{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:45:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.8, "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: 01a09500-8b66-7871-8e35-0c8951986de9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: fleuron\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: ACT.ACT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 registe", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 72.4, "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: 01a09500-8b5b-7b20-9008-33652261fb13\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: fleuron\nRegistry id: vr.tr.fleuron\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:42:53+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners", "visual_identification" ] }, "revisions": [ { "at": "2026-10-07T11:23:15+00:00", "engine": "codex", "fields": [ "distinguishing_features", "in_scope", "out_of_scope", "scope_statement" ], "answering_review": "e5be0a120ad1212fe009c3e5479fd90117bbee407b3ca9b83c843dea0ab53015" } ], "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T12:16:30+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q2033580", "registryId": "vr.tr.fleuron", "name": "fleuron", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2033580/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.fleuron", "name": "fleuron", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a fleuron as an ornamental motif, assess its documented form and use, and choose appropriate identification, reproduction or preservation actions.", "definition": "In typography, a fleuron is a decorative ornament, typically based on a flower or leaf, used individually or in repeated arrangements to embellish and articulate a printed page.", "scope_statement": "This model owns fleuron as a typographical ornament, including its floral or foliate form, placement on a page, repeated arrangements, and relationships to type designs and printed occurrences.", "in_scope": [ "The typographical motif and evidence supporting its identification as a fleuron are in scope.", "Floral or foliate form, stylisation, symmetry and orientation are in scope.", "Placement on a page as an isolated ornament or repeated component is in scope.", "Relationships between a motif design, its typographic carrier and individual occurrences are in scope.", "Requirements for reproduction, interpretation and preservation of typographical fleurons are in scope." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Botanical classification of the flower or leaf represented is out of scope.", "The complete book or other publication bearing the ornament is out of scope.", "General font design and typesetting are out of scope.", "Architectural fleurons, finials and other non-typographical ornaments are out of scope.", "Independent models for neighbouring ornament classes such as rosettes and arabesques are out of scope.", "Figurative uses of fleuron meaning a prized achievement or possession are out of scope.", "Publications, organisations or products named Fleuron are out of scope." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A candidate must function as a typographical ornament; a depiction of a flower used primarily for botanical documentation is insufficient.", "Floral or foliate morphology supports identification, but a source explicitly calling the typographical ornament a fleuron is stronger evidence than resemblance alone.", "An architectural finial does not qualify in this sense, even when documented as a fleuron.", "A typographic separator qualifies only when its form or documented classification supports fleuron identification; separator function alone does not distinguish it from rules, asterisks or other ornaments.", "A radial floral form may also be described as a rosette; record overlapping terminology rather than treating these names as mutually exclusive." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Application context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "typographic; architectural; other decorative art; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which recognition criteria, measurements and interventions are relevant." }, { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "source-attested; visually proposed; disputed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from presenting a visual guess as an established classification." }, { "name": "Motif morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "floral; foliate; combined; highly abstracted; indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Records the visible basis for identifying and comparing fleurons." }, { "name": "Symmetry and orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "radial, bilateral, asymmetric or indeterminate; orientation relative to the host", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish intentional variants from rotation, mirroring or damage." }, { "name": "Occurrence extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "width and height in mm or explicitly calibrated image units; depth in mm for relief or freestanding work", "why_it_matters": "Supports scale-sensitive comparison and reproduction without confusing image size with physical size." }, { "name": "Host placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified host and location; heading, ending, separator, border, terminal, surface ornament or unresolved role", "why_it_matters": "Connects the motif to its compositional function." }, { "name": "Design and occurrence relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "instance of; variant of; copied from; shares production carrier with; resemblance only; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates reuse of a design from reuse of the same physical or digital production resource." }, { "name": "Form integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "apparently complete; worn; broken; cropped; distorted; reconstructed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether observed differences can support identification or require further inspection." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate fleuron with an explicit application context and confidence basis.", "Compare occurrences using motif details, orientation, scale and production evidence.", "Locate the ornament within its host and record its decorative or text-organising role.", "Select a suitable reproduction method while preserving identifying details and placement.", "Flag damage, substitution or reconstruction that changes the ornament's recognisable form." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Identify fleurons in printed books and fonts and describe their style and period.", "Use fleuron glyphs in typesetting when the font licence allows it." ], "must_not": [ "Copy ornaments from a licensed font or modern design in breach of its licence.", "Present a modern reproduction of a historic ornament as an original printed piece.", "Remove pages or ornaments from historic books." ], "requires_human": [ "Commercial reuse of ornaments from a font or an archive collection." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Ornament designs are craft work whose makers deserve credit and fair licensing.", "Historic printed books are fragile heritage." ], "affected_parties": [ "Type designers", "Libraries and archives", "Readers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the form; rights holders own specific fonts and designs.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A small stylized flower or leaf printed alone, as a section break or repeated in borders." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Unlicensed font use can expose publishers to legal claims." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "A fleuron decorates printed or digital text, commonly marking section breaks, chapter endings or ornamental borders.", "It is encountered in book design, historical printing and typographic collections as a floral or leaf-like ornament." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO/IEC 10646, issued jointly by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission, provides character encoding for represented floral ornaments when used as text characters." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q2033580: fleuron", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033580", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Fleuron (typography)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleuron_%28typography%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ornamental-sense-and-boundaries", "name": "Ornamental sense and boundaries", "description": "Establish which use of fleuron applies before assigning form or function.", "rationale": "The registry name alone does not distinguish the architectural, decorative and typographic senses.", "layers": [ { "id": "attested-application", "name": "Attested application", "description": "Connect the candidate to a documented ornamental use of the term.", "findings": [ { "id": "multiple-ornamental-contexts", "name": "Multiple ornamental contexts", "description": "The term spans architectural and other decorative ornaments as well as typography; the registry's intended context is unresolved. Reference: [Dictionnaire de l'Académie française](https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9F0996).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source identifies this candidate as a fleuron, and in which application context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "multiple-ornamental-contexts-q01" }, { "text": "Does the registry's originating record select one ornamental sense or a broader concept?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "multiple-ornamental-contexts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-ornaments", "name": "Neighbouring ornaments", "description": "Keep terminology overlaps visible without collapsing all ornaments into fleurons.", "findings": [ { "id": "typographic-specificity", "name": "Typographic specificity", "description": "The OQLF defines the typographic fleuron through flower or leaf form and distinguishes this narrower sense from more general vignette terminology. Reference: [OQLF terminology record](https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8888745/fleuron).", "questions": [ { "text": "What visible feature or documented usage supports fleuron rather than merely typographic ornament?", "kind": "definition", "id": "typographic-specificity-q01" }, { "text": "Do sources also call this motif a vignette, rosette, finial or another ornament, and how do their definitions overlap?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "typographic-specificity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "motif-form-and-variation", "name": "Motif form and variation", "description": "Record the features by which a fleuron can be recognised across representations.", "rationale": "A floral label alone cannot distinguish a particular design, its variants and degraded occurrences.", "layers": [ { "id": "floral-and-foliate-structure", "name": "Floral and foliate structure", "description": "Describe observable components without inventing botanical identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-features", "name": "Recognition features", "description": "Record visible petals, leaves, stems, central elements and their arrangement; botanical species attribution requires separate evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which floral or foliate components are visible, and which are uncertain because of abstraction or loss?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognition-features-q01" }, { "text": "What component counts and relative proportions distinguish this motif from similar fleurons?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recognition-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "orientation-and-design-identity", "name": "Orientation and design identity", "description": "Distinguish changes of presentation from changes of design.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-comparison", "name": "Variant comparison", "description": "Comparison should account for rotation, reflection, scale and missing details before asserting that two occurrences represent different designs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the occurrences align after rotation, reflection or uniform scaling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "variant-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "Which remaining differences justify a distinct variant rather than a damaged or transformed occurrence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-comparison-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "placement-and-composition", "name": "Placement and composition", "description": "Explain how the fleuron participates in the arrangement of its host.", "rationale": "An identical motif can perform different roles depending on location, repetition and surrounding content.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-compositional-role", "name": "Local compositional role", "description": "Identify the ornament's role at its actual location.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-from-context", "name": "Role from context", "description": "Record whether the occurrence marks a textual division, decorates a surface or terminates a feature, without inferring function from floral shape alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does the fleuron sit relative to text, edges, mouldings or other host features?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "role-from-context-q01" }, { "text": "What contextual evidence supports the assigned separator, terminal or decorative role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-from-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "repetition-and-grouping", "name": "Repetition and grouping", "description": "Separate a fleuron unit from an arrangement assembled using that unit.", "findings": [ { "id": "unit-versus-arrangement", "name": "Unit versus arrangement", "description": "Record individual motif boundaries and arrangement rules so that an entire border or cluster is not automatically treated as one fleuron.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this an isolated motif, a repeated unit or a composite arrangement containing several motifs?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unit-versus-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "What spacing, orientation sequence and joining relationships define the arrangement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "unit-versus-arrangement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embodiment-and-attribution", "name": "Embodiment and attribution", "description": "Connect the ornament design to its material or digital realisation and documented history.", "rationale": "Resemblance between fleurons does not by itself establish a shared maker, production carrier or date.", "layers": [ { "id": "design-carrier-and-occurrence", "name": "Design, carrier and occurrence", "description": "Identify what is actually being inspected or reproduced.", "findings": [ { "id": "representation-level", "name": "Representation level", "description": "Distinguish the motif design from a glyph, printing element, impression, carved ornament or image documenting an occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the available evidence a design resource, a production carrier, an installed or printed occurrence, or a later image?", "kind": "definition", "id": "representation-level-q01" }, { "text": "Which resource or physical object produced this occurrence, if that relationship is documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "representation-level-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-evidence", "name": "Attribution evidence", "description": "Assess claims about shared origin and historical use.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-claim-strength", "name": "Origin claim strength", "description": "Keep direct attribution, comparative inference and unsupported resemblance separate when recording makers, dates or reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specimen, catalogue, host record or other inspected source supports the proposed maker and date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-claim-strength-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish the same design, the same production carrier, or only visual similarity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "origin-claim-strength-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "integrity-and-intervention", "name": "Integrity and intervention", "description": "Judge whether the fleuron remains interpretable and what a proposed intervention would change.", "rationale": "Loss of small ornamental details or altered placement can undermine identification and reproduction fidelity.", "layers": [ { "id": "detail-survival", "name": "Detail survival", "description": "Assess the survival and visibility of distinguishing motif features.", "findings": [ { "id": "loss-versus-design", "name": "Loss versus design", "description": "Missing or merged features should remain condition observations until evidence distinguishes wear, breakage, reproduction artefacts and intentional design.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifying details are absent, obscured, merged or distorted in the inspected occurrence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "loss-versus-design-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison supports interpreting each irregularity as damage or reproduction loss rather than original form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "loss-versus-design-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-restoration", "name": "Reproduction and restoration", "description": "Define the fidelity target and evidence limits of an intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-fidelity", "name": "Intervention fidelity", "description": "A facsimile of an occurrence, a reconstruction of a design and a decorative adaptation have different fidelity requirements; inferred additions must be identifiable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Should the action reproduce the observed occurrence, reconstruct an evidenced design or create an adaptation?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-fidelity-q01" }, { "text": "Which motif details, scale relationships and placement features must be preserved for the intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-fidelity-q02" }, { "text": "Which proposed additions lack direct evidence and must remain marked as conjectural?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intervention-fidelity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "The registry supplies no sense; the typographic meaning is assumed, but 'fleuron' also has architectural and culinary meanings.", "ACT.ACT alone does not establish which meaning the registry intends.", "The listed kinds are descriptive forms rather than a standardized taxonomy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of fleuron this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Leaf-shaped ornaments", "Flower-shaped ornaments", "Composite ornaments assembled from repeated floral elements" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of fleuron 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+2766", "note": "FLORAL HEART encodes one familiar fleuron form; it does not identify the whole category." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of fleuron 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": [ "Marking section breaks in books", "Decorating headings and title pages", "Constructing ornamental borders", "Filling space at the end of a chapter or other text" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fleuron 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": [ "Fine ornamental details can disappear or fill in when reproduced at small sizes.", "Font substitution or missing glyph support can alter or omit a digitally encoded ornament.", "An ornament used as a section separator may lose its structural meaning in plain-text conversion." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fleuron 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": "Dingbat", "difference": "A dingbat is a broader category of nonalphabetic typographic symbol; a fleuron specifically belongs to the ornamental, usually floral or foliate tradition." }, { "name": "Finial", "difference": "An architectural finial terminates a physical feature; a typographic fleuron decorates a page, although 'fleuron' also has architectural uses." }, { "name": "Asterism", "difference": "A typographic asterism is an arrangement of three asterisks, whereas a fleuron uses an ornamental design even when serving the same separating function." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of fleuron this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry or Wikidata record intend the typographic sense, the architectural sense or the broader ornamental concept?", "What justifies ACT / ACT.ACT for this entry, and does the registry intend a design practice, motif type or produced ornament?", "Which specialist traditions include highly abstract or non-floral ornaments under fleuron, and where do they draw the boundary?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept and therefore require linking instead of a new publication?", "Which inspected specimens and authoritative catalogues should establish representative instances and reliable design-comparison criteria?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }