aliasCount": 6, "merged": 6, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.arm-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q43471", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43471", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:08:30Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087c8-7a36-73f1-858f-7a1e2adefecc\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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body part in PHY.LIV, provisionally using the human anatomical sense of the upper arm between shoulder and elbow while explicitly recording whether a source instead means the whole upper limb.", "in_scope": [ "Anatomical extent, laterality and attachment to an individual", "Upper-arm tissues and their relationships to shoulder and elbow", "Observed movement, strength, sensation and tissue condition", "Developmental variation, acquired changes and residual anatomy", "Arm-specific support, protection and activity constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The whole person or organism, including species-level taxonomy", "Detailed forearm, wrist and hand anatomy when arm means upper arm", "Independent models of shoulder and elbow joints", "Diseases, injuries and treatment protocols as standalone concepts", "Prosthetic arms, robotic manipulators, weapons and organisational arms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "In the strict human anatomical sense, the arm lies between the shoulder and elbow; the forearm lies between the elbow and wrist.", "The humerus identifies the principal skeletal segment of the upper arm, whereas the radius and ulna identify the forearm.", "An arm is a part of an individual organism, not an organism or taxon in its own right.", "The biological structure is distinguished from an attached prosthesis or external support, even when they contribute jointly to an activity.", "A record using arm for the entire upper limb must declare that broader extent before its measurements can be compared with upper-arm records." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Anatomical sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "upper arm; whole upper limb; other biological usage; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which structures and observations the record includes." }, { "name": "Individual and laterality", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to individual organism plus left, right, bilateral aggregate or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents observations 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"why_it_matters": "Makes strength observations interpretable and avoids equating unlike assessments." }, { "name": "Local symptoms and tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "localised pain, altered sensation, swelling, skin changes or wounds, with onset and observation source", "why_it_matters": "Connects reported or observed changes to the relevant arm region without asserting a diagnosis." }, { "name": "Activity restrictions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to restricted activity, issuing person or care instruction, applicable side and review date", "why_it_matters": "Constrains assistance according to documented instructions and current circumstances." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and label the arm and its boundaries on an individual or anatomical representation.", "Record repeatable dimensions and movement observations using declared landmarks and methods.", "Compare observations over time or between sides while accounting for anatomical and measurement differences.", "Describe how the arm contributes to reaching, lifting and positioning the hand.", "Match documented needs to support or protection requirements and flag missing fitting information.", "Communicate local changes and documented restrictions to an appropriate human decision-maker." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "anatomical-identity", "name": "Anatomical identity", "description": "Establishes which biological structure the word arm denotes in this record.", "rationale": "Arm commonly denotes different anatomical extents, and silently mixing them invalidates subsequent observations.", "layers": [ { "id": "sense-and-boundaries", "name": "Sense and boundaries", "description": "Declares the intended meaning and physical limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-arm-extent", "name": "Declared arm extent", "description": "The draft requires an explicit choice between upper arm and whole upper limb before attaching anatomical observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry source mean the shoulder-to-elbow segment or the entire upper limb?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-arm-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Which proximal and distal landmarks delimit the structure in this record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-arm-extent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-and-side", "name": "Individual and side", "description": "Anchors the arm to an organism and a specific side.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-part-reference", "name": "Body-part reference", "description": "Identification distinguishes a particular arm from a generic anatomical description or a bilateral summary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a particular individual's arm, a reference anatomy or a population-level description?", "kind": "definition", "id": "body-part-reference-q01" }, { "text": "Which individual and side does the observation concern, and how was that association established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "body-part-reference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissues-and-continuity", "name": "Tissues and continuity", "description": "Describes the arm's skeletal, muscular, surface and connecting structures.", "rationale": "An arm must remain recognisable when its anatomy differs from a typical illustration or changes after injury or surgery.", "layers": [ { "id": "skeletal-and-muscular-segment", "name": "Skeletal and muscular segment", "description": "Records the humeral segment and the tissues that act on or cross it.", "findings": [ { "id": "present-structures", "name": "Present structures", "description": "The model asks which bones and muscle groups are present and how developmental or acquired changes affect the segment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which humeral and muscular structures are documented as present, altered or absent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "present-structures-q01" }, { "text": "What examination, image or operative record supports the description of altered anatomy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "present-structures-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-and-traversing-structures", "name": "Surface and traversing structures", "description": "Locates skin and soft-tissue observations and relates the arm to nerves and vessels passing through it.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-tissue-and-pathway-relations", "name": "Local tissue and pathway relations", "description": "Local findings are positioned within the arm while effects elsewhere in the limb remain explicitly linked observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where on the arm are wounds, swelling, scars or sensory changes located relative to named landmarks?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-tissue-and-pathway-relations-q01" }, { "text": "Does a nerve or vessel observation concern the upper arm itself, a traversing structure or a downstream effect in the forearm or hand?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-tissue-and-pathway-relations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-task-contribution", "name": "Movement and task contribution", "description": "Describes arm movement and force in relation to adjacent joints and whole-limb activities.", "rationale": "Upper-arm function depends on shoulder and elbow motion, and successful hand activity cannot be attributed to the arm alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "joint-mediated-movement", "name": "Joint-mediated movement", "description": "Records the joint, movement and conditions behind a mobility observation.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-motion-record", "name": "Interpretable motion record", "description": "Movement records identify shoulder or elbow action and distinguish active movement from externally assisted movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shoulder or elbow movement was measured, through what angle and in what body position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-motion-record-q01" }, { "text": "Was movement active, passive or assisted, and what pain or compensation accompanied it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-motion-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "force-and-coordinated-use", "name": "Force and coordinated use", "description": "Connects arm force and endurance to a specified activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-capacity", "name": "Task-specific capacity", "description": "Capacity is described for a named movement or task with its load, duration and contribution from other body parts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What force, load or endurance was observed, using which movement, posture and assessment method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-specific-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "How much of the observed task depends on the forearm, hand, trunk, opposite limb or an assistive device?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "task-specific-capacity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-supported-use", "name": "Condition and supported use", "description": "Tracks local changes and the information needed to support or protect the arm.", "rationale": "An agent needs dated observations and specific restrictions to decide how to assist without turning an anatomical description into an unsupported care plan.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-state-and-change", "name": "Local state and change", "description": "Separates baseline anatomy, current symptoms and observed changes over time.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-arm-condition", "name": "Dated arm condition", "description": "Condition records distinguish self-report from observation and retain location, onset and comparison conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which arm symptoms or visible changes are reported or observed, where are they located and when did they begin?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-arm-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Are comparisons with an earlier observation or the opposite arm valid given differences in anatomy, posture and method?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-arm-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-restrictions", "name": "Support and restrictions", "description": "Links arm assistance to documented needs, fit and activity limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-arm-assistance", "name": "Permitted arm assistance", "description": "Support choices require the intended activity, anatomical extent, fit information and any applicable care instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What support, protection or positioning assistance is requested, and which arm dimensions and contact areas govern its fit?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-arm-assistance-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented limits on lifting, movement or loading apply to this arm, who issued them and when should they be reviewed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-arm-assistance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers 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] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Left arm", "Right arm" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of arm this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica", "value_or_pattern": "brachium", "note": "Latin anatomical term for the arm in the shoulder-to-elbow sense." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of arm this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Terminologia Anatomica, maintained by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists through its anatomical terminology programme, standardizes anatomical naming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of arm this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Positions the forearm and hand through movement at the shoulder and elbow.", "Transmits forces during lifting, pushing and pulling.", "Provides anatomical landmarks for examination, imaging and surgery.", "Provides sites for blood-pressure cuff placement and selected intramuscular injections." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of arm 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": "Mid-upper-arm circumference", "typical_range": "Varies with age, body composition and population; no single reference range applies.", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of arm 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 verify.", "evidence": [ "Humeral fractures can damage nearby nerves and blood vessels.", "Muscle or tendon injuries can impair 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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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a arm, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify a biological arm, describe its anatomical extent and functional state, and determine which observations or assistance are appropriate.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: left upper arm, right upper arm, bear arm, left arm, right arm, human arm (excluding hand).", "6 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a arm, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. 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": [ "left upper arm", "right upper arm", "bear arm", "left arm", "right arm", "human arm (excluding hand)" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 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 arm from another, and a arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a arm 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 arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 arm is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a arm, 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 arm, 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 arm 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 } } } }