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{
"name": "Protocol Bicorder",
"schema": "bicorder.schema.json",
"version": "1.2.0",
"description": "A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols",
"author": "Nathan Schneider",
"date_modified": "2025-11-21",
"metadata": {
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"analyst": null,
"standpoint": null,
"timestamp": null,
"shortform": false
},
"diagnostic": [
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"set_name": "Design",
"set_description": "How the protocol is created and remembered",
"gradients": [
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"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"term_left": "institutional",
"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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",
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"shortform": false
},
{
"term_left": "universal",
"term_left_description": "Addressed to a global audience",
"term_right": "particular",
"term_right_description": "Addressed to a specific community",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"term_left": "durable",
"term_left_description": "Designed to be persistently available",
"term_right": "ephemeral",
"term_right_description": "Designed to vanish when no longer needed",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": false
}
]
},
{
"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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",
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"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
}
]
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"term_left": "predictable",
"term_left_description": "Produces expected and consistent outcomes",
"term_right": "emergent",
"term_right_description": "Produces unexpected or novel outcomes",
"value": null,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": true
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
},
{
"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,
"notes": null,
"shortform": false
}
]
}
],
"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.",
"automated": true,
"value": null,
"notes": 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.",
"automated": true,
"value": null,
"notes": null
},
{
"term_left": "not useful",
"term_left_description": "The bicorder was not useful or relevant for analyzing this protocol",
"term_right": "very useful",
"term_right_description": "The bicorder was very useful and relevant for analyzing this protocol",
"instructions": "Evaluate the usefulness of this bicorder as a tool for analyzing this protocol, considering whether the gradient terms seemed revealing or irrelevant.",
"automated": false,
"value": null,
"notes": null
}
]
}