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"unit_or_values": "Feature-level mappings between rendered elements and subject features, with evidence and limitations", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without reducing accuracy to a single unsupported fidelity score." }, { "name": "Representational transformation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Examples include cropping, simplification, exaggeration, idealisation, compositing and reconstruction; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how the rendering changes or selects the subject and which inferences those changes permit." }, { "name": "Declared linear scale", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dimensionless artifact-to-subject length ratio, qualified by feature or region; variable, unknown or not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether dimensions can be inferred from a representation and prevents treating perspective or stylisation as uniform scale." }, { "name": "Representational legibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "assessable; partially obscured; unassessable; untested, qualified by audience and viewing or touch conditions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes loss of readable subject information from damage that does not affect the rendering." }, { "name": "Use-specific adequacy", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment linking a proposed use to supported features, missing information and required qualifications", "why_it_matters": "A representation adequate for recognition may be inadequate for measurement, instruction or evidentiary use." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or propose the rendered subject while retaining competing interpretations and their evidence", "Inspect visual or tangible features and relate them to specific features of the subject", "Compare representations of the same subject by viewpoint, selection, scale and transformation", "Assess whether a proposed identification, measurement or explanation is supported by the rendering", "Display or describe the 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"https://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=&logic=¬e=&subjectid=300248231", "what_it_supports": "Getty definition of depictions as images recognisable as representations of visible entities, with Dutch/German/Spanish equivalents.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "getty-cdwa", "title": "Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)", "url": "https://www.getty.edu/publications-reports/item/2K7M52", "what_it_supports": "Museum cataloguing of depicted subject, related visual documentation, and image measurements as distinct from the work itself.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "getty-cona-subject", "title": "Depicted Subject, Iconography Authority (Getty Vocabulary Editorial Guidelines)", "url": "https://www.getty.edu/publications/vocabularies-editorial-guidelines/cona-guidelines/3_editorial_rules/3.6_fields/3.6.3/", "what_it_supports": "Practice of indexing what a work depicts versus what it is about; ofness versus aboutness and isness.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-visual-arts", "title": "Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure", "what_it_supports": "How individual representations are typed (painting, sculpture, print) and linked to subjects via depicts (P180) and Iconclass (P1257).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "commons-sdc-depiction", "title": "Commons:Structured data/Modeling/Depiction", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling/Depiction", "what_it_supports": "Distinguishes a digital file, a faithful digital representation of a 2D work (P6243), and the depicted artwork.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-replica", "title": "replica (Q1232589)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1232589", "what_it_supports": "Replica as an object created as a copy; AAT 300015642 scope note on same-dimension reproductions versus facsimiles and versions.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "usco-compendium-900", "title": "Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Chapter 900 (Visual Art Works)", "url": "https://law.resource.org/pub/us/compendium/ch900.html", "what_it_supports": "Legal class of pictorial, graphic and sculptural works, and the hazard of registering a photograph of a sculpture as if it were the sculpture.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ifla-frbr-artworks", "title": "Adapting Aspects of FRBR for Artworks in Wikidata", "url": "https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/2669", "what_it_supports": "How museums treat print and sculpture editions as related instantiations of one work rather than wholly unique objects.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "subject-and-rendering-role", "name": "Subject and rendering role", "description": "Establish what is being rendered and why this artifact is treated as a representation.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish an evidenced representation from incidental resemblance and avoid confusing the rendering with its subject.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-identification", "name": "Referent identification", "description": "Identify the subject at the specificity justified by available evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-subject-identification", "name": "Supported subject identification", "description": "Record whether the subject is a particular entity, a class, an imagined entity or unresolved, preserving disputed identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who or what does the artifact render, and at what level of specificity can that subject be identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-subject-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which inscription, creator statement, contextual record or perceptible feature supports each proposed identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-subject-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representational-status", "name": "Representational status", "description": "Establish the rendering role 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"name": "Access-dependent legibility", "description": "Record how viewing position, lighting, distance, tactile access or obstruction affect access to subject information.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under which viewing or touch conditions are the features needed for recognition accessible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "access-dependent-legibility-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or presentation change would reveal currently inaccessible subject features without damaging the artifact?", "kind": "action", "id": "access-dependent-legibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "correspondence-and-transformation", "name": "Correspondence and transformation", "description": "Make explicit what the rendering preserves, changes and leaves out.", "rationale": "An agent needs feature-specific limits to judge what can be inferred from a representation.", "layers": [ { "id": "feature-correspondence", "name": "Feature correspondence", "description": "Relate rendered features to subject features through an explicit comparison basis.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparison-basis-and-scale", "name": "Comparison basis and scale", "description": "Record the reference evidence, relevant subject state and any scale or spatial mapping used to assess correspondence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Against which observation, reference artifact or documented subject state can the rendered features be compared?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "comparison-basis-and-scale-q01" }, { "text": "Where is scale or spatial correspondence established, and where do perspective, deformation or missing dimensions prevent measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparison-basis-and-scale-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-and-alteration", "name": "Selection and alteration", "description": "Identify departures from the subject and the limits introduced by selection.", "findings": [ { "id": "rendering-transformations", "name": "Rendering transformations", "description": "Record supported instances of omission, emphasis, stylisation, compositing or reconstruction without assuming the creator's motive.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which subject features are omitted, exaggerated, simplified, combined or reconstructed, and what evidence supports that assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rendering-transformations-q01" }, { "text": "Which conclusions about the subject become unsupported because of those transformations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rendering-transformations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-use", "name": "Interpretation and use", "description": "Connect interpretations and proposed uses to the evidence the rendering actually supplies.", "rationale": "The same representation can support recognition while failing to support identification, measurement or factual claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "interpretive-context", "name": "Interpretive context", "description": "Separate observable content, attributed intention and audience interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-interpretation", "name": "Qualified interpretation", "description": "Record how labels, conventions and audience knowledge influence interpretation, with attribution for claims about intended meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which interpretations follow from perceptible features, and which depend on a caption, convention or contextual account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Who attributes an intended meaning to the representation, and what evidence supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-adequacy", "name": "Use adequacy", "description": "Assess a concrete proposed use against the representation's supported content and limitations.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-use-and-qualifications", "name": "Supported use and qualifications", "description": "Record which aspects of a proposed use are supported and what contextual or external constraints govern proceeding.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed use, which required subject features are supported, missing, ambiguous or transformed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-use-and-qualifications-q01" }, { "text": "What qualifications, additional verification or referenced permission constraints must the agent address before using or displaying this representation?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-use-and-qualifications-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representational-change", "name": "Representational change", "description": "Track changes that affect the readable subject, apparent correspondence or attributed meaning.", "rationale": "Material damage, restoration and adaptation can change what a representation communicates even when its physical identity remains continuous.", "layers": [ { "id": "meaning-bearing-condition", "name": "Meaning-bearing condition", "description": "Assess condition in terms of the subject information that survives or has changed.", "findings": [ { "id": "loss-or-change-of-subject-information", "name": "Loss or change of subject information", "description": "Record which representational features are obscured, missing or altered and distinguish observed condition from inferred original appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifying or interpretively important features are currently missing, obscured or altered?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "loss-or-change-of-subject-information-q01" }, { "text": "What prior image, examination or treatment record establishes that these features changed rather than being absent from the original rendering?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "loss-or-change-of-subject-information-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-derivation", "name": "Intervention and derivation", "description": "Assess how proposed modifications or derived renderings affect representational continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "effect-of-proposed-intervention", "name": "Effect of proposed 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"P1257", "note": "depicts Iconclass notation; formatter http://iconclass.org/$1." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata property", "value_or_pattern": "P6243", "note": "digital representation of: used when a file is a faithful 2D surrogate of a work." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata item (kind)", "value_or_pattern": "Q860861", "note": "sculpture as three-dimensional work of art; OpenStreetMap artwork_type=sculpture." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata item (kind)", "value_or_pattern": "Q1232589", "note": "replica / reproduction." }, { "scheme": "Iconclass", "value_or_pattern": "hierarchical alphanumeric notation (e.g. 47I22311)", "note": "Subject of the representation, not the physical object identifier; maintained with RKD." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of representation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (E36, P62, P65, P138, P138.1 mode of representation) - ICOM CIDOC", "Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA), including depicted subject and related visual documentation - Getty Research Institute", "Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Objects Facet / Visual Works - Getty Research Institute", "Iconclass iconographic classification - RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History)", "U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101, pictorial, graphic and sculptural works; Copyright Office Compendium Chapter 900 - U.S. Copyright Office" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of representation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Museum and collection cataloguing records what an object depicts (portrait, landscape, still life, cartographic view) separately from what the object is.", "Copyright registration of pictorial, graphic and sculptural works, using photographs only as identifying material for three-dimensional pieces.", "Exhibition, loan and conservation of paintings, sculptures, models and maps as physical carriers of a depiction.", "Digital surrogates: museum photography, scanning and 3D capture used as stand-ins for the work in catalogues and Wikimedia Commons.", "Authorised casts and print editions treated as multiple physical representations of one visual work (e.g. Rodin bronzes).", "Scale models used in architecture, engineering and display to render a building or device at reduced size.", "Automatic retrieval and naming of public sculpture from query photographs." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of representation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Overall height, width and depth of the physical work", "typical_range": "millimetres (miniatures, coins, small prints) to tens of metres (monumental sculpture, panoramas)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Linear scale of a model or replica to its referent", "typical_range": "1:1 for life-size casts and same-dimension replicas; reduced for architectural and exhibition models", "unit": "dimensionless ratio" }, { "quantity": "Relative position of a depicted feature on a two-dimensional work", "typical_range": "0-100 on each axis", "unit": "% of height or width" }, 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representaciones/representación visual in Spanish.", "Iconclass subject coding is strongest in European (especially Dutch) museum practice; North American cataloguing more often uses CDWA/AAT depicted-subject terms.", "Sculpture and print editions are sometimes modelled with FRBR-like work/manifestation splits (e.g. Smithsonian Wikidata practice) and sometimes as one unique object per accession.", "OpenStreetMap uses both artwork_type=sculpture and artwork:type=sculpture for public three-dimensional representations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of representation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Depicted subject (the referent)", "difference": "The representation depicts that entity (CIDOC P62 / Wikidata P180); the subject is not itself the made object." }, { "name": "Visual item / immaterial prototype (CIDOC E36)", "difference": "E36 is the shared appearance; the PHY.OBJ entry is one physical embodiment that shows that item (P65)." }, { "name": "Photograph or digital file of a work", "difference": "A surrogate records the work; it is a representation of the work only when the file is a faithful 2D capture (Commons P6243), not whenever a work appears in a picture." }, { "name": "Replica versus original", "difference": "A replica is made as a copy of another object, usually same dimensions (AAT 300015642); the original is the source, not a copy." }, { "name": "Mark, logo or inscription (CIDOC E37)", "difference": "A mark identifies or signals by convention; a depiction is recognisable as a rendering of a visible entity." }, { "name": "Non-representational or abstract work", "difference": "AAT depictions must be recognisable as representations of visible entities; abstract works need not depict." }, { "name": "Legal or political representation", "difference": "Agency to act for a person or group, not a visual or tangible rendering." }, { "name": "Specimen or sample", "difference": "A specimen is a piece of the thing itself; a representation is made to stand for it by form." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of representation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the PHY / PHY.OBJ registry entry include digitally displayed, projected or transient renderings, or only artifacts with a persistent physical embodiment?", "What minimum evidence establishes representational status for found objects, natural casts, ambiguous abstractions and resemblance adopted after creation?", "Where do existing Vercy models place overlaps with photographs, diagrams, maps, symbols, replicas and scale models, and which model should own their shared representational facts?", "What evidence and audience-specific criteria should support legibility and use-adequacy assessments without implying universal recognition or fidelity scores?", "Which identity rules distinguish restoration of one representation from production of a derivative, particularly when missing subject features are reconstructed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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.", "facetsInferred": false, "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 representation, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "portable", "scale": "handheld" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "picked up and handled" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: adumbration, anaglyph, angiocardiogram, angiogram, arteriogram, arthrogram, audiogram, autoradiograph, backdrop, background, backcloth, beefcake.", "98 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "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 representation, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Fits in a hand and is carried without help.", "Moved by a person without machinery.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "pick it up, hold it, put it somewhere else" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "adumbration", "anaglyph", "angiocardiogram", "angiogram", "arteriogram", "arthrogram", "audiogram", "autoradiograph", "backdrop", "background", "backcloth", "beefcake" ] } ], "standing": "98 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 representation from another, and a representation 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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation 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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation 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 at handheld scale.", "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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a representation is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a representation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a representation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a representation 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 representation is, how it got there and where it may go (portable).", "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 representation is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation 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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation 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 representation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a representation 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 representation, 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 representation, 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 representation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What representation is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does representation perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise representation, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How representation is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does representation have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does representation need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about representation is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about representation hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern representation, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a representation 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 representation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation 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 representation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a representation, 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 representation, 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 representation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }