{ "model": { "rank": 6444, "code": "thing-q593675", "model_id": "vr.tr.gouda", "name": "Gouda", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Gouda cheese, assess a particular wheel, portion or batch, and decide how it may be stored, prepared, served or further matured.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q593675/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Reypenaer", "Old Amsterdam" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q593675", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593675", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:33:11Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00229738, "turns": 1, "seconds": 21.2, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 79.4, "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: 01a07c48-5bed-7fc3-86e0-4f0f9bfacfe4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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owns Gouda as a cheese material and identifiable product, including evidence of its identity, production history, maturation, present condition and suitability for an intended use; it provisionally interprets the undefined registry name as cheese.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting identification as Gouda and any more specific named designation", "Milk composition, treatment and cheese-making history relevant to the resulting Gouda", "Maturation history and the resulting texture, flavour and functional behaviour", "Condition of the cheese body, rind or coating, including changes after cutting", "Suitability and constraints for storage, further maturation, serving and cooking" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Gouda the city and its geography", "Dairy-herd management and milk production before the cheese-making input", "Cheese-factory machinery, facility operations and sanitation programmes", "Packaging manufacture and logistics-network management", "Complete recipes, menus and individual dietary or clinical assessments", "The legal designation system itself, beyond evidence that a Gouda product qualifies" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check product identification and production evidence together: a yellow cheese or a waxed wheel alone does not establish Gouda identity.", "Seek evidence of curd washing and pressing when distinguishing Gouda from cheddar-style cheeses; treat missing process records as uncertainty rather than proof of another identity.", "When distinguishing Gouda from Edam or another related cheese, compare the declared cheese type, composition and applicable specification rather than relying on shape or coating colour.", "Distinguish a cheese identified as Gouda from a processed product containing Gouda by checking ingredients and whether the cheese was subsequently blended or reformulated.", "Distinguish generic Gouda from a specifically claimed regional or traditional designation by checking the exact name and supporting origin and production records." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity and designation evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared name; generic Gouda or specific designation; supported, disputed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identity claim the agent can make and which specification it should consult." }, { "name": "Milk basis and treatment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared milk species and proportions; raw, thermised, pasteurised or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports identity checks and the interpretation of production and handling requirements." }, { "name": "Production and batch lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to producer, production location, batch and parent wheel", "why_it_matters": "Connects a portion to evidence that cannot be established from appearance alone." }, { "name": "Curd-washing history", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented, declared, unknown or inconsistent; associated process record", "why_it_matters": "Provides process evidence relevant to Gouda identification and interpretation of its resulting body." }, { "name": "Maturation duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Days or months, with production date, assessment date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret expected development without treating commercial age labels as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Moisture content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% by mass, with sampling location and method", "why_it_matters": "Helps explain firmness, drying and cooking behaviour." }, { "name": "Fat in dry matter", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% of dry matter; distinguish from fat as a percentage of total cheese mass", "why_it_matters": "Enables valid composition comparisons and checks against an applicable product specification." }, { "name": "Salt content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g/100 g cheese, with method or label source", "why_it_matters": "Informs flavour interpretation and suitability for a proposed culinary use." }, { "name": "Body and inclusion condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Recorded firmness, elasticity, crumbliness, eyes, cracks, crystals and declared added ingredients", "why_it_matters": "Separates the observed maturation profile from unexpected changes or misidentified inclusions." }, { "name": "Rind or coating condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Surface type and material; intact, damaged, removed or unknown; edibility evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls exposure assessment and whether removal is needed before use." }, { "name": "Storage and exposure history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Time-linked records of temperature, humidity where relevant, wrapping, opening and cutting", "why_it_matters": "Makes present-condition judgments specific to the wheel or portion being assessed." }, { "name": "Behaviour in intended preparation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed slicing, grating, melting and oil separation under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports a use decision based on this Gouda rather than the cheese name alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and label Gouda at the level supported by product and production evidence.", "Compare wheels or portions for a requested maturation profile and culinary use.", "Portion, slice or grate the cheese using its observed firmness and surface requirements.", "Select Gouda for a cooked preparation using evidence of its melting behaviour.", "Plan storage or further maturation from the cheese form, coating, history and producer guidance.", "Hold a portion out of use when identity, condition or handling evidence requires further assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "Research in progress", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Pending web lookups" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gouda-identity", "name": "Gouda identity", "description": "Establishes what Gouda claim applies to the cheese and how strongly that claim is supported.", "rationale": "Appearance, the general cheese name and a specific origin designation support different conclusions.", "layers": [ { "id": "product-boundary", "name": "Product boundary", "description": "Determines whether the subject is Gouda cheese or a neighbouring product.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Evidence for Gouda identity", "description": "Record the declared identity, supporting production evidence and competing interpretations without inferring identity from colour or coating alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What label, producer statement or production record identifies this cheese as Gouda?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is this Gouda cheese, a Gouda variant with declared additions, or a reformulated product containing Gouda?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designation-and-lineage", "name": "Designation and lineage", "description": "Connects a claimed Gouda designation to the producer, origin and batch.", "findings": [ { "id": "specific-name-entitlement", "name": "Specific name entitlement", "description": "Record any origin or traditional designation separately from generic Gouda identity and retain the evidence supporting its use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact designation is claimed, and which applicable specification defines it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specific-name-entitlement-q01" }, { "text": "Which producer, location and batch records support that claim for this wheel or portion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specific-name-entitlement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "milk-and-curd-development", "name": "Milk and curd development", "description": "Records the material inputs and production steps needed to interpret the Gouda body.", "rationale": "Gouda identification and behaviour require more than a finished-product appearance or an age label.", "layers": [ { "id": "milk-and-formulation", "name": "Milk and formulation", "description": "Captures the milk basis, treatment and additions relevant to the particular Gouda.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-basis", "name": "Composition basis", "description": "Record milk identity and treatment, declared additions and composition with explicit measurement bases.", "questions": [ { "text": "What milk species, milk treatment and added ingredients are documented for this Gouda?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "composition-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What moisture, salt and fat measurements are available, and is fat reported on a total-mass or dry-matter basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "curd-washing-and-consolidation", "name": "Curd washing and consolidation", "description": "Captures process evidence concerning washing, pressing and salting.", "findings": [ { "id": "gouda-process-evidence", "name": "Gouda process evidence", "description": "Record documented curd treatment and consolidation steps, separating known production facts from expectations associated with the cheese name.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence records curd washing, including whey removal and water addition where documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gouda-process-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What pressing and salting history is known, and does it agree with the specification used to identify this Gouda?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gouda-process-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "maturation-and-body", "name": "Maturation and body", "description": "Relates maturation evidence to the cheese's observed texture, flavour and internal features.", "rationale": "Two products called Gouda can differ substantially in readiness for slicing, grating or melting.", "layers": [ { "id": "maturation-evidence", "name": "Maturation evidence", "description": "Separates elapsed age, commercial maturity terms and documented maturation conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "age-and-development-history", "name": "Age and development history", "description": "Record dated maturation evidence and the producer's meaning for any age category.", "questions": [ { "text": "How long has this Gouda matured, and which dates or batch records establish that duration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "age-and-development-history-q01" }, { "text": "What does the producer mean by its maturity label, and what storage or maturation conditions are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "age-and-development-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observed-body-profile", "name": "Observed body profile", "description": "Captures the internal and sensory features used to judge development and consistency.", "findings": [ { "id": "texture-and-internal-features", "name": "Texture and internal features", "description": "Record firmness, elasticity, fracture, eyes, crystals and sensory observations without automatically classifying every inclusion as a defect.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what assessment temperature does the cheese bend, slice or crumble, and what eyes, crystals or cracks are visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "texture-and-internal-features-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed features fit the documented Gouda variant and maturation history, and which remain unexplained?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "texture-and-internal-features-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-condition-and-use", "name": "Surface condition and use", "description": "Connects the wheel or portion's protective surface and exposure history to a proposed action.", "rationale": "A coated wheel and an exposed cut portion require different evidence before storage, maturation or preparation decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-exposure", "name": "Surface and exposure", "description": "Assesses the rind or coating together with cutting, opening and storage history.", "findings": [ { "id": "protective-surface-status", "name": "Protective surface status", "description": "Record surface material, integrity, edibility evidence and changes affecting the exposed cheese.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rind or coating is present, is it intact, and what evidence establishes whether it must be removed before eating?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "protective-surface-status-q01" }, { "text": "When was the Gouda cut or opened, how was it stored, and what drying, growth, odour or surface changes have since been observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protective-surface-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-and-disposition", "name": "Preparation and disposition", "description": "Determines which proposed uses are supported by the cheese's condition and functional behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-next-action", "name": "Supported next action", "description": "Record the intended use, relevant observations and unresolved constraints before recommending preparation, continued storage or further maturation.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed slicing, grating or melting use, what observations establish that this Gouda has suitable texture and cooking behaviour?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "Given its coating, cut status and handling history, what evidence supports using, storing or further maturing it, or holding it for assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-next-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Jong Gouda (young, ~4 weeks)", "Jong belegen", "Belegen", "Extra belegen", "Oud (old)", "Overjarig (extra-aged)", "Gouda Holland (PGI factory cheese)", "Noord-Hollandse Gouda (PDO); Boerenkaas / farmhouse Gouda" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Gouda this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Gouda exclusively as cheese, and how should milk-species variants and products containing Gouda be bounded?", "Which authoritative specifications should govern generic Gouda and each specific designation encountered in the intended jurisdictions?", "Which composition and production criteria reliably distinguish Gouda from Edam and related washed-curd cheeses when labels or process records are incomplete?", "How 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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 Gouda, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Gouda cheese, assess a particular wheel, portion or batch, and decide how it may be stored, prepared, served or further matured.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "consumed or used up" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Reypenaer, Old Amsterdam.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 Gouda, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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", "use it up, and then need more of it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by sight in any reliable way. Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "Reypenaer", "Old Amsterdam" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 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 Gouda from another, and a Gouda 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda 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.", "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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Gouda is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Gouda, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Gouda, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Gouda 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 Gouda is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 Gouda is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda 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 Gouda between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Gouda 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda 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 Gouda is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Gouda performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Gouda at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a Gouda there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a Gouda, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a Gouda, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a Gouda is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What Gouda is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name Gouda unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of Gouda exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How Gouda behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of Gouda, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is Gouda incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How Gouda can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is Gouda classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover Gouda, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Gouda 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 Gouda and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda 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 Gouda is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Gouda, 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 Gouda, 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 Gouda is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }