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world.ptah.temp.role

A stage role vs a performance of that role. The Opening of the Mouth was performed on a type of figure — the Role is the type. The Character instance is the specific statue that gets its mouth opened.

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Properties

authorshipRecord

string · did

Permanent link to the role's creator. Provenance travels.

canonicalCharacterReference

string · at-uri

The AT URI of the single Character record designated as the authoritative expression of this role. When present, this is the canonical instance.

canonicalReferencePolicy

string

Governs how the canonicalCharacterReference behaves over time.

  • knownValues: fixed | updatable | community

canonicalStatus

string

The canonical standing of this role within its world.

  • knownValues: world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusOfficial | world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusCommunity | world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusApocryphal

createdAt

requiredstring · datetime

Timestamp of role creation.

creatorDID

requiredstring · did

Who defined this role in the protocol.

description

string

What this role is in the world's context — its narrative function, its archetypal weight.

  • maxLength: 10240
  • maxGraphemes: 1024

instancePolicy

string

How instances of this role are governed.

  • knownValues: openInstance | approvedInstance | singleInstance

name

requiredstring

What this role is called.

  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64

sourceReference

string

If sourceType is publicDomain, the specific source material.

  • maxLength: 10240
  • maxGraphemes: 1024

sourceType

string

The intellectual property origin of this role.

  • knownValues: world.ptah.temp.defs#sourceTypeOriginalIP | world.ptah.temp.defs#sourceTypePublicDomain

worldReference

requiredstring · at-uri

The AT URI of the world record this role exists in.

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