{ "model": { "rank": 1397, "code": "thing-q9813", "model_id": "vr.tr.t-t", "name": "T/t", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, describe and handle T/t as a letter while distinguishing its identity from its glyphs, linguistic uses and context-dependent symbolic meanings.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q9813/", "tier": 2, "score": 150, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "T'" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 150, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q9813", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9813", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:27:14Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.2, "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: 01a07b9e-62d2-73c1-b673-df91cc0b3f66\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: T/t\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.MED\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 210 things:\n# Batch 001: 1001 registered t", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 62.1, "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: 01a07b9e-62d0-7c71-a69a-7a4dc8a308b8\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: T/t\nRegistry id: vr.tr.t-t\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for this" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q9813", "registryId": "vr.tr.t-t", "name": "T/t", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q9813/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.t-t", "name": "T/t", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, describe and handle T/t as a letter while distinguishing its identity from its glyphs, linguistic uses and context-dependent symbolic meanings.", "definition": "Interpreted as the Latin letter, T/t is the uppercase-lowercase pair occupying the twentieth position in the modern English alphabet.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interprets T/t as the paired uppercase and lowercase forms of the Latin letter T, owning their identity, representation and contextual interpretation; the registry provides no definition confirming this sense.", "in_scope": [ "Identity of T and t as case forms of one Latin letter", "Distinction between the letter, its encoded representations and its visible glyphs", "Language-dependent uses of T/t in spelling", "Context-dependent use of T or t as a symbol or abbreviation", "Recognition and transformation of occurrences of T/t" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Latin alphabet as a complete writing system", "Full spelling and pronunciation systems of individual languages", "Quantities, entities or concepts denoted by a contextual T or t", "Typeface designs and font licensing as independent resources", "Creative works whose title happens to be T/t" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A qualifying occurrence functions as Latin T or t, rather than merely resembling either glyph.", "Uppercase T and lowercase t share letter identity, but substituting one for the other may change the meaning of a symbol or identifier.", "A mathematical or technical T/t occurrence needs a local definition before its referent can be identified.", "The slash in the registry label is provisionally treated as separating case forms, rather than as part of a literal three-character expression.", "A font-specific drawing of T or t is a glyph representing the letter, rather than a separate letter identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Registry sense resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved | supported as Latin letter | alternative sense established", "why_it_matters": "The missing definition makes sense confirmation a prerequisite for accepting this model." }, { "name": "Case form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "uppercase T | lowercase t | case pair | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Case can be typographic, orthographic or semantically significant." }, { "name": "Encoded representation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the observed character sequence and its encoding", "why_it_matters": "Visual resemblance alone cannot establish character identity." }, { "name": "Usage role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "letter in text | letter name | abbreviation | defined symbol | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "The role determines how an agent should read and manipulate an occurrence." }, { "name": "Language and orthographic context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Language, writing convention and surrounding text", "why_it_matters": "Pronunciation and spelling behaviour cannot be assigned universally to T/t." }, { "name": "Transformation permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "case conversion permitted | exact form required | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Changing case or substituting a visually similar character can alter meaning or break matching." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an occurrence as uppercase T, lowercase t or an unresolved lookalike.", "Associate T and t for letter-level searches while preserving their observed forms.", "Link a linguistic occurrence to its language-specific spelling and pronunciation context.", "Resolve a symbolic occurrence against its surrounding definition or notation convention.", "Convert case when the context permits and retain the original representation.", "Flag ambiguous recognition or unsupported interpretation for review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "letter-identity", "name": "Letter identity", "description": "Establishes whether the registry entry denotes the Latin letter and how its case forms belong together.", "rationale": "The label T/t suggests a case pair, but the registry has not supplied a definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Tests the provisional reading of the entry.", "findings": [ { "id": "case-pair-interpretation", "name": "Case-pair interpretation", "description": "Record evidence that T/t names a letter through its two case forms, rather than a title, abbreviation or literal expression.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating registry record identify T/t as a Latin letter?", "kind": "definition", "id": "case-pair-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the slash separate case forms, or belong to the registered name itself?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "case-pair-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "case-relationship", "name": "Case relationship", "description": "Separates shared letter identity from the significance of an observed case form.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-versus-case", "name": "Identity versus case", "description": "Represent T and t as related forms without presuming that they are interchangeable in every occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this occurrence being described at letter level or as an exact case-sensitive character?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-versus-case-q01" }, { "text": "Would replacing T with t, or t with T, change the interpretation in this context?", "kind": "action", "id": "identity-versus-case-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "characters-and-glyphs", "name": "Characters and glyphs", "description": "Connects the letter to digital characters and visible forms without conflating them.", "rationale": "An agent may encounter T/t as text, handwriting or an image, each providing different evidence of identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "encoded-identity", "name": "Encoded identity", "description": "Records what characters an observed digital sequence actually contains.", "findings": [ { "id": "character-sequence", "name": "Character sequence", "description": "Preserve the underlying sequence and distinguish ordinary Latin T/t from lookalikes, styled symbols and modified forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which encoded characters constitute the observed T-like or t-like form?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "character-sequence-q01" }, { "text": "Is the occurrence an ordinary Latin letter, a separately encoded symbol or a sequence with additional marks?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "character-sequence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "visual-recognition", "name": "Visual recognition", "description": "Evaluates recognition where character identity must be inferred from appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "glyph-evidence", "name": "Glyph evidence", "description": "Record the image or writing sample supporting recognition and any competing reading.", "questions": [ { "text": "What visible and contextual evidence supports reading this mark as T or t?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "glyph-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could this mark instead be a cross, another script's character or a different handwritten letter?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "glyph-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "linguistic-and-symbolic-use", "name": "Linguistic and symbolic use", "description": "Determines what an occurrence of T/t does in its surrounding expression.", "rationale": "Letter identity alone does not supply pronunciation, abbreviation expansion or a technical referent.", "layers": [ { "id": "orthographic-use", "name": "Orthographic use", "description": "Places the letter within a particular language and spelling context.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-reading", "name": "Contextual reading", "description": "Distinguish the letter's name from its contribution to a written word, including combinations with neighbouring letters.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language and orthographic convention govern this occurrence of T/t?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Is the requested reading the letter name or its pronunciation within the surrounding word?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-reading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "notation-use", "name": "Notation use", "description": "Links symbolic and abbreviated occurrences to their local meanings.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-defined-meaning", "name": "Locally defined meaning", "description": "Attach a meaning to a particular use of T or t only where a definition or applicable convention supports it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What nearby definition or notation convention establishes what this T or t denotes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locally-defined-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Does the notation distinguish T from t or assign meaning through styling, subscripts or surrounding syntax?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "locally-defined-meaning-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "matching-and-transformation", "name": "Matching and transformation", "description": "Governs searches, case changes and transcription of T/t occurrences.", "rationale": "Useful letter-level operations must preserve distinctions required by exact text and symbolic notation.", "layers": [ { "id": "matching-policy", "name": "Matching policy", "description": "Defines which forms count as equivalent for a particular task.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-equivalence", "name": "Task-specific equivalence", "description": "Make equivalence explicit when counting or retrieving T/t across case forms and visual variants.", "questions": [ { "text": "Should this search match T and t together or require the exact observed form?", "kind": "action", "id": "task-specific-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Should marked or styled forms be included, and what task-specific rule justifies their inclusion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "task-specific-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "editing-and-transcription", "name": "Editing and transcription", "description": "Controls changes to observed forms and the treatment of uncertain readings.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-preserving-change", "name": "Meaning-preserving change", "description": "Assess whether a case conversion or transcription correction preserves the intended text or notation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence permits changing this occurrence's case or replacing a suspected lookalike with Latin T/t?", "kind": "action", "id": "meaning-preserving-change-q01" }, { "text": "How will the original form and any unresolved reading be retained for review?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "meaning-preserving-change-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": [ "No sense is recorded; the Latin-letter interpretation is provisional, and INF.MED alone does not establish it.", "Check whether the registry instead intends a titled work, abbreviation or specialised notation before adopting this description." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of T/t this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+0054", "note": "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+0074", "note": "LATIN SMALL LETTER T." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of T/t 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": [ "The Unicode Standard, issued by the Unicode Consortium, encodes uppercase T and lowercase t as distinct characters.", "ISO/IEC 10646, issued by ISO and IEC, includes these characters in the Universal Coded Character Set." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of T/t 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 verify.", "evidence": [ "Writing words in languages that use the Latin script.", "Alphabetical ordering and indexing.", "Representing context-dependent abbreviations, variables and symbols." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of T/t this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Confusing a letter with a technical symbol that uses the same written form.", "Losing meaningful distinctions between T and t through case conversion." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of T/t this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Letter names, pronunciation and sound correspondences vary across languages using the Latin script." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of T/t this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Glyph", "difference": "A glyph is a particular visual rendering; T and t are characters that can appear in many typefaces and handwriting styles." }, { "name": "Cyrillic letter Т/т", "difference": "It belongs to the Cyrillic script and has separate character encodings, despite possible visual similarity." }, { "name": "Greek letter Τ/τ", "difference": "Tau belongs to the Greek alphabet and has separate character encodings." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of T/t this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry identifier confirm the Latin-letter sense of T/t, or identify a specific work or another entity?", "Does the registry intentionally include modified and styled forms under T/t, or give them separate entries?", "Which authoritative character and case-mapping references should anchor the representation rules?", "Which languages and notation domains must the initial model support with researched contextual rules?", "Does an existing Vercy model already own Latin-letter identity or this specific letter, requiring a link instead of a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a T/t, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, describe and handle T/t as a letter while distinguishing its identity from its glyphs, linguistic uses and context-dependent symbolic meanings.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: T'.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 150 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 T/t, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "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": [ "T'" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 150 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 T/t from another, and a T/t 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 T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t 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 T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t 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 T/t between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a T/t 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 T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a T/t says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a T/t contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a T/t, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a T/t, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a T/t is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a T/t and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a T/t, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a T/t, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a T/t is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What T/t studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does T/t take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does T/t establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where T/t is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark T/t as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place T/t, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a T/t 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 T/t and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t 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 T/t is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a T/t, 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 T/t, 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 T/t is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }