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non-skeletal anatomy can still be identified.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a deceased human or non-human animal body, or a surviving portion of one, classified or provisionally classified as mummified, including retained tissues, preservation history and directly associated treatments or coverings that affect its interpretation and care.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting or challenging classification as mummified remains", "Retained tissues, anatomical completeness and relationships between body parts", "Natural, intentional, mixed or unresolved preservation processes", "Wrapping, packing and substances applied directly to the remains", "Current deterioration, environmental dependencies and examination constraints", "Provenance, cultural relationships and authority governing treatment of the remains" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Living organisms and their current physiology", "Skeletonised remains without evidence of mummification", "Fossils, casts, replicas and fictional mummies", "Tombs, burial sites and archaeological assemblages as whole contexts", "Coffins, sarcophagi and detached grave goods as independently managed objects", "Full biographies, species models and general models of funerary traditions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Seek evidence of retained bodily soft tissue; bones alone or body-shaped coverings do not establish that the object is a mummy.", "Distinguish preserved biological tissue from a cast, reconstruction or fossil replacement using documented examination evidence.", "Record evidence of mummification separately from evidence of embalming: treatment history alone does not establish the present preservation state.", "Treat wrapping as supporting context rather than a defining test; determine whether it encloses remains and whether unwrapped remains meet the adopted classification.", "For frozen, waterlogged or otherwise preserved bodies, record the classification convention and supporting evidence rather than assuming every 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tissue attribution, preservation description and observation method", "why_it_matters": "Locates the evidence for mummification and the tissues vulnerable to examination or handling." }, { "name": "Preservation pathway", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "natural | intentional | mixed | unresolved; proposed mechanisms and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects current preservation to its history without inferring a process from appearance alone." }, { "name": "Applied materials", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "body region linked to wrapping, packing, coating or other treatment material; attribution and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes bodily tissue from additions and identifies interfaces that affect care." }, { "name": "Local temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°C with timestamp, sensor location and measurement interval", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison between observed condition changes and the mummy's immediate environment." }, { "name": "Local relative humidity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% RH with timestamp, sensor location and measurement interval", "why_it_matters": "Documents moisture exposure without presuming a universal safe range." }, { "name": "Deterioration activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no change detected | suspected active change | documented active change | unassessed; affected region and observation interval", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes historical damage from processes requiring a current response." }, { "name": "Treatment and access authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "remains linked to custodians, relevant communities, decision authorities and action-specific permissions or restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Separates physical feasibility from authority to examine, sample, display or move the remains." } ], "affordances": [ "Document visible tissues and coverings without disturbing them, subject to access and imaging restrictions.", "Compare observations over time to identify tissue loss, cracking, covering failure or other changes.", "Plan authorised imaging to investigate concealed anatomy and preparation while recording its interpretive limits.", "Develop a handling, support and environmental-care plan from the mummy's specific condition and treatment history.", "Evaluate sampling or unwrapping proposals against evidential value, irreversible loss and required authority.", "Prepare authorised transfer, return or reburial documentation that preserves anatomical associations and relevant provenance." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "aufderheide-2003", "title": "The Scientific Study of Mummies", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Specialist definition of anthropogenic versus natural soft-tissue preservation; methods, measurements, and taphonomic failure modes used in mummy studies." }, { "id": "ikram-dodson-1998", "title": "The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Egyptian embalming traditions, animal/votive mummies, and how wrapped human mummies are encountered in tombs and collections." }, { "id": "lynnerup-2007", "title": "Mummies", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Physical-anthropology overview of mummy kinds (desiccated, frozen, bog), imaging and sampling practice, and distinction from skeletonized remains." }, { "id": "dcms-2005", "title": "Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "UK museum standard for holding, displaying, researching and considering claims on human remains, including mummified bodies." }, { "id": "wikipedia-mummy", "title": "Mummy", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy", "what_it_supports": "Cross-cultural inventory of named mummy traditions, etymology from mūmiyā, and commonly cited exemplars (Chinchorro, Ötzi, Guanche, salt men).", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "mummified-body-identification", "name": "Mummified body identification", "description": "Establish what bodily remains are present and why the mummy classification applies.", "rationale": "A wrapped shape, a historical catalogue label and preserved tissue provide different kinds of evidence and must not be conflated.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-evidence", "name": "Classification evidence", "description": "Separate the adopted definition from observations supporting it.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-mummy-attribution", "name": "Basis for mummy attribution", "description": "Record the evidence and classification convention used to identify the remains as mummified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable or documented tissue preservation supports calling these remains a mummy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-mummy-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative classification, such as skeletonised remains, another preserved-body category or a replica, remains plausible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-mummy-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-identity", "name": "Anatomical identity", "description": "Describe the biological attribution and bodily extent without treating concealed regions as absent.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-composition-and-association", "name": "Body composition and association", "description": "Record which anatomical regions and individuals are represented, including uncertainty about assembled or detached parts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anatomical regions and tissue types are observed, concealed, missing or unresolved, and by what examination method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "body-composition-and-association-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the human or animal attribution and the association of all included parts with one individual?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "body-composition-and-association-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "preservation-and-preparation", "name": "Preservation and preparation", "description": "Represent how the body became preserved and how preparation or later treatment altered it.", "rationale": "Preservation processes and applied materials affect both interpretation and the consequences of intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "mummification-pathway", "name": "Mummification pathway", "description": "Keep observed preservation evidence distinct from inferred mechanisms and intentions.", "findings": [ { "id": "process-attribution", "name": "Process attribution", "description": "Record supported explanations for preservation and competing explanations that remain open.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports natural preservation, intentional preparation or a combination of the two?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "process-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed preservation mechanisms are demonstrated by examination, and which remain hypotheses?", "kind": "definition", "id": "process-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-material-interfaces", "name": "Body and material interfaces", "description": "Locate 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"Connect material condition with recorded exposure and the support needed for movement or examination.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-and-movement-constraints", "name": "Care and movement constraints", "description": "Capture case-specific environmental requirements and anatomical vulnerabilities relevant to handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "What environmental history and conservation assessment support the proposed conditions for these particular tissues and treatment materials?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "care-and-movement-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Which body regions or coverings require support, restricted contact or specialist assessment before movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-and-movement-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mortuary-context-and-intervention", "name": "Mortuary context and intervention", "description": "Connect the remains to their documented mortuary and custodial history and govern actions that affect them.", "rationale": "Examination and 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}, { "id": "examination-and-evidence-loss", "name": "Examination and evidence loss", "description": "Evaluate proposed investigations against the bodily material and contextual evidence they may change.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-justification", "name": "Intervention justification", "description": "Make the research question, permitted action, expected loss and stopping conditions explicit before intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What specific uncertainty would imaging, unwrapping or sampling address, and could existing records or a less intrusive examination resolve it?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-justification-q01" }, { "text": "What tissue, covering relationship or contextual evidence could the intervention irreversibly change, and what permissions and stopping conditions apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-justification-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 and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Artificially embalmed human mummies (e.g. pharaonic and later Egyptian practice)", "Naturally desiccated mummies from hot-arid settings (Predynastic Egypt, Tarim Basin, Atacama)", "Frozen or ice-patch mummies (e.g. Alpine glacier bodies, Andean high-altitude burials)", "Bog bodies preserved in acidic sphagnum peat (often named separately from 'mummy' in European practice)", "Animal and votive mummies (cats, ibises, crocodiles and other temple deposits)", "Chinchorro-type reconstructed mummies (skinned, modelled and re-assembled bodies of the Atacama coast)", "Salt-preserved mummies (e.g. Chehrabad salt-mine bodies)", "Religious self-mummified or 'incorrupt' bodies (e.g. Japanese sokushinbutsu, some Buddhist relic bodies)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of mummy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q186228", "note": "Item for mummy as a preserved corpse / archaeological object class, not the English kinship term 'mummy'." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)", "value_or_pattern": "Mummies", "note": "Authorized subject heading for the preserved-body sense in library and museum cataloguing." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "Mummies", "note": "Medical subject heading used for paleopathology and anatomical literature on preserved corpses." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of mummy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Egypt Law No. 117 of 1983 on the Protection of Antiquities (as amended) - Egyptian state / Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities: mummies are national antiquities; export and unauthorised excavation are prohibited.", "UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property - UNESCO: governs illicit traffic in archaeological human remains treated as cultural property.", "ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums - International Council of Museums: storage, display, research and return of human remains, including mummies.", "Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums (2005) - UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (now DCMS/successor heritage bodies): care, access and claim procedures for museum-held remains.", "Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 1990 - United States: inventory and repatriation duties where a mummified body is Native American or Native Hawaiian.", "CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) - CITES parties: applies when an animal mummy is a listed species or derivative.", "Vermillion Accord on Human Remains (1989) - World Archaeological Congress: professional ethic for respect, display and scientific study of dead bodies." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of mummy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Displayed as wrapped or partly unwrapped bodies in museums and site museums, often with coffins, cartonnage and grave goods.", "Studied non-destructively by radiography and CT to read wrapping layers, amulets, trauma and disease without unwrapping.", "Sampled, under permit, for radiocarbon, stable isotopes, aDNA, histology and parasites in paleopathology.", "Recovered archaeologically from tombs, desert cemeteries, bogs, glaciers and salt mines.", "In ancient Egypt, produced at industrial scale as votive animal mummies for temples.", "Used as taphonomic analogues in 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and modern cases later", "unit": "cal BCE/CE" }, { "quantity": "Museum storage relative humidity", "typical_range": "typically targeted around 40-55 to limit mold and further desiccation", "unit": "% RH" }, { "quantity": "Residual water in well-desiccated tissue", "typical_range": "far below living soft tissue (~70); often on the order of a few percent up to ~20 in drier specimens", "unit": "% mass" }, { "quantity": "Mass of an adult human mummy with wrappings", "typical_range": "highly variable, often roughly 5-50 depending on completeness, resins and linen", "unit": "kg" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of mummy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Rehydration, bacterial decay and mold if ambient humidity rises above the dry envelope the body equilibrated to.", "Insect attack on skin, hair and linen (dermestid beetles, clothes moths).", "Salt crystallization and spalling of tissue and wrappings.", "Brittle fracture of desiccated organs and limbs during handling or transport.", "Light, heat and pollutant damage to resins, painted cartonnage and textiles.", "Irreversible anatomical loss from historic unwrapping, autopsy and souvenir-taking.", "Illicit excavation and market circulation, with destroyed context.", "Ethical and legal conflict over display, sampling and custody; possible residual infectivity is often alleged but rarely demonstrated." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mummy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In Egypt and Egyptology, 'mummy' is the default term for embalmed, wrapped bodies and is tightly controlled as state antiquity.", "In northern Europe, peat-preserved corpses are usually called bog bodies rather than mummies.", "Andean Spanish and archaeological practice often speak of fardos and capacocha offerings; English still labels many as ice or bundle mummies.", "Japanese sokushinbutsu and some Buddhist relic bodies are framed as religious auto-mummification, not funerary embalming.", "Chinese museum and forensic usage may prefer 'dried corpse' (gan shi) over the loan-word 'mummy'.", "Guanche remains of the Canary Islands and the salt men of Iran are locally named traditions brought under the English mummy label in international literature.", "The English word itself comes via medieval pharmacy (mūmiyā, bitumen/'mummy' as a medicine), which is a 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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": [ "Husk", "mummified body part", "Communist mummies", "Guanche mummies", "Predynastic Egyptian mummies", "bog body", "Chinchorro mummies", "Saltmen", "Buddhist mummy", "Windeby bog body", "Moorleiche Borremose" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 mummy from another, and a mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 mummy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a mummy, 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 mummy, 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 mummy 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 } } } }