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pulmonary edema

vr.tr.pulmonary-edema · INF.KNW
Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Generated draft, first pass

This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.

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.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Purpose and description

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a pulmonary edema, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

An informational thing registered under INF.KNW. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.

It can be read and interpreted.

Distinguishing features

Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: acute pulmonary edema, Alveolar edema, delayed pulmonary edema, Swimming-induced pulmonary edema.

4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.

Described in 50 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

Physical character

Made of: content that has to be carried by something else.

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.

Related models

covers - 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.

acute pulmonary edemaAlveolar edemadelayed pulmonary edemaSwimming-induced pulmonary edema

Described in 50 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.

Also called

acute pulmonary edemaAlveolar edemadelayed pulmonary edemaSwimming-induced pulmonary edema

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions.

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one pulmonary edema from another, and a pulmonary edema from things that resemble it.

Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.

Names and identifiers

The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.

Preferred name, aliases and local names

Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.

  1. What identifies and describes the name of a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Stable identifiers and external keys

Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.

  1. What identifies and describes an identifier for a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a pulmonary edema sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.

Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds

The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.

  1. What identifies and describes the kind of a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a pulmonary edema from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a pulmonary edema passes through and the events that move it between them.

Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.

Lifecycle stages

From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.

Stages and transitions

The stages worth naming and what moves a pulmonary edema between them.

  1. What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Observations and current status

What is observed about a pulmonary edema, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a pulmonary edema is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action
Content, encoding and access What a pulmonary edema says, how it is encoded and who may read it.

An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.

Content and encoding

The content itself, its format and its language.

Content, format and language

What a pulmonary edema contains and in what form it is held.

  1. What identifies and describes the content of a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the content of a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the content of a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Access, rights and retention

Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.

Access rules and retention

The permissions attached to a pulmonary edema and the period it survives.

  1. What identifies and describes access to a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about access to a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once access to a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action
Subject matter and method What pulmonary edema studies and how it establishes anything.

A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.

Subject matter

The questions it takes as its own.

Questions and objects of study

What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.

  1. What questions and objects does pulmonary edema take as its own? definition
  2. Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them? boundary

Method and evidence

How claims are established and what counts as evidence.

Methods and standards of evidence

The methods used and what they are taken to establish.

  1. By what methods does pulmonary edema establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence? provenance
  2. What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead? action
Institutions and classification Where pulmonary edema is practised and how catalogues place it.

The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.

Institutional markers

Societies, journals, degrees and departments.

Bodies and venues

Where the field organises itself.

  1. Which societies, journals or degrees mark pulmonary edema as an established field? provenance
  2. What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established? boundary

Classification schemes

Where library and research classifications put it.

Codes and their disagreements

The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.

  1. Which classification schemes place pulmonary edema, under what codes? definition
  2. Where do those schemes disagree about its scope? boundary
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a pulmonary edema came from and when it held.

A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.

Source and authority

Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.

Claim provenance and confidence

The authority behind each claim about a pulmonary edema and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

Time, versions and supersession

When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.

Validity period and supersession

How an old claim about a pulmonary edema is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pulmonary edema, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a pulmonary edema, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a pulmonary edema is known, and what must it refuse? action

What the second pass must settle

  • 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 pulmonary edema, and on what evidence are they told apart?