series
Let an agent explain series as ordered succession of similar things, describe its uses across publishing, broadcasting, events and data, support organising and referring to items in a series, and separate this sense from mathematical and technical senses.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a series is.
Concept
Concept and senses.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a series as ordered succession, and how does it differ from mathematical, electrical and other senses? definition
- Which sense of series is meant? boundary
Kinds
Kinds across fields.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How are series used in publishing, broadcasting, sport, data and product lines? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific kind? action
Organise Organising series.
Order
Ordering and numbering.
Order
Ordering.
- How can the items of this series be ordered, numbered and referred to consistently? action
- Which entry fits cataloguing? action
Data
Data series.
Data
Data.
- How are series of measurements and time series recorded and analysed? provenance
- Which entry fits statistics? action
Language Language and usage.
Usage
Usage.
Usage
Usage.
- How do series, sequence, succession and set differ in usage, and how do British and American uses of series and season differ? definition
- Which entry fits sequence? action
Reference
Referring to series.
Reference
Reference.
- How should a series and its items be cited or named? action
- Which entry fits citation? action
Learn Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can the concept of series be taught alongside sequences? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
History
History of the term.
History
History.
- How did the word series develop its senses? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.group
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- gene, cistron, factor, dominant gene, allele, allelomorph, dominant allele, dominant, recessive allele, recessive, genetic marker, homeotic gene
What it is Filled
Similar things placed in order or happening one after another, such as a series of events, a series of books or broadcasts, a series of measurements or a series of numbers, characterised by succession and a shared kind; in this sense series denotes ordered succession and is distinct from mathematical series as sums of terms, from electrical series circuits and from genetic terms with which the word is sometimes listed.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain series as ordered succession of similar things, describe its uses across publishing, broadcasting, events and data, support organising and referring to items in a series, and separate this sense from mathematical and technical senses.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Succession
- Shared kind
- Numbering
- Cross-field use
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present an incomplete series as complete.
- Reorder a series of records, such as measurements or events, in a way that misleads.
- Invent missing items to fill a series.
Only with a human decision
- Discarding items from an archival series.
May
- Arrange items of a series in order and report gaps or duplicates.
- Identify which series an item belongs to from catalogue data.
Moral aspects Filled
- The order of events or records can change what they appear to show.
- Gaps in series, such as data series, can hide inconvenient facts.
Who is affected
- Users of the records
- Collectors and readers
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a concept; the holder of a collection answers for its series.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-08474004-n - registry parent class
related
- ordering - category
- version, edition or translation - items within publication series
- chronology - ordering in time
- television - television series
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.series
- Open English WordNet: oewn-08474987-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Similar things in order
- Books, broadcasts, events, measurements
- A mathematical series is a sum; a sequence stresses order alone; a set has no order
- Not physical; an ordering.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the sense
- describe uses across fields
- support organising series
- separate other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing senses of series
- Inconsistent numbering
- Treating unrelated items as a series
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Bibliographic standards for series
- Statistical standards for time series
- No regulation of the concept
Context of use required Filled
- Similar things in ordered succession.
- book and publication series
- television and broadcast series
- series of events and matches
- series of measurements and data
- series of products and models
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-08474987-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: series - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should publication series be a separate entry?
- How should bibliographic standards be linked?
- How should other senses be separated?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-series/spec.json