What does this topic answer?
Each sensory event can record a description, unit, time position, confidence, and provenance, with controlled codes available when a standardized term is needed.
Story relation: The story directly uses ISO-Taste, providing a concrete narrative anchor for the sensory standards. Plato's Chicken and the Tyranny of the Senses
Authority links: System overview
If you only need the worldbuilding context, you can stop here. The sections below contain formal definitions, fields, governance, and implementation details for deeper reference.
What Does One Event Need to Preserve?
An event record separates what was sensed, what value was observed, when it occurred, and how confident and traceable the record is. Free text can describe new sensory language first; a Registry identity is added only when a controlled term is needed.
| Reader name | Machine key | Meaning | Example / controlled value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free-text descriptor | descriptor | Preserves readable sensory language before Registry standardization | e.g. “umami” |
| Controlled descriptor | descriptor_ref | Optional Registry identity; only resolvable values may claim controlled-vocabulary identity | SENSORY-DESC:T:umami@1.0 |
| Event value | value | Numeric or textual; numeric only when traceably measured or defined by specification | 0.35 |
| Unit | unit | Present only when value has a defined measurement unit; token comes from the Unit Registry | % / kPa / °C / Pa·s |
| Time phase | time_context | Uses controlled temporal vocabulary rather than arbitrary prose | entry / chewing / aftertaste / thermal-transition / release / decay / custom |
| Custom time description | custom_time_context | Required when time_context = custom to describe an unregistered phase | custom phase text |
| Measurement status | measurement_status | Distinguishes how the value was obtained; states are not interchangeable | measured / estimated / inferred |
| Confidence | confidence | Confidence in the event description or measurement when available | optional |
| Provenance | provenance | Traceable origin of the measurement, source, or estimate | source record |
Description Layer, Not Actuation Layer
S-Code defines target sensory events and temporal behavior rather than low-level device actuation. Interpreters or manufacturing systems translate those targets into recipes, materials, or process parameters.