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Creative Work

vr.wm-med-001 · wm-med-001-creative-work

Describe one intellectual or artistic work across its realizations, keeping the work distinct from media assets, editions, copies, rights and publication events.

World Models Information and virtual systems INF.MED.WRK

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

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6 bundles · 12 layers · 12 findings · 48 questions

Identity and description Work-scoped identity and description.

Work recognition

Record the rationale that one conceptual work is being described. Keep competing identifications unresolved rather than merging on title, topic, file digest or a recording identifier.

Identity decision

Record the rationale that one conceptual work is being described. Keep competing identifications unresolved rather than merging on title, topic, file digest or a recording identifier.

Which master work identifier and identifier scheme identify this work? identity
What observed realization or historical evidence supports recognizing this work? evidence
What distinguishes this work from a similarly titled or thematically similar work? decision
How is a disputed duplicate or mistaken work merge represented and reversed? exception

Descriptive context

Maintain language-tagged names, work type, subjects and descriptions as attributed assertions. Descriptive places and times are not automatically the place or time of creation.

Titles and context

Maintain language-tagged names, work type, subjects and descriptions as attributed assertions. Descriptive places and times are not automatically the place or time of creation.

Which work type and genre vocabulary were applied, with which version? classification
Which preferred, alternative and translated titles name the work in each context? definition
Which depicted places and periods are distinguished from the place and time of creation? spatial
What description or audience claim is supported, disputed or intentionally absent? quality

Realizations and embodiments Work-scoped realizations and embodiments.

Expression context

Use work-local expression descriptors with independent expression identifiers. A translation, arrangement or revision is classified by an explicit profile; transformative changes may require a related work. A work record can have unknown realization details without asserting an unrealized idea is an LRM work.

Realization distinction

Which identified expression realizes this work under the selected cataloguing profile? identity
Which language, signs or performance form distinguish each realization? classification
When does the documented change require a new expression or a separate derived work? decision
Which representative expression characteristics may be displayed at work level? constraint

Embodiment references

Describe typed embodiment relationships while retaining external edition, asset, recording and copy identities. A single publication can carry expressions of multiple works; a recording identifier is not a file identifier or a universal work key.

Manifestations and assets

Which manifestations embody which expressions of this work, including unpublished embodiments? composition
Which identifiers refer to a recording, edition, copy or digital rendition rather than this work? identity
Which extent or accessibility observation belongs to a specific realization or asset? measurement
Which authorized catalogue links expose usable embodiments without exposing restricted payloads? access

Contributions and evidence Work-scoped contributions and evidence.

Attribution

Record evidence-qualified credit at the correct work or expression level. Anonymous, pseudonymous, collective and contested credit can be represented without inventing an identified natural person or inferring rights shares from roles.

Contributor roles

Who is credited for which work or expression contribution and under which role vocabulary? relationship
What source supports or challenges each attribution and credit wording? evidence
How is contributor credit separated from legal ownership and catalogue stewardship? ownership
Which identity details must be withheld while preserving a legitimate public credit? privacy

Provenance assertions

Attach sources to descriptive claims and distinguish creation activities from metadata ingestion. Human, assisted, automated or unknown generation assertions remain evidence-qualified; credentials and digests are not proof of truth, authorship or copyright eligibility.

Evidence and generation context

Which agent and activity produced the work description or supplied a particular claim? provenance
Which creation, modification and ingestion times are known with what precision? temporal
What supports the declared human, assisted, automated or unknown origin of a realization? evidence
How are contradictory or withdrawn provenance assertions preserved for review? validation

Work relationships Work-scoped work relationships.

Derivation and reference

Keep adaptation, translation, sequel, quotation, reference and equivalence claims distinct. Direction, target level and evidence are explicit; an undifferentiated related-work link does not establish identity or permission.

Typed related works

Which related work is the source, successor or referenced subject of this relationship? relationship
Which profile distinguishes adaptation, expression derivation and mere citation? classification
What prevents unsupported equivalence or impossible part-cycle assertions? constraint
Who approved the relation claim and what remains contested? authority

Parts and aggregating works

Distinguish a work with parts from an aggregating work that provides selection or arrangement. Co-publication does not make all component works parts of one intellectual creation or transfer their ownership.

Assembly intent

What selection or ordering plan identifies an aggregating work independently of its contents? composition
Which component references describe work parts versus expressions gathered in a manifestation? relationship
How are changes to an evolving collection or serial distinguished from a new work? lifecycle
How are omitted, repeated or independently governed components represented? exception

Rights context and reuse Work-scoped rights context and reuse.

Rights assertions

Carry references to rights assertions at the work, expression or embodiment level. Unknown, disputed and time-limited claims remain distinct; national applicability and underlying legal records are delegated.

Scoped rights evidence

Which party claims which right over which precisely identified target? ownership
For which territory, term and observation date is each rights assertion reported? temporal
What evidence supports public-domain or licence claims for the proposed target and territory? evidence
How are conflicting claims, orphan status or incomplete ownership chains exposed? exception

Reuse decision references

Store the context and result reference of an external reuse decision. Descriptive rights metadata, a licence offer or public availability never substitutes for a qualified permission assessment or another applicable legal basis.

Permission context

What intended use, target and audience are submitted for external clearance review? requirement
Which authoritative decision or policy reference supports the reported reuse status? authority
Which attribution, restriction or duty references apply to that reported decision? constraint
Which rights information can appear in a public catalogue versus a restricted review view? access

Catalogue continuity and exchange Work-scoped catalogue continuity and exchange.

Lifecycle context

Separate the state of the catalogue record from reported creative progress and from release or performance events. Withdrawal of availability does not erase the historical work; physical properties belong to embodiments.

Status and event references

Which status describes this catalogue record and which describes reported creative progress? state
Which release, performance or exhibition record evidences a dated public occurrence? event
Which revision, correction or withdrawal changes the description without changing work identity? lifecycle
Which policy controls retention, lawful erasure and minimal tombstones for this work record? retention

Interoperability and quality

Version mappings rather than assuming that every vocabulary describes the same abstraction level. Emit information-loss and unresolved-reference reports; no executable mapping, runtime implementation or conformance certificate is claimed.

Profile-qualified exchange

Which pinned vocabulary profile maps this work and its expression context into the target system? interoperability
Which distinctions or uncertain claims are lost or reinterpreted by a proposed projection? validation
Which required references and evidence remain unresolved before a catalogue export? quality
Which export view prevents restricted evidence from leaking through nested references? security

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Information and virtual systems
Entry kind: entity
Navigation path: NAV.INF.MED.WRK
Domain: INF.MED.WRK
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: creativeworkinf.med.wrk
Also called: N5

What it is Filled

One governed work identity and its descriptive assertions. Work-local expression descriptors and typed links to embodiments retain WEMI distinctions inside the context; referenced media, publication, legal and event records keep their own masters. All operations below are proposed local metadata operations, not implemented services.

In scope

Work identity, recognition evidence, names and descriptive classification
Work-local realization descriptors, representative characteristics and embodiment references
Contribution and provenance claims with uncertainty and scoped evidence
Part, aggregation, derivation and related-work links
References to scoped rights assertions, reuse decisions and external availability events
Catalogue lifecycle, correction history and documented vocabulary mappings

Out of scope

Media bytes, transcoding, preservation execution, copy custody and rendition lifecycle
Publication/edition production, release execution, performance scheduling and distribution transactions
Copyright adjudication, licensing, rights transfer, royalty calculation and access-control enforcement
Person and organization master data, language vocabulary governance and full provenance credential verification
Scholarly peer review, scholarly-publication lifecycle and software execution semantics

Why it exists Filled

Describe one intellectual or artistic work across its realizations, keeping the work distinct from media assets, editions, copies, rights and publication events.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

Unlike Registry and legacy N5: standalone-mm is a registry record-plane classification; entity describes this subject. The WEMI flag is reconciled by internal typed context and links, not by taking ownership of every manifestation or item. Legacy conformance claims are not inherited.
Unlike WM-MED-002 Media Asset / Rendition; WM-MED-004 Audio / Video Recording: A work can be linked to many assets and recordings. Byte equality and ISRC equality do not establish abstract work identity; technical assets and recordings retain separate masters.
Unlike WM-MED-003 Publication / Edition; WM-REC-001 Document / Record: Only embodiment and evidence references live here. Editions may embody multiple expressions; unpublished embodiments are not excluded. Record retention and publication operations belong to the referenced owners.
Unlike WM-KNW-003 Intellectual Property Right: Rights references and uncertain assertions do not grant permission. Authorship, metadata stewardship and rights holding differ; copyright is not restricted to registered rights.
Unlike WM-PER-001 Person; WM-ORG-001 Organization; WM-KNW-002 Language / Terminology: Contributor, collective and language references carry work-specific roles or labels without copying their master lifecycles.
Unlike WM-REC-004 Scholarly Publication; WM-MED-008 Content Provenance Credential: Legacy split gives scholarly publication its own model. This root may link to it and to provenance credentials without owning review, credential verification or truth certification.
Unlike IFLA LRM, BIBFRAME and Schema.org: These are contextual alignments, not interchangeable identity schemes. An LRM expression can require a separate BIBFRAME Work; a broad CreativeWork type alone cannot establish the abstraction level.

Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.

What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review

Must not

Public availability, credit, registration status or an ODRL offer must not be promoted to universal reuse permission
Deny access unless the adopting policy authorizes the recipient and purpose.

May

Propose work identity: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Compare recognition evidence and candidate identities without an automatic merge.
Record realization context: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Associate an expression descriptor and typed embodiment references with this work.
Record contribution assertion: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Attach attributed credit and provenance with disagreement visible.
Propose work relationship: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Record an evidence-qualified derivation, part or aggregation link.
Attach external rights decision: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Associate scoped rights evidence and an external reuse decision with a target.
Revise catalogue description: Proposed, unimplemented local operation. Apply an authorized local metadata revision and prepare a scoped projection.

Note: Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.

Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review

Specify access, privacy, evidence, retention, dispute and correction procedures before operating instances
Sensitive, harmful or culturally restricted material is represented only through policy-qualified description and references; do not embed actionable dangerous content
Apply privacy, access, retention and lawful disposition policies
Community authority, national copyright, moral rights, traditional expressions and automated authorship need qualified profile review

Note: Sentences mentioning harm, privacy, consent or similar, collected from the specification.

Owners Filled

Steward

Identify the adopting Dimension and metadata steward with a documented authority basis, separately from creators and rights holders

Roles

Metadata steward: Approve identity and description changes within documented scope
Contributor or authorized representative: Supply or contest attribution evidence without automatic rights authority
Rights reviewer: Provide qualified external rights and reuse decision references
Catalogue curator: Maintain expression, relation and mapping assertions
Access and records custodian: Apply privacy, access, retention and lawful disposition policies
Evidence reviewer: Review conflicts, omissions and source limits without claiming independent provider review

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

WM-PER-001 - Candidate binding for contributors and individual claimants; person master and lifecycle remain external. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-ORG-001 - Candidate binding for collective contributors, stewards and publishers; organization authority is not inferred from this link. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-KNW-002 - Language and controlled terminology references; vocabulary governance remains external. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-KNW-003 - Rights assertions and qualified legal authority, including unregistered rights; adjudication and transfer remain external. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-MED-002 - Typed rendition and media master references; no file lifecycle, transcoding or preservation execution. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-MED-003 - Publication and edition references, retaining many-to-many embodiment context without release operations. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-MED-004 - Recording identities, including ISRC at recording level; no assumption of equivalence to a work or byte sequence. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-REC-001 - Governed documents and source evidence retained in their record masters; textual embodiment is optional. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-REC-004 - Scholarly-publication specialization remains separately governed after the legacy split; no peer-review lifecycle here. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
WM-MED-008 - Optional provenance credential reference; verification and credential lifecycle remain external. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.

aligned

IFLA LRM - Conceptual WEMI alignment to the cited 2017-12 text, with profile-specific work boundaries and later-version review required. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
Schema.org CreativeWork - Broad discovery projection with explicit target level and loss report; not exact identity equivalence. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
BIBFRAME 2.0 - Explicit Work/Instance/Item crosswalk; expression boundaries can differ and mappings are not implemented. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
DCMI Metadata Terms - Descriptive property mapping with typed target level, source and profile version. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
PROV-O - Claim lineage mapping; neither attribution nor a hash certifies truth. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.
ODRL 2.2 - Policy-reference alignment only; external decisions own evaluation, interpretation and enforcement. No registry-ledger edge exists for this model; this is a proposed local binding, not a shared-registry amendment.

neighbor

Registry and legacy N5 - standalone-mm is a registry record-plane classification; entity describes this subject. The WEMI flag is reconciled by internal typed context and links, not by taking ownership of every manifestation or item. Legacy conformance claims are not inherited.
WM-MED-002 Media Asset / Rendition; WM-MED-004 Audio / Video Recording - A work can be linked to many assets and recordings. Byte equality and ISRC equality do not establish abstract work identity; technical assets and recordings retain separate masters.
WM-MED-003 Publication / Edition; WM-REC-001 Document / Record - Only embodiment and evidence references live here. Editions may embody multiple expressions; unpublished embodiments are not excluded. Record retention and publication operations belong to the referenced owners.
WM-KNW-003 Intellectual Property Right - Rights references and uncertain assertions do not grant permission. Authorship, metadata stewardship and rights holding differ; copyright is not restricted to registered rights.
WM-PER-001 Person; WM-ORG-001 Organization; WM-KNW-002 Language / Terminology - Contributor, collective and language references carry work-specific roles or labels without copying their master lifecycles.
WM-REC-004 Scholarly Publication; WM-MED-008 Content Provenance Credential - Legacy split gives scholarly publication its own model. This root may link to it and to provenance credentials without owning review, credential verification or truth certification.
IFLA LRM, BIBFRAME and Schema.org - These are contextual alignments, not interchangeable identity schemes. An LRM expression can require a separate BIBFRAME Work; a broad CreativeWork type alone cannot establish the abstraction level.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Sources Filled

IFLA Library Reference Model - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
CreativeWork - Schema.org community
DCMI Metadata Terms - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
ODRL Information Model 2.2 - World Wide Web Consortium
Overview of the BIBFRAME 2.0 Model - Library of Congress
Frequently Asked Questions: Copyright - World Intellectual Property Organization
International Standard Recording Code - Home - International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

Open questions

Verify current source versions and selected claim support, review later LRM revisions and pin a stable Schema.org version before claiming operational alignment.
Develop qualified creative-domain and rights profiles plus nested schemas and fixtures for translation/adaptation, anonymous authorship, aggregates, duplicate titles, disputed rights, withdrawal and lossy mappings.
Restore independent external review before any canonical or publishable-draft promotion.
Executable nested instance schemas, vocabulary pins and tested mappings
Comprehensive music, film, choreography, interactive, live and evolving-work cataloguing profiles
Qualified national rights, orphan works, collective rights, cultural protocols and machine-generated authorship review
Independent external research and direct HTTP source checks; later IFLA revisions and stable Schema.org release pin

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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