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        "purpose": "Let an agent explain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and prions in general terms from public health and veterinary sources, describe human and animal forms, relay surveillance and control measures, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.",
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                "inherited prion disease",
                "atypical scrapie",
                "variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease",
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                "exotic ungulate encephalopathy",
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                "feline spongiform encephalopathy",
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                "purpose": "Let an agent explain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and prions in general terms from public health and veterinary sources, describe human and animal forms, relay surveillance and control measures, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.",
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                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a group of diseases.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain prions and disease forms",
                    "relay human and animal diseases",
                    "relay surveillance and control",
                    "route personal questions"
                ],
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                    "Prion cause",
                    "Long incubation",
                    "Invariably fatal",
                    "Resistant infectious agent"
                ],
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                    "Prion diseases with spongiform brain damage",
                    "CJD, kuru, scrapie, BSE, CWD and related diseases",
                    "Other dementias are not transmissible; viral encephalitis has a different cause"
                ],
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                    {
                        "quantity": "sporadic CJD incidence",
                        "typical_range": "about 1-2",
                        "unit": "per million per year",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "variant CJD cases worldwide",
                        "typical_range": "about 230",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": "cumulative"
                    }
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                    "human prion diseases: sporadic, inherited, iatrogenic and variant CJD, kuru, fatal familial insomnia, GSS",
                    "scrapie and atypical scrapie",
                    "bovine spongiform encephalopathy",
                    "chronic wasting disease",
                    "transmissible mink encephalopathy",
                    "exotic ungulate and camel spongiform encephalopathies",
                    "feline spongiform encephalopathy"
                ],
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                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "neurodegenerative disease with dementia",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "encephalopathy",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is caused by",
                        "target": "prion",
                        "why": "the misfolded protein"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is controlled by",
                        "target": "feed ban",
                        "why": "and surveillance in animals"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "ICD-11",
                        "value_or_pattern": "8E00",
                        "note": "prion diseases"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "WOAH",
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                        "note": "BSE and scrapie"
                    }
                ],
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                    "WHO and national CJD surveillance",
                    "Animal feed bans and BSE testing rules",
                    "Blood and tissue donor deferral rules",
                    "Decontamination standards for surgical instruments"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Iatrogenic transmission",
                    "Food chain contamination",
                    "Chronic wasting disease spread in wildlife",
                    "Agents giving personal medical advice"
                ],
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                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
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                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "The diseases.",
                        "rationale": "Science.",
                        "layers": [
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                                "name": "Prions",
                                "description": "Prions and mechanism.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "prions-finding",
                                        "name": "Prions",
                                        "description": "Prions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are prions, and how do they cause spongiform encephalopathies?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about a prion disease or another dementia or encephalitis?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "forms",
                                "name": "Forms",
                                "description": "Human and animal forms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "forms-finding",
                                        "name": "Forms",
                                        "description": "Forms.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the human and animal forms, and how do they differ?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific disease?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "clinical",
                        "name": "Clinical",
                        "description": "Diagnosis and care.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
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                            {
                                "id": "diagnosis",
                                "name": "Diagnosis",
                                "description": "Diagnosis.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnosis-finding",
                                        "name": "Diagnosis",
                                        "description": "Diagnosis.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are prion diseases diagnosed, and what are the signs, in general terms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user asking about a personal or family case, which needs a neurologist?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "care",
                                "name": "Care",
                                "description": "Care and genetics.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "care-finding",
                                        "name": "Care",
                                        "description": "Care.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What care and genetic counselling exist, given there is no cure?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "control",
                        "name": "Control",
                        "description": "Public health and animal control.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "measures",
                                "name": "Measures",
                                "description": "Control measures.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measures-finding",
                                        "name": "Measures",
                                        "description": "Measures.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What feed, food, blood and surgical measures control transmission?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits BSE control?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "surveillance",
                                "name": "Surveillance",
                                "description": "Surveillance.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "surveillance-finding",
                                        "name": "Surveillance",
                                        "description": "Surveillance.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are human and animal prion diseases monitored, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
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                            }
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                        "id": "context",
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                        "description": "History and research.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
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                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "History.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How were kuru, scrapie and BSE understood, and how did Prusiner establish the prion concept?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the BSE crisis?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "research",
                                "name": "Research",
                                "description": "Research.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "research-finding",
                                        "name": "Research",
                                        "description": "Research.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What research exists on treatments, diagnostics and prion-like mechanisms in other diseases, with findings attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits prion research?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should CJD and BSE be separate primary entries?",
                "How should surveillance sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming distinct diseases; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and prions in general terms from public health and veterinary sources, describe human and animal forms, relay surveillance and control measures, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: inherited prion disease, atypical scrapie, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Transmissible mink encephalopathy, exotic ungulate encephalopathy, Camel spongiform encephalopathy, feline spongiform encephalopathy, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy, spongiform encephalopathy with neuropsychiatric features.",
                "9 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 32 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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": [
                {
                    "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": [
                        "inherited prion disease",
                        "atypical scrapie",
                        "variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease",
                        "Transmissible mink encephalopathy",
                        "exotic ungulate encephalopathy",
                        "Camel spongiform encephalopathy",
                        "feline spongiform encephalopathy",
                        "variably protease-sensitive prionopathy",
                        "spongiform encephalopathy with neuropsychiatric features"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 32 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
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                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one transmissible spongiform encephalopathy from another, and a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
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                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
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                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, 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 transmissible spongiform encephalopathy 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
            }
        }
    }
}