{ "model": { "rank": 5769, "code": "thing-q48091", "model_id": "vr.tr.region-of-england", "name": "region of England", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a region of England, assess its territorial and statistical state, and determine which comparisons, geographic assignments and referrals are justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.PLC", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q48091/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q48091", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48091", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:15:12Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 12.5, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 90.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b25-175c-74e0-a955-8cf368af6b6d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[ONS area type definitions](https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/census2021dictionary/areatypedefinitions)", "Check the geographic type and dated identifier before treating a similarly named county, district or combined authority area as the region.", "Verify the relationship to ITL1 using a dated classification crosswalk; sharing a statistical level with a UK country does not make an English region a country. [ONS international geographies](https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/eurostat)", "Distinguish the continuing territorial unit from organisations formerly associated with it: ONS records that former Government Office Regions were termed 'regions' from 1 April 2011 for statistical purposes. [ONS England geography](https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/england)", "Require a boundary match or documented overlap before equating the region with an NHS region, city region, cultural region or public body's operating area." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Official regional designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Official name, geographic type and code within a named classification release", "why_it_matters": "Separates the region from other places and institutions with similar names." }, { "name": "Temporal standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current, historical, proposed or unresolved, with effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical identities and boundaries from being used as current geography." }, { "name": "Territorial extent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced boundary geometry with release date, coordinate reference system and coastal convention", "why_it_matters": "Supports defensible location assignment and spatial comparison." }, { "name": "Regional area", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Square kilometres, stating land or total area and boundary version", "why_it_matters": "Provides a valid denominator for density and spatial exposure measures." }, { "name": "Constituent geography", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated membership of local authority areas or another explicitly selected non-overlapping partition", "why_it_matters": "Allows aggregation without counting overlapping administrative tiers twice." }, { "name": "Resident population", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference date, population definition and estimate revision", "why_it_matters": "Describes regional scale and supports compatible per-capita indicators." }, { "name": "Settlement distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Population shares by a named urban-rural classification and reference date", "why_it_matters": "Reveals differences in settlement pattern that regional population totals conceal." }, { "name": "Regional economic condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Selected output, household income or employment measure with currency, price basis, denominator and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparisons while distinguishing production within the region from residents' circumstances." }, { "name": "Institutional coverage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Public body, function, territorial coverage, legal basis and effective period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming that a statistical region has a government empowered to perform a requested action." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a regional name or code to the correct dated official geographic identity.", "Assign a location or constituent area to a region using an appropriate boundary or official lookup.", "Aggregate compatible local observations into regional indicators and report coverage gaps.", "Compare regional conditions across England after checking definitions, dates and boundary compatibility.", "Identify the public bodies relevant to a proposed action within a specified part of the region.", "Assess whether a boundary, code or constituent-area change requires regional records and comparisons to be revised." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "official-regional-identity", "name": "Official regional identity", "description": "Establish which English regional unit a record denotes and in which period.", "rationale": "The registry label lacks a definition, and English regional names can denote several different geographic or institutional objects.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-and-designation", "name": "Classification and designation", "description": "Resolve the region against an authoritative geographic classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-english-region", "name": "Recognised English region", "description": "Establish the official name, geographic type and identifier that distinguish this region from similarly named areas.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authoritative classification and release recognise this area as a region of England?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognised-english-region-q01" }, { "text": "Which official code and name identify it, and which aliases could instead refer to a county, settlement or authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognised-english-region-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-continuity", "name": "Regional continuity", "description": "Separate changes to regional identity from changes to associated institutions.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-identity-and-successors", "name": "Dated identity and successors", "description": "Record when a designation applies and whether a change preserves the same territorial unit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the effective dates of this regional name, code and status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-identity-and-successors-q01" }, { "text": "Did a recorded change alter the territory, rename the region, replace its code or only reorganise an associated body?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dated-identity-and-successors-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territory-and-composition", "name": "Territory and composition", "description": "Define the region's spatial extent and its dated constituent areas.", "rationale": "Location assignment and regional aggregation require a reproducible boundary and a non-overlapping territorial partition.", "layers": [ { "id": "regional-boundary", "name": "Regional boundary", "description": "Establish which boundary representation is suitable for the intended spatial operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-territorial-extent", "name": "Usable territorial extent", "description": "Record boundary provenance, geographic precision and treatment of coastlines, islands and edge cases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which official boundary release defines the region for the required date and spatial precision?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "usable-territorial-extent-q01" }, { "text": "How does that boundary treat coastal waters, estuaries, islands and locations lying on a regional edge?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-territorial-extent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "constituent-area-membership", "name": "Constituent area membership", "description": "Determine which lower-level geographic units compose the region at a given date.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-regional-partition", "name": "Dated regional partition", "description": "Establish an exhaustive, non-overlapping membership list suitable for aggregation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated official lookup assigns local authority areas to this region without mixing overlapping administrative tiers?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-regional-partition-q01" }, { "text": "When local authorities are reorganised, which membership relationships change and does the regional extent also change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-regional-partition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-geography-crosswalks", "name": "Regional geography crosswalks", "description": "Relate the English region to statistical and operational geographies without assuming equivalence.", "rationale": "Data and decisions use several regional frameworks whose names, codes and boundaries may differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "statistical-classifications", "name": "Statistical classifications", "description": "Establish links to dated ITL and historical statistical classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "statistical-area-equivalence", "name": "Statistical area equivalence", "description": "Determine whether a statistical area is coextensive with the region for the relevant release.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ITL1 identifier corresponds to this region in the selected classification release?", "kind": "definition", "id": "statistical-area-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "What crosswalk evidence supports joining historical NUTS or other regional series to this regional identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "statistical-area-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlapping-regional-frameworks", "name": "Overlapping regional frameworks", "description": "Represent relationships to service regions, combined authority areas and informal regional labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "overlap-without-equivalence", "name": "Overlap without equivalence", "description": "Distinguish exact matches, containment and partial overlaps across regional frameworks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the relevant NHS region, combined authority area or city region match, contain, fall within or cross this region?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "overlap-without-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Which geographic translation is justified before using observations collected for that other area as evidence about this region?", "kind": "action", "id": "overlap-without-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-conditions-and-comparison", "name": "Regional conditions and comparison", "description": "Describe regional population, settlement and economic conditions using interpretable indicators.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence of regional state while recognising that a regional average can conceal substantial internal differences.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-and-settlement", "name": "Population and settlement", "description": "Assess the population's scale and spatial distribution on a defined regional extent.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-distribution-and-density", "name": "Population distribution and density", "description": "Select compatible population, area and settlement measures and expose important internal variation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What resident population estimate and land-area measure apply to the same regional boundary and reference period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-distribution-and-density-q01" }, { "text": "How is population distributed across urban and rural areas, and which within-region differences would a single density figure obscure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-distribution-and-density-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "economic-and-temporal-comparison", "name": "Economic and temporal comparison", "description": "Judge whether regional indicators support the requested comparison or trend.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-regional-indicators", "name": "Comparable regional indicators", "description": "Distinguish workplace output, resident income and labour-market measures while recording uncertainty and revisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the selected indicator measure activity located in the region or conditions of its residents, and what are its denominator and price basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-regional-indicators-q01" }, { "text": "Can the proposed comparison proceed given boundary changes, methodology revisions, sampling uncertainty and differences in reference periods?", "kind": "action", "id": "comparable-regional-indicators-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-authority-and-permitted-use", "name": "Regional authority and permitted use", "description": "Connect regional geography to actual institutional responsibilities and justified agent operations.", "rationale": "A regional label supports geographic reasoning but does not by itself establish an organisation, legal power or service entitlement.", "layers": [ { "id": "function-specific-responsibility", "name": "Function-specific responsibility", "description": "Identify bodies responsible for a specified function and location within the region.", "findings": [ { "id": "competent-body-and-coverage", "name": "Competent body and coverage", "description": "Record institutional powers separately from the regional territory, including any arrangements specific to London.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body has responsibility for the requested function at the relevant location and date, and what instrument establishes it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competent-body-and-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Does its remit cover the whole region, only part of it or territory extending beyond it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competent-body-and-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "geographic-decision-limits", "name": "Geographic decision limits", "description": "Determine when regional membership is sufficient for an operation and when finer geography is required.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-regional-use", "name": "Justified regional use", "description": "Separate defensible regional reporting from decisions that require a specific jurisdiction, programme rule or address.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is verified regional membership sufficient for the requested reporting or filtering operation?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-regional-use-q01" }, { "text": "Before assigning eligibility, routing a service request or recommending an intervention, which finer geographic and institutional checks are required?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-regional-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend only official English regions, or also historical, cultural or physical regions within England?", "Does an existing world-model publication already own this concept and therefore require this registry entry to link to it?", "Which authoritative boundary, code and membership releases should provide the initial baseline, and how much historical continuity must the model support?", "Which institutional relationships, including arrangements specific to London, are necessary for the intended agent tasks?", "Which regional indicators and levels of internal geographic detail are necessary for the actual decisions this model must support?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "place or geographic feature", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a region of England, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify a region of England, assess its territorial and statistical state, and determine which comparisons, geographic assignments and referrals are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "place", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "geographic" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "entered, crossed or travelled along" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 65 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 region of England, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a portion of the world with an extent", "physicalCharacter": [ "On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.", "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.", "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", "enter it, cross it, travel along it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one region of England from another, and a region of England 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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England 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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England 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 at geographic scale.", "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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England is known, and what must it 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"id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a region of England 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 region of England is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 region of England is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England 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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England 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 region of England between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a region of England 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 region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a region of England and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a region of England is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a region of England performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a region of England, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a region of England, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a region of England is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a region of England.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a region of England at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a region of England, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a region of England, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a region of England is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-geometry", "name": "Extent, geometry and naming", "description": "Where region of England is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.", "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry", "name": "Geometry and reference system", "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-record", "name": "Geometry, precision and frame", "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.", "questions": [ { "id": "geometry-record-q01", "text": "What geometry describes region of England, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "geometry-record-q02", "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names", "name": "Names and endonyms", "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.", "findings": [ { "id": "naming-record", "name": "Names and who uses them", "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.", "questions": [ { "id": "naming-record-q01", "text": "By what names is region of England known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "naming-record-q02", "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-access", "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access", "description": "What region of England sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.", "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.", "layers": [ { "id": "containment", "name": "Administrative containment", "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-record", "name": "Containing units and effective dates", "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.", "questions": [ { "id": "containment-record-q01", "text": "Which administrative units contain region of England, and since when does each containment hold?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "containment-record-q02", "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access and permitted use", "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and their source", "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "Who may enter or use region of England, under what conditions, and by whose rule?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a region of England 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 region of England and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England 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 region of England is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a region of England, 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 region of England, 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 region of England is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }