{ "model": { "rank": 5350, "code": "thing-q685440", "model_id": "vr.tr.shawwal", "name": "Shawwal", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Shawwal, identify a particular year's occurrence under a stated Islamic calendar authority, and support date-dependent decisions without treating local determinations as universal.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q685440/", "tier": 2, "score": 68, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 68, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q685440", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q685440", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:10:55Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.9, "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: 01a08838-8de3-7073-9d25-09d8c2712fec\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Shawwal\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.KNW\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 registe", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 53.3, "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: 01a08838-8def-7690-8cc6-4c39d3096ba3\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Shawwal\nRegistry id: vr.tr.shawwal\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.KNW\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q685440", "registryId": "vr.tr.shawwal", "name": "Shawwal", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q685440/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.shawwal", "name": "Shawwal", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Shawwal, identify a particular year's occurrence under a stated Islamic calendar authority, and support date-dependent decisions without treating local determinations as universal.", "definition": "Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic Hijri lunar calendar, following Ramadan and preceding Dhu al-Qadah, with Eid al-Fitr observed on its first day.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Shawwal as the tenth named month of the Islamic Hijri calendar and the information needed to distinguish its annual occurrences, establish their boundaries, and relate them to Shawwal-specific observances.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, spelling variants, and position of Shawwal in the Hijri month sequence", "Annual occurrences identified by Hijri year and calendar convention", "Start and end determinations, including their authority, locality, and evidential basis", "Conditional correspondence between Shawwal dates and Gregorian dates", "Relationships to Eid al-Fitr and the six voluntary fasts associated with Shawwal" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Islamic calendar's complete structure and history", "Ramadan's fasting obligations and religious practices", "Eid al-Fitr as a festival with its own rituals and social organisation", "Comprehensive jurisprudence governing fasting, exemptions, and missed fasts", "Astronomical modelling of lunar motion and crescent visibility", "Government holiday entitlements and workplace leave policies" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Shawwal occupies month position ten, immediately after Ramadan and before Dhu al-Qadah.", "The recurring named month is distinct from an occurrence such as Shawwal 1447 AH, which requires a year and calendar convention.", "Eid al-Fitr falls on the first day of Shawwal; the festival and the whole month are different things.", "Its Gregorian correspondence changes between years and can differ between calendar authorities for the same Hijri year.", "The six voluntary fasts associated with Shawwal do not define six universally fixed dates within the month." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Hijri month position", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "10", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes Shawwal from neighbouring Islamic months." }, { "name": "Hijri year", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Integer year in the stated Hijri calendar convention", "why_it_matters": "Separates the recurring month concept from a particular occurrence." }, { "name": "Calendar determination convention", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Local sighting, acceptance of sightings elsewhere, astronomical calculation, tabular calendar, or another explicitly named convention", "why_it_matters": "Explains why different records may assign different boundaries to the same named occurrence." }, { "name": "Determining authority and applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named authority or calendar publisher linked to the community or jurisdiction applying its determination", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a local determination from being presented as binding everywhere." }, { "name": "Occurrence boundaries", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Start and end under a named convention, with locality, day-boundary interpretation, and provisional or confirmed status", "why_it_matters": "Supports dependable scheduling and interpretation of date claims." }, { "name": "Month length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "29 or 30 calendar days for a determined occurrence", "why_it_matters": "Constrains valid dates and identifies the transition to Dhu al-Qadah." }, { "name": "Observance relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "First day linked to Eid al-Fitr; month linked to six voluntary fasts, with attributed guidance", "why_it_matters": "Supports observance-aware actions without conflating the month with a festival or legal ruling." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a Shawwal name or spelling variant to the registered month concept.", "Identify an annual occurrence using its Hijri year, calendar convention, and applicable community.", "Translate a Shawwal date into a conditional Gregorian date or interval.", "Compare differing start announcements while preserving each authority's applicability.", "Schedule reminders that distinguish provisional calendar estimates from confirmed determinations.", "Link Shawwal dates to observance guidance while leaving jurisprudential decisions to attributed sources." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "shawwal-identity", "name": "Shawwal identity", "description": "Recognises the named month and separates it from its occurrences and associated festival.", "rationale": "A Shawwal reference may denote a month concept, a dated occurrence, or an informal reference to Eid; these require different handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-and-sequence", "name": "Name and sequence", "description": "Identifies Shawwal through its names and fixed position in the Hijri month sequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "tenth-hijri-month", "name": "Tenth Hijri month", "description": "Record whether the reference denotes the month following Ramadan and preceding Dhu al-Qadah, retaining the original spelling.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this reference identify the tenth Hijri month, or another entity bearing the name Shawwal?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tenth-hijri-month-q01" }, { "text": "Which language, script, or transliteration convention accounts for the recorded name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tenth-hijri-month-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "concept-and-occurrence", "name": "Concept and occurrence", "description": "Separates the recurring month from an annual occurrence and from Eid al-Fitr.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-resolution", "name": "Reference resolution", "description": "Establish whether a statement concerns Shawwal generally, a specified Hijri year's month, or its opening festival.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a Hijri year supplied or recoverable from the reference's context?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reference-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the statement concern the whole month, its first day, or Eid al-Fitr as a separate observance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reference-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shawwal-boundary-determination", "name": "Shawwal boundary determination", "description": "Records how Ramadan ends, Shawwal begins, and Shawwal gives way to Dhu al-Qadah.", "rationale": "Shawwal's boundaries require a stated convention and applicable authority, especially when announcements differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "opening-determination", "name": "Opening determination", "description": "Captures the basis and applicability of the declaration or calculation establishing 1 Shawwal.", "findings": [ { "id": "ramadan-to-shawwal-transition", "name": "Ramadan to Shawwal transition", "description": "Record the evidence or calendar rule used to establish the opening of Shawwal and who accepts that determination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sighting decision, calculation, or tabular rule establishes 1 Shawwal for this occurrence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ramadan-to-shawwal-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority issued the determination, and which community or jurisdiction follows it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ramadan-to-shawwal-transition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "closing-determination", "name": "Closing determination", "description": "Establishes the final valid Shawwal date and transition to the next month.", "findings": [ { "id": "length-and-next-month", "name": "Length and next month", "description": "Record whether the occurrence has 29 or 30 days under the selected convention and whether its closing boundary is settled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the applicable determination give this Shawwal 29 or 30 days?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "length-and-next-month-q01" }, { "text": "What determination establishes the start of Dhu al-Qadah and therefore the end of this Shawwal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "length-and-next-month-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shawwal-date-resolution", "name": "Shawwal date resolution", "description": "Supports date conversion and scheduling when Gregorian representations or community calendars differ.", "rationale": "A bare Gregorian date can conceal both the evening boundary of an Islamic day and disagreement over the beginning of Shawwal.", "layers": [ { "id": "gregorian-correspondence", "name": "Gregorian correspondence", "description": "Relates a specified Shawwal date to civil dates or time intervals with explicit assumptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "day-and-evening-mapping", "name": "Day and evening mapping", "description": "Distinguish a civil date label from the full religious day interval when resolving a Shawwal date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Hijri year, Shawwal day number, and calendar convention are being converted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "day-and-evening-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested output denote a civil date, the preceding evening's start, or the full day interval for a specified locality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "day-and-evening-mapping-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disagreement-and-revision", "name": "Disagreement and revision", "description": "Preserves alternative determinations and tracks changes from forecasts to announcements.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-specific-date-state", "name": "Authority-specific date state", "description": "Record whether a Shawwal date is projected or confirmed by its source, and retain competing determinations with their applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this date a forecast, a published calculated date, or an announced determination, and when was it issued?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-specific-date-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which existing reminders or date mappings require revision if the applicable authority changes its announcement?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-specific-date-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shawwal-observance-links", "name": "Shawwal observance links", "description": "Connects the month to Eid al-Fitr and voluntary fasting while preserving the boundaries of separate observance and jurisprudence models.", "rationale": "Shawwal-specific actions depend on distinguishing its festival day from other dates and attributing fasting guidance to a stated tradition or authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "eid-opening-day", "name": "Eid opening day", "description": "Links 1 Shawwal to Eid al-Fitr without assigning the entire festival or public holiday period to the month model.", "findings": [ { "id": "first-day-festival-link", "name": "First-day festival link", "description": "Record Eid al-Fitr's relationship to 1 Shawwal and distinguish that date from locally extended celebrations or statutory holidays.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which determination of 1 Shawwal supplies the Eid date for the relevant community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "first-day-festival-link-q01" }, { "text": "Does a stated Eid period refer to 1 Shawwal, additional celebration days, or a separately established public holiday interval?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "first-day-festival-link-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "six-voluntary-fasts", "name": "Six voluntary fasts", "description": "Represents the association between Shawwal and six voluntary fasting days without imposing an unattributed scheduling rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "fasting-guidance-and-scheduling", "name": "Fasting guidance and scheduling", "description": "Link proposed fasting dates to guidance on eligible days, continuity, and the relationship to outstanding Ramadan fasts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which religious source or authority supports the guidance being applied to the six Shawwal fasts?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fasting-guidance-and-scheduling-q01" }, { "text": "Under that guidance, which dates are eligible, and what constraints concern Eid, consecutive days, or outstanding Ramadan fasts?", "kind": "action", "id": "fasting-guidance-and-scheduling-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": [ "This describes the calendar-month sense; Shawwal is a recurring period, not a discipline or field of knowledge.", "Specific Gregorian equivalents require a Hijri year and a stated calendar convention or relevant authority.", "Details of voluntary fasting practice should be checked against the relevant Islamic legal tradition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Shawwal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Hijri calendar month numbering", "value_or_pattern": "10", "note": "Identifies the month within a Hijri year, not a unique date." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Shawwal 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": [ "Dating religious, civil and historical events in the Hijri calendar.", "Determining the observance of Eid al-Fitr on 1 Shawwal.", "Providing the period for the six voluntary days of fasting in Shawwal recognized in Sunni Islamic practice; Eid al-Fitr itself is excluded from fasting." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Shawwal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Month duration", "typical_range": "29-30", "unit": "days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Shawwal 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": [ "Treating Shawwal as a fixed Gregorian date or season produces incorrect conversions.", "Assuming all communities begin Shawwal on the same date can misalign observances and schedules.", "Confusing a calculated calendar date with a locally confirmed religious date can create discrepancies." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Shawwal 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": [ "Communities and authorities differ in their use of local crescent sightings, sightings accepted from elsewhere, or astronomical calculations to determine the month's beginning.", "Civil calendar dates and religious announcements may differ across jurisdictions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Shawwal 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": "Ramadan", "difference": "Ramadan is the ninth Hijri month and the month of obligatory fasting; Shawwal immediately follows it." }, { "name": "Dhu al-Qadah", "difference": "Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh Hijri month and immediately follows Shawwal." }, { "name": "Eid al-Fitr", "difference": "Eid al-Fitr is the festival observed on Shawwal's first day, whereas Shawwal is the entire month." }, { "name": "Hijri calendar", "difference": "The Hijri calendar is the dating system; Shawwal is one of its twelve months." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Shawwal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy Islamic calendar model already own Shawwal's identity, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than establish a second source of truth?", "Which Arabic forms and transliteration variants should the registry recognise as Shawwal aliases?", "Which authorities and communities must occurrence records cover, and where can their original Shawwal announcements be reliably retrieved?", "How should historical Shawwal dates be represented when the local determination is unknown and only retrospective calendar conversion is available?", "Which attributed religious sources should govern optional fasting guidance, particularly differences concerning outstanding Ramadan fasts and scheduling?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "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 Shawwal, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Shawwal, identify a particular year's occurrence under a stated Islamic calendar authority, and support date-dependent decisions without treating local determinations as universal.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 68 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 Shawwal, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 68 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Shawwal from another, and a Shawwal 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Shawwal 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What Shawwal studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does Shawwal take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does Shawwal establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where Shawwal is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark Shawwal as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place Shawwal, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Shawwal 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 Shawwal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 Shawwal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Shawwal, 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 Shawwal, 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 Shawwal 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 } } } }