{ "model": { "rank": 4138, "code": "thing-rock-substance", "model_id": "vr.tr.rock-substance", "name": "rock", "purpose": "material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.MAT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/rock-substance/", "tier": 2, "score": 78, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "firestone", "holystone", "amphibolite", "argillite", "quartzite", "road metal", "stone", "arenaceous rock", "argillaceous rock", "rudaceous rock", "breccia", "sedimentary rock", "sial", "sima", "marlite", "marlstone", "metamorphic rock", "gravel", "crushed rock", "hornfels", "hornstone", "ballast", "bank gravel", "pit-run gravel", "pit run", "caliche", "shingle", "slate", "shingling", "pumice", "pumice stone", "grit", "gritrock", "gritstone", "agglomerate", "amygdaloid", "andesite", "aphanite", "aplite", "dacite" ], "aliasCount": 96, "merged": 78, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "material", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.substance", "senseRank": 1, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-14720954-n", "ili": "i114224", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:33:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a087a8-454b-7730-8713-b11fef782fc3\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rock name, classification scheme, identification method and confidence; unidentified permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to a defensible material identity without treating an uncertain field name as established." }, { "name": "Constituent composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mineral and other constituent proportions in volume % or mass %, with method and detection limits", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and helps explain strength, chemical reactivity and activity-specific hazards." }, { "name": "Formation class", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic or unresolved, with supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Routes the material to relevant narrower models and constrains interpretation of its texture." }, { "name": "Grain size and fabric", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Grain-size distribution in mm; fabric descriptors; bedding or 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"affordances": [ "Identify and classify a specimen using field observations, petrography and appropriate analytical evidence.", "Select representative samples across visible compositional, fabric and weathering variations.", "Compare measured properties with the requirements of a specified aggregate, dimension-stone or engineering use.", "Assess likely splitting directions and processing constraints from bedding, foliation, grain structure and fractures.", "Select further tests when moisture, alteration, pore structure or constituent hazards could change a decision.", "Route an identified subtype to its specialised model while retaining shared composition and condition records." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "rock-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Rock identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what geological material is being described and the scale at which statements apply.", "rationale": "Rock names, specimens and rock masses are easily 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"Classification and scale", "description": "Connects the rock name to evidence and defines the material extent represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-name-and-represented-extent", "name": "Supported name and represented extent", "description": "Record the naming scheme, identification confidence and relationship between the observed specimen and its parent occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which classification scheme and observations support the assigned rock name and broad formation class?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-name-and-represented-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Do these observations describe a specimen, a material population or a fractured rock mass, and what evidence supports extrapolation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-name-and-represented-extent-q02" }, { "text": "If the material is metamorphic rock, which details should be delegated to that narrower model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-name-and-represented-extent-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "constituents-and-petrographic-fabric", "name": "Constituents and petrographic fabric", "description": "Describes what the rock contains and how its constituents are arranged and joined.", "rationale": "Composition alone cannot explain rock behaviour without grain relationships, cementation and directional fabric.", "layers": [ { "id": "mineral-and-other-constituents", "name": "Mineral and other constituents", "description": "Captures constituent identification, abundance and variation.", "findings": [ { "id": "composition-with-analytical-basis", "name": "Composition with analytical basis", "description": "Record measured or estimated constituent proportions, explicitly separating mineralogy from bulk chemical composition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which minerals, glass, organic matter or other constituents are identified, and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-with-analytical-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What are their proportions, uncertainty and variation across the sampled material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "composition-with-analytical-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grain-relationships-and-fabric", "name": "Grain relationships and fabric", "description": "Captures grain scale, bonding and preferred orientation.", "findings": [ { "id": "texture-and-directionality", "name": "Texture and directionality", "description": "Record grain-size distribution, interlocking or cemented relationships and visible bedding, foliation or other directional structures.", "questions": [ { "text": "What grain sizes, shapes and contact relationships are present, and what joins the grains?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "texture-and-directionality-q01" }, { "text": "Which fabrics define preferred directions, and how are those directions related to sampling and loading?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "texture-and-directionality-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-and-mechanical-behaviour", "name": "Physical and mechanical behaviour", "description": "Records measured rock behaviour with the conditions needed to interpret it.", "rationale": "Rock properties vary with pore structure, moisture, loading direction and test scale; a single unqualified material constant is inadequate.", "layers": [ { "id": "density-pores-and-water", "name": "Density, pores and water", "description": "Relates mass and void structure to water uptake and transport.", "findings": [ { "id": "pore-system-and-moisture-response", "name": "Pore system and moisture response", "description": "Record density, porosity and relevant fluid-response measurements without assuming that total porosity determines permeability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the dry and saturated bulk densities and the measured total and connected porosities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pore-system-and-moisture-response-q01" }, { "text": "What absorption or permeability measurements are available, and under which saturation, pressure and directional conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pore-system-and-moisture-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "strength-and-deformation", "name": "Strength and deformation", "description": "Captures intact-rock response to loading and the limits of available evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditioned-mechanical-results", "name": "Conditioned mechanical results", "description": "Associate strength and deformation results with specimen geometry, moisture, fabric direction and testing method.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which strength and stiffness results are available, with what units, specimen dimensions and test methods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-results-q01" }, { "text": "How do moisture, confinement and loading direction relative to fabric affect the results or limit their applicability?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditioned-mechanical-results-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fractures-weathering-and-durability", "name": "Fractures, weathering and durability", "description": "Describes current damage and evidence of deterioration under relevant exposure.", "rationale": "Fresh intact rock can differ substantially from the fractured or weathered material an agent must actually assess.", "layers": [ { "id": "discontinuities-and-existing-damage", "name": "Discontinuities and existing damage", "description": "Separates intact material properties from breaks and weakness surfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "fracture-geometry-and-condition", "name": "Fracture geometry and condition", "description": "Record discontinuity geometry, surface condition and infill at the observation scale.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fracture sets, apertures, spacing, persistence and infill are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fracture-geometry-and-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed weaknesses belong to the sampled rock and which require assessment of the surrounding rock mass?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fracture-geometry-and-condition-q02" } ] } ] 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recovery of usable blocks?", "kind": "action", "id": "requirements-linked-to-rock-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "constituent-and-activity-dependent-hazards", "name": "Constituent and activity-dependent hazards", "description": "Determines what evidence is needed when an operation can release hazardous constituents.", "findings": [ { "id": "hazard-evidence-and-applicable-identity", "name": "Hazard evidence and applicable identity", "description": "Associate hazard and regulatory records with the actual material, identified constituents, activity and jurisdiction rather than inventing a universal rock identifier.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the composition and intended activity warrant testing for respirable crystalline silica, asbestos minerals, leachable elements or other specific hazards?", "kind": "action", "id": "hazard-evidence-and-applicable-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified classifications, substance identifiers or exposure criteria apply to this material or its 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Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "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": [ "firestone", "holystone", "amphibolite", "argillite", "quartzite", "road metal", "stone", "arenaceous rock", "argillaceous rock", "rudaceous rock", "breccia", "sedimentary rock" ] } ], "standing": "78 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 rock from another, and a rock from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a rock 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 rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock 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 rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock 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.", "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 rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 rock is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock 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 rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock 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 rock between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a rock 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 rock, 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 rock, 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 rock is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What rock is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name rock unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of rock exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How rock behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of rock, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is rock incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How rock can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is rock classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover rock, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a rock 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 rock and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 rock is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a rock, 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 rock, 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 rock 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 } } } }