baby sign language
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a baby sign language, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Derived, awaiting review
7 bundles · 13 layers · 15 findings · 40 questions
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one baby sign language from another, and a baby sign language from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a baby sign language sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a baby sign language from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a baby sign language passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a baby sign language between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a baby sign language, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a baby sign language is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Process, inputs and outcome How a baby sign language proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.
An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.
Steps and sequence
The steps of a baby sign language, their order and what may run in parallel.
Steps, preconditions and completion
What has to be true before each step of a baby sign language and what marks it done.
- What identifies and describes a step of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a step of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a step of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Inputs, resources and results
What a baby sign language consumes and what it produces.
Inputs, outputs and side effects
The resources a baby sign language takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.
- What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Speakers, communities and standing Who speaks baby sign language, how many, and what status it holds where they live.
Speaker numbers move, and legal standing changes without the language changing. Both are claims with a date and a source, never properties.
Speaker populations
Counts by kind of speaker, each with the year and the method behind it.
Population estimates and their basis
First-language and second-language counts, who produced them and how.
- How many first-language and second-language speakers of baby sign language are claimed, for which year, and by whom? measurement
- What method produced that estimate - census, survey, projection - and what does it systematically miss? provenance
Official standing and policy
Where baby sign language is official, taught, or barred, and under which instrument.
Legal status by jurisdiction
The status held in each place, with the law or treaty that grants it.
- In which jurisdictions does baby sign language hold official, regional or minority status, and under what instrument? definition
- What follows practically from that status - schooling, courts, signage - and what does not? action
Varieties, registers and writing The forms baby sign language takes, and the scripts and spellings used to write it.
A language is not its script and a standard is not the whole language. A model that conflates them cannot say which variety a text is in.
Varieties and the continuum
Dialects, standards and the cuts drawn through a continuum that has none of its own.
Varieties and who separated them
Named varieties, their relation to the standard, and the authority behind each split.
- Which varieties of baby sign language are distinguished in practice, and who drew each boundary? boundary
- Which neighbouring lect is treated as the same language by one authority and a different one by another? boundary
Script and orthography
Writing systems in use, competing spellings, and reform history.
Writing systems and orthographies
Scripts baby sign language is written in and which spelling convention applies where.
- Which scripts and orthographies are in use for baby sign language, and where does each apply? definition
- What identifies the orthography of a given text, and what should an agent do when it cannot tell? action
Codes and external alignment The identifiers that name baby sign language across systems.
Language codes are how every other system will refer to this, and they disagree with each other in known ways.
Identifier schemes
ISO 639 parts, Glottolog, and the granularity each assumes.
Codes and the granularity they encode
Which code refers to this language and which refers to a group containing it.
- Which ISO 639-1, 639-2 and 639-3 codes apply to baby sign language, and do they refer to the same extent? definition
- Where do the schemes disagree about whether this is one language or several? boundary
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a baby sign language came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a baby sign language and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a baby sign language is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a baby sign language, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a baby sign language, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- language
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
What it is Derived, awaiting review
An activity registered under ACT.ACT. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
Why it exists Derived, awaiting review
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a baby sign language, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 17 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
May
- observe it, measure it, record its state
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Links to other meta-models Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Made of: something that happens over time
- 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.
Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review
- Recognised from text or speech by script, vocabulary and grammar - and script is the weakest of the three, since several languages share one.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- observed and measured
Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Context of use required Derived, awaiting review
- Described in 17 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- 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 baby sign language, and on what evidence are they told apart?
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse?
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a baby sign language is known, and what must it refuse?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry, generated draft (pass 1) · not researched
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