{ "model": { "rank": 2898, "code": "thing-q50030", "model_id": "vr.tr.watercolor", "name": "watercolor", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a watercolor painting activity, assess its working state and judge which interventions remain possible for the intended result.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q50030/", "tier": 2, "score": 95, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "wash technique", "transparent watercolor" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 95, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q50030", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50030", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:36:22Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01151342, "turns": 1, "seconds": 162, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 78.7, "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: 01a07c10-ec10-7701-93e7-aab76845dbb9\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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transparent washes, and reactivated with water after drying, almost always on an absorbent support such as paper.", "scope_statement": "This model owns watercolor as a painting activity: its intended visual effects, working materials, water and pigment handling, sequence of applications, observed surface state and next-action constraints; the ACT classification provisionally favours the activity over the finished artwork or paint product.", "in_scope": [ "The intended role of washes, transparency, paper white and visible marks", "The working relationship among watercolor paint, water, tools and support", "Local wetness, pigment movement and drying readiness", "Application sequences including washes, glazing, lifting and reserved areas", "Assessment of emerging effects and feasible corrective or finishing actions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Manufacture, formulation and commercial inventory of watercolor paints", "Paper manufacture and general material certification", "Artwork ownership, valuation, exhibition and sale", "Long-term conservation and restoration of completed artworks", "General drawing, composition and colour theory independent of watercolor handling" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify whether watercolor paint is the operative medium; dilution with water alone does not distinguish watercolor from acrylic, gouache or ink.", "Check whether support wetness and water loading are being used to control pigment spread and edge formation, rather than merely to clean or dilute materials.", "Check whether transparent passages and exposed or reserved support contribute to the intended light areas; opaque accents should be recorded without automatically excluding watercolor.", "Distinguish watercolor painting activity from a finished watercolor artwork or a container of watercolor paint by the presence of application decisions, working surface states and an actionable sequence.", "For mixed-media work, identify which passages and decisions depend on watercolor behaviour rather than assuming the whole activity follows one medium's constraints." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Activity interpretation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "painting activity | finished artwork | paint material | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the ACT entry from silently absorbing neighbouring concepts." }, { "name": "Intended watercolor effects", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "transparent wash | graded wash | soft transition | hard edge | drybrush texture | other stated effect", "why_it_matters": "An observed bloom or broken mark can be desirable or problematic depending on intent." }, { "name": "Working support", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to the support, its prepared surface and any tested handling behaviour", "why_it_matters": "The actual surface constrains spreading, lifting, repeated wetting and acceptable interventions." }, { "name": "Paint identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "References to paints or mixtures, with known identity and locally observed behaviour", "why_it_matters": "Handling decisions should use the paints actually present rather than assume all watercolor behaves alike." }, { "name": "Local surface wetness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "pooled | visibly wet | damp | apparently dry | uncertain, recorded by region and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Different regions may permit different marks or require waiting." }, { "name": "Brush or applicator load", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Relative water load and pigment load, with observation or preparation method", "why_it_matters": "The relationship between applicator load and surface wetness affects the next application." }, { "name": "Elapsed time since wetting", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minutes, associated with a region and wetting event", "why_it_matters": "Provides timing context without treating elapsed time alone as proof of dryness." }, { "name": "Reserved light areas", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unpainted | masked | partially covered | lost | intentionally replaced by opaque material", "why_it_matters": "Preserving support white and adding a light material are different operations with different outcomes." }, { "name": "Intervention readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "ready for intended action | wait | test first | stop | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to a specific next action rather than a generic progress label." } ], "affordances": [ "Plan a wash and its wetting sequence for a specified area and edge behaviour.", "Identify regions that can receive another application and regions that need further observation or drying.", "Preserve paper white through a recorded reserve strategy.", "Run small handling tests for mixtures, support response, glazing or lifting before committing to a passage.", "Compare emerging edges, value relationships and pigment effects with the intended result.", "Choose among continuation, local correction, acceptance and stopping while recording the expected visual tradeoff." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "astm-d5067", "title": "Standard Specification for Artists' Watercolor Paints (ASTM D5067)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Defines artist watercolor as a gum-bound aqueous paint, sets working properties, and distinguishes it from related artists' paints such as gouache." }, { "id": "mayer-handbook", "title": "The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Classic materials account of gum arabic binder, paper supports, transparency, lifting, and the distinction from gouache, tempera and ink." }, { "id": "handprint-wcl", "title": "Handprint: Watercolor Painting (Bruce MacEvoy)", "url": "https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html", "what_it_supports": "Pigment behaviour in watercolor (transparency, staining, granulation), lightfastness practice, paper weights, and the student/professional grade split.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "astm-d4303", "title": "Standard Test Methods for Lightfastness of Colorants Used in Artists' Materials (ASTM D4303)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The I-V lightfastness categories used on artist watercolor labels and the fading hazard of fugitive colorants." }, { "id": "iso-105-b02", "title": "Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part B02: Colour fastness to artificial light: Xenon arc fading lamp test (ISO 105-B02)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Blue Wool Scale 1-8 that manufacturers and conservators still map watercolor lightfastness onto." }, { "id": "astm-d4236", "title": "Standard Practice for Labeling Art Materials for Chronic Health Hazards (ASTM D4236)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US chronic-hazard labeling (LHAMA) that governs artist and student watercolor packaging." }, { "id": "en-71-3", "title": "Safety of toys - Part 3: Migration of certain elements (EN 71-3)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Migration limits applied to children's watercolor cake sets sold as toys in Europe." }, { "id": "colour-index", "title": "Colour Index International", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "C.I. Generic Names (PB29, PR101, PY42, etc.) that identify the actual colorants inside named watercolor paints." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "watercolor-intent-and-boundaries", "name": "Watercolor intent and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what watercolor means in this activity and which visual effects guide its handling.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and watercolor can name an activity, a material or its result.", "layers": [ { "id": "operative-medium", "name": "Operative medium", "description": "Locates watercolor within the activity and any mixed-media passages.", "findings": [ { "id": "watercolor-role", "name": "Role of watercolor", "description": "Record the medium identification and the passages whose handling depends on watercolor.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identifies the paint or application as watercolor in this activity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "watercolor-role-q01" }, { "text": "Which passages use another medium and require separate handling constraints?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "watercolor-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-light-and-marks", "name": "Intended light and marks", "description": "Connects transparency, reserves and edge character to the intended image.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-wash-character", "name": "Target wash character", "description": "Record desired wash, edge and light-area effects so that variation can be judged against intent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which areas should retain support white, transparent colour or deliberately opaque accents?", "kind": "definition", "id": "target-wash-character-q01" }, { "text": "Where are hard edges, soft transitions or broken drybrush marks intended?", "kind": "definition", "id": "target-wash-character-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "paint-support-and-handling-tests", "name": "Paint, support and handling tests", "description": "Records the material combination actually being used and evidence of its behaviour.", "rationale": "Useful watercolor decisions depend on the specific paint and surface combination, not just the medium label.", "layers": [ { "id": "paint-and-mixture-behaviour", "name": "Paint and mixture behaviour", "description": "Associates working colours with their identities, mixtures and observed responses.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-colour-evidence", "name": "Working colour evidence", "description": "Record paint identification and tests relevant to transparency, texture, mixing and removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which paint labels, pigment identifiers or preparation records identify the working colours?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "working-colour-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What do swatches on the working support show about transparency, granulation, mixture appearance and lifting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "working-colour-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-response", "name": "Support response", "description": "Records how the prepared surface responds to the intended water and brush handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "surface-tolerance", "name": "Surface tolerance", "description": "Capture observed spreading, pooling, buckling and surface disturbance without assuming a universal tolerance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What support and preparation are in use, including any stretching, mounting or surface treatment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "surface-tolerance-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence indicates whether this surface can tolerate the proposed repeated wetting or lifting?", "kind": "action", "id": "surface-tolerance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-state-and-pigment-movement", "name": "Water state and pigment movement", "description": "Tracks local working conditions during application and drying.", "rationale": "A watercolor passage can change action possibilities as its water redistributes or evaporates.", "layers": [ { "id": "regional-wetness", "name": "Regional wetness", "description": "Treats wetness as spatially uneven and time dependent.", "findings": [ { "id": "wetness-map", "name": "Wetness map", "description": "Record the condition of the intended application region and adjacent areas it may affect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are pooling, sheen, dampness or apparent dryness observed, and when were they observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wetness-map-q01" }, { "text": "What further check is needed before treating the target region as ready for the intended mark?", "kind": "action", "id": "wetness-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flow-and-edge-development", "name": "Flow and edge development", "description": "Relates paint additions, water additions and support orientation to visible movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "wash-movement", "name": "Wash movement", "description": "Record advancing pigment, wash beads, merging boundaries and developing blooms against the intended effect.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are pigment fronts, beads and edges moving relative to the desired boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wash-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Would adding paint or water, changing tilt, removing a pool or waiting best support the intended transition?", "kind": "action", "id": "wash-movement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wash-sequence-and-light-reserves", "name": "Wash sequence and light reserves", "description": "Organises applications around underlying passages and areas that must remain light.", "rationale": "The next application must account for existing colour, drying state and any support white it may cover.", "layers": [ { "id": "application-dependencies", "name": "Application dependencies", "description": "Records what each wash or glaze depends on and what it is expected to change.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-wash-contract", "name": "Next wash requirements", "description": "Specify the target region, desired effect and readiness conditions for the next application.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the next passage intended to merge into a wet area, lie over a dry passage or leave broken marks on the surface?", "kind": "definition", "id": "next-wash-contract-q01" }, { "text": "What must be checked in the underlying passage before the application proceeds?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-wash-contract-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reserve-management", "name": "Reserve management", "description": "Tracks untouched support and temporary barriers through the painting sequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "light-area-protection", "name": "Light-area protection", "description": "Record which light areas depend on exposed support and how they will survive neighbouring applications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which light shapes must remain unpainted, and are they protected by brush control, masking or another method?", "kind": "definition", "id": "light-area-protection-q01" }, { "text": "If masking is used, what product guidance or local test supports its application and removal on this surface?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "light-area-protection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-correction-and-stopping", "name": "Assessment, correction and stopping", "description": "Judges the emerging result and bounds further intervention.", "rationale": "Watercolor effects need to be assessed against intent, and attempted corrections can change both the image and the working surface.", "layers": [ { "id": "settled-appearance", "name": "Settled appearance", "description": "Separates provisional wet appearance from observations made after the passage has dried.", "findings": [ { "id": "result-against-intent", "name": "Result against intent", "description": "Assess value relationships, edges, wash evenness and pigment texture at a recorded drying state.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what drying state were the passage's value, colour and edge relationships assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "result-against-intent-q01" }, { "text": "Which blooms, textures or uneven areas support the intended effect, and which 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"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": "Q154874", "note": "Item for watercolor/watercolour painting as a technique; constituent paints are identified separately via pigment items." }, { "scheme": "Colour Index Generic Name", "value_or_pattern": "P{B|R|Y|G|O|V|Br|Bk|W}{number} (e.g. PB29, PR254, PY42)", "note": "Names the pigment, not the brand hue; professional tubes and pans are specified by C.I. name plus binder." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "3213 (3213.10 colours in sets; 3213.90 other)", "note": "Trade heading for artists', students' and similar colours in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles or pans, including watercolor." }, { "scheme": "ASTM specification", "value_or_pattern": "ASTM D5067", "note": "Product specification that a paint must meet to be sold as artists' watercolor in the ASTM sense." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of watercolor 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": [ "ASTM D5067 Standard Specification for Artists' Watercolor Paints (ASTM International)", "ASTM D4303 lightfastness test methods for artists' colorants (ASTM International)", "ASTM D4236 chronic health-hazard labeling of art materials / US LHAMA (ASTM International; enforced in the United States under 16 CFR 1500.14)", "ISO 105-B02 xenon-arc colour fastness / Blue Wool Scale (International Organization for Standardization)", "EN 71-3 toy-safety migration limits for children's watercolor sets (CEN / national adoptions)", "EU REACH restrictions and labelling for certain pigments (notably some cadmium, cobalt and chromate colorants) (ECHA / European Commission)", "California Proposition 65 warnings on some artist watercolors containing listed pigments (State of California)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of watercolor 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": [ "Fine-art painting on cotton or cellulose paper, including studio watercolours and outdoor sketching.", "Botanical, zoological and architectural illustration, where transparency and rapid field use still matter.", "School and hobby cake sets; the most common first painting medium in primary education.", "Urban sketching and travel journals, typically in half-pan tins with a water brush.", "Historic map, miniature and manuscript painting, often as opaque or mixed aqueous colour rather than pure aquarelle.", "Museum and private collections of works on paper (Turner, Cézanne watercolours, etc.) that must be stored and displayed as water-sensitive objects.", "Commercial illustration and concept work, now often mixed with watercolor pencils, inks and digital finishing." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of watercolor 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": "paper mass per area (watercolor support)", "typical_range": "190-640 (workhorse 300)", "unit": "g/m²" }, { "quantity": "lightfastness, ASTM D4303 category", "typical_range": "I (excellent) to V (fugitive); artist-grade lines aim for I-II", "unit": "ASTM category" }, { "quantity": "lightfastness, Blue Wool Scale", "typical_range": "1-8 (8 most stable)", "unit": "Blue Wool grade" }, { "quantity": "tube fill volume", "typical_range": "5-37 (common studio sizes 5, 14/15, 37)", "unit": "ml" }, { "quantity": "display and storage relative humidity for finished works", "typical_range": "40-55", "unit": "% RH" }, { "quantity": "archival watercolor paper pH", "typical_range": "about 7-9 (neutral to slightly alkaline, often buffered)", "unit": "pH" }, { "quantity": "pigment particle size in the dried film", "typical_range": "roughly 0.05-10, pigment-dependent; coarse mineral pigments granulate", "unit": "µm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of watercolor 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": [ "Fugitive pigments fade under light (classic problems: some lakes, opera/rhodamine pinks, early aureolin, certain reds); the loss is irreversible.", "Finished works remain water-soluble: a spill, a damp mat, or high humidity can dissolve, tide-line or offset the paint.", "Paper cockles, buckles or tears if wetted without stretching or if repeatedly soaked.", "Acidic or poor-quality paper yellows, becomes brittle, and foxes; optical brighteners can also discolor.", "Mold growth on honey- or glycerin-rich pans and on damp works on paper.", "Overworking lifts underlayers; staining pigments will not lift and can deaden a passage.", "Blooms, backruns and unintended granulation from uneven drying.", "If applied as a heavy paste, gum-rich films can crack or flake; watercolor is not designed as an impasto medium.", "Toxic or restricted pigments (cadmiums, cobalts, some chromates) are a hazard if ingested, sprayed, or used as children's paint; dust from dried pans is the practical exposure path.", "Poor matting, lignin boards or pressure-sensitive tapes stain and physically damage the sheet." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of watercolor 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": [ "Spelling and institutional names: American watercolor versus British/Commonwealth watercolour; national watercolour societies remain a UK/Commonwealth pattern.", "French and much of continental practice keep aquarelle (transparent) strictly separate from gouache; English-language retail often files both under watercolor.", "East Asian ink-and-wash (Japanese suibokuga/sumi-e, Chinese shuimo) uses soot ink and often animal-glue sizing on washi or xuan paper; it is grouped with watercolor in some catalogues and kept apart in others.", "Indian miniature and Company-school painting is aqueous and paper-based but typically opaque, closer to bodycolour than to Western aquarelle.", "Student cake sets and school tempera/poster colour are sold as watercolor in some education markets and as a separate poster-paint class in others.", "Paper trade sizes and weight naming differ: US watercolor paper is still sold in pounds (90/140/300 lb) alongside gsm; European sheets follow ISO-related sizes more often." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of watercolor 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": "gouache (opaque watercolor, bodycolour)", "difference": "Gouache is formulated to be opaque, usually with an inert white filler (blanc fixe, chalk) and a higher pigment-to-binder ratio; ASTM specifies it separately (D5724) from transparent artists' watercolor (D5067). A dried gouache passage conceals the ground; a watercolor wash does not." }, { "name": "acrylic ink / acrylic wash", "difference": "Acrylic binders form a water-insoluble polymer film when dry; gum-arabic watercolor remains resoluble. A dry film that will not redissolve with a wet brush is acrylic (or a waterproof ink), not watercolor." }, { "name": "egg tempera", "difference": "Tempera is bound with egg yolk (sometimes whole egg), dries to a lean, largely insoluble film and is built in hatched strokes, not in gum-arabic washes on paper." }, { "name": "carbon or India ink wash", "difference": "Many drawing inks are carbon black in shellac or another water-resistant binder; once dry they do not lift as watercolor does. Sumi and some Chinese inks are the exception that still sit on the watercolor border." }, { "name": "school poster paint / tempera cakes", "difference": "Poster colour is an opaque, often chalk-loaded emulsion sold for covering large areas on cheap paper; it lacks the transparency, pigment identity and lightfastness claims of artist watercolor." }, { "name": "oil paint", "difference": "Oil is bound in drying oil, is not water-miscible in use (except purpose-made water-mixable oils), and forms a hydrophobic film; solvent and drying behaviour separate it immediately from watercolor." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of watercolor this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend watercolor to denote the painting activity exclusively, or also the paint material and completed artwork?", "Where should this entry draw its operational boundary with gouache, watercolor pencils, liquid watercolor products and mixed-media practices?", "Which wetness observations are sufficiently reliable across different supports and viewing conditions to justify specific next actions?", "What evidence is needed before paint properties such as lifting response or rewetting behaviour can be transferred from a test swatch to a working passage?", "Which existing Vercy models already own support condition, artwork assessment or painting procedures and should be linked rather than duplicated?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 watercolor, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a watercolor painting activity, assess its working state and judge which interventions remain possible for the intended result.", "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: wash technique, transparent watercolor.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 95 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 watercolor, 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": [ "wash technique", "transparent watercolor" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 watercolor from another, and a watercolor 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor 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 watercolor between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a watercolor 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor 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"method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a watercolor 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 watercolor consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a watercolor 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 watercolor is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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"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 watercolor?", "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 watercolor 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 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"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 watercolor is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a watercolor, 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 watercolor, 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 watercolor 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 } } } }