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apply to this exemplar." }, { "name": "Component membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Constituent volumes, sheets, discs, files or other components with roles", "why_it_matters": "Determines what must be present for the item to be complete." }, { "name": "Completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete, incomplete, unverified; missing or substituted components identified", "why_it_matters": "Supports accurate access decisions and distinguishes damage from an intentionally different manifestation." }, { "name": "Copy-specific features", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Inscriptions, annotations, bindings, repairs, defects or other documented variations", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and preservation of evidence unique to the exemplar." }, { "name": "Integrity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated condition observations or digital fixity results, including method and limitations", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether the 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their effect on item identity and integrity." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe an item's attributes, availability and effects using information appropriate to the game and version.", "Help users compare and organise items within the game's rules.", "Perform authorized item actions within the user's stated limits and the game's rules." ], "must_not": [ "Consume, discard, transfer or spend resources on items without user authorization.", "Misrepresent an item's identity, rarity, effects, value or transfer restrictions.", "Facilitate item scams, account theft or unauthorized access to another player's inventory.", "Bypass game rules or access restrictions to obtain or duplicate items." ], "requires_human": [ "Resolving disputed ownership or authorization for an item transaction requires human review.", "Approving irreversible item actions or real-money transactions outside existing user authorization requires human involvement." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Item descriptions and offers should accurately represent restrictions, costs and uncertainty.", "Item actions can affect a player's invested time, money and enjoyment.", "Fair play and respect for other players apply to item acquisition, use and exchange." ], "affected_parties": [ "Players who obtain, hold or exchange items are affected.", "Other players affected by item use or trading are affected.", "Game operators and community moderators are affected." ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The game operator maintains authoritative item rules and records, while players control permitted item actions within those rules.", "master_systems": [ "The game's authoritative item definitions and inventory records govern item identity and possession." ] }, "standards_and_regulation": [ "IFLA Library Reference Model, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.", "RDA: Resource Description and Access, RDA Steering Committee." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "A game item is encountered as an obtainable object in a game world, inventory or reward system.", "Depending on the game's rules, items can support progression, equipment changes, crafting, trading or customisation." ], "visual_identification": [ "An inventory icon or labelled entry commonly distinguishes an obtainable item from background scenery.", "A selection highlight or collection prompt can indicate that a visible object is an item the player can obtain.", "Displayed attributes such as quantity, condition or equipment slot can distinguish similar-looking items." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing visually similar items can cause unintended consumption, exchange or loss of valuable game resources.", "Misunderstanding item effects or restrictions can block progress or disadvantage other players.", "Deceptive item offers can expose players to financial loss or account compromise." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q859965: item", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q859965", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Item (game terminology)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_%28game_terminology%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "exemplar-identity", "name": "Exemplar identity", "description": "Establishes which particular copy is being described and which manifestation it exemplifies.", "rationale": "A bibliographic item requires identity below the edition or publication level.", "layers": [ { "id": "copy-identification", "name": "Copy identification", "description": "Distinguishes the exemplar using identifiers and observable evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "copy-identity-evidence", "name": "Copy identity evidence", "description": "Record identifier authority, distinguishing marks and evidence connecting the description to the actual exemplar.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifier singles out this exemplar, and within whose identifier system?", "kind": "definition", "id": "copy-identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What observed marks or repository records establish that this is the intended copy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "copy-identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "manifestation-attribution", "name": "Manifestation attribution", "description": "Connects the exemplar to its shared publication or production context.", "findings": [ { "id": "exemplar-to-manifestation", "name": "Exemplar to manifestation", "description": "Record the proposed manifestation association and distinguish copy-level variation from evidence of a different manifestation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which imprint, edition statement, carrier features or digital metadata support the manifestation association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "exemplar-to-manifestation-q01" }, { "text": "Does an observed difference belong only to this copy, or does it indicate a different manifestation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exemplar-to-manifestation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exemplar-composition", "name": "Exemplar composition", "description": "Establishes what constitutes the item and how its components are managed together.", "rationale": "One exemplar can occupy several pieces or files, and physical co-location does not necessarily establish a single bibliographic item.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-boundaries", "name": "Component boundaries", "description": "Defines the parts included in the exemplar.", "findings": [ { "id": "constituent-membership", "name": "Constituent membership", "description": "Record expected and observed components, including separately housed supplements and materials bound together.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which volumes, plates, discs, files or supplements constitute this exemplar?", "kind": "definition", "id": "constituent-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Are materials housed or bound together parts of this item, or separately identified items sharing a carrier?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "constituent-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "digital-copy-boundaries", "name": "Digital copy boundaries", "description": "Makes the institution's treatment of digital copies and storage replicas explicit when applicable.", "findings": [ { "id": "managed-digital-exemplar", "name": "Managed digital exemplar", "description": "Record how files, packages and replicas relate to the identified exemplar without assuming that byte equality determines item identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "For a digital exemplar, which managed file or package defines the item boundary?", "kind": "definition", "id": "managed-digital-exemplar-q01" }, { "text": "Are backup and access replicas treated as representations of this item or as separately identified items?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "managed-digital-exemplar-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "copy-evidence-and-integrity", "name": "Copy evidence and integrity", "description": "Captures the exemplar's distinctive material or digital state and the evidence retained through intervention.", "rationale": "Copy-specific changes can affect both usability and evidential value while leaving the underlying work unchanged.", "layers": [ { "id": "copy-specific-history", "name": "Copy-specific history", "description": "Documents traces of use and alteration particular to the exemplar.", "findings": [ { "id": "annotations-and-alterations", "name": "Annotations and alterations", "description": "Record inscriptions, annotations, replacement bindings and other alterations with evidence and uncertain attributions clearly separated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inscriptions, annotations, repairs or substitutions distinguish this copy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "annotations-and-alterations-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the attributed author, date or circumstances of each significant alteration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "annotations-and-alterations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-preservation", "name": "Condition and preservation", "description": "Assesses completeness, usability and the consequences of treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-integrity", "name": "Verified integrity", "description": "Record dated inspections or fixity checks and specify what proposed preservation actions would change.", "questions": [ { "text": "What inspection or fixity check establishes the current completeness and integrity of the exemplar, and when was it performed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Which preservation action is justified, and what copy-specific evidence or identity relationships would it alter?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-integrity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "custody-and-use", "name": "Custody and use", "description": "Connects the individual exemplar's whereabouts and custody history to decisions about its use.", "rationale": "Copies of the same manifestation can have different owners, locations, loan states and restrictions.", "layers": [ { "id": "ownership-and-custody", "name": "Ownership and custody", "description": "Separates ownership claims, possession and retrieval location.", "findings": [ { "id": "copy-custody-chain", "name": "Copy custody chain", "description": "Record acquisition and transfer evidence, current custodian and the exemplar's physical or logical location.", "questions": [ { "text": "What accession, purchase, donation or transfer evidence supports the recorded ownership and custody history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "copy-custody-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Who currently holds the exemplar, and what location or retrieval reference identifies where it can be accessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "copy-custody-chain-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-reproduction", "name": "Access and reproduction", "description": "Determines whether a requested action is permitted and practicable for this copy.", "findings": [ { "id": "item-specific-use-decision", "name": "Item-specific use decision", "description": "Evaluate availability, condition and applicable restrictions while keeping ownership of the exemplar distinct from rights in its content.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do this copy's loan status, condition or documented restrictions permit the requested consultation, transfer or reproduction?", "kind": "action", "id": "item-specific-use-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Which constraints attach to this exemplar, and which derive from rights or licences associated with its content?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "item-specific-use-decision-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": [ "The bibliographic sense is inferred from the domain and batch context; the registry records no explicit sense.", "Digital-item boundaries require checking against the cataloguing model and repository practice in use.", "Standards and schemes are named from recall; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of item 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": [ "Single-object physical exemplar", "Physical exemplar comprising multiple components", "Individual digital exemplar" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of item 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": "Institutional accession number", "value_or_pattern": "Locally assigned number or alphanumeric string", "note": "Identifies an accessioned object within an institution; assignment practices vary." }, { "scheme": "Library item barcode", "value_or_pattern": "Locally assigned machine-readable identifier", "note": "Usually identifies a particular circulating copy; uniqueness depends on the issuing system." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of item this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM), issued by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, defines Item as a bibliographic entity.", "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), issued by IFLA, distinguishes work, expression, manifestation and item.", "Resource Description and Access (RDA), maintained by the RDA Steering Committee, provides instructions for describing bibliographic entities, including items.", "MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data, maintained by the Library of Congress with partner institutions, supports recording holdings and item information." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of item 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": [ "Tracking the location, availability and loans of individual library copies.", "Recording copy-specific inscriptions, annotations, binding and condition.", "Documenting ownership and custodial provenance.", "Managing conservation, loss, replacement and inventory checks." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of item 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": [ "Treating an ISBN as a unique identifier for an individual copy.", "Attaching copy-specific damage or annotations to every exemplar of a manifestation.", "Conflating a work, its expression, its published manifestation and an individual item.", "Losing item identity when identifiers change during system migration.", "Assuming digital access rights or a platform link necessarily identify an individual digital exemplar." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of item 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": [ "Institutions and cataloguing communities differ in accession numbering, barcode conventions and holdings-record practices." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of item 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": "manifestation", "difference": "A manifestation groups exemplars sharing production characteristics; an item is one individual exemplar." }, { "name": "expression", "difference": "An expression is a particular realization of intellectual or artistic content; an item exemplifies a manifestation embodying that content." }, { "name": "work", "difference": "A work is the intellectual or artistic creation; an item is an individual exemplar through which its content may be encountered." }, { "name": "holding", "difference": "A holding records an institution's possession of or access to resources and may encompass multiple items." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of item this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.item specifically denote a bibliographic exemplar, as the INF.MED context suggests, or another sense of item?", "Which existing Vercy model, if any, already owns this concept and should be linked instead of duplicated?", "Which FRBR or IFLA LRM interpretation should govern item identity, especially for digital exemplars and replicas?", "How should bound-with materials, multipart exemplars and replacement components affect the continuity of item identity?", "Which institutional evidence and policies govern copy attribution, custody claims and access decisions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }