{ "model": { "rank": 2083, "code": "thing-orchid", "model_id": "vr.tr.orchid", "name": "orchid", "purpose": "any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/orchid/", "tier": 2, "score": 116, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "orchidaceous plant", "orchis", "male orchis", "early purple orchid", "Orchis mascula", "butterfly orchid", "butterfly orchis", "Orchis papilionaceae", "showy orchis", "purple orchis", "purple-hooded orchis", "Orchis spectabilis", "aerides", "angrecum", "jewel orchid", "puttyroot", "adam-and-eve", "Aplectrum hyemale", "arethusa", "bog rose", "wild pink", "dragon's mouth", "Arethusa bulbosa", "bletia", "brassavola", "spider orchid", "Brassia lawrenceana", "Brassia verrucosa", "caladenia", "zebra orchid", "Caladenia cairnsiana", "calanthe", "grass pink", "Calopogon pulchellum", "Calopogon tuberosum", "calypso", "fairy-slipper", "Calypso bulbosa", "jumping orchid", "Catasetum macrocarpum" ], "aliasCount": 228, "merged": 116, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [ "plant" ], "lexicalClass": "noun.plant", "senseRank": 0, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-12061915-n", "ili": "i100466", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:42:47Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00224502, "turns": 1, "seconds": 18, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 78.6, "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: 01a07b3e-8201-7f40-a464-4ce5eab9661c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of water uptake and root loss without relying on colour alone." }, { "name": "Growth phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Active vegetative growth, flowering, fruiting, documented dormancy, mixed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Changes how reduced growth, leaf loss and intervention timing should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Storage-structure condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Presence and observed condition of pseudobulbs, canes, tubers or other identified storage structures; absent or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for reserves, seasonal change and whether older structures should be retained." }, { "name": "Root-zone drying interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hours or days between a recorded watering and a defined moisture endpoint", "why_it_matters": "Connects watering decisions to the actual plant, medium and conditions." }, { "name": "Light and temperature exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Light in a stated measurement unit and temperature in °C, with location, timing and duration", "why_it_matters": "Allows observed exposure to be compared with requirements supported for the identified orchid." }, { "name": "Substrate and support association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked pot, mount, substrate or in-ground location; attachment and drainage observations", "why_it_matters": "Explains root conditions and constrains safe inspection, relocation and repotting." }, { "name": "Origin and propagation relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented source, acquisition event and parent or donor plant where known; unknown explicitly recorded", "why_it_matters": "Preserves identity evidence and informs propagation, transfer and collection constraints." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and document diagnostic structures while preserving identification uncertainty.", "Monitor roots, growths and flowers to distinguish development from deterioration.", "Adjust watering, light, temperature or humidity against supported requirements and observed response.", "Repot or remount when root condition, substrate condition and growth phase support intervention.", "Assess whether division or another documented propagation method is suitable for this individual.", "Isolate, relocate or transfer the specimen when health evidence, environmental suitability and applicable constraints support the action." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-plant-boundary", "name": "Identity and plant boundary", "description": "Establish what orchid is present and which connected structures constitute the individual.", "rationale": "An attractive flower or nursery label alone cannot support all identification and care decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "orchid-identification", "name": "Orchid identification", "description": "Record the evidence supporting family membership and a more specific 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one container contains one plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which growths are physically connected, and which are separate seedlings or previously detached divisions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "growth-architecture-and-individuality-q01" }, { "text": "Where are the active growing points and identified storage structures, and which connections would a proposed cut sever?", "kind": "action", "id": "growth-architecture-and-individuality-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-system-and-growing-context", "name": "Root system and growing context", "description": "Relate the orchid's roots and growing habit to its actual support, moisture and exposure.", "rationale": "Root placement and growing requirements must be resolved before a generic watering or potting routine is applied.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-function", "name": "Root-zone function", "description": "Assess visible roots and the conditions around them.", "findings": [ { "id": "roots-substrate-and-drying", "name": "Roots, substrate and drying", "description": "Connect root observations with moisture history, substrate structure and visibility limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roots are firm, damaged, hollow or actively extending, and under what moisture conditions were they inspected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "roots-substrate-and-drying-q01" }, { "text": "How long does the root zone take to reach a defined drying endpoint, and where does moisture persist?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "roots-substrate-and-drying-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposure-and-habit-fit", "name": "Exposure and habit fit", "description": "Compare the growing arrangement and exposure with supported requirements for the identified orchid.", "findings": [ { "id": "environmental-requirements-and-evidence", "name": "Environmental requirements and evidence", "description": "Separate measured conditions from assumed requirements and document their sources.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes this orchid's growing habit and relevant light, temperature, humidity or seasonal requirements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "environmental-requirements-and-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What light, temperature and humidity does the plant experience across the day and season at its actual position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "environmental-requirements-and-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-condition", "name": "Development and condition", "description": "Interpret changing growth, flowering and damage in the context of the individual orchid.", "rationale": "A resting phase, ageing structure and progressive injury can demand different responses despite similar appearances.", "layers": [ { "id": "growth-and-reproductive-phase", "name": "Growth and reproductive phase", "description": "Track vegetative activity, flowering, fruiting and any supported seasonal rest.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-and-developmental-trajectory", "name": "Phase and developmental trajectory", "description": "Record which structures are developing or declining and whether the pattern is expected.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roots, leaves, growths, flower spikes, buds or capsules are developing, and how have they changed since the previous observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phase-and-developmental-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes expected dormancy or structure ageing from unexplained decline in this orchid?", "kind": "definition", "id": "phase-and-developmental-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "injury-and-health-evidence", "name": "Injury and health evidence", "description": "Describe symptoms and their progression before assigning a cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-response-thresholds", "name": "Symptoms and response thresholds", "description": "Locate abnormalities on roots, growing points, leaves, storage structures and flowers, preserving diagnostic uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are lesions, soft tissue, shrivelling, bud loss or visible pests present, and how quickly are they changing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-and-response-thresholds-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations justify isolation, closer inspection or specialist diagnosis before treatment or removal of tissue?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptoms-and-response-thresholds-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-propagation-and-custody", "name": "Care, propagation and custody", "description": "Connect interventions and transfers to the orchid's identity, architecture, condition and documented origin.", "rationale": "Actions such as cutting a spike, dividing connected growths or moving a wild-origin specimen require orchid-specific evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "care-and-structural-interventions", "name": "Care and structural interventions", "description": "Evaluate changes to care, support and attached structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-readiness-and-follow-up", "name": "Intervention readiness and follow-up", "description": "State the reason, timing and expected observable response for each proposed intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports changing watering or exposure, repotting, remounting or cutting a spent spike at the current growth phase?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-and-follow-up-q01" }, { "text": "Which subsequent root, leaf or growth observations would indicate improvement or a need to revise the intervention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intervention-readiness-and-follow-up-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-origin", "name": "Propagation and origin", "description": "Preserve specimen identity through propagation and establish constraints on collection or transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-lineage-and-transfer-eligibility", "name": "Propagation lineage and transfer eligibility", "description": "Assess propagation using the actual plant architecture and retain origin evidence for resulting individuals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which propagation method is supported for this orchid, and what living roots, growing points or specialist conditions would it require?", "kind": "action", "id": "propagation-lineage-and-transfer-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "What records establish the specimen's origin, parentage where known, and any permissions or restrictions relevant to collection or transfer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagation-lineage-and-transfer-eligibility-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 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and storage-structure observations reliably distinguish hydration change, normal ageing and disease for the orchid being modelled?", "How should the model represent orchids with substantial fungal dependencies, and what evidence is needed before proposing cultivation or seed propagation?", "Which propagation requirements and collection or transfer restrictions apply to the identified specimen, its origin and the relevant locations?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 9, "questions": 17 } }, "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 orchid, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors", "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: orchidaceous plant, orchis, male orchis, early purple orchid, Orchis mascula, butterfly orchid, butterfly orchis, Orchis papilionaceae, showy orchis, purple orchis, purple-hooded orchis, Orchis spectabilis.", "116 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 orchid, 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": [ "orchidaceous plant", "orchis", "male orchis", "early purple orchid", "Orchis mascula", "butterfly orchid", "butterfly orchis", "Orchis papilionaceae", "showy orchis", "purple orchis", "purple-hooded orchis", "Orchis spectabilis" ] } ], "standing": "116 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 orchid from another, and a orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid 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 orchid and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 orchid is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a orchid, 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 orchid, 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 orchid 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 } } } }