{ "model": { "rank": 5532, "code": "thing-q51621", "model_id": "vr.tr.canonization", "name": "canonization", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognize, document and assess how works or creators acquire canonical standing within a specified cultural community.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q51621/", "tier": 2, "score": 66, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "canonization in the Roman Catholic Church", "Canonization in the Russian Orthodox Church", "equivalent canonization" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 66, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q51621", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51621", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:34:25Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0884e-07ef-7643-9835-e39ab2527309\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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The intended registry sense remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "The works or creators proposed for canonical standing and the community within which that standing is claimed", "Explicit selection decisions and cumulative practices that confer canonical recognition", "Institutions, intermediaries and criteria involved in establishing a canon", "Transmission through curricula, anthologies, criticism, translation and preservation", "Contestation, exclusion and changes in canonical standing over time" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Religious recognition of sainthood, pending confirmation of the registry sense", "Technical canonicalization of data, identifiers or representations", "The full content, authorship and bibliographic identity of selected works", "Copyright ownership, licensing and permission to reproduce works", "The production and distribution of individual editions or copies", "A canon considered solely as a collection rather than the process establishing its authority" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A canonization claim identifies a community or tradition in which a work or creator becomes a reference point; popularity alone does not establish this relationship.", "An isolated award, recommendation or inclusion is evidence of selection, but requires further evidence before being treated as canonical standing.", "The process concerns attributed cultural authority, rather than normalization into a technically canonical representation.", "The target may be a creator, a whole work or a particular version; recognition of one does not automatically establish recognition of the others.", "Canonical standing is assessed within a named historical and cultural scope rather than asserted as universal." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Canonized target", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced creator, work, corpus, expression or version", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence about an author or edition from being silently generalized to every associated work." }, { "name": "Reference community", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named cultural, linguistic, educational or interpretive community", "why_it_matters": "Locates the authority claim within the people and institutions for whom it applies." }, { "name": "Recognition mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicit designation, repeated institutional selection, cumulative critical reception, mixed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines what evidence an agent needs to assess the claim." }, { "name": "Assessed standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed, emerging, established, contested, declining or undetermined within a stated scope", "why_it_matters": "Supports qualified assessments without imposing a universal sequence of stages." }, { "name": "Selection rationale", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed criteria such as aesthetic distinction, historical influence, representativeness or identity formation", "why_it_matters": "Separates selectors' stated reasons from the agent's interpretation." }, { "name": "Observed persistence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Years between first and last documented recognition, with observation gaps recorded", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes sustained transmission from a brief episode without assuming continuity between observations." }, { "name": "Institutional uptake", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count or proportion of a defined sample of curricula, anthologies or comparable selection venues during a specified period", "why_it_matters": "Provides a bounded indicator of adoption whose sampling limitations remain visible." }, { "name": "Contestation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented challenges, challengers, grounds and affected recognition claims", "why_it_matters": "Allows competing assessments to coexist without reducing disagreement to an unexplained score." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate a canonization claim by target, community, period and mechanism.", "Trace a standing assessment to documented selection and transmission practices.", "Compare canonical recognition across communities or historical periods.", "Identify unsupported generalizations from popularity, awards or isolated inclusion.", "Record challenges and revise standing assessments when evidence changes.", "Explain which additional evidence is needed before describing a target as established within a canon." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "canonical-claim-boundaries", "name": "Canonical claim boundaries", "description": "Establishes what is being canonized and where the claim is meant to hold.", "rationale": "Canonization becomes misleading when its target or reference community is left implicit.", "layers": [ { "id": "target-granularity", "name": "Target granularity", "description": "Distinguishes recognition of creators, works, corpora and particular versions.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-target", "name": "Recognition target", "description": "Record the precise referent of the claim without transferring recognition across bibliographic levels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the claim concern a creator, a named work, a selected corpus or a particular expression or version?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognition-target-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits, or prevents, extending this recognition to other works or versions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-target-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-and-period", "name": "Community and period", "description": "Bounds canonical authority by community and historical interval.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-authority", "name": "Situated authority", "description": "Attach each assessment to a specified tradition, audience and period rather than an unqualified universal canon.", "questions": [ { "text": "Within which linguistic, cultural or educational community is canonical standing claimed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which dates and sources establish the period for which that claim is supported?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-legitimation", "name": "Selection and legitimation", "description": "Records who advances canonical recognition, through which practices and on what grounds.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish an advocate's proposal from recognition supported by consequential selection practices.", "layers": [ { "id": "selectors-and-venues", "name": "Selectors and venues", "description": "Identifies the actors and settings through which canonical claims gain influence.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-mechanism", "name": "Recognition mechanism", "description": "Document explicit decisions or accumulated selections and the scope of the selectors' authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which critics, editors, educators or institutions selected or designated the target, and in which venues?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "Was recognition an explicit designation or an interpretation of repeated selections?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognition-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "criteria-and-comparators", "name": "Criteria and comparators", "description": "Makes selection rationales and relevant alternatives inspectable.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounds-of-inclusion", "name": "Grounds of inclusion", "description": "Separate documented selection criteria from inferred explanations and assess them against the relevant candidate field.", "questions": [ { "text": "What reasons did selectors give for treating this target as exemplary, authoritative or necessary to transmit?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounds-of-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which eligible alternatives were omitted, and is their omission explained or merely observed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grounds-of-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-persistence", "name": "Transmission and persistence", "description": "Examines how recognition is reproduced through teaching, publication and interpretation.", "rationale": "Repeated transmission can support a claim of canonical standing, but isolated visibility and dependent repetitions require qualification.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutional-recurrence", "name": "Institutional recurrence", "description": "Tracks repeated inclusion across defined selection venues.", "findings": [ { "id": "uptake-evidence", "name": "Uptake evidence", "description": "Assess recurrence using a stated sample, distinguishing independent uptake from selections copied from a common source.", "questions": [ { "text": "How often does the target appear in the sampled curricula, anthologies or reference histories, and what is the denominator?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "uptake-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which inclusions represent independent selection, and which reproduce an earlier list or institutional requirement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "uptake-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mediated-continuity", "name": "Mediated continuity", "description": "Relates enduring recognition to the versions and interpretive practices through which audiences encounter the target.", "findings": [ { "id": "transmission-path", "name": "Transmission path", "description": "Trace the editions, translations, excerpts and commentaries supporting continued recognition without equating availability with authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which editions, translations, excerpts or commentaries mediate the target's recurring use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transmission-path-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence show continuing canonical recognition, continuing availability or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transmission-path-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contestation-and-reassessment", "name": "Contestation and reassessment", "description": "Handles 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"Supports evidence-based changes to assessments while preserving earlier and community-specific claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "reassessment-decision", "name": "Reassessment decision", "description": "Specify the evidence needed to revise a standing assessment and distinguish observed decline from missing observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence would justify changing the target's assessed standing within this community and period?", "kind": "action", "id": "reassessment-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Does apparent disappearance reflect documented exclusion, reduced uptake or a gap in the sampled record?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reassessment-decision-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry supplies no sense. The cultural interpretation is provisional, inferred from INF.MED and the batch context; the religious meaning must be checked against the original entry.", "This interpretation describes a social and cultural process, not an individual creative work; the supplied category may require correction.", "These are recall-based statements, not researched findings; no universal identifier, governing standard, or measurement range is asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Literary canon formation", "Artistic canon formation", "Musical canon formation", "Cinematic canon formation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Selecting works for curricula and teaching anthologies", "Establishing repertoires for performance and exhibition", "Prioritizing works for preservation, republication, and scholarly editing", "Constructing histories of artistic and intellectual traditions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Excluding traditions marginalized by language, geography, class, gender, or colonial power", "Mistaking institutional visibility for an uncontested judgment of quality", "Treating a historically changing selection as permanent or universal", "Circular reinforcement when teaching, publishing, and criticism repeatedly privilege the same works" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Canons differ across languages, educational systems, religious communities, and national traditions.", "Translation and publishing access affect which works enter transnational canons.", "Oral and performance traditions may confer authority through practices different from those of print-based institutions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "canon", "difference": "A canon is the recognized body of works or authorities; canonization is the process that establishes or sustains that recognition." }, { "name": "popularity", "difference": "Popularity concerns audience attention or approval; canonization involves sustained cultural authority and can occur without mass popularity." }, { "name": "consecration", "difference": "Cultural consecration confers prestige or legitimacy; canonization more specifically concerns durable inclusion among exemplary works or creators." }, { "name": "canonical edition", "difference": "An authoritative edition establishes a preferred textual version; cultural canonization establishes the standing of a work or creator." }, { "name": "canonization of saints", "difference": "Religious canonization formally recognizes sainthood under a church's procedures, rather than establishing a cultural canon." }, { "name": "canonicalization", "difference": "In computing, canonicalization converts equivalent representations into a standard form; it does not confer cultural standing." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of canonization this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend cultural canon formation, religious canonization, a work titled Canonization or another sense? The plane and domain alone do not settle this.", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the intended sense, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which community-specific sources and selection venues can substantiate canonical standing without treating one institution's preferences as universal?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish emerging from established standing for the intended tradition, and who defines that threshold?", "How should the model assess traditions transmitted primarily through oral performance or informal communities where curricula and publication records offer limited evidence?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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. 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Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "canonization in the Roman Catholic Church", "Canonization in the Russian Orthodox Church", "equivalent canonization" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 66 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 canonization from another, and a canonization 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 canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization 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 canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization 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 canonization between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a canonization 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 canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a canonization says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a canonization contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a canonization, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a canonization, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a canonization is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a canonization and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a canonization, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a canonization, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a canonization is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of canonization a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For canonization, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of canonization exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made canonization and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to canonization, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in canonization, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a canonization 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 canonization and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 canonization is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a canonization, 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 canonization, 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 canonization 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 } } } }