{ "model": { "rank": 3285, "code": "thing-q82001", "model_id": "vr.tr.ivory", "name": "ivory", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise ivory as a biological material, assess its identity and condition, and determine which handling, conservation, analysis or transfer actions require further evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q82001/", "tier": 2, "score": 88, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "boar ivory", "hippopotamus ivory", "walrus ivory", "elephant and mammoth ivory" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 88, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.ivory", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q82001", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82001", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:21:20Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 28.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c3d-8a0c-7ed0-9bb1-016363176a4f\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"This model owns ivory in the material sense: tooth- or tusk-derived dentine considered as a specimen, stock or material component, including uncertain attribution, physical condition and provenance relevant to its treatment.", "in_scope": [ "Tooth- or tusk-derived ivory and uncertainty about its biological source", "Material composition, internal structure and identification evidence", "Raw, cut, carved, treated and composite-associated ivory material", "Condition, environmental exposure and suitability for conservation or analysis", "Source history and evidence needed to assess restrictions on particular actions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Ivory as a colour name", "Source animals as organisms, populations or ecosystems", "Whole artworks, musical instruments and other products containing ivory", "Bone, antler, vegetable ivory and synthetic substitutes as materials in their own right", "Wildlife trafficking networks and enforcement institutions", "Dental tissue in a living animal as a clinical subject" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether the candidate is tooth-derived dentine rather than bone, antler, shell, plant material or manufactured imitation; appearance alone leaves identity unresolved.", "Record whether visible tissue architecture supports a source attribution, which surface and orientation were examined, and which alternatives remain possible.", "Distinguish an ivory component from an entire object: ivory identification applies only to the examined material unless further components are verified.", "Separate observed biological identity from commercial names, seller descriptions and documentary claims.", "Distinguish source age, carving date and acquisition date; none should silently substitute for another." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Material identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "ivory supported | non-ivory supported | indeterminate; method and confidence attached", "why_it_matters": "Prevents visual resemblance or a trade label from becoming an unsupported material identification." }, { "name": "Biological source attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "candidate taxon and tooth or tusk type, with evidence and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Source attribution informs comparison, interpretation and the questions required before transfer." }, { "name": "Material composition and treatment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "identified tissue constituents, coatings, consolidants, stains, fillers and contaminants; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Treatments and additional materials can change identification results and conservation choices." }, { "name": "Structural orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "longitudinal | transverse | oblique | unresolved, relative to tooth or tusk growth", "why_it_matters": "Makes surface observations and comparisons interpretable." }, { "name": "Specimen dimensions and mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "dimensions in mm; mass in g; measurement date and component boundary", "why_it_matters": "Supports specimen matching, material accounting and monitoring of loss." }, { "name": "Condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "mapped cracks, separation, losses, powdering, staining and surface changes, with severity and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Connects treatment decisions to observed damage and its progression." }, { "name": "Environmental exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "temperature in °C; relative humidity in %; light exposure where measured; duration and variation", "why_it_matters": "Allows changes in condition to be examined against storage, display and transport history." }, { "name": "Chronological attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "separate source-age, working-date and acquisition-date claims, each with evidence and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating an old material as proof of an old carving or documented acquisition." }, { "name": "Action-specific determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | evidence incomplete | permitted | restricted | prohibited, tied to action, jurisdiction, date and authority", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a permission recorded for one activity or location from being reused without checking its scope." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare candidate ivory with tooth-derived materials and likely substitutes using documented identification methods.", "Map ivory components, structural orientation, treatments and damage on a specimen.", "Track condition alongside storage, display and transport exposures.", "Select a conservation or sampling approach suited to the material evidence and permitted loss.", "Assemble source, chronology and custody evidence for an action-specific review.", "Refer unresolved identification or transfer questions to an appropriate specialist." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ivory-identity", "name": "Ivory identity", "description": "Establish what material is present and how narrowly its biological source can be identified.", "rationale": "The ivory label must be supported independently of colour, object type and commercial description.", "layers": [ { "id": "dentine-boundary", "name": "Dentine boundary", "description": "Separate ivory from adjacent biological materials and manufactured substitutes.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-identification-evidence", "name": "Material identification evidence", "description": "Record observations and analyses supporting or challenging identification as tooth- or tusk-derived dentine.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this material as dentine rather than bone, antler, plant material or a manufactured imitation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "material-identification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which regions or components were examined, and where does the identification remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-identification-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "biological-attribution", "name": "Biological attribution", "description": "Record source-animal and anatomical attribution without exceeding the evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-diagnostic-features", "name": "Source diagnostic features", "description": "Connect candidate taxa and tooth types to observed features, examination methods and unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tooth or tusk structures support the proposed animal source, and which competing sources remain plausible?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-diagnostic-features-q01" }, { "text": "Were features such as Schreger patterns examined on an appropriate exposed surface, and what validated limits apply to their interpretation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "source-diagnostic-features-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ivory-structure-and-treatment", "name": "Ivory structure and treatment", "description": "Describe the tissue arrangement and modifications that affect interpretation and use.", "rationale": "Ivory needs a biological material description rather than an assumed pure-substance identity or uniform commercial grade.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-and-orientation", "name": "Tissue and orientation", "description": "Locate dentine, associated tissues and structural directions within the material boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-material-map", "name": "Structural material map", "description": "Record exposed sections, growth orientation, internal cavities and any associated tooth tissues.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts are dentine, which contain other tooth tissues, and where are cavities or interfaces present?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "structural-material-map-q01" }, { "text": "How are the examined surfaces and existing cracks oriented relative to the tooth or tusk structure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "structural-material-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "added-and-altered-material", "name": "Added and altered material", "description": "Distinguish the underlying ivory from treatments, repairs and alteration.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-composition-record", "name": "Treatment composition record", "description": "Identify known or suspected coatings, dyes, adhesives, fillers and other changes that qualify material observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies bleaching, staining, coating, impregnation, repair or burial-related alteration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "treatment-composition-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which measured properties or identification results could be influenced by those alterations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "treatment-composition-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ivory-condition", "name": "Ivory condition", "description": "Assess material integrity and relate observed changes to environmental history.", "rationale": "Handling and conservation decisions require specimen-specific evidence about cracking, surfaces and exposure.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-change", "name": "Damage and change", "description": "Distinguish stable features, historical damage and changes observed over time.", "findings": [ { "id": "ivory-damage-map", "name": "Ivory damage map", "description": "Locate cracks, separation, losses and surface changes using repeatable observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are cracks, separation, powdering or losses, and what are their measured extent and severity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "ivory-damage-map-q01" }, { "text": "Which features have changed between dated observations, and which may reflect original anatomy or working?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ivory-damage-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-support", "name": "Exposure and support", "description": "Connect environmental records and physical support to the condition of the ivory.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-exposure-assessment", "name": "Condition exposure assessment", "description": "Record humidity, temperature, light, wetting and mounting history relevant to observed deterioration.", "questions": [ { "text": "What environmental fluctuations, wetting events or mounting stresses preceded the observed changes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-exposure-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What specimen-specific evidence supports the proposed storage, display or transport conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-exposure-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ivory-origin-and-controls", "name": "Ivory origin and controls", "description": "Separate origin and age claims from the evidence needed to evaluate a particular action.", "rationale": "Biological identification, chronology and documentary history must remain distinct when assessing whether ivory may be moved or transferred.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-chronology", "name": "Origin and chronology", "description": "Track biological origin, recovery, working and custody as separate claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-source-and-custody", "name": "Dated source and custody", "description": "Associate each origin or date claim with specimen-linked evidence and explicit gaps.", "questions": [ { "text": "What independently supports the claimed animal source, geographic origin and recovery circumstances?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-source-and-custody-q01" }, { "text": "What separately supports source age, carving date and acquisition date, and how is each record linked to this specimen?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-source-and-custody-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "action-specific-controls", "name": "Action-specific controls", "description": "Evaluate applicable requirements for a named activity, place and date.", "findings": [ { "id": "ivory-action-evidence", "name": "Ivory action evidence", "description": "Record authoritative requirements and the evidence establishing whether this specimen satisfies them.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed possession, sale, donation, sampling or cross-border movement, which current authorities and jurisdictions govern this ivory?", "kind": "action", "id": "ivory-action-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which identity, age, provenance and permit claims are required, and which remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ivory-action-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ivory-intervention", "name": "Ivory intervention", "description": "Choose and document conservation, examination and sampling actions appropriate to the specimen.", "rationale": "Interventions can consume diagnostic material or alter surfaces needed for later identification and interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "conservation-compatibility", "name": "Conservation compatibility", "description": "Assess proposed cleaning, joining and stabilisation against the ivory's condition and treatment history.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-decision", "name": "Treatment decision", "description": "Connect a proposed intervention to its objective, compatibility evidence and stopping criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "How could the proposed cleaning or stabilisation affect cracks, stains, coatings and diagnostic surface features?", "kind": "action", "id": "treatment-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or limited trial supports proceeding, and what observed response requires stopping?", "kind": "action", "id": "treatment-decision-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-sampling", "name": "Diagnostic sampling", "description": "Plan analysis around an explicit identification or chronology question and a defined material-loss allowance.", "findings": [ { "id": "sampling-and-interpretation", "name": "Sampling and interpretation", "description": "Record sample location, quantity, contamination concerns, authorisation and limits on the resulting conclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unresolved source or age question requires analysis, and can examination without sampling answer it?", "kind": "action", "id": "sampling-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "If sampling is justified and authorised, what location and mass are needed, and how will treatments or contamination affect interpretation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sampling-and-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes ivory as a 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these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of ivory this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): international trade controls depend on the source species, listing and applicable provisions.", "European Union wildlife trade regulations: Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 establishes controls relevant to ivory from listed species." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of ivory this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "boar ivory", "hippopotamus ivory", "walrus ivory", "elephant and mammoth ivory" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 88 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 ivory from another, and a ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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.", 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"description": "Where a ivory 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 ivory is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory 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 ivory between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ivory 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 ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a ivory and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a ivory is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a ivory performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a ivory, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a ivory, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a ivory is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a ivory.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a ivory at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a ivory, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a ivory, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a ivory is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a ivory there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a ivory, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a ivory, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a ivory is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What ivory is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name ivory unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of ivory exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How ivory behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of ivory, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is ivory incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How ivory can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is ivory classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover ivory, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a ivory 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 ivory and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory 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 ivory is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ivory, 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 ivory, 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 ivory is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }