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[ATF recognition guidance](https://www.atf.gov/explosives/tools-services-explosives-industry/current-licensees/suspicious-or-dangerous-items)", "Distinguish a documented dynamite formulation from a container of nitroglycerin: the presence of that ingredient alone does not establish product identity. [NIOSH nitroglycerine reference](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0456.html)", "Check the exact manufacturer designation against its documentation before distinguishing dynamite from similarly packaged emulsions or other explosives.", "Treat gelatin-related names as a boundary requiring documentary interpretation rather than automatically excluding them from dynamite.", "Distinguish energetic material from a replica, empty wrapper or certified inert specimen using explicit evidence; appearance and missing accessories do not establish inertness." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "suspected dynamite | documented dynamite | specialist-confirmed dynamite | excluded | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates a provisional recognition from a supported classification." }, { "name": "Manufacturer and product designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Manufacturer, exact product name and applicable product document", "why_it_matters": "Connects the item to evidence specific to its formulation and packaging." }, { "name": "Documented formulation family", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-stated family | unknown | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from assigning one composition or condition rule to every dynamite product." }, { "name": "Represented physical unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "cartridge | package | lot | unidentified material", "why_it_matters": "Defines what observations and quantity statements actually cover." }, { "name": "Recorded quantity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Cartridge count and documented mass in kg, distinguishing net explosive mass from gross package mass", "why_it_matters": "Supports inventory reconciliation without requiring physical measurement of suspect material." }, { "name": "Lot and date evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Lot identifier and documented manufacture, receipt and review dates; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Makes age claims and affected-lot decisions traceable." }, { "name": "Wrapper and material observations", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No anomaly reported | damage reported | liquid or staining reported | other anomaly reported | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Records warning evidence without treating observation as a diagnosis or clearance." }, { "name": "Storage-history completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented | partial | unknown | documented excursion", "why_it_matters": "Exposes gaps that may invalidate assumptions about present condition." }, { "name": "Energetic-status evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "energetic | presumed energetic | certified inert | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an old, damaged or apparently empty item from being treated as harmless without evidence." }, { "name": "Disposition eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "undetermined | restricted pending assessment | authorised for a specified action | disposition documented", "why_it_matters": "Keeps a bounded professional decision separate from a general claim of safety." } ], "affordances": [ "Match existing markings and records to product documentation and record identification confidence.", "Reconcile cartridge, package and lot records without directing physical handling.", "Flag condition anomalies and missing history for qualified explosives assessment.", "Check whether a proposed custody or disposition decision has applicable authorisation.", "Link professional assessment and disposition evidence to the affected material.", "Keep unresolved or suspected material visible in the catalogue until its status is supported." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "meyer-kohler-homburg", "title": "Explosives - Wiley-VCH (Meyer, Köhler, Homburg)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Industrial compositions, density and detonation-velocity ranges, and the working distinction among guhr, straight, ammonia and gelatin dynamites." }, { "id": "un-tdg-model-regulations", "title": "Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations - United Nations", "url": "https://unece.org/transport/dangerous-goods", "what_it_supports": "Transport classification of dynamite-type blasting explosives as UN 0081, Explosive, blasting, Type A, Class 1.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "ime-glossary", "title": "Glossary of Commercial Explosives Industry Terms - Institute of Makers of Explosives", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US trade names and tests for straight, ammonia, gelatin, semi-gelatin, extra and permissible dynamite, plus weight strength and fume class." }, { "id": "atf-27cfr555", "title": "27 CFR Part 555, Commerce in Explosives - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US legal treatment of dynamite as a high explosive requiring licences, approved magazines and transaction records." }, { "id": "wikidata-q161498", "title": "dynamite (Q161498) - Wikidata", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161498", "what_it_supports": "Stable catalogue identifier for the substance class.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dynamite-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Dynamite identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish whether the represented material belongs to this registry entry and which product-specific evidence applies.", "rationale": "Dynamite names and cartridge appearance cannot independently establish composition, identity or inertness.", "layers": [ { "id": "product-identification", "name": "Product identification", "description": "Connect markings and claims to a supported dynamite designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-dynamite-designation", "name": "Supported dynamite designation", "description": "Record the exact claimed identity, its evidence and any conflicting identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacturer record, label record or qualified assessment identifies this material as dynamite?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-dynamite-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the designation a verified product identity, a historical name or an unsupported description?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-dynamite-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-explosive-boundaries", "name": "Adjacent explosive boundaries", "description": "Resolve ambiguity with other explosives, related names and non-energetic representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-boundary-evidence", "name": "Classification boundary evidence", "description": "Keep uncertain family membership explicit without inventing registry subdivisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documentation distinguishes this product from another explosive sold in similar packaging?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does a gelatin-related or historical designation belong within this entry under the registry's intended definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "If inertness is claimed, which assessment or certificate supports that claim for this exact item?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cartridges-packages-and-lots", "name": "Cartridges, packages and lots", "description": "Define the physical material represented and preserve its inventory identity.", "rationale": "A package record, individual cartridge observation and lot-level assessment have different coverage.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-extent", "name": "Material extent", "description": "Identify the unit being modelled and the basis of its quantity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-explosive-quantity", "name": "Bounded explosive quantity", "description": "Record counts and masses from existing evidence with explicit unit boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record represent one cartridge, a package, an 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personnel assessed the reported condition, and what restrictions or uncertainties did they record?", "kind": "action", "id": "cartridge-condition-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history-and-document-applicability", "name": "History and document applicability", "description": "Connect known age and storage history to the correct product hazard information.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-evidence-coverage", "name": "Condition evidence coverage", "description": "Identify missing history and determine whether referenced guidance applies to this material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacture dates and storage-history records are documented, and where are the gaps?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which current or historically applicable manufacturer hazard document covers this exact product?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q02" }, { "text": "Does the assessment cover the whole lot or only specifically identified material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-custody-and-disposition", "name": "Controlled custody and disposition", "description": "Determine who is responsible for the material and what documented decisions may proceed.", "rationale": "Identification and inventory ownership do not by themselves establish permission or suitability for an explosives-related action.", "layers": [ { "id": "custody-and-authority", "name": "Custody and authority", "description": "Link the material to responsible parties and applicable decision authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-action-authorisation", "name": "Bounded action authorisation", "description": "Record the source, scope and validity of authorisation for a proposed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is the recorded custodian, and which qualified party is responsible for explosives assessment?", "kind": "relation", "id": "bounded-action-authorisation-q01" }, { "text": "What jurisdiction-specific authority and product-specific assessment support the proposed action for this material?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-action-authorisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restrictions-and-closure", "name": "Restrictions and closure", "description": "Preserve unresolved restrictions and require evidence before closing the material record.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-disposition-outcome", "name": "Documented disposition outcome", "description": "Distinguish planned transfer or disposal from a completed, evidenced outcome.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unresolved identity, condition or inventory issues prevent authorising the proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-disposition-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Which professional record establishes the completed disposition and the quantity it covers?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-disposition-outcome-q02" }, { "text": "Does any remaining material or unexplained quantity 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"Ammonia dynamite - part of the nitrate ester replaced by ammonium nitrate", "Gelatin dynamite (gelignite) - nitroglycerin gelatinized with nitrocellulose", "Semi-gelatin dynamite - intermediate between ammonia and gelatin grades", "Extra dynamite / extra gelatin - high-strength ammonium-nitrate grades", "Permissible (permitted) dynamite - low-flame formulations for gassy coal mines", "Low-freezing / polar dynamite - nitrate-ester blends made to remain plastic in cold climates" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q161498", "note": "Item for dynamite as a class of blasting explosive." }, { "scheme": "UN number", "value_or_pattern": "UN 0081", "note": "Explosive, blasting, Type A; the usual assignment for nitroglycerin dynamites." }, { "scheme": "UN class / division", "value_or_pattern": "1.1D", "note": "Typical hazard division and compatibility group in transport documents; confirm on the specific product certificate." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "3602.00", "note": "Prepared explosives other than propellent powders; covers dynamite as a manufactured explosive, not a single chemical." }, { "scheme": "CAS", "value_or_pattern": "no single CAS for the mixture; principal ester 55-63-0 (nitroglycerin)", "note": "Dynamite is a formulated mixture, not a pure substance." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", 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Chapter 40 - licensing, storage and records", "29 CFR 1926 Subpart U (OSHA) - blasting and use of explosives in construction", "30 CFR Part 75 (MSHA) - permissible explosives in underground coal mines", "Directive 2014/28/EU on explosives for civil uses (European Union) - placing on the market and CE conformity", "EN 13631 series, Explosives for civil uses - High explosives (CEN) - type testing of civil high explosives", "IME Safety Library Publications (Institute of Makers of Explosives) - industry storage, transport and use practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Cartridge charges in boreholes for hard-rock mining, quarrying and civil tunnelling (historically the default packaged high explosive; now largely displaced by ANFO and emulsions).", "Priming or boosting less sensitive blasting agents that will not reliably take a detonator alone.", "Secondary blasting of boulders and demolition of masonry, concrete and timber structures.", "Avalanche-control charges in mountain-road and ski-area programmes.", "Historical agricultural stump, ditch and land-clearing shots, now tightly restricted in most jurisdictions.", "Military-engineer demolition training and work, increasingly superseded by plastic explosives; US \"military dynamite\" is a different RDX/TNT composition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "velocity of detonation", "typical_range": "2500-7500", "unit": "m/s" }, { "quantity": "bulk density", "typical_range": "0.8-1.6", "unit": "g/cm³" }, { "quantity": "cartridge diameter", "typical_range": "22-50", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "nitrate-ester content", "typical_range": "10-75", "unit": "mass %" }, { "quantity": "commercial weight-strength grade", "typical_range": "20-60", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "practical magazine life (undeteriorated)", "typical_range": "6-24", "unit": "months" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Exudation (\"sweating\") of liquid nitroglycerin from aged or poorly stored cartridges, leaving free ester that is far more shock-sensitive than the intact dynamite.", "Accidental initiation by impact, friction, fire or lightning during transport, thawing, tamping or loading.", "Frozen NG-rich cartridges: historically a major handling hazard when thawed over fires or by beating.", "Misfires that leave live cartridges in the muckpile, with later initiation by digging equipment.", "Toxic nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide in return air from oxygen-negative formulations in poorly ventilated headings.", "Occupational nitroglycerin vapour exposure causing severe headache and hypotension.", "Loss of sensitivity or failure to propagate after wetting (non-gelatin types) or chemical deterioration.", "Sympathetic detonation of adjacent holes or of stocks in a magazine.", "Theft and criminal reuse; dynamite remains a controlled high explosive wherever it is still sold." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United States: commercial grades are named by type (straight, ammonia, gelatin, semi-gelatin, extra) and sold by \"weight strength\" percent; coal mines use \"permissible\" dynamite under MSHA.", "United Kingdom and much of the Commonwealth: \"gelignite\" is the everyday mining name for gelatin dynamite; coal uses \"permitted explosives\" in P-groups rather than the US \"permissible\" label.", "Nordic origin: dynamit as Nobel's kieselguhr product, with spränggelatin for blasting gelatin.", "Cold-climate trade historically used \"polar\" or other low-freezing dynamites (NG plus glycol dinitrates).", "In most contemporary mining jurisdictions NG dynamite has been displaced by ANFO, water gels and emulsions; remaining use is niche (priming, some demolition, a few hard-rock headings).", "US \"military dynamite\" (e.g. M1) is not nitroglycerin dynamite and should not be catalogued as the same article." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "neat nitroglycerin", "difference": "Dynamite is NG (or mixed nitrate ester) desensitized by absorption into a dope and packed as a solid cartridge; neat NG is a shock-sensitive liquid, not a commercial blasting cartridge." }, { "name": "ANFO", "difference": "ANFO is a blasting agent (ammonium nitrate prills plus fuel oil), not cap-sensitive; dynamite is a cap-sensitive high explosive and is often used only as a primer for ANFO." }, { "name": "emulsion / water-gel explosives", "difference": "These are aqueous oxidizer formulations, typically without nitrate esters; they may be packed in similar cartridges but are classified as blasting Type E/B products, not UN 0081 Type A dynamite." }, { "name": "TNT", "difference": "TNT is a melt-cast molecular CHNO explosive with no nitrate-ester headache and much lower impact sensitivity; dynamite is an absorbed-ester mixture initiated by an ordinary blasting cap." }, { "name": "black powder", "difference": "Black powder is a low explosive that deflagrates; dynamite detonates at kilometres per second and is used as a high explosive, not a propellant or fuse powder." }, { "name": "blasting gelatin", "difference": "Blasting gelatin is a colloidal NG-nitrocellulose gel without absorbent dope, denser and faster than cartridge dynamite; gelatin dynamite is that gel cut with an active dope." }, { "name": "C-4 / other military plastic explosives", "difference": "C-4 and similar compositions are RDX (or PETN) in a plastic binder, not nitroglycerin absorbates; they do not produce NG exudation or NG headache." }, { "name": "US military dynamite (M1 and related)", "difference": "Despite the name, M1 is an RDX/TNT/oil/starch mixture containing no nitroglycerin; commercial dynamite is defined by the absorbed nitrate ester." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend dynamite to include all gelatin dynamites, blasting gelatin and products historically marketed as military dynamite?", "Which manufacturer documents establish the formulation families and condition terminology needed for the products this catalogue will encounter?", "What evidence is sufficient to classify an unlabelled historical item as dynamite without physical intervention by the agent?", "Which jurisdiction-specific sources define the relevant custody, assessment and disposition authorities?", "What documentation is sufficient to establish inertness or completed disposition for individual cartridges versus an entire lot?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a dynamite, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a documented or suspected dynamite item, assess the evidence about its condition, and determine which decisions require qualified explosives personnel.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 102 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 dynamite, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 102 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 dynamite from another, and a dynamite 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite 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 dynamite 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite 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 dynamite from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a dynamite is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a dynamite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a dynamite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a dynamite is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a dynamite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a dynamite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a dynamite is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a dynamite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a dynamite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a dynamite is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a dynamite is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a dynamite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a dynamite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a dynamite is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a dynamite, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a dynamite, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a dynamite 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 dynamite 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 dynamite between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite 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 dynamite, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a dynamite 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What dynamite is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does dynamite perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise dynamite, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How dynamite is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does dynamite have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does dynamite need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about dynamite is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about dynamite hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern dynamite, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a dynamite 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 dynamite and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite 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 dynamite is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a dynamite, 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 dynamite, 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 dynamite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }