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], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Commission Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014, issued by the European Commission, sets railway accessibility requirements relevant to boarding interfaces and passenger information within its scope without prescribing this exact warning phrase." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1378362: mind the gap", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378362", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Mind the gap", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_gap", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "warning-identity-and-meaning", "name": "Warning identity and meaning", "description": "Establish what \"mind the gap\" denotes and what its operational use asks a passenger to notice.", "rationale": "The registry 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{ "text": "Is the entity under assessment the warning expression, a recording or design, or a particular delivered occurrence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expression-to-delivery-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Which source asset and version produced this playback, display or installed sign?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expression-to-delivery-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-passenger-delivery", "name": "Situated passenger delivery", "description": "Assess the warning's connection to a crossing opportunity and its availability to the intended passengers.", "rationale": "Correct words can still be ineffective when they refer ambiguously, arrive too late or cannot be perceived.", "layers": [ { "id": "placement-and-timing", "name": "Placement and timing", "description": "Locate delivery relative to the gap and the passenger's opportunity to respond.", "findings": [ { "id": "actionable-crossing-context", "name": "Actionable crossing context", "description": "Record whether the 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"Which performer, producer, designer or commissioning body is documented for this recording or visual treatment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "asset-specific-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "What permission evidence covers the proposed playback, reproduction, adaptation or redistribution of this asset?", "kind": "action", "id": "asset-specific-reuse-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 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"questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of mind the gap 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": [ "Passengers may trip or place a foot in the platform-vehicle gap.", "An audible warning alone may be inaccessible to passengers with hearing impairments.", "A written warning alone may be inaccessible to passengers with visual impairments.", "Passengers unfamiliar with the language may not understand the instruction.", "A warning does not physically remove the gap or make boarding accessible." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mind the gap this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": 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