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incompatible references." }, { "name": "Required positional tolerance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Declared length or angular units, component, acceptance rule and statistical interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Makes fitness for the intended use assessable rather than implied by numerical precision." }, { "name": "Estimated positional uncertainty", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Declared length or angular units, reference basis, confidence interpretation and estimation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of the achieved evidence with the required tolerance." }, { "name": "Observation method", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "GNSS | angle-and-distance measurement | levelling | scanning | photogrammetry | depth sounding | combination | other declared method", "why_it_matters": "Identifies relevant error mechanisms, corrections and verification needs." }, { "name": "Measurement time basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observation 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units and epochs before combining survey results.", "Trace a reported position or dimension back to observations, control, corrections and processing decisions.", "Assess coverage and measurement uncertainty against the survey's stated acceptance criteria.", "Flag suspect control, inconsistent observations or unverifiable setting-out marks for additional measurement.", "Prepare a qualified deliverable or recommend withholding acceptance when required evidence remains unresolved." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-17123", "title": "ISO 17123 series: Optics and optical instruments - Field procedures for testing geodetic and surveying instruments", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Instrument classes, field test procedures, and the quantities (angle, distance, height) that surveying actually records." }, { "id": "iso-19111", "title": "ISO 19111: Geographic information - Referencing by coordinates", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Coordinate reference frames, projections and the requirement that every survey position be stated in a defined CRS." }, { "id": "iho-s44", "title": "IHO S-44: Standards for Hydrographic Surveys", "url": "https://iho.int", "what_it_supports": "Hydrographic surveying as a distinct kind, with order-based depth and position accuracy requirements.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "alta-nsps", "title": "Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "U.S. cadastral/title-survey practice, table-A optional items, and how land-title surveys are specified in commerce." }, { "id": "blm-manual", "title": "Manual of Surveying Instructions", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "U.S. Public Land Survey System methods, monumentation and the legal status of original surveys versus retracement." }, { "id": "fig-definition", "title": "Definition of the Functions of the Surveyor", "url": "https://www.fig.net", "what_it_supports": "International Federation of Surveyors statement of what the surveying profession covers (cadastre, geodesy, engineering, hydrography, valuation-adjacent work).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "isco-08", "title": "International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08), unit group 2165 Cartographers and surveyors", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Occupational identifier and the distinction between professional surveyors and surveying technicians." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "survey-intent-and-coverage", "name": "Survey intent and coverage", "description": "Defines the spatial question the survey must answer and the physical features it must address.", "rationale": "A survey cannot be judged complete or useful without knowing which geometry was required and where.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-spatial-decision", "name": "Intended spatial decision", "description": "Connects the survey to the decision or physical operation its results will support.", "findings": [ { "id": "survey-purpose-and-acceptance", "name": "Survey purpose and acceptance", "description": "Record the requested spatial result, intended use and criteria for accepting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this survey capturing existing geometry, investigating boundary evidence, setting out specified geometry or measuring change?", "kind": "definition", "id": "survey-purpose-and-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "What positional, dimensional and completeness criteria must the result meet for its stated use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "survey-purpose-and-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feature-coverage", "name": "Feature coverage", "description": "Separates required, observed, inaccessible and excluded portions of the survey.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-and-observation-gaps", "name": "Extent and observation gaps", "description": "Record the survey limits, required feature classes and spatial gaps that affect interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which area, corridor, surfaces and individual features fall within the required survey extent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "extent-and-observation-gaps-q01" }, { "text": "Which required features remain unobserved because of obstruction, access restrictions or insufficient sampling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "extent-and-observation-gaps-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "spatial-reference-and-control", "name": "Spatial reference and control", "description": "Establishes how survey measurements acquire a consistent spatial meaning.", "rationale": "Apparently compatible coordinates may describe different locations when reference frames, heights or control are misunderstood.", "layers": [ { "id": "coordinate-and-height-basis", "name": "Coordinate and height basis", "description": "Identifies the reference definitions needed to interpret and combine spatial results.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-definition-and-transformations", "name": "Reference definition and transformations", "description": "Record horizontal and vertical references, units, relevant epochs and transformations applied.", "questions": [ { "text": "What horizontal and vertical references, units and relevant epochs define the reported coordinates and heights?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reference-definition-and-transformations-q01" }, { "text": "Which transformations or height conversions were applied, and what records establish their origin and applicability?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reference-definition-and-transformations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "control-and-monuments", "name": "Control and monuments", "description": "Connects reference coordinates to identifiable physical or service-based control.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-identity-and-validity", "name": "Control identity and validity", "description": "Record control identifiers, adopted values, provenance and evidence that the control is suitable for this survey.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which control points, benchmarks or reference services anchor the survey, and where did their adopted values come from?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "control-identity-and-validity-q01" }, { "text": "What checks address misidentification, disturbance, movement or inconsistency in the adopted control?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "control-identity-and-validity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-observations-and-conditions", "name": "Field observations and conditions", "description": "Preserves how spatial evidence was acquired and the conditions under which it can be interpreted.", "rationale": "Reported geometry must remain distinguishable from raw observations, instrument assumptions and obstructed or degraded measurements.", "layers": [ { "id": "measurement-configuration", "name": "Measurement configuration", "description": "Records the equipment, setup and method behind each relevant observation group.", "findings": [ { "id": "instrument-setup-and-observation-lineage", "name": "Instrument setup and observation lineage", "description": "Link observations to equipment, setups, timestamps and method-specific parameters 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"findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Cadastral / land-title / boundary surveying", "Geodetic surveying (national and project control, datum realisation)", "Topographic surveying", "Engineering and construction surveying (setting-out and as-built)", "Hydrographic surveying", "Mine and underground surveying", "Deformation and structural-monitoring surveying", "Photogrammetric, airborne and UAV surveying" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of surveying 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": "ISCO-08", "value_or_pattern": "2165", "note": "Unit group Cartographers and surveyors; technicians are typically 3112." }, { "scheme": "SOC (United States)", "value_or_pattern": "17-1022", "note": "Surveyors; mapping technicians are 17-3031." }, { "scheme": "NAICS", "value_or_pattern": "541370", "note": "Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services." }, { "scheme": "CIP (U.S. education)", "value_or_pattern": "15.1102", "note": "Surveying Technology/Surveying; engineering programmes also use 14.3801 Surveying Engineering." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of surveying this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 17123 series (field procedures for testing geodetic and surveying instruments) - International Organization for Standardization", "ISO 19111 (referencing by coordinates) and ISO 19152 (Land Administration Domain Model) - ISO/TC 211", "IHO S-44 Standards for Hydrographic Surveys - International Hydrographic Organization", "ALTA/NSPS Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for Land Title Surveys - American Land Title Association and National Society of Professional Surveyors", "Manual of Surveying Instructions - Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior", "State or provincial licensing statutes and board rules for professional land surveyors - e.g. NCEES Model Law and Model Rules in the United States", "RICS Rules of Conduct and professional standards for surveyors - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors", "National cadastral laws and survey regulations (e.g. Torrens-title jurisdictions, German Vermessungsrecht, French ordre des géomètres-experts) - national legislatures and cadastral authorities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of surveying 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": [ "Retracing and monumenting property lines for sale, subdivision, mortgage or boundary dispute, then lodging a plat or cadastral plan with the land registry.", "Establishing a site control network and setting out foundations, gridlines, roads and utilities so that construction matches the design coordinates.", "Producing a topographic survey (contours, spot heights, visible services) as the base for civil or architectural design.", "Sounding and mapping seabed or inland waters for nautical charts, dredging volumes and pipeline routes under IHO orders.", "Monitoring dams, bridges, tunnels and slopes with repeated total-station, GNSS or levelling epochs to detect millimetre-level movement.", "Underground mine surveys for drive alignment, stope volumes and legal mining-lease boundaries." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of surveying 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": "Horizontal position uncertainty (1σ, well-controlled GNSS RTK or total-station traverse)", "typical_range": "0.008-0.050", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Height / orthometric or ellipsoid height uncertainty", "typical_range": "0.010-0.050 (precise engineering); 0.15-0.50 (mapping-grade GNSS)", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Total-station angular specification", "typical_range": "0.5-5", "unit": "arcsecond" }, { "quantity": "EDM distance (slope or horizontal)", "typical_range": "1-5000 typical field; specification often 1 mm + 1-2 ppm", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Geodetic levelling misclosure", "typical_range": "0.3-3 per square-root kilometre, depending on order", "unit": "mm/√km" }, { "quantity": "Hydrographic depth accuracy (IHO S-44 special/order 1a vs order 2)", "typical_range": "0.25-1.0+", "unit": "m" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of surveying 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": [ "Retracement onto the wrong monument or an unrecorded occupation line, producing a legally defective boundary.", "Mixing coordinate reference frames, epochs or linear units (notably U.S. survey foot versus international foot) so that design and field positions disagree by metres.", "Uncorrected instrument, refraction, collimation or GNSS-multipath error that is then built into the works.", "Setting-out blunder (wrong station, inverted bearing, ignored scale factor) that misplaces a structure.", "Physical harm from traffic, open excavations, underground workings, water and overhead services while occupying control.", "Destroyed or disturbed marks with no redundant ties, so the survey cannot be reconstructed." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of surveying 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: 'land surveyor' is a state-licensed title; ALTA/NSPS governs many commercial title surveys; Public Land Survey System township/section/range dominates most states, while metes-and-bounds dominate the original colonies.", "United Kingdom and much of the Commonwealth: 'chartered surveyor' is a broad RICS title that includes quantity, building and valuation practice as well as geomatics; cadastral work is a narrower 'land surveyor' / geomatics specialism.", "Continental Europe: cadastral measurement is often a state-regulated monopoly or a named office (e.g. öffentlicher bestellter Vermessungsingenieur, géomètre-expert); angles are still commonly recorded in gon (grad) rather than degrees.", "Australia and New Zealand: registered/licensed cadastral surveyors under Torrens title, with survey plans that themselves create or alter title.", "Linear unit split in the United States: some states still legislate the U.S. survey foot for State Plane, others the international foot, which is a recurring source of grid-shift errors." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of surveying 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": "Quantity surveying", "difference": "Quantity surveying measures construction cost, contracts and bills of quantities; it does not determine geospatial positions or legal boundaries. Same English word, different profession (RICS QS versus geomatics)." }, { "name": "Geodesy", "difference": "Geodesy is the science of Earth's figure, gravity field and global reference frames; surveying applies those frames at project or cadastral scale. A survey that realises or densifies a national datum is geodetic; a lot survey that merely occupies it is not." }, { "name": "Cartography / mapping", "difference": "Cartography is the representation of already-determined positions; surveying is the determination. A map can exist without a new field survey; a cadastral survey can exist without being published as a map." }, { "name": "Marine (hull/cargo) surveying", "difference": "Marine surveyors inspect vessels, cargo and insurance condition. Hydrographic surveying measures water depth and seabed geometry. The shared word 'surveyor' is the only overlap." }, { "name": "Navigation", "difference": "Navigation estimates the moving observer's own position in order to travel; surveying establishes the positions of marks and features so others can rely on them later." }, { "name": "Remote sensing / photogrammetry as a stand-alone imaging product", "difference": "Imagery yields coordinates only after control, interior orientation and a stated CRS are applied. Without ground or GNSS control tied to a survey frame, it is mapping-grade remote sensing, not a survey of record." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of surveying this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend surveying to mean spatial measurement, or does this entry also encompass questionnaire surveys, condition surveys or other systematic examinations?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or a substantial part of it, requiring a link rather than a separate model?", "Which specialist activities, such as cadastral, hydrographic, underground and deformation surveying, belong within this entry rather than neighbouring registered things?", "Which authoritative sources and jurisdiction-specific requirements should govern acceptance, professional sign-off and boundary-related interpretations for each intended use?", "Which method-specific uncertainty and verification records are essential for recognition and decision-making without turning the model into an instrument data schema?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 surveying, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a surveying activity, assess whether its spatial evidence is fit for its intended use, and determine which further observations, checks or authorised deliverables are needed.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: degree of curvature, cadastral surveying, kenchi, Fundamental Survey of City Block for Urban Renaissance, boundary determination, quantity surveying, Ottoman square, Al-Ruk al-Nasiri, as-built survey, optical distance measurement, aerial survey, speleometry.", "14 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 surveying, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "degree of curvature", "cadastral surveying", "kenchi", "Fundamental Survey of City Block for Urban Renaissance", "boundary determination", "quantity surveying", "Ottoman square", "Al-Ruk al-Nasiri", "as-built survey", "optical distance measurement", "aerial survey", "speleometry" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 14 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one surveying from another, and a surveying 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 surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying 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 surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying 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 surveying between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a surveying 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 surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a surveying proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a surveying, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a surveying and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a surveying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a surveying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a surveying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a surveying consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a surveying takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a surveying, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a surveying, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a surveying is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What surveying is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of surveying are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is surveying operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of surveying and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of surveying?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as surveying?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a surveying 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 surveying and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 surveying is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a surveying, 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 surveying, 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 surveying 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 } } } }