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"scope_statement": "This model owns a tree or tree-shaped assembly designated for use as a Christmas tree, including its physical form, seasonal role, installed configuration, attached decorations and care or retirement needs.", "in_scope": [ "Designation and evidence of use as a Christmas tree", "Cut, rooted, artificial or alternative tree construction", "Tree dimensions, support and placement within its display setting", "Arrangement and attachment of Christmas decorations and lighting", "Material condition, seasonal care and transition out of display" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Forestry, nursery production and cultivation before selection as a Christmas tree", "General Christmas celebrations, religious observances and event programmes", "Building-wide electrical systems and fire safety management", "Manufacture and independent lifecycle of ornaments, lighting products and stands", "Waste collection services, recycling infrastructure and landscape management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A recorded designation or use identifies the object as a Christmas tree; conifer shape alone does not establish that role.", "A whole tree or a coherent tree-shaped assembly forms the display, distinguishing it from a wreath, garland or collection of loose branches.", "A natural tree has been selected or designated for Christmas use, distinguishing it from an otherwise similar garden or forest tree.", "An artificial or alternative assembly has a Christmas-tree role, distinguishing it from a botanical replica or unrelated tree-shaped sculpture.", "Absence of ornaments or current display does not exclude a tree when its Christmas designation or intended seasonal reuse remains recorded." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Christmas-tree designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person, organisation or event assigning the role; supporting statement or observation", "why_it_matters": "Establishes seasonal identity when appearance or decoration is ambiguous." }, { "name": "Physical tree type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Cut natural tree | rooted natural tree | artificial tree | alternative tree-shaped assembly | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which condition observations, support arrangements and lifecycle actions are relevant." }, { "name": "Species or construction materials", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identified species and/or material descriptions, with unknown components recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports material-specific assessment without treating all Christmas trees alike." }, { "name": "Installed dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and maximum width in centimetres, stating whether stand and topper are included", "why_it_matters": "Allows the decorated tree to be evaluated against its intended space." }, { "name": "Seasonal lifecycle stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Selected | awaiting installation | installed | being decorated | on display | being dismantled | stored | transferred | retired", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes current use from storage or the end of a display cycle." }, { "name": "Support configuration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Tree linked to stand, pot, base, anchorage or suspension, with attachment condition", "why_it_matters": "Makes the tree's installed stability assessable." }, { "name": "Decoration and lighting configuration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attached ornament groups, topper and lighting assemblies with positions and attachment methods", "why_it_matters": "Supports changes to the display and identification of attachment or access problems." }, { "name": "Material condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of natural foliage and roots where present, or artificial branches, joints and surfaces", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed deterioration from assumptions based on tree type or age." }, { "name": "Display setting", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Indoor | sheltered outdoor | exposed outdoor; private or publicly accessible", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for placement, exposure and interaction constraints." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the tree's Christmas role and select the applicable natural, artificial or alternative assessment path.", "Assess a proposed position using installed dimensions, support requirements and surrounding activities.", "Plan and record assembly, securing, decoration and lighting changes.", "Schedule and record care or inspection appropriate to the tree's materials and observed condition.", "Flag conditions requiring display changes, restricted interaction or qualified review.", "Plan dismantling, storage, continued cultivation, transfer or material recovery according to tree type and local provisions." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "britannica-christmas-tree", "title": "Christmas tree", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/plant/Christmas-tree", "what_it_supports": "Historical origin of the decorated evergreen as a Christmas custom, and the species commonly used as cut trees.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "usda-nrcs-christmas-tree", "title": "Christmas Trees", "url": "https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/conservation-by-state/pennsylvania/christmas-trees", "what_it_supports": "Production of cultivated Christmas trees as a farm crop and typical commercial species in North America.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "nfpa-christmas-tree-safety", "title": "Christmas Tree Safety Tips", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Fire hazard of dried cut trees, watering practice, and electrical-lighting precautions.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "wikidata-q38551", "title": "Christmas tree (Q38551)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38551", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier for the decorated Christmas tree as a cultural object, distinct from the oil-well Christmas tree.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "christmas-role-and-identity", "name": "Christmas role and identity", "description": "Establishes why this particular tree or assembly counts as the registered thing.", "rationale": "A Christmas tree is identified partly by its assigned use, which cannot reliably be inferred from species, silhouette or ornaments alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-designation", "name": "Seasonal designation", "description": "Records the evidence assigning a Christmas role to the object.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-christmas-role", "name": "Basis of Christmas role", "description": "The model should distinguish explicit designation from an agent's interpretation of appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who designated this object as a Christmas tree, or what observed use supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-christmas-role-q01" }, { "text": "If it is undecorated or outside the Christmas season, what evidence establishes its continuing Christmas-tree role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-christmas-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-display-boundary", "name": "Tree display boundary", "description": "Identifies the focal tree and separates it from neighbouring seasonal displays.", "findings": [ { "id": "whole-tree-or-assembly", "name": "Whole tree or assembly", "description": "The model should identify the tree or coherent assembly being assessed and its relationship to a larger display.", "questions": [ { "text": "What physical tree or connected tree-shaped assembly constitutes this Christmas tree?", "kind": "definition", "id": "whole-tree-or-assembly-q01" }, { "text": "Which surrounding garlands, gifts, scenery or additional trees belong to the wider display rather than this tree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "whole-tree-or-assembly-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-body-and-construction", "name": "Tree body and construction", "description": "Captures the biological or manufactured body that supports the Christmas display.", "rationale": "Cut, rooted and artificial trees require different interpretations of condition, assembly and possible next actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "natural-or-manufactured-body", "name": "Natural or manufactured body", "description": "Determines which material and biological properties apply.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-type-and-composition", "name": "Body type and composition", "description": "The model should record whether the tree is cut, rooted, manufactured or assembled from alternative materials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a cut tree, a tree with roots, an artificial tree or an alternative tree-shaped assembly?", "kind": "definition", "id": "body-type-and-composition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence identifies its species, construction materials and any applied surface treatments?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "body-type-and-composition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "display-form-and-completeness", "name": "Display form and completeness", "description": "Describes the assembled tree's envelope and branch-bearing structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "assembled-tree-envelope", "name": "Assembled tree envelope", "description": "The model should capture the installed form, including missing or damaged parts that affect decoration or placement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the tree's installed height and maximum width, including its stand and topper where applicable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assembled-tree-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which trunk sections, branches or assembly joints are missing, damaged or positioned differently from the intended form?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assembled-tree-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-display-placement", "name": "Support and display placement", "description": "Connects the tree's installed structure to the space where people encounter it.", "rationale": "A Christmas tree's usable state depends on how its trunk or frame is supported and how the decorated envelope fits its setting.", "layers": [ { "id": "base-and-anchorage", "name": "Base and anchorage", "description": "Records how the tree is held in its intended position.", "findings": [ { "id": "tree-to-support-connection", "name": "Tree-to-support connection", "description": "The model should make the stand, pot, base or suspension and its connection to the tree explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports this tree, and how is its trunk or frame attached to that support?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tree-to-support-connection-q01" }, { "text": "What installation instructions or competent assessment establish whether this support suits the tree and its decorations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tree-to-support-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "surroundings-and-access", "name": "Surroundings and access", "description": "Captures placement relationships relevant to displaying and servicing the tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "decorated-tree-clearances", "name": "Decorated tree clearances", "description": "The model should record surrounding routes, heat sources, exposure and access needs without inventing universal clearance limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What measured separations exist between the decorated tree and nearby heat sources, doors, circulation routes and overhead obstructions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decorated-tree-clearances-q01" }, { "text": "What placement changes are required by applicable site rules or product instructions while preserving access for watering, inspection and switching off lights?", "kind": "action", "id": "decorated-tree-clearances-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ornaments-and-tree-lighting", "name": "Ornaments and tree lighting", "description": "Describes the decorative configuration attached to the Christmas tree.", "rationale": "Ornaments, toppers and lights change the tree's loads, appearance, accessibility and operating constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "ornament-attachment", "name": "Ornament attachment", "description": "Records how decorations are distributed and held by the tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "branch-and-topper-loading", "name": "Branch and topper loading", "description": "The model should connect decorations to their supporting branches or frame and record visible attachment problems.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are the topper and substantial ornament groups attached, and what supports each attachment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "branch-and-topper-loading-q01" }, { "text": "Which decorations show slipping, branch deflection, breakage or unwanted contact that calls for adjustment or removal?", "kind": "action", "id": "branch-and-topper-loading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lighting-installation", "name": "Lighting installation", "description": "Records tree-mounted lighting and the evidence governing its use.", "findings": [ { "id": "tree-lighting-operability", "name": "Tree lighting operability", "description": "The model should distinguish preinstalled and added lights and relate their condition and intended environment to the installed setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which lighting assemblies are installed, and what labels or instructions establish their intended environment and connection limits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tree-lighting-operability-q01" }, { "text": "What observed damage, inaccessible controls or installation conflicts must be resolved before the lights are operated?", "kind": "action", "id": "tree-lighting-operability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-care-and-transition", "name": "Seasonal care and transition", "description": "Tracks condition during display and the tree's next destination afterward.", "rationale": "A Christmas tree may deteriorate biologically, require component maintenance or move into storage, cultivation or disposal after a short display period.", "layers": [ { "id": "type-specific-display-care", "name": "Type-specific display care", "description": "Selects care observations according to the tree's actual body type.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-and-care-needs", "name": "Condition and care needs", "description": "The model should record dated observations and evidence-based care needs separately for cut, rooted and manufactured trees.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated observations describe foliage retention, water availability or root condition for a natural tree, or branch and joint condition for an artificial tree?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-and-care-needs-q01" }, { "text": "What care, repair or removal action is supported by these observations and the applicable supplier or specialist guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-and-care-needs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "end-of-display-route", "name": "End-of-display route", "description": "Records how the Christmas display is dismantled and what happens to its tree body.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-use-or-retirement", "name": "Next use or retirement", "description": "The model should distinguish storage for reuse, continued care of a rooted tree and locally supported routes for retiring the tree body.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this tree intended for seasonal reuse, continued cultivation, transfer or retirement, and who is responsible for that transition?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-use-or-retirement-q01" }, { "text": "Which ornaments, lights, treatments or support components must be removed or accounted for before the selected storage, planting or collection route can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-use-or-retirement-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": [ "Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana) cut tree", "Norway spruce (Picea abies) cut tree", "Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) cut tree", "Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) cut tree", "Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) cut tree", "Living potted Christmas tree", "Artificial PVC/PE Christmas tree", "Public civic/outdoor Christmas tree" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Christmas tree 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": "Q38551", "note": "Decorated Christmas tree as a cultural/holiday object; not Q1088384 (oil-well Christmas tree)." }, { "scheme": "HS / Combined Nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "0604.20 (fresh Christmas trees); 9505.10 (Christmas-tree decorations and artificial trees in festive articles)", "note": "Fresh cut trees are classified as foliage/branches of trees; artificial trees and ornaments fall under festive articles." }, { "scheme": "USDA NASS / Census of Agriculture", "value_or_pattern": "NAICS 111421 (nursery and tree production) / Christmas tree farms as a reported crop", "note": "Used for farm-gate production statistics in the United States, not a product SKU." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Christmas tree 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": [ "NFPA 1 Fire Code and NFPA public-education Christmas-tree guidance (National Fire Protection Association, United States) on watering, heat sources, and lighting.", "EN 71 (toys) and REACH / RoHS constraints on artificial trees and electric lights where sold as consumer products in the EU (European Committee for Standardization / European Commission).", "UL 588 Seasonal and Holiday Decorative Products (Underwriters Laboratories) for electrically lighted decorations used on trees.", "Plant-health and phytosanitary rules on interstate and international movement of cut conifers (national plant-protection organisations; in the US, USDA APHIS).", "Local fire-prevention ordinances requiring flame-retardant treatment or banning untreated cut trees in public assembly occupancies (municipal fire marshals)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Christmas tree 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": [ "Erected indoors in homes from late November or Advent through Twelfth Night or Candlemas, hung with lights, ornaments, and a tree-topper.", "Sold as a seasonal agricultural crop from choose-and-cut farms and lots; also sold as potted living trees for later planting.", "Used as a civic or commercial display (city square, shopping mall, church nave) often with a public lighting ceremony.", "Recycled after the season as municipal chipping, beach-dune fencing, fish habitat, or compost.", "Artificial trees stored and reused across seasons as a consumer durable." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Christmas tree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "retail height (cut tree)", "typical_range": "1.5-2.4 (household); up to ~6-30 for civic trees", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "stem caliper / butt diameter", "typical_range": "3-10", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "fresh-tree moisture (needles/wood, fire-risk proxy)", "typical_range": "high when freshly cut and watered; hazardous when foliage is dry and brittle", "unit": "qualitative / % moisture" }, { "quantity": "stand water uptake (first 24 h)", "typical_range": "1-4 (varies with species and diameter)", "unit": "L/day" }, { "quantity": "seasonal farm production (US order of magnitude)", "typical_range": "tens of millions of cut trees per year", "unit": "trees/year" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Christmas tree 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": [ "Needle desiccation of a cut tree, sharply raising ignition risk from candles, heaters, or electrical faults.", "Electrical fire from overloaded, damaged, or indoor-rated-only light strings.", "Tip-over injuring children or pets, or spilling the water reservoir.", "Allergic reaction or dermatitis from sap, mould on stored trees, or PVC/plastic off-gassing of some artificial trees.", "Ingestion of needles, tinsel, or ornament fragments by pets.", "Phytosanitary spread of pests (e.g. gypsy moth egg masses) on moved cut trees.", "Post-season disposal fire when discarded trees are burned improperly." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Christmas tree 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": [ "Germany and much of Central Europe traditionally prefer Nordmann fir or Norway spruce, often erected on 24 December; public trees in town squares are a civic ritual.", "United States and Canada: Fraser fir, Douglas fir, balsam fir, and pines dominate regional markets; trees commonly go up after Thanksgiving.", "United Kingdom: Norway spruce was historically typical; Nordmann fir now dominates retail because it sheds less.", "Mexico and parts of Latin America: living or cut pines plus nativity (nacimiento) as co-equal or primary display.", "Orthodox countries often keep the tree through 7 January (Julian Nativity) or later.", "Australia and New Zealand: Southern Hemisphere summer Christmas; imported northern evergreens, local pines, or artificial trees; outdoor living trees are less the default indoor object." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Christmas tree this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Yule / winter evergreen (pre-Christian or secular winter tree)", "difference": "Same botanical object can be used; the Christmas tree is defined by its use in Christmas liturgy or custom (Advent-Epiphany calendar, star or angel topper, association with Nativity), not by species alone." }, { "name": "Hanukkah bush", "difference": "A decorated evergreen used in some Jewish-American homes during Hanukkah; distinguished by holiday, symbols (e.g. Stars of David rather than Nativity toppers), and calendar (eight nights of Kislev/Tevet, not 25 December)." }, { "name": "Living landscape conifer (garden fir/spruce/pine)", "difference": "A landscape tree is a planted specimen in situ; a Christmas tree is a seasonal display object (cut, potted-for-display, or artificial) even if later planted." }, { "name": "Oil-and-gas Christmas tree (wellhead assembly)", "difference": "A stack of valves and fittings on a completed well (Wikidata Q1088384); distinguished by domain (petroleum production), materials (steel/API 6A), and complete absence of a botanical tree." }, { "name": "Theatrical or lighting 'tree' (pipe/ladder of lanterns)", "difference": "A vertical lighting rig or 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Christmas tree, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Christmas tree, assess its seasonal display and material condition, and determine appropriate installation, decoration, care and removal actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: artificial Christmas tree, The Christmas Tree of Turku Cathedral, Jöölboom, Feather Christmas tree, singing Christmas tree.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 110 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 Christmas tree, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "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": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "artificial Christmas tree", "The Christmas Tree of Turku Cathedral", "Jöölboom", "Feather Christmas tree", "singing Christmas tree" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 110 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 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 Christmas tree from another, and a Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Christmas tree proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a Christmas tree, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a Christmas tree and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Christmas tree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a Christmas tree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Christmas tree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Christmas tree consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Christmas tree takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Christmas tree, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Christmas tree, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Christmas tree is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What Christmas tree is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of Christmas tree are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is Christmas tree operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Christmas tree and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Christmas tree?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Christmas tree?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas tree is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree, 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 Christmas tree 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 } } } }