{ "model": { "rank": 6870, "code": "thing-moth", "model_id": "vr.tr.moth", "name": "moth", "purpose": "typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/moth/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "moth miller", "miller", "tortricid", "tortricid moth", "leaf roller", "leaf-roller", "tea tortrix", "tortrix", "Homona coffearia", "orange tortrix", "Argyrotaenia citrana", "codling moth", "codlin moth", "Carpocapsa pomonella", "lymantriid", "tussock moth", "gypsy moth", "gipsy moth", "Lymantria dispar", "browntail", "brown-tail moth", "Euproctis phaeorrhoea", "gold-tail moth", "Euproctis chrysorrhoea", "geometrid", "geometrid moth", "pyralid", "pyralid moth", "bee moth", "wax moth", "Galleria mellonella", "corn borer", "European corn borer moth", "corn borer moth", "Pyrausta nubilalis", "tobacco moth", "cacao moth", "Ephestia elutella", "almond moth", "fig moth" ], "aliasCount": 136, "merged": 58, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [ "animal" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.animal", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-02285853-n", "ili": "i47535", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:40:48Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0888a-b22d-70d0-adbd-81da6e9fd5ea\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: moth\nSense to describe: typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known ", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 62.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0888a-b239-7591-8f70-16828fdf6249\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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although these traits are not universal.", "scope_statement": "This model owns moth-specific identification, development, environmental relationships and action constraints across individuals, populations and identified taxa; it treats moth as a common grouping within Lepidoptera rather than a single species with one binomial, range or conservation status.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of moth adults and immature stages with supporting evidence and uncertainty", "Distinction between an individual moth, a local population and a named taxon", "Egg, larval, pupal and adult development, including dormancy where applicable", "Species-dependent feeding, host associations, activity and habitat requirements", "Individual condition, population observations and context-specific conservation or damage concerns" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Butterflies as a separately registered organism grouping", "Host plants, textiles and stored products as independently modelled things", "Pesticide products and application equipment", "Silk, preserved specimens and other moth-derived materials as products", "Whole-ecosystem assessment beyond the moth's documented relationships" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "For an adult, establish Lepidoptera identity using wing scales where retained and supporting anatomy; do not identify a moth solely from nocturnal flight.", "Distinguish moths from butterflies through taxonomic identification and a combination of antenna, wing and body characters; stout bodies and feathery antennae are tendencies rather than universal requirements.", "Allow day-active moths and atypical wing forms; activity time, resting posture or drab colour alone cannot exclude or confirm a moth.", "For a caterpillar or pupa, use stage-specific characters and evidence linking it to a moth taxon; a caterpillar-like appearance alone does not exclude butterflies or other insects." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity and observation level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual | population | taxon; provisional identification and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents individual observations from being treated as species-wide properties." }, { "name": "Taxonomic placement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified rank, accepted name, authority and date where applicable, consulted taxonomy and verified identifiers", "why_it_matters": "Moth has no single species binomial or species-level identifier." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "egg | larva with instar if known | pupa | adult | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identification, food requirements and likely effects depend strongly on stage." }, { "name": "Diagnostic morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "antenna form, wing pattern and shape, body characters, immature-stage characters; sex where supported", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification while accounting for sexual dimorphism, variation and wear." }, { "name": "Body and wing dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "millimetres; specify body length, forewing length or wingspan and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Makes size evidence comparable without confusing different dimensions." }, { "name": "Feeding and host association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "life stage, food or host identity, substrate part and evidence of actual use", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes feeding from incidental presence and separates larval from adult needs." }, { "name": "Activity and developmental timing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed activity period, seasonal stage, active development or suspected dormancy", "why_it_matters": "Guides survey timing and interpretation of apparent inactivity." }, { "name": "Occurrence context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "location, date, habitat, microhabitat, observation method and evidence of breeding", "why_it_matters": "Separates a transient detection from an established local population." }, { "name": "Individual condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "alive or dead; mobility, wing integrity, visible injury and observed abnormal behaviour", "why_it_matters": "Supports proportionate handling decisions without assuming that wear or inactivity indicates disease." }, { "name": "Conservation and management designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "taxon or population, designation, jurisdiction, assessment date and source; unknown if unverified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents protection, threat or pest labels from being applied to all moths." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic views and narrow identification to the lowest defensible taxonomic rank.", "Track development and stage-specific needs using dated observations.", "Assess whether a location supports feeding, breeding, shelter or only incidental presence.", "Plan and interpret surveys with explicit sampling effort and attraction bias.", "Choose minimal handling, habitat support or targeted damage investigation according to identity and context." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Identity and boundaries", "description": "Recognise a moth while preserving uncertainty about taxon and observation level.", "rationale": "The registry definition describes common adult traits but cannot serve as an exhaustive identification rule.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic evidence", "description": "Evaluate features that support moth identification at the observed life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-appropriate-identification", "name": "Stage-appropriate identification", "description": "Record diagnostic evidence and plausible alternatives rather than relying on colour or nocturnal activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed characters support a moth identification and distinguish the specimen from butterflies or other similar insects?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-appropriate-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which identification key, expert determination or other evidence supports the proposed taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-appropriate-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-reference", "name": "Taxonomic reference", "description": "Connect observations to a named taxon without making the common grouping a species.", "findings": [ { "id": "resolved-name-and-entity", "name": "Resolved name and entity", "description": "Keep the individual, population and taxonomic concept distinct, with identifiers attached at the correct rank.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern one moth, a local population or a taxon, and what identification rank is defensible?", "kind": "definition", "id": "resolved-name-and-entity-q01" }, { "text": "What consulted authority supports the accepted name, authorship and date, and any GBIF or NCBI identifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "resolved-name-and-entity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Represent metamorphosis, reproductive state and seasonal development.", "rationale": "A moth's appearance, needs and effects change substantially between its caterpillar and adult stages.", "layers": [ { "id": "metamorphic-stage", "name": "Metamorphic stage", "description": "Determine current stage and document transitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-transition-evidence", "name": "Stage and transition evidence", "description": "Use dated evidence to connect eggs, caterpillars, pupae and adults without assuming nearby stages belong to the same taxon.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the current life stage and, for a caterpillar, its instar if known?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-and-transition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated observations directly connect this immature stage to an identified adult?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-and-transition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-and-sexual-variation", "name": "Seasonal and sexual variation", "description": "Interpret differences associated with sex, reproduction and dormancy.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-context", "name": "Developmental context", "description": "Separate supported reproductive or dormancy states from interpretations based only on appearance or inactivity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are differences in antennae, wings or body form consistent with documented sexual dimorphism in the identified taxon?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-context-q01" }, { "text": "What local observations support the proposed flight season, breeding period or dormant stage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "developmental-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-habitat", "name": "Feeding and habitat", "description": "Describe stage-specific resources and the places that support development.", "rationale": "Finding an adult moth does not establish its larval host or show that the site supports breeding.", "layers": [ { "id": "stage-specific-food", "name": "Stage-specific food", "description": "Separate larval host use from adult feeding capacity and resources.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-resource-use", "name": "Verified resource use", "description": "Record what is actually consumed and distinguish feeding evidence from resting on a substrate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What plant, material or other food is used by the larva, and what evidence demonstrates consumption?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-resource-use-q01" }, { "text": "Does the identified adult feed, and what resources are supported by observations or a consulted species account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "verified-resource-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breeding-and-range-context", "name": "Breeding and range context", "description": "Relate occurrences to suitable microhabitat and geographic status.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-support-and-residency", "name": "Site support and residency", "description": "Distinguish an occurrence from evidence of local reproduction, residency or native status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed resources or immature stages show that the site supports the moth's life cycle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "site-support-and-residency-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a resident population from a migrant, accidental arrival or introduced occurrence here?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "site-support-and-residency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-condition", "name": "Observation and condition", "description": "Assess moth condition and interpret detections in light of observation methods.", "rationale": "Light attraction, seasonal activity and specimen wear can distort identification and abundance judgments.", "layers": [ { "id": "survey-detectability", "name": "Survey detectability", "description": "Record effort and environmental context for counts or non-detections.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-qualified-detection", "name": "Method-qualified detection", "description": "Treat catches and sightings as method-dependent observations rather than direct population totals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What survey duration, method, lighting, weather and time of day accompanied the observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "method-qualified-detection-q01" }, { "text": "How might attraction to light or stage-specific activity limit conclusions about abundance or absence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "method-qualified-detection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-condition", "name": "Physical condition", "description": "Assess visible damage and behaviour before handling or intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-and-handling", "name": "Condition and handling", "description": "Document mobility, wing wear and injuries while leaving unsupported diagnoses unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable condition affects movement or identification, and could inactivity reflect normal timing or developmental state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-and-handling-q01" }, { "text": "Can the observation be completed without touching the moth, or what minimal handling is justified by its stage and condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-and-handling-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-and-management", "name": "Conservation and management", "description": "Connect verified status and observed effects to proportionate decisions.", "rationale": "A moth may be protected, ecologically useful or associated with damage in a particular setting; these labels require taxon-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-scope", "name": "Assessment scope", "description": "Attach conservation and legal designations to their actual taxon, region and date.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-status", "name": "Verified status", "description": "Keep global assessments, regional status and local legal protection distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What conservation assessment exists for the identified taxon, with which assessment year and geographic scope?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified local rules affect collection, keeping, movement or release of this moth?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effects-and-response", "name": "Effects and response", "description": "Assess demonstrated benefits or damage before choosing an intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-response", "name": "Evidence-based response", "description": "Separate adult presence from larval damage and require evidence for the proposed response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects the identified moth and life stage to observed pollination, food-web use or material damage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-based-response-q01" }, { "text": "What response addresses the demonstrated effect while accounting for conservation status, life stage and effects on other organisms?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Moths are not one species or a single clade excluding butterflies; no collective binomial, native range or IUCN category should be assigned.", "Authority, taxonomic identifiers, conservation assessment year, sexual dimorphism and measurements require a specified species.", "Life history generally includes egg, larva, pupa and adult; distinguish species-level traits from population conditions and observations of an individual." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Owlet moths (Noctuidae)", "Geometer moths (Geometridae)", "Hawk moths (Sphingidae)", "Giant silk moths (Saturniidae)", "Tortrix moths (Tortricidae)", "Tineid moths (Tineidae)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "Genus species, optionally followed by author and year", "note": "Individual moth species have zoological names; moth as a collective term has no single accepted binomial or species authority." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "Identifies a taxonomic record, not an individual moth; resolve the relevant species or higher taxon." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxid", "note": "Identifies a taxon represented in NCBI Taxonomy; no identifier is asserted here for moths collectively." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature issues the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature governing scientific names of moth taxa." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Silk production using larvae of particular species, notably the domesticated silkworm moth.", "Ecological monitoring through surveys of moth communities.", "Research on pheromone communication, camouflage, development and insect flight.", "Pollination by adults of some species.", "Species-specific agricultural and stored-product pest monitoring." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Larvae of some species damage crops, forests or stored foods.", "Larvae of certain tineid species damage wool, fur and other animal-derived materials.", "Hairs or spines of some caterpillars can cause skin irritation or more serious reactions.", "Artificial light can disrupt adult behaviour and expose moths to additional risks.", "Habitat loss and pesticide exposure threaten some populations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Species composition, host plants and seasonal adult activity vary with climate, elevation and habitat.", "Tropical and temperate species differ in breeding seasonality; the number of generations per year also varies among species and locations.", "Native, introduced, pest and conservation designations depend on the species and jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Butterfly", "difference": "Butterflies belong to a lineage within Lepidoptera; moths comprise the remaining lineages. Daytime activity, antenna shape and resting posture are useful clues but have exceptions." }, { "name": "Caterpillar", "difference": "A caterpillar is the larval stage of a moth or butterfly, rather than a separate equivalent taxonomic group." }, { "name": "Caddisfly", "difference": "Caddisflies belong to Trichoptera and typically have hairy wings; moths belong to Lepidoptera and typically have scale-covered wings." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of moth this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic reference should govern the operational boundary between moths and butterflies and resolve changes in accepted names?", "What minimum photographic, morphological or molecular evidence is needed for reliable identification in locally relevant lookalike groups?", "Which host associations, adult feeding traits, sexual differences and seasonal patterns are verified for each taxon encountered?", "What evidence establishes native range, local breeding status and any applicable conservation assessment or legal protection?", "Which survey methods and response thresholds are appropriate for the particular habitat, moth taxon and suspected effect?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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 moth, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: moth miller, miller, tortricid, tortricid moth, leaf roller, leaf-roller, tea tortrix, tortrix, Homona coffearia, orange tortrix, Argyrotaenia citrana, codling moth.", "58 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 moth, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf." ], "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": [ "moth miller", "miller", "tortricid", "tortricid moth", "leaf roller", "leaf-roller", "tea tortrix", "tortrix", "Homona coffearia", "orange tortrix", "Argyrotaenia citrana", "codling moth" ] } ], "standing": "58 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 moth from another, and a moth 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 moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a moth is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a moth is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a moth, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a moth, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a moth is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a moth moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a moth, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a moth, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a moth 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 moth 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 moth between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a moth 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 moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth 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 moth and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth 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 moth is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a moth, 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 moth, 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 moth is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }