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liver failure

vr.tr.liver-failure · 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 liver failure, 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 liver failure, end-stage liver disease, acute-on-chronic liver failure.

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

Described in 38 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 liver failureend-stage liver diseaseacute-on-chronic liver failure

Described in 38 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.

Also called

acute liver failureend-stage liver diseaseacute-on-chronic liver failure

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 liver failure from another, and a liver failure 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 liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a liver failure 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 liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a liver failure is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

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

Distinguishing features

What separates a liver failure from the things most often confused with it.

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

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

Observations and current status

What is observed about a liver failure, how often and by whom.

Observation record

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

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a liver failure is known, and what must it refuse? action
Content, encoding and access What a liver failure 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 liver failure contains and in what form it is held.

  1. What identifies and describes the content of a liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the content of a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the content of a liver failure 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 liver failure and the period it survives.

  1. What identifies and describes access to a liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about access to a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once access to a liver failure is known, and what must it refuse? action
Subject matter and method What liver failure 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 liver failure 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 liver failure 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 liver failure 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 liver failure 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 liver failure, under what codes? definition
  2. Where do those schemes disagree about its scope? boundary
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a liver failure 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 liver failure and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a liver failure, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a liver failure 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 liver failure is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a liver failure, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a liver failure, 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 liver failure 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 liver failure, and on what evidence are they told apart?