{ "name": "Protocol Bicorder", "schema": "bicorder.schema.json", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols", "author": "Nathan Schneider", "date_modified": "YYYY-MM-DD", "metadata": { "protocol": null, "analyst": null, "standpoint": null, "timestamp": null }, "diagnostic": [ { "set_name": "Design", "set_description": "How the protocol is created and remembered", "gradients": [ { "term_left": "explicit", "term_left_description": "The design is stated explicitly somewhere that is accessible to participants", "term_right": "implicit", "term_right_description": "The design is not stated explicitly but is learned by participants in another way", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "precise", "term_left_description": "The design is specified with a high level of precision that eliminates ambiguity in implementation", "term_right": "interpretive", "term_right_description": "The design is ambiguous, allowing participants a wide range of interpretation", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "elite", "term_left_description": "Design occurs through processes that involve powerful institutions and widespread recognition as normative", "term_right": "vernacular", "term_right_description": "Design occurs through evolving, peer-to-peer community interactions in order to suit participant-defined goals", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "documenting", "term_left_description": "The primary purpose is to document or validate activity that is occurring", "term_right": "enabling", "term_right_description": "The primary purpose is to enable activity that might not happen otherwise", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "static", "term_left_description": "Designed to be as fixed and unchanging as possible", "term_right": "malleable", "term_right_description": "Designed to be changed by participants according to evolving needs", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "technical", "term_left_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among technologies", "term_right": "social", "term_right_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among people or groups", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "universal", "term_left_description": "Addressed to a global audience", "term_right": "particular", "term_right_description": "Addressed to a specific community", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "durable", "term_left_description": "Designed to be persistently available", "term_right": "ephemeral", "term_right_description": "Designed to vanish when no longer needed", "value": null, "citation": null } ] }, { "set_name": "Entanglement", "set_description": "How the protocol relates with participant agents", "gradients": [ { "term_left": "macro", "term_left_description": "Operates at large scales involving many participants or broad scope", "term_right": "micro", "term_right_description": "Operates at small scales with few participants or narrow scope", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "sovereign", "term_left_description": "A distinctive operating logic, not subject to any other entity", "term_right": "subsidiary", "term_right_description": "An operating logic under the control of a particular entity", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "self-enforcing", "term_left_description": "Rules are automatically enforced through its own mechanisms", "term_right": "enforced", "term_right_description": "Rules require external enforcement by authorities or institutions", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "abstract", "term_left_description": "Participants learn the protocol by studying it intellectually", "term_right": "embodied", "term_right_description": "Participants learn the protocol by physically practicing it", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "obligatory", "term_left_description": "Participation is compulsory for a certain class of agents", "term_right": "voluntary", "term_right_description": "Participation in the protocol is optional and not coerced", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "flocking", "term_left_description": "Coordination occurs through centralized direction or direct mimicry", "term_right": "swarming", "term_right_description": "Coordination occurs through distributed interactions without central direction", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "defensible", "term_left_description": "Strong boundaries and protections against external influence", "term_right": "exposed", "term_right_description": "Weak boundaries and vulnerable to external influence", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "exclusive", "term_left_description": "Excludes the use of other protocols that might be available to adopt", "term_right": "non-exclusive", "term_right_description": "Does not exclude the use of any other protocols", "value": null, "citation": null } ] }, { "set_name": "Experience", "set_description": "How the protocol is perceived in the context of its implementation", "gradients": [ { "term_left": "sufficient", "term_left_description": "Adequately meets the needs and goals of participants", "term_right": "insufficient", "term_right_description": "Does not, on its own, adequately meet the needs and goals of participants", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "crystallized", "term_left_description": "Content and meaning are settled and widely agreed upon", "term_right": "contested", "term_right_description": "Content and meaning are disputed or under debate", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "trust-evading", "term_left_description": "Minimizes the need for trust among participants", "term_right": "trust-inducing", "term_right_description": "Relies on or cultivates trust among participants", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "predictable", "term_left_description": "Produces expected and consistent outcomes", "term_right": "emergent", "term_right_description": "Produces unexpected or novel outcomes", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "exclusion", "term_left_description": "The protocol creates barriers or excludes certain participants", "term_right": "inclusion", "term_right_description": "The protocol reduces barriers and includes diverse participants", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "Kafka", "term_left_description": "Fosters experiences of absurd complexity, alienation, and powerlessness", "term_right": "Whitehead", "term_right_description": "Enables participants to carry out desired activities with less work or thought", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "dead", "term_left_description": "Not actively utilized by relevant participants", "term_right": "alive", "term_right_description": "Actively utilized by relevant participants", "value": null, "citation": null } ] } ], "analysis": [ { "term_left": "hardness", "term_left_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by hardness", "term_right": "softness", "term_right_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by softness", "instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above and determine a mean. Round it to the nearest integer. That is the 'value' here.", "value": null, "citation": null }, { "term_left": "polarized", "term_left_description": "The analyst tended toward more extreme high or low readings", "term_right": "centrist", "term_right_description": "The analyst tended toward readings at the middle of the gradients", "instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above. Assess their degree of polarization. For instance, if all the values are either 1 or 9, the output would be 1, and if all of them are 5, the output would be 9.", "value": null, "citation": null } ] }