{ "model": { "rank": 5713, "code": "thing-hair", "model_id": "vr.tr.hair", "name": "hair", "purpose": "a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/hair/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "coat", "pelage", "guard hair", "fur", "undercoat", "underfur", "wool", "fleece", "mane", "encolure", "forelock", "foretop", "beard", "body hair", "down", "pile", "lanugo", "head of hair", "cowlick", "hairdo", "hairstyle", "hair style", "coiffure", "coif", "beehive", "bouffant", "haircut", "lock", "sausage curl", "quiff", "crimp", "pin curl", "spit curl", "kiss curl", "dreadlock", "bang", "fringe", "bob", "wave", "finger wave" ], "aliasCount": 103, "merged": 65, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [ "natural-object" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.body", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-05262259-n", "ili": "i64568", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:05:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 8.5, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 93.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1c-7a0f-73a3-aa13-4a31d1f4ff32\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: hair\nRegistry id: vr.tr.hair\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-HAIR", "registryId": "vr.tr.hair", "name": "hair", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/hair/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hair", "name": "hair", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a mammalian hair covering, assess its distribution and condition, and identify appropriate care or modification within the owner's or keeper's authority.", "definition": "a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss", "scope_statement": "This model owns natural mammalian hair as a body covering or local patch, including its constituent shafts, distribution, observable condition, functional context and treatment history; it records relationships to the bearer, skin and follicles without owning those systems.", "in_scope": [ "Whole coats and local hair coverings, including scalp hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair and specialised hairs", "Hair-shaft length, diameter, shape, colour and surface condition", "Coverage, density, orientation and variation within a defined body region", "Observed shedding, breakage, tangling and changes in coverage", "Care, cutting, styling, removal and exposure histories relevant to the covering" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The bearer's overall anatomy, health, identity and demographic classification", "Skin and follicle anatomy, disease diagnosis and medical treatment", "Feathers, scales, plant hairs and manufactured hair-like fibres", "Wigs, extensions, brushes and textiles as manufactured products", "Detached hair collections managed as samples, waste or raw 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"kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Bearer reference, species if known, anatomical region and patch boundary", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which covering is being assessed and supports region-appropriate comparisons." }, { "name": "Hair origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Naturally grown on bearer | added natural hair | mixed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates the natural covering from associated products and prevents misleading coverage assessments." }, { "name": "Hair role or type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Region- and species-specific designation, with identification basis or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents scalp hair, coat hairs and specialised hairs from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Shaft length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm or cm; distribution, sampling location and relaxed or extended measurement", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of coverage, cutting needs and change over time." }, { "name": "Shaft diameter", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "µm; sampled distribution and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes shaft fineness from covering density and informs handling." }, { "name": "Hair density", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Shafts/cm² within a specified sampling area, with counting method", "why_it_matters": "Makes comparisons of local abundance more reliable than visual fullness alone." }, { "name": "Coverage pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Mapped covered, sparse and bare areas with date and observation conditions", "why_it_matters": "Locates changes and separates patch-level variation from whole-covering descriptions." }, { "name": "Shaft shape and lay", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed curvature, curl pattern and growth or grooming direction under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret apparent length, tangling and coverage." }, { "name": "Colour and colour origin", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed colour distribution; natural, treated, mixed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and distinguishes appearance changes from changes in coverage." }, { "name": "Shaft and covering condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed breakage, split ends, tangles, matting and surface deposits, each with location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Identifies concrete care needs without converting appearance into a diagnosis." }, { "name": "Shedding observations", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Collected shaft count per defined collection event or interval, with protocol and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports longitudinal comparison while keeping collection differences visible." }, { "name": "Treatment and exposure history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated links to washing, cutting, removal, colouring, chemical treatment, heat and environmental exposure", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for present condition and constrains subsequent interventions." } ], "affordances": [ "Map and compare hair coverage within the same body region using repeatable observations.", "Inspect or sample shafts to characterise length, diameter, shape and visible damage.", "Clean, dry, comb or detangle the covering using methods appropriate to its condition and bearer.", "Cut, style, colour or remove hair when authorised and appropriate to its location and role.", "Protect the covering from identified damaging exposures and monitor the result.", "Flag unexplained coverage changes or associated skin observations for assessment by an appropriate professional." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hair-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Hair identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what hair covering is being modelled and where it begins and ends.", "rationale": "Hair can be confused with added fibres or divided inconsistently into patches, making later assessments refer to 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mixed coverings.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation or history establishes that these shafts grew on this bearer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-and-attachment-q01" }, { "text": "Which visible fibres belong to extensions, a wig or detached material and therefore need a separate linked record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "origin-and-attachment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaft-form-and-appearance", "name": "Shaft form and appearance", "description": "Describes the physical features of individual hairs and their variation across the covering.", "rationale": "Apparent fullness and manageability depend on shaft form as well as the number of hairs.", "layers": [ { "id": "shaft-geometry", "name": "Shaft geometry", "description": "Characterises length, diameter and curvature using explicit observation conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-distribution", "name": "Geometry distribution", "description": "Record representative ranges and distinguish relaxed dimensions from dimensions measured under extension.", "questions": [ { "text": "What length and diameter distributions occur in the sampled region, and how were shafts selected and measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-distribution-q01" }, { "text": "What curvature or curl pattern is observed, and was the hair wet, dry, styled or extended?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-distribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "colour-and-lay", "name": "Colour and lay", "description": "Records visible colour patterns and how shafts lie across the body region.", "findings": [ { "id": "appearance-basis", "name": "Appearance basis", "description": "Describe appearance while preserving the distinction between natural features and treatment effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do colour and shaft direction vary across the patch under documented lighting and grooming conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "appearance-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which appearance features are known to result from colouring, straightening, curling or other styling?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appearance-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-change", "name": "Coverage and change", "description": "Tracks local abundance, spatial pattern and observed changes over time.", "rationale": "A single view cannot reliably distinguish sparse growth, short cutting, breakage and changing coverage.", "layers": [ { "id": "density-and-distribution", "name": "Density and distribution", "description": "Maps coverage and measures abundance within defined areas.", "findings": [ { "id": "coverage-baseline", "name": "Coverage baseline", "description": "Establish a dated baseline with enough measurement context for repeat comparison.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which areas are covered, sparse or bare, and what shaft density is measured in each sampled area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coverage-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "How were patch area, hair parting and observation conditions controlled so later comparisons refer to the same coverage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coverage-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "length-and-loss-history", "name": "Length and loss history", "description": "Separates observed length change and collected hairs from assumptions about growth or loss mechanisms.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-evidence", "name": "Change evidence", "description": "Record changes alongside cutting, grooming and collection histories, leaving unresolved mechanisms explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in length or coverage are documented between comparable observations, and what cutting or removal occurred between them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes shed hairs from broken shafts in the collected material, and what remains unresolved?", "kind": "definition", "id": "change-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hair-condition-and-function", "name": "Hair condition and function", "description": "Connects observable shaft and covering condition to the role of this particular hair patch.", "rationale": "The significance of damage or removal depends on location and role; insulation alone is insufficient for every hair type.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-entanglement", "name": "Damage and entanglement", "description": "Locates shaft defects, tangles, mats and material on the hair surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-map", "name": "Condition map", "description": "Record visible issues by location and extent without diagnosing their cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are broken shafts, split ends, tangles or mats present, and how extensive are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-map-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations concern the shafts or deposits on them, and which concern adjacent skin and require a linked skin record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "condition-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-dependent-assessment", "name": "Role-dependent 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"findings": [ { "id": "care-plan-and-review", "name": "Care plan and review", "description": "Record the desired result, authority to act, relevant constraints and criteria for stopping or reviewing the action.", "questions": [ { "text": "What result does the bearer or authorised keeper want, and what limits follow from consent, welfare, hair condition and anatomical location?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-plan-and-review-q01" }, { "text": "Which care or modification is appropriate, and what observed discomfort, damage or unexpected result would require stopping or specialist assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-plan-and-review-q02" }, { "text": "How will the covering be reassessed after the intervention to determine whether the intended result was achieved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "care-plan-and-review-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to include all mammalian hair types, including sparse and specialised sensory hairs, 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a hair, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: coat, pelage, guard hair, fur, undercoat, underfur, wool, fleece, mane, encolure, forelock, foretop.", "65 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a hair, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "coat", "pelage", "guard hair", "fur", "undercoat", "underfur", "wool", "fleece", "mane", "encolure", "forelock", "foretop" ] } ], "standing": "65 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one hair from another, and a hair from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a hair sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a hair from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a hair is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a hair and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a hair is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a hair passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a hair between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a hair, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hair is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What hair is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of hair, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate hair from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish hair from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What hair does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does hair pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of hair judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where hair lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of hair, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does hair hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a hair came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a hair and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a hair is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hair, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a hair, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 15, "findings": 17, "questions": 45 } } } }