{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:47:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.7, "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: 01a094cb-8221-7640-9820-50202d93e325\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: collector\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 regis", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 66.7, "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: 01a094cb-8214-7122-99e3-30d121cff6d9\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: collector\nRegistry id: vr.tr.collector\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nCont" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:00:47+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-08T19:09:53+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3243461", "registryId": "vr.tr.collector", "name": "collector", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3243461/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.collector", "name": "collector", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a collector role, assess its collecting practice and stewardship, and determine which collection-related actions the role holder is authorised to take.", "definition": "A collector is a person who intentionally assembles and retains objects or specimens selected according to an interest, theme or purpose, forming a collection over time.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models collector as a person-held social role centred on intentionally assembling and maintaining a collection; the intended registry sense remains unconfirmed because no definition is recorded.", "in_scope": [ "The collector role and its relationship to the person holding it", "Collecting interests, selection criteria and collection boundaries", "Acquisition practices and the collector's authority to acquire or transfer items", "Documentation, care and access responsibilities accepted by the collector", "Relationships with collections, owners, dealers, custodians and other collectors" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's complete identity, biography or other social roles", "The collection's complete inventory and the detailed models of its constituent items", "Dealership, museum or other organisation operations", "Debt, tax, refuse or data collection roles unless research establishes that one is the intended registry sense", "Physical collecting devices such as solar collectors" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The role involves purposeful selection into an identifiable collection; possession of miscellaneous belongings alone does not establish it.", "Collector and collection are distinct: the former exercises collecting choices, while the latter is the assemblage those choices concern.", "Ownership, custody and collecting agency must be checked separately; none should automatically establish the other two.", "A person acquiring items chiefly for resale may act as a dealer; a separate collecting purpose must be evidenced before assigning a collector role.", "The word collector alone is insufficient: collecting interests and activities must distinguish this provisional sense from collection-service occupations." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Collector sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "collection-building role | collection-service role | other | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the ambiguous registry label from silently selecting the wrong model." }, { "name": "Collecting focus", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named item classes, themes, makers, periods or other declared selection criteria", "why_it_matters": "Explains which acquisitions belong to the collecting practice." }, { "name": "Role holder and associated collections", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person-to-role and role-to-collection links with applicable dates", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the person, role and collection distinguishable across changes." }, { "name": "Collecting motivation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Interest | research | preservation | social participation | investment | mixed | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of selection and disposition choices without assuming collecting is an occupation." }, { "name": "Practice status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Acquiring | maintaining without acquisition | dispersing | paused | ended | unknown; multiple concurrent states allowed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes continued stewardship from continued purchasing." }, { "name": "Authority over collection items", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Item- or collection-specific ownership, custody, delegated authority and restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether acquisition, lending, access or disposal can be authorised." }, { "name": "Collection extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count of items or lots, with counting basis, collection boundary and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess the scale of the collector's responsibilities without using size as a qualification for the role." }, { "name": "Stewardship capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assessed against the specific collection's storage, care, documentation and resource requirements", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whether further acquisitions or current holdings exceed available care capacity." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether evidence supports assigning this collector role and flag unresolved label ambiguity.", "Compare a proposed acquisition with the collector's declared collecting scope.", "Identify missing provenance or authority evidence before progressing an acquisition or transfer.", "Assess gaps between accepted stewardship responsibilities and available capacity.", "Determine whether a proposed loan, viewing, sale or donation falls within documented authority.", "Record a change in collecting focus, activity or succession arrangements." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Help a collector catalogue, value or care for a collection at their request.", "Check provenance against public records of stolen or looted items." ], "must_not": [ "Help acquire or trade items that are stolen, looted or protected by wildlife or heritage law.", "Disclose a collector's holdings or address, which can make them a target for theft.", "Misrepresent the authenticity, condition or value of an item.", "Label a person a hoarder or diagnose them from their collecting." ], "requires_human": [ "Buying, selling or disposing of items from a collection." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Collecting can preserve heritage or drive looting and wildlife trade.", "Collectors' privacy and safety matter because valuable collections attract crime." ], "affected_parties": [ "Collectors", "Source communities", "Wildlife and heritage sites" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The person who collects.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Collectors assemble objects or specimens in private, institutional or commercial settings around a chosen interest or purpose.", "The role is relevant to acquisition, documentation, preservation and access decisions, although collecting alone does not establish ownership or authority." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, administered by the CITES Secretariat, applies when collectors trade internationally in covered specimens.", "The UNESCO 1970 Convention, adopted by UNESCO, provides a framework for national controls relevant to collectors acquiring or transferring cultural property." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Acquiring objects with unclear provenance can support illicit trade or expose a collector to ownership disputes.", "Poor storage or handling can damage collections and expose people to hazardous materials.", "Unsustainable specimen collecting can harm populations and habitats.", "Mistaking possession for authority can lead an agent to disclose, transfer or dispose of items without permission." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "A collector role cannot be established from physical appearance because it depends on collecting activity and supporting evidence." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3243461: collector", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3243461", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-es", "title": "Wikipedia (es): Coleccionista", "url": "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleccionista", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "collector-role-boundary", "name": "Collector role boundary", "description": "Establishes the intended sense of collector and the basis for assigning that role.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and collector can name substantially different roles.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-collector-sense", "name": "Intended collector sense", "description": "Distinguishes collection building from other activities described as collecting.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-collection-building", "name": "Evidence for collection building", "description": "Record evidence that the role concerns intentionally assembling or maintaining a collection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does this person collect, and what evidence establishes the intended meaning of collector?", "kind": "definition", "id": "evidence-for-collection-building-q01" }, { "text": "Could the label instead refer to debt recovery, revenue collection, refuse collection or another service?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-for-collection-building-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-assignment", "name": "Role assignment", "description": "Connects the collecting role to its holder without treating it as the person's complete identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-and-duration-of-role", "name": "Basis and duration of role", "description": "Record who holds the role, when it applies and whether it is self-described or evidenced by activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who holds the collector role, and which activities or statements support assigning it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-and-duration-of-role-q01" }, { "text": "Is collecting a personal pursuit, paid responsibility or mixed activity, and during which period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-and-duration-of-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collecting-purpose-and-selection", "name": "Collecting purpose and selection", "description": "Records why the collector assembles items and how inclusion decisions are made.", "rationale": "Selection intent distinguishes a collecting practice from incidental possession and guides acquisition decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "collecting-focus", "name": "Collecting focus", "description": "Defines the collector's interests and the boundaries of associated collections.", "findings": [ { "id": "inclusion-and-exclusion-criteria", "name": "Inclusion and exclusion criteria", "description": "Record the properties that make an item relevant, including explicit exclusions and evolving interests.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which item types, themes, periods, makers or other properties define the collecting focus?", "kind": "definition", "id": "inclusion-and-exclusion-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes a collection item from household property, resale stock or an incidental acquisition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "inclusion-and-exclusion-criteria-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collecting-priorities", "name": "Collecting priorities", "description": "Captures how the collector chooses among otherwise relevant items.", "findings": [ { "id": "selection-tradeoffs", "name": "Selection tradeoffs", "description": "Record the collector's priorities concerning completeness, rarity, condition, research value, enjoyment and cost without presuming any is universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What outcomes does the collector seek, and which priorities govern competing acquisition choices?", "kind": "definition", "id": "selection-tradeoffs-q01" }, { "text": "Under what conditions should a relevant item be declined, including duplication or insufficient care capacity?", "kind": "action", "id": "selection-tradeoffs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "acquisition-and-evidence", "name": "Acquisition and evidence", "description": "Connects acquisition decisions to item claims, provenance and the collector's authority.", "rationale": "A collector's interest in an item does not establish its authenticity, lawful availability or suitability for acquisition.", "layers": [ { "id": "item-claim-evaluation", "name": "Item claim evaluation", "description": "Records how the collector evaluates claims relevant to accepting an item.", "findings": [ { "id": "provenance-and-authenticity-assessment", "name": "Provenance and authenticity assessment", "description": "Link the collector's assessment to item-level evidence while preserving disputed or unknown claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which provenance, attribution, authenticity and condition claims matter for this acquisition, and what supports them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "provenance-and-authenticity-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which uncertainties require specialist review or a decision to defer acquisition?", "kind": "action", "id": "provenance-and-authenticity-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "acquisition-authority", "name": "Acquisition authority", "description": "Establishes the capacity in which the collector obtains an item and any applicable constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "acquisition-route-and-constraints", "name": "Acquisition route and constraints", "description": "Record purchase, gift, exchange, inheritance or other routes together with ownership outcomes and evidence requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "By what route would the item enter the collection, who would own it, and on whose behalf is the collector acting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "acquisition-route-and-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What permissions, transfer conditions or item- and jurisdiction-specific restrictions must be verified before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "acquisition-route-and-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collection-stewardship", "name": "Collection stewardship", "description": "Records the collector's responsibilities for knowing, locating and caring for collected items.", "rationale": "Maintaining a collection requires decisions beyond acquisition, even where care is delegated.", "layers": [ { "id": "collection-documentation", "name": "Collection documentation", "description": "Establishes how the collector links items to records and tracks collection boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-and-record-coverage", "name": "Identification and record coverage", "description": "Record the documentation method and known gaps without reproducing the inventory in the role model.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are collected items identified and linked to acquisition records, provenance evidence and current locations?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identification-and-record-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "How many items or lots lack adequate records, using what counting basis and assessment date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identification-and-record-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-responsibility", "name": "Care responsibility", "description": "Connects collection-specific care needs to the people and resources responsible for meeting them.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-capacity-and-delegation", "name": "Care capacity and delegation", "description": "Record accepted care obligations, delegated work and capacity gaps relevant to continued collecting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which storage, handling, maintenance or preservation duties has the collector accepted, and which are delegated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "care-capacity-and-delegation-q01" }, { "text": "What care shortfalls require intervention or limits on further acquisitions?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-capacity-and-delegation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-disposition", "name": "Access and disposition", "description": "Defines how the collector may share, lend or relinquish collection items and responsibilities.", "rationale": "Collector status alone does not grant authority to expose private information, lend holdings or dispose of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "collection-access", "name": "Collection access", "description": "Records permitted viewing, research, display and lending arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "sharing-and-loan-decisions", "name": "Sharing and loan decisions", "description": "Connect proposed access to ownership, custody, confidentiality and item-specific handling conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may authorise viewing, research access, display or loans for the relevant items?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sharing-and-loan-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "What conditions must an agent satisfy before arranging access or sharing collection records?", "kind": "action", "id": "sharing-and-loan-decisions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collection-transition", "name": "Collection transition", "description": "Records decisions to reduce, transfer or end the collecting practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "dispersal-and-succession", "name": "Dispersal and succession", "description": "Distinguish ending acquisition from relinquishing holdings and identify arrangements for future responsibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the collector maintaining, expanding or dispersing the collection, and what evidence dates that assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dispersal-and-succession-q01" }, { "text": "Who can authorise sales, gifts or succession arrangements, and what records and obligations must accompany a transfer?", "kind": "action", "id": "dispersal-and-succession-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 access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded; this description assumes the person who collects objects or specimens, rather than a debt collector, revenue collector or collecting device.", "Collecting can be an amateur activity or a professional role; the label alone establishes neither employment nor qualifications.", "No sources were consulted; applicable rules and occupational classifications require checking once the intended sense and collection material are established." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of collector 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": [ "Art collector", "Book collector", "Stamp collector", "Coin collector", "Natural-history specimen collector", "Memorabilia collector" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of collector 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": [ "Assembling collections for personal enjoyment or systematic study", "Preserving objects and documenting their provenance", "Lending or donating collections to museums, libraries and archives", "Supporting research through access to privately held objects or specimens" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of collector 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": [ "Acquiring counterfeit, misattributed or deceptively restored objects", "Losing provenance, ownership history or specimen locality information", "Damage or deterioration through unsuitable storage, handling or display", "Acquiring stolen or illicitly obtained material", "Financial losses from overvaluation or difficulty reselling a collection" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of collector this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Collecting traditions and the cultural significance of particular objects vary across communities and regions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of collector 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": "Collection", "difference": "The collection is the assembled material; the collector is the person assembling or maintaining it." }, { "name": "Dealer", "difference": "A dealer acquires material principally for trade; a collector acquires it principally for inclusion in a collection, although one person can do both." }, { "name": "Curator", "difference": "A curator has responsibility for interpreting and managing a collection; a collector need not hold that professional or institutional responsibility." }, { "name": "Debt collector", "difference": "A debt collector seeks payment of outstanding debts rather than assembling a collection of objects." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of collector this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.collector specifically mean a person who builds collections, or does its originating registry record identify a different collector role?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this sense of collector and therefore provide the authoritative model to link?", "What minimum evidence should establish the role where a person inherits a collection, stops acquiring or collects entirely on another owner's behalf?", "Does the registry intend to include collectors of digital or intangible items, and which additional authority and preservation distinctions would those require?", "For the confirmed sense and collecting domains, which occupational classifications, qualifications or jurisdiction-specific permissions are applicable, if any?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }