{ "model": { "rank": 2766, "code": "thing-q620207", "model_id": "vr.tr.finger", "name": "finger", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify an individual finger, record its observable condition and functional capabilities, and determine which interactions are appropriate under known constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q620207/", "tier": 2, "score": 97, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "female finger", "human finger", "middle finger", "index finger", "ring finger", "little finger", "right middle finger", "left middle finger", "right index finger", "left index finger", "right ring finger", "left ring finger", "right little finger", "left little finger" ], "aliasCount": 14, "merged": 14, "knownIn": 97, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.finger-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q620207", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q620207", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:37:34Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00534786, "turns": 1, "seconds": 17.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 67.4, "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: 01a07ba7-c464-7e52-8a68-41f10c62a9be\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: finger\nRegistry id: vr.tr.finger\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy mod" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q620207", "registryId": "vr.tr.finger", "name": "finger", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q620207/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.finger", "name": "finger", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify an individual finger, record its observable condition and functional capabilities, and determine which interactions are appropriate under known constraints.", "definition": "A finger is a distal, independently movable ray of the human (or primate) hand, comprising a metacarpal and a chain of phalanges with joints, tendons, vessels, and digital nerves, used for grasp, fine manipulation, and tactile sensing.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual biological digit of a human hand, its attachment, local structures, observable state, functional contribution and interaction constraints; it provisionally includes the thumb while recording its distinct identity.", "in_scope": [ "Finger identity, hand laterality, digit position and attachment status", "Local segments, joints, fingertip, pad, skin and nail where present", "Observed movement, sensation and contribution to hand tasks", "Local condition, reported symptoms and changes over time", "Finger-specific contact, loading and assistance constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-hand coordination and overall grip performance", "Arm and wrist anatomy or movement except as context for finger observations", "Person-level identity, health history and clinical diagnosis", "Toes and other foot structures", "Artificial fingers, prosthetic components and robotic grippers as independently modelled things", "Rings, gloves, tools and other objects contacting the finger" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the digit belongs, or previously belonged, to a hand rather than a foot; appearance alone does not settle this.", "Identify one digit within the hand rather than treating the palm or the entire hand as the finger.", "Distinguish biological tissue from an artificial replacement, recording a prosthesis as a related component.", "Distinguish the complete digit or remaining digit from a nail, fingertip fragment or other local part.", "Record thumb versus non-thumb identity explicitly rather than inferring interchangeable structure or movement." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Digit identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "thumb | index | middle | ring | little | additional digit | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Locates the finger within the hand and prevents assumptions that all digits have the same structure or role." }, { "name": "Hand association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "associated hand reference; left | right | indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Disambiguates similarly named fingers and establishes the context for observations." }, { "name": "Attachment and extent", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "attachment: attached | partially attached | detached | unknown; extent described by observed landmarks", "why_it_matters": "Separates digit identity from its current physical continuity and remaining parts." }, { "name": "Finger dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "length and circumference in mm, with landmarks, posture and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports fit assessment and comparison without treating differently measured dimensions as equivalent." }, { "name": "Joint movement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees by identified joint and movement direction, distinguishing active from passive assessment", "why_it_matters": "Describes demonstrated movement without collapsing all joints into one mobility score." }, { "name": "Local surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed skin, pad and nail condition, including location, time and visibility limitations", "why_it_matters": "Identifies contact surfaces and visible changes relevant to interaction." }, { "name": "Reported sensation and discomfort", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "person-reported location, sensation, severity scale if used, trigger and time; unknown when not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps subjective experience distinct from what an image or movement observation can establish." }, { "name": "Demonstrated task contribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "task reference with finger role, contact location, assistance and observed outcome", "why_it_matters": "Connects the finger to actual use without attributing whole-hand performance to one digit." }, { "name": "Interaction restrictions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "per-action restrictions with source, applicable conditions and review time", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an observed capability from being interpreted as permission to exercise it." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and label the finger and its visible parts within a hand observation.", "Track local appearance, dimensions and reported symptoms across comparable observations.", "Describe demonstrated bending, straightening and digit-specific movement.", "Record the finger's contribution to pointing, touching, tapping, pinching or grasping.", "Assess contact and fit requirements for a related glove, ring, sensor or support.", "Gate proposed contact, movement or loading against consent, recorded restrictions and unresolved condition." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "gray-anatomy-hand", "title": "Anatomy of the Human Body: The Hand", "url": "https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/anatomy-of-the-human-body/3d-the-hand-1", "what_it_supports": "Classical osteology of metacarpals and phalanges; naming of the five digits.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "digit-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Digit identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which finger is modelled and what physical extent belongs to it.", "rationale": "Digit position, thumb identity and altered anatomy affect both recognition and interpretation of function.", "layers": [ { "id": "hand-and-digit-location", "name": "Hand and digit location", "description": "Locate the individual digit within its associated hand.", "findings": [ { "id": "digit-designation", "name": "Digit designation", "description": "Record the supported digit designation and hand association, preserving ambiguity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hand is this finger associated with, and what establishes laterality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "digit-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Is this the thumb, index, middle, ring, little or an additional digit, and is that designation uncertain?", "kind": "definition", "id": "digit-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-extent", "name": "Physical extent", "description": "Separate the individual finger from the hand, local fragments and replacements.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachment-and-part-boundaries", "name": "Attachment and part boundaries", "description": "Record attachment and remaining extent without assuming a complete or typical finger.", "questions": [ { "text": "What landmark defines this finger's proximal boundary with the hand for this model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attachment-and-part-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which portions are present, absent, detached or replaced, and how was this established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attachment-and-part-boundaries-q02" }, { "text": "Which adjacent or attached structures require separate linked models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attachment-and-part-boundaries-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "finger-structure-and-contact-surfaces", "name": "Finger structure and contact surfaces", "description": "Describe the finger's segments, joints and surfaces at the detail supported by evidence.", "rationale": "Finger movement and contact depend on specific local structures rather than a generic object shape.", "layers": [ { "id": "segments-and-joints", "name": "Segments and joints", "description": "Identify present segments and articulations without imposing a uniform digit template.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-structural-layout", "name": "Observed structural layout", "description": "Record identifiable segments, joints and measurement landmarks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which segments and joints are established for this finger, and which are inferred or unobserved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-structural-layout-q01" }, { "text": "What are the measured segment lengths or overall length, using which landmarks and posture?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-structural-layout-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tip-pad-and-nail", "name": "Tip, pad and nail", "description": "Locate the surfaces involved in touch, support and tool contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-contact-geometry", "name": "Local contact geometry", "description": "Describe the fingertip, pad and nail where present, including coverings that affect contact.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which fingertip, pad, side or nail surface would contact the object in the proposed task?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-contact-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "What local dimensions, nail projection or coverings affect that contact or fit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-contact-geometry-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-task-contribution", "name": "Movement and task contribution", "description": "Describe demonstrated movement and the finger's role in specific hand actions.", "rationale": "A finger's usefulness depends on joint-specific movement and coordinated participation, which cannot be inferred from appearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "joint-specific-mobility", "name": "Joint-specific mobility", "description": "Record movement direction, extent and assessment conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-movement", "name": "Demonstrated movement", "description": "Distinguish self-generated movement from externally assisted movement and untested capability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified joints were observed moving, in which directions and through what measured range?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Was the movement active, assisted or passively assessed, and what wrist posture and neighbouring-digit movement accompanied it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "demonstrated-movement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-participation", "name": "Functional participation", "description": "Connect digit movement and contact to an observed task.", "findings": [ { "id": "finger-role-in-task", "name": "Finger role in task", "description": "Record the finger's individual contribution without assigning it the outcome of the whole hand.", "questions": [ { "text": "During the observed task, did this finger point, tap, oppose another digit, support an object or contribute to grasping?", "kind": "definition", "id": "finger-role-in-task-q01" }, { "text": "What outcome was attributable to this finger, and what depended on other digits, the wrist or assistance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "finger-role-in-task-q02" }, { "text": "What task conditions must remain comparable before this performance can inform another interaction?", "kind": "action", "id": "finger-role-in-task-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-condition-and-sensation", "name": "Local condition and sensation", "description": "Capture visible condition and reported experience with location and time.", "rationale": "Appearance, discomfort and sensory experience provide different evidence about finger state and must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-shape-observations", "name": "Surface and shape observations", "description": "Record visible local changes without converting them into diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-condition-observation", "name": "Local condition observation", "description": "Locate changes in skin, nail, contour or alignment and retain observation limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in skin integrity, nail appearance, contour, colour or alignment are observable, and where?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-condition-observation-q01" }, { "text": "When and under what lighting, posture or covering conditions was the observation made, and is there a comparable earlier observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-condition-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reported-experience", "name": "Reported experience", "description": "Represent sensation and discomfort as reports or documented assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "sensation-and-discomfort-record", "name": "Sensation and discomfort record", "description": "Preserve the person's account and distinguish unassessed sensation from an absence of symptoms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pain, numbness, tingling or altered touch is reported, at which part of the finger and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sensation-and-discomfort-record-q01" }, { "text": "Does this record come from the person's report or a documented assessment, and when was it obtained?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sensation-and-discomfort-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "finger-interaction-constraints", "name": "Finger interaction constraints", "description": "Determine what proposed contact, movement or loading is supported by available authorization and evidence.", "rationale": "Recognising a finger or observing movement does not establish that manipulating, loading or instrumenting it is appropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-and-loading", "name": "Contact and loading", "description": "Relate a proposed physical interaction to the specific finger surface and recorded limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "proposed-interaction-envelope", "name": "Proposed interaction envelope", "description": "Specify intended contact, movement and loading while leaving unsupported limits unknown.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where would the proposed interaction contact the finger, and what force, pressure, movement or duration would it involve?", "kind": "action", "id": "proposed-interaction-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which recorded restrictions apply to that surface, joint or task, and what source establishes them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "proposed-interaction-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorization-and-reassessment", "name": "Authorization and reassessment", "description": "Connect permission and changing finger state to action decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-readiness", "name": "Action readiness", "description": "Record whether a proposed interaction may proceed and what unresolved information prevents a decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the person authorized this specific finger interaction, and can they communicate withdrawal or discomfort during it?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What missing evidence or change in finger condition requires pausing the interaction or obtaining an appropriate assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-readiness-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 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hold for the sense of finger this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend finger to include the thumb and non-human hand digits, or should either be covered through a neighbouring model?", "What proximal anatomical boundary should define a finger consistently for measurements and ownership of shared hand structures?", "How should congenital variation, joined digits, partial absence and reattachment affect digit identity and model boundaries?", "Which measurement and assessment protocols provide comparable evidence for finger movement, sensation and task contribution?", "Which authoritative sources should establish task-specific interaction limits and reassessment criteria without treating observed capability as proof of safety?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 12, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 finger, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify an individual finger, record its observable condition and functional capabilities, and determine which interactions are appropriate under known constraints.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: female finger, human finger, middle finger, index finger, ring finger, little finger, right middle finger, left middle finger, right index finger, left index finger, right ring finger, left ring finger.", "14 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 97 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 finger, 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" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "female finger", "human finger", "middle finger", "index finger", "ring finger", "little finger", "right middle finger", "left middle finger", "right index finger", "left index finger", "right ring finger", "left ring finger" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 97 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 14 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 finger from another, and a finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger 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 finger is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger 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 finger between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a finger 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 finger, 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 finger, 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 finger is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What finger is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does finger perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise finger, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How finger is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does finger have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does finger need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about finger is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about finger hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern finger, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a finger 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 finger and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger 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 finger is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a finger, 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 finger, 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 finger is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }