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"This model owns the lyricist role held by a person, including their lyrical contributions, working practices, collaboration relationships, attribution evidence and engagement constraints; it links to separate models for the person, works, recordings and agreements.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that a person creates or substantively adapts words intended to be sung or otherwise delivered with music", "The person's contribution to particular lyric versions, including shared and disputed contributions", "Languages, lyrical forms and demonstrated approaches to fitting words to music", "Collaboration with composers, performers, co-writers and commissioners", "Credit preferences, contribution verification and engagement readiness" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's general biography and personal circumstances", "The complete lyrics, composition and version history of a musical work", "Vocal performance, recording production and release distribution", "Publisher administration, royalty 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ability." }, { "name": "Word-and-music working mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "lyrics-first; existing-melody setting; simultaneous co-writing; adaptation to an existing setting; variable; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps determine which inputs and collaborators a lyricist needs." }, { "name": "Attribution state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed; corroborated; conflicting; disputed; unknown, recorded per contribution", "why_it_matters": "Controls how confidently an agent can present a person as the lyricist of a particular work." }, { "name": "Engagement availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "accepting enquiries; limited availability; unavailable; unknown, with an as-of date and source", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical activity from being mistaken for present availability." }, { "name": "Credit identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links between the person and verified professional names or pseudonyms, with use context and 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"lyricist-role-evidence", "name": "Lyricist role evidence", "description": "Establishes why the person is represented as a lyricist and which credit identities support that representation.", "rationale": "Writing words for music must be distinguished from performing them or receiving an undifferentiated songwriting credit.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-contribution", "name": "Qualifying contribution", "description": "Tests the connection between the person's writing activity and intended musical use.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-lyrical-writing", "name": "Evidence of lyrical writing", "description": "Record evidence of originating or substantively adapting lyrical wording, retaining uncertainty about ambiguous roles.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which contribution demonstrates that this person wrote or substantively adapted words intended for music?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-of-lyrical-writing-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes that contribution from singing, melody writing, commissioning or minor editing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-of-lyrical-writing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "credited-identity", "name": "Credited identity", "description": "Connects lyric credits to the correct person and professional identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "credit-name-resolution", "name": "Credit name resolution", "description": "Record supported links between a lyric credit and this person without assuming that matching names establish identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects the name on the lyric credit to this person?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "credit-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which name should be used for the proposed credit, and are there constraints on disclosing another identity?", "kind": "action", "id": "credit-name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lyrical-contribution-boundaries", "name": "Lyrical contribution boundaries", "description": "Locates the person's actual writing contribution 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lyrics from contributions based on existing words.", "findings": [ { "id": "adaptation-dependency", "name": "Adaptation dependency", "description": "Record whether the contribution depends on a prior lyric, poem, translation or other text and how the person's role is described.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the person originate the wording, co-write it, translate it for singing or adapt an existing text?", "kind": "definition", "id": "adaptation-dependency-q01" }, { "text": "Which earlier text and contributors must remain linked to this contribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "adaptation-dependency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lyrical-practice-and-fit", "name": "Lyrical practice and fit", "description": "Describes evidenced capabilities relevant to a particular lyrical assignment.", "rationale": "Useful matching depends on how a lyricist handles language, musical constraints and expressive requirements, not merely on the role label.", "layers": [ { "id": "words-in-musical-setting", "name": "Words in musical setting", "description": "Records approaches to writing with melody, rhythm and vocal delivery constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "musical-constraint-handling", "name": "Musical constraint handling", "description": "Connect working methods to examples of handling syllable placement, stress, phrasing and singability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the lyricist work from an existing melody, supply lyrics first or develop words and music with collaborators?", "kind": "definition", "id": "musical-constraint-handling-q01" }, { "text": "Which samples demonstrate handling of the brief's stress, syllable, phrasing and vocal-delivery constraints?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "musical-constraint-handling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-expressive-range", "name": "Language and expressive range", "description": "Relates writing samples to the language, voice and dramatic purpose needed by a brief.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-writing-range", "name": "Demonstrated writing range", "description": "Record supported language and expressive capabilities while separating portfolio evidence from self-reported interests.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which samples support writing in the requested language, register, narrative voice and lyrical form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "demonstrated-writing-range-q01" }, { "text": "Which requirements would need a language collaborator, cultural consultant or additional sample before suitability can be judged?", "kind": "action", "id": "demonstrated-writing-range-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "co-writing-and-revision", "name": "Co-writing and revision", "description": "Records how the lyricist participates in shared creation and manages changes to their wording.", "rationale": "Lyrical work often depends on musical and performance decisions, making responsibility and revision boundaries necessary for coordinated action.", "layers": [ { "id": "creative-responsibilities", "name": "Creative responsibilities", "description": "Makes the lyricist's responsibilities explicit relative to other creative participants.", "findings": [ { "id": "lyrical-task-allocation", "name": "Lyrical task allocation", "description": "Record who drafts and revises words, who supplies musical constraints and how unresolved choices are decided.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which lyrical tasks belong to this person, and which belong to co-writers, composers or performers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lyrical-task-allocation-q01" }, { "text": "Who resolves conflicts between lyrical meaning, melodic fit and performer requests?", "kind": "action", "id": "lyrical-task-allocation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revision-and-handoff", "name": "Revision and handoff", "description": "Captures the lyricist's agreed revision process and delivery responsibilities for an engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "lyric-revision-readiness", "name": "Lyric revision readiness", "description": "Record the inputs, feedback and approval conditions needed for the lyricist's next revision or handoff.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which melody, timing, pronunciation or performer notes are needed before the next lyric revision?", "kind": "action", "id": "lyric-revision-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What marks the lyricist's delivery as accepted, and who may request or approve subsequent wording changes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lyric-revision-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-engagement", "name": "Attribution and engagement", "description": "Supports justified credit statements and practical next steps involving the lyricist.", "rationale": "Evidence of writing does not alone settle credit disputes, reuse permissions or present willingness to undertake work.", "layers": [ { "id": "credit-and-authority", "name": "Credit and authority", "description": "Separates supported authorship attribution from authority to approve use or alteration.", "findings": [ { "id": "credit-and-permission-evidence", "name": "Credit and permission evidence", "description": "Record evidence for proposed lyric credits and link to the parties or agreements governing requested uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence supports or contradicts the proposed lyricist credit for this version?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "credit-and-permission-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Who has evidenced authority to approve the requested quotation, adaptation or wording change?", "kind": "action", "id": "credit-and-permission-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "current-working-availability", "name": "Current working availability", "description": "Records dated evidence of availability and conditions relevant to a lyrical engagement.", "findings": [ { "id": "brief-engagement-readiness", "name": "Brief engagement readiness", "description": "Identify whether an enquiry or assignment can proceed and what lyrical brief information remains necessary.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence establishes whether the lyricist is currently accepting this kind of assignment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "brief-engagement-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What must the brief specify about musical inputs, language, subject matter, deadline and revision expectations before engagement can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "brief-engagement-readiness-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", 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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 lyricist, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a lyricist through evidenced contributions to words intended for music, assess their working state and suitability, and identify supported next actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: cancionista, TR, staff lyricist.", "3 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 lyricist, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "cancionista", "TR", "staff lyricist" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 lyricist from another, and a lyricist 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 lyricist is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist moves on its own.", "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 lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist 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 lyricist between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a lyricist 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a lyricist.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a lyricist and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a lyricist, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a lyricist, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a lyricist, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a lyricist is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a lyricist and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a lyricist sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a lyricist, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a lyricist, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a lyricist is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as lyricist.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does lyricist require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses lyricist, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What lyricist actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define lyricist, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as lyricist, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a lyricist 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 lyricist and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist 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 lyricist is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a lyricist, 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 lyricist, 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 lyricist is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }