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Ascribe

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S · Structure

sections (27)

`S:section/root` Ascribe

A person, described without a name

id: S:section/root
type: section
summary: A person, described without a name: Ascribe is the MiniCOSM for a person's holograph, a description of one self comprehensive enough that a name is unnecessary.
level: 1
parts: S:section/contents, S:section/how-to-read-this, S:section/1, S:section/2, S:section/3, S:section/4, S:section/5, S:section/6, S:section/7, S:section/8, S:section/9, S:section/10, S:section/11, S:section/12, S:section/13, S:section/14, S:section/colophon
mentions: S:section/14
anchor: ascribe
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L1-L23"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/contents` Contents

Contents, in Ascribe

id: S:section/contents
type: section
summary: Contents, in Ascribe
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: contents
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L24-L42"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/how-to-read-this` How to read this

Must is a rule a conforming reader or writer keeps

id: S:section/how-to-read-this
type: section
summary: Must is a rule a conforming reader or writer keeps.
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/9
anchor: how-to-read-this
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L43-L64"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/1` Provenance and the name

where Ascribe comes from, and what the name says

id: S:section/1
type: section
summary: Ascribe was drawn beside Comprise: two subjects set side by side, each with a private whole and public projections, Comprise for companies and Ascribe for people.
number: 1
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/14
anchor: sec-1
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L65-L77"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/2` The model on one page

a folder that is the self: ten containers and their forms

id: S:section/2
type: section
summary: The holograph is the volume: a folder whose catalog, holograph.cosm, is the self.
number: 2
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/12
anchor: sec-2
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L78-L105"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/3` The design rules

seven rules every part of Ascribe answers to

id: S:section/3
type: section
summary: seven rules every part of Ascribe answers to
number: 3
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/9, S:section/10, S:section/6
anchor: sec-3
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L106-L127"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/4` The holograph

the folder, its catalog, its module files, its ids and paths

id: S:section/4
type: section
summary: the folder, its catalog, its module files, its ids and paths
number: 4
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
parts: S:section/4.1, S:section/4.2, S:section/4.3, S:section/4.4
anchor: sec-4
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L128-L131"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/4.1` The volume

A holograph is a folder, laid out as a Holotype's atoms are

id: S:section/4.1
type: section
summary: A holograph is a folder, laid out as a Holotype's atoms are, minus the part level: one person, one volume, so the module folders sit directly beside the catalog.
number: 4.1
level: 3
parent: S:section/4
mentions: S:section/10, S:section/9.1
anchor: sec-4-1
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L132-L147"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/4.2` The catalog

A catalog never holds the person's name, an email address, a phone number

id: S:section/4.2
type: section
summary: A catalog never holds the person's name, an email address, a phone number, a postal address, a birth date, a government id or an employer's legal name.
number: 4.2
level: 3
parent: S:section/4
anchor: sec-4-2
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L148-L165"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/4.3` Ids and paths

Inside its own volume an id is written bare

id: S:section/4.3
type: section
summary: An item's id is <module>:<kind>/<slug>: A:affinity/sourdough-baking, Q:quale/starter-smell, F:form/celestial-navigation, F:polyform/slow-crafts, F:relation/learned-in.
number: 4.3
level: 3
parent: S:section/4
anchor: sec-4-3
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L166-L174"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/4.4` An example

A holograph small enough to be one file, every node in the catalog

id: S:section/4.4
type: section
summary: A holograph small enough to be one file, every node in the catalog: two forms, a declared relation, and two nodes, one linked to the other by the declared relation.
number: 4.4
level: 3
parent: S:section/4
anchor: sec-4-4
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L175-L230"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/5` The ten containers and the forms

ten kinds of node, one per module, and their forms

id: S:section/5
type: section
summary: ten kinds of node, one per module, and their forms
number: 5
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
parts: S:section/5.1, S:section/5.2
anchor: sec-5
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L231-L234"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/5.1` The containers

Each container holds one kind, named for the singular of the module

id: S:section/5.1
type: section
summary: Each container holds one kind, named for the singular of the module, and the letter is the kind's initial (the owner's ruling).
number: 5.1
level: 3
parent: S:section/5
anchor: sec-5-1
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L235-L255"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/5.2` The forms

Module F, Forms, holds the things a self is about and how they combine

id: S:section/5.2
type: section
summary: Module F, Forms, holds the things a self is about and how they combine.
number: 5.2
level: 3
parent: S:section/5
mentions: S:section/7, S:section/9
anchor: sec-5-2
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L256-L286"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/6` The envelope

Comprise's envelope plus six fields of Ascribe's own

id: S:section/6
type: section
summary: The envelope is Comprise's, so that Thym's moves work on both subjects; confidence and sources live in provenance, as they do in Comprise outside its product tree.
number: 6
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/7
anchor: sec-6
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L287-L319"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/7` Links and relations

a starter list of relations, and the ones an author declares

id: S:section/7
type: section
summary: A typed link is {rel, to}, as in MacroCOSM OES, its section 9.4.
number: 7
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-7
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L320-L342"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/8` The dialectic

the opening questions a guided process asks, four for each module

id: S:section/8
type: section
summary: The manifest's dialectic: block holds the opening questions a guided process, or an agent, asks to help a person fill a holograph in (the owner's ruling).
number: 8
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-8
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L343-L364"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/9` Checks

MacroCOSM's generic checks, and six of Ascribe's own

id: S:section/9
type: section
summary: MacroCOSM's generic checks, and six of Ascribe's own
number: 9
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
parts: S:section/9.1, S:section/9.2, S:section/9.3
anchor: sec-9
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L365-L368"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/9.1` The generic checks

The manifest selects load and the envelope checks duplicate-id, id-grammar, id-module, type, type-prefix, identity-min, provenance

id: S:section/9.1
type: section
summary: The manifest selects load and the envelope checks duplicate-id, id-grammar, id-module, type, type-prefix, identity-min, provenance, status, visibility, ref-grammar, ref-unresolved, closed-list, pending-shape and catalog-key (MacroCOSM OES, its section 12.2).
number: 9.1
level: 3
parent: S:section/9
mentions: S:section/4.1
anchor: sec-9-1
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L369-L376"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/9.2` Ascribe's own

An Ascribe reader runs them after the generic ones, in one report

id: S:section/9.2
type: section
summary: An Ascribe reader runs them after the generic ones, in one report.
number: 9.2
level: 3
parent: S:section/9
mentions: S:section/9.3, S:section/10
anchor: sec-9-2
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L377-L392"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/9.3` What reads like personal data

no-pii reads every string of the catalog and of every item, every key

id: S:section/9.3
type: section
summary: no-pii reads every string of the catalog and of every item, every key, and every comment in every file of the volume.
number: 9.3
level: 3
parent: S:section/9
anchor: sec-9-3
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L393-L413"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/10` The private filter

what ingest and transfer leave out of a holograph

id: S:section/10
type: section
summary: The manifest declares what ingest and transfer leave out of a holograph, the way Canon leaves a Holotype's private side behind.
number: 10
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-10
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L414-L429"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/11` The command line

enough's command that checks a holograph folder

id: S:section/11
type: section
summary: enough, the reference implementation, offers one command that checks a holograph.
number: 11
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-11
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L430-L458"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/12` Projections, by reference

what leaves a holograph, and how; defined by Thym, not here

id: S:section/12
type: section
summary: The projections of a holograph are defined by Thym (https://thym.cosmoes.org/); this section names them and says what each is for a person.
number: 12
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-12
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L459-L481"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/13` Withdrawn

withdrawn in edition 0.5.4; see the Changes appendix

id: S:section/13
type: section
summary: Section 13 was withdrawn in edition 0.5.4; its content, where it survives, is in the Changes appendix.
number: 13
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: sec-13
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L482-L488"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/14` Changes

what each edition changed, newest first, one line each

id: S:section/14
type: section
summary: The canonical edition at cosmoes.org.
number: 14
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
mentions: S:section/13, S:section/8, S:section/10, S:section/12
anchor: sec-14
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L489-L522"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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`S:section/colophon` Colophon

id: S:section/colophon
type: section
level: 2
parent: S:section/root
anchor: colophon
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L523-L526"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

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examples (1)

`S:example/1` example 1: ascribe/aej6l5qrka6c6btarfiy2f7vnj

A holograph small enough to be one file, every node in the catalog

id: S:example/1
type: example
summary: A holograph small enough to be one file, every node in the catalog: two forms, a declared relation, and two nodes, one linked to the other by the declared relation.
in: S:section/4.4
declaration: ascribe/1
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L180-L224"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

oes: ascribe/1
id: ascribe/aej6l5qrka6c6btarfiy2f7vnj
handle: salt-and-crumb
summary: A baker by a working harbour, slow at most things on purpose.
sample: true
visibility: internal
pseudonyms: [Wren]
nodes:
  - id: F:form/sourdough
    type: form
    name: sourdough
    summary: Bread leavened by a starter of wild yeasts and bacteria instead of commercial yeast.
    feed: {word: sourdough, pos: noun, origin: feed}
    provenance: {mode: dialectic, sources: [session-1], confidence: 1}
  - id: F:form/celestial-navigation
    type: form
    name: celestial navigation
    summary: Finding a position at sea from the sun, the moon and the stars, with a sextant, a clock and tables.
    wiki: Celestial navigation
    provenance: {mode: dialectic, sources: [session-2], confidence: 1}
  - id: F:relation/learned-in
    type: relation
    name: learned in
    summary: A skill or an understanding picked up during the experience the link points to.
    provenance: {mode: manual, sources: [self], confidence: 1}
  - id: E:experience/first-night-crossing
    type: experience
    name: A first night crossing
    summary: A crossing of the bay at night with a retired harbour pilot, steering by the stars.
    form: F:form/celestial-navigation
    when: 2019
    valence: for
    strength: 5
    provenance: {mode: dialectic, sources: [session-2], confidence: 0.9}
  - id: S:skill/taking-a-sight
    type: skill
    name: Taking a sight
    summary: A star brought down to the horizon with a sextant, and the time noted to the second.
    form: F:form/celestial-navigation
    strength: 3
    links:
      - {rel: learned-in, to: E:experience/first-night-crossing}
    provenance: {mode: dialectic, sources: [session-2], confidence: 0.8}

T · Terms

terms (2)

`T:term/a-company-comprise` a company (Comprise)

a company (Comprise), called holotype in the files

id: T:term/a-company-comprise
type: term
summary: holotype
defined_in: S:section/how-to-read-this
in_the_files: holotype
example: isotype
convention: glossary
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L52"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

`T:term/a-person-ascribe` a person (Ascribe)

a person (Ascribe), called holograph in the files

id: T:term/a-person-ascribe
type: term
summary: holograph
defined_in: S:section/how-to-read-this
in_the_files: holograph
example: isograph
convention: glossary
provenance: {"mode":"derived","sources":["specs/ascribe.md#L53"],"confidence":1,"state":"known"}

Ascribe

S · Structure

sections (27)

S:section/root Ascribe

S:section/contents Contents

S:section/how-to-read-this How to read this

S:section/1 Provenance and the name

S:section/2 The model on one page

S:section/3 The design rules

S:section/4 The holograph

S:section/4.1 The volume

S:section/4.2 The catalog

S:section/4.3 Ids and paths

S:section/4.4 An example

S:section/5 The ten containers and the forms

S:section/5.1 The containers

S:section/5.2 The forms

S:section/6 The envelope

S:section/7 Links and relations

S:section/8 The dialectic

S:section/9 Checks

S:section/9.1 The generic checks

S:section/9.2 Ascribe's own

S:section/9.3 What reads like personal data

S:section/10 The private filter

S:section/11 The command line

S:section/12 Projections, by reference

S:section/13 Withdrawn

S:section/14 Changes

S:section/colophon Colophon

examples (1)

S:example/1 example 1: ascribe/aej6l5qrka6c6btarfiy2f7vnj

T · Terms

terms (2)

T:term/a-company-comprise a company (Comprise)

T:term/a-person-ascribe a person (Ascribe)

`S:section/root` Ascribe

`S:section/contents` Contents

`S:section/how-to-read-this` How to read this

`S:section/1` Provenance and the name

`S:section/2` The model on one page

`S:section/3` The design rules

`S:section/4` The holograph

`S:section/4.1` The volume

`S:section/4.2` The catalog

`S:section/4.3` Ids and paths

`S:section/4.4` An example

`S:section/5` The ten containers and the forms

`S:section/5.1` The containers

`S:section/5.2` The forms

`S:section/6` The envelope

`S:section/7` Links and relations

`S:section/8` The dialectic

`S:section/9` Checks

`S:section/9.1` The generic checks

`S:section/9.2` Ascribe's own

`S:section/9.3` What reads like personal data

`S:section/10` The private filter

`S:section/11` The command line

`S:section/12` Projections, by reference

`S:section/13` Withdrawn

`S:section/14` Changes

`S:section/colophon` Colophon

`S:example/1` example 1: ascribe/aej6l5qrka6c6btarfiy2f7vnj

`T:term/a-company-comprise` a company (Comprise)

`T:term/a-person-ascribe` a person (Ascribe)