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Tibetan, Dzongkha and other languages.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Tibetan script as a writing system, including its graphic repertoire, orthographic construction, stylistic variation and digital representation; it distinguishes the script from languages written in it, particular texts and their physical carriers.", "in_scope": [ "Letters, vowel signs, subjoined forms, punctuation and other script signs", "Construction and segmentation of written syllables and letter stacks", "Relationships among Tibetan script styles, including headed and headless forms", "Language-specific and historical orthographic profiles using Tibetan script", "Character encoding, rendering, transliteration and transcription fidelity" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Tibetan and other languages as systems of grammar, speech and meaning", "Authorship, interpretation, editions and rights of individual works", "Conservation and ownership of manuscripts, inscriptions and printed objects", "Fonts and input applications as independently maintained software products", "Religious doctrines and cultural practices expressed through Tibetan-script texts" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify characteristic Tibetan letterforms and their structural relationships; do not infer the script solely from a document's Tibetan-language label.", "Distinguish base letters, subjoined forms and vowel signs within a stack rather than treating every visible component as an independent alphabetic letter.", "Recognise tsheg and shad signs and inspect their contextual functions rather than applying whitespace-based word segmentation.", "Distinguish headed and headless graphic forms from changes of language or changes to a text's underlying character sequence.", "Separate Tibetan-script writing from Latin transliteration, including Wylie, even when both represent the same passage." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Orthographic profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named language, historical period and orthographic convention; mixed or undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Recognition and validation require the relevant convention rather than a single universal account of acceptable Tibetan-script writing." }, { "name": "Graphic style", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Headed, headless, named subtype, mixed or undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Style affects recognition, transcription and the suitability of reference examples or OCR." }, { "name": "Repertoire coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Covered, partly covered or unassessed against an identified repertoire", "why_it_matters": "An agent must know whether uncommon signs and specialised combinations can be represented without substitution." }, { "name": "Stack integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Verified, suspect, malformed or unresolved under a stated orthographic profile", "why_it_matters": "A plausible-looking stack may contain an incorrect component or digital sequence." }, { "name": "Segmentation policy", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Graphic component, stack, written syllable or lexical word; policy and exceptions identified", "why_it_matters": "Counting, searching and annotation produce different results at different boundaries." }, { "name": "Digital representation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Unicode text, legacy encoding, glyph-mapped text, image only, mixed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Appearance alone does not establish that text is searchable, interoperable or safely convertible." }, { "name": "Transliteration correspondence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked source and target spans, named scheme and version, with unresolved or lossy mappings", "why_it_matters": "A transliteration must remain traceable to its source and distinguish spelling preservation from pronunciation guidance." }, { "name": "Recognition error rate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Errors per 100 reference units, with unit, sample and reference transcription specified", "why_it_matters": "OCR quality cannot be judged consistently without defining whether errors concern characters, stacks or written syllables." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify Tibetan-script spans and propose a graphic style and orthographic profile with explicit uncertainty.", "Inspect syllable construction, stack composition and punctuation against a selected profile.", "Diagnose missing glyphs, suspect character sequences and legacy encoding dependencies.", "Transliterate or transcribe a passage while preserving source alignment and marking unresolved readings.", "Prepare search or segmentation derivatives while retaining the original representation.", "Route ambiguous handwriting, specialised signs and potentially destructive conversions for expert review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "script-identity-and-profiles", "name": "Script identity and orthographic profiles", "description": "Establish which Tibetan-script 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"id": "orthographic-context", "name": "Orthographic context", "description": "Identify the conventions governing spelling and specialised combinations.", "findings": [ { "id": "profile-selection", "name": "Profile selection", "description": "Associate validation with an evidenced orthographic profile, allowing historical variation and Sanskrit-related usage to remain explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reference or documented practice establishes the orthographic profile for this material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "profile-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which apparent exceptions require a historical or Sanskrit-related profile rather than correction as errors?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "profile-selection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "syllables-stacks-and-boundaries", "name": "Syllables, stacks and boundaries", "description": "Describe how graphic components form readable units and how those units are separated.", "rationale": "Tibetan-script processing depends on internal syllable structure and distinctions between graphic, syllabic and lexical boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "letter-and-stack-composition", "name": "Letter and stack composition", "description": "Track components and their positions without collapsing visual arrangement into linguistic function.", "findings": [ { "id": "syllable-component-analysis", "name": "Syllable component analysis", "description": "Record proposed root, prefix, suffix, superscribed, subjoined and vowel components where the selected profile supports those roles.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which components are present, and what evidence supports their proposed roles within the written syllable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "syllable-component-analysis-q01" }, { "text": "Does the combination violate the selected profile, or does its analysis remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "syllable-component-analysis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tsheg-shad-and-segmentation", "name": "Tsheg, shad and segmentation", "description": "Interpret separators, punctuation and layout without assuming that written syllables are lexical words.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-boundary-policy", "name": "Explicit boundary policy", "description": "Keep sign recognition, written-syllable segmentation and word segmentation separately assessable.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are tsheg, shad, spaces and line endings interpreted in this passage and its orthographic profile?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-boundary-policy-q01" }, { "text": "What additional linguistic evidence supports any proposed word boundaries beyond the visible separators?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "explicit-boundary-policy-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "graphic-variation-and-reading", "name": "Graphic variation and reading", "description": "Handle Tibetan-script styles and the uncertainty involved in reading particular graphic forms.", "rationale": "A shared script identity does not make headed print, headless handwriting and unusual signs equally recognisable.", "layers": [ { "id": "headed-and-headless-forms", "name": "Headed and headless forms", "description": "Relate graphic styles to the underlying repertoire while retaining uncertain identifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "style-sensitive-recognition", "name": "Style-sensitive recognition", "description": "Record the evidence for a headed or headless classification and any finer attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible features justify the proposed style classification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "style-sensitive-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented examples support mapping an unfamiliar form to a particular letter or sign?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "style-sensitive-recognition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ambiguous-and-specialised-signs", "name": "Ambiguous and specialised signs", "description": "Preserve evidence where damage, handwriting or specialised notation prevents a secure reading.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-readings", "name": "Qualified readings", "description": "Distinguish observed marks, proposed readings and editorial reconstruction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which readings remain possible, and which visible details distinguish them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-readings-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent preserve an image-linked unresolved sign, supply a qualified transcription or request specialist review?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-readings-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "encoding-rendering-and-conversion", "name": "Encoding, rendering and conversion", "description": "Assess whether Tibetan-script representations preserve character identity and remain usable across digital tools.", "rationale": "Correct appearance, correct character encoding and reversible conversion are separate requirements for Tibetan text.", "layers": [ { "id": "character-sequences-and-display", "name": "Character sequences and display", "description": "Examine the relationship between stored characters and rendered stacks or signs.", "findings": [ { "id": "encoding-display-integrity", "name": "Encoding and display integrity", "description": "Record encoding dependencies and distinguish sequence defects from font or rendering defects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the passage Unicode text, a legacy representation or an image, and how was that established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "encoding-display-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "When a stack displays incorrectly, does the evidence locate the problem in the stored sequence, font coverage or rendering system?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "encoding-display-integrity-q02" }, { "text": "Which conversion or normalisation is justified, and how will the original sequence and appearance be retained for comparison?", "kind": "action", "id": "encoding-display-integrity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transliteration-and-search", "name": "Transliteration and search", "description": "Manage transformations used for transcription, interchange and retrieval.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-transformations", "name": "Traceable transformations", "description": "Specify how a named transliteration or search transformation treats stacks, punctuation, unusual signs and uncertain readings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scheme and version are used, and does the output preserve spelling or approximate pronunciation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-transformations-q01" }, { "text": "Which distinctions disappear in the transformed output, and can the original Tibetan sequence be recovered?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "traceable-transformations-q02" }, { "text": "Which transformations may be used for retrieval while keeping a faithful source transcription available?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-transformations-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the writing system, not an individual text, edition, font or physical manuscript.", "Uchen and Ume are broad distinctions; a fuller classification of regional and calligraphic styles needs specialist verification.", "Claims are recalled knowledge, not findings checked against sources in this response." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Tibetan script this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Uchen: headed letterforms commonly used in printing and formal writing", "Ume: headless letterforms encompassing several handwriting and calligraphic styles" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Tibetan script 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": "ISO 15924", "value_or_pattern": "Tibt", "note": "Identifies the Tibetan script, not a particular language." }, { "scheme": "Unicode block", "value_or_pattern": "U+0F00-U+0FFF", "note": "The Tibetan block 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"Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Writing and publishing Tibetan-language texts.", "Writing Dzongkha in Bhutan.", "Preserving and transmitting Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, commentaries and ritual texts.", "Producing educational materials, signage and digital communications.", "Calligraphy and manuscript production." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Tibetan script 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": [ "Fonts or shaping systems with inadequate Tibetan support can display consonant stacks and vowel signs incorrectly.", "Incorrect character ordering can disrupt rendering, searching and text 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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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Tibetan script says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Tibetan script contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Tibetan script, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Tibetan script, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Tibetan script is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Tibetan script and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Tibetan script, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Tibetan script, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Tibetan script is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of Tibetan script a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For Tibetan script, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of Tibetan script exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made Tibetan script and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to Tibetan script, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in Tibetan script, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script 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 Tibetan script is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script, 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 Tibetan script is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }