{ "model": { "rank": 4254, "code": "thing-q107412", "model_id": "vr.tr.petal", "name": "petal", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a petal as a floral organ, assess its developmental and physical state, and choose appropriate observation, handling or sampling actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q107412/", "tier": 2, "score": 77, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "labellum" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 77, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q107412", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107412", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:48:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.6, "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: 01a087b6-454d-7fc2-988f-8a3dc8b41e29\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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fused corolla, including its attachment, morphology, development and interactions within a flower; it does not treat a petal as an organism or taxon.", "in_scope": [ "Petal identity and boundaries within a particular flower", "Free petals and identifiable petal components of a fused corolla", "Shape, dimensions, colour, surface features and tissue condition", "Development, unfolding, senescence and detachment", "Evidence of roles in floral display, visitor guidance and access" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-flower architecture and reproductive success except as context for the petal", "Species taxonomy, population distribution and conservation assessment", "Sepals, undifferentiated tepals, bracts and stamens as independently modelled organs", "Whole-plant cultivation, disease management and environmental requirements", "Extracted pigments, fragrances, edible preparations and manufactured petal substitutes" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify membership in the corolla using the flower's organisation and taxon-specific evidence; colour alone does not establish petal identity.", "Distinguish a petal from a sepal by organ identity and position in the flower, allowing for sepals that resemble petals.", "Use tepal rather than confidently assigning petal identity when the perianth is not differentiated into a calyx and corolla.", "Distinguish petals from showy bracts by attachment and relationship to individual flowers or an inflorescence.", "For a fused corolla, distinguish an inferred petal component from a visible lobe; do not assume every apparent division establishes a separate organ boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Floral association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Parent flower identifier, host plant identifier and taxon identification with confidence", "why_it_matters": "Petal identity and interpretation depend on the flower in which it occurs." }, { "name": "Organ identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Petal confirmed; petal provisional; tepal unresolved; other organ suspected", "why_it_matters": "Prevents showy floral structures from being classified as petals solely by appearance." }, { "name": "Corolla position and fusion", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Position relative to floral axis and neighbouring organs; free or fused; extent of fusion recorded", "why_it_matters": "Locates the petal and determines whether it can be examined or removed independently." }, { "name": "Petal dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and maximum width in mm; thickness in µm or mm; landmarks and preparation recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison while distinguishing natural form from flattening, hydration or preservation effects." }, { "name": "Shape and regional differentiation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Outline, apex, margin, curvature and presence or absence of a distinct claw, blade or spur", "why_it_matters": "Captures petal-specific form and helps identify specialisations within the corolla." }, { "name": "Optical pattern", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Calibrated colour or spectral reflectance by region and surface; wavelength range and illumination recorded", "why_it_matters": "Separates measured pattern from human colour descriptions and unsupported claims about visitor perception." }, { "name": "Developmental state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Developing in bud; unfolding; expanded; senescing; detached; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Changes in form and appearance may reflect normal development rather than damage." }, { "name": "Tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Turgid, wilted, bruised, torn, discoloured or necrotic; affected region and extent recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports handling decisions without treating a visible symptom as a confirmed cause." }, { "name": "Visitor contact", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Visitor identity or description, contacted petal 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identifiable component within a fused corolla.", "findings": [ { "id": "petal-component-delimitation", "name": "Petal component delimitation", "description": "Separate directly visible margins from inferred organ boundaries and assign shared corolla regions explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this a free petal, a component of a fused corolla or a lobe whose organ correspondence remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "petal-component-delimitation-q01" }, { "text": "Which margins and attachment regions belong to this petal, and which tube or throat regions must be recorded at corolla level?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "petal-component-delimitation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "petal-form-and-display-surfaces", "name": "Petal form and display surfaces", "description": "Describe the petal's geometry and observable surface patterns without losing its orientation within the flower.", "rationale": "Petal recognition and display depend on regional shape, curvature and surface differences that a single size or colour label cannot capture.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry-and-regions", "name": "Geometry and regions", "description": "Measure the petal with explicit landmarks and identify differentiated regions where present.", "findings": [ { "id": "petal-shape-measurement", "name": "Petal shape measurement", "description": "Record outline, dimensions and three-dimensional posture, distinguishing intact form from prepared specimens.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the petal's length, width and curvature, and were they measured attached, detached or flattened?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "petal-shape-measurement-q01" }, { "text": "Does the petal have a distinct claw, blade, spur or other region, and how are those regional boundaries identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "petal-shape-measurement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "colour-pattern-and-texture", "name": "Colour, pattern and texture", "description": "Characterise both surfaces and spatial variation under stated observation conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-surface-observations", "name": "Regional surface observations", "description": "Document colour gradients, markings, hairs and surface texture while separating visible appearance from instrument-derived measurements.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do colour, markings and texture vary from base to tip and between the two petal surfaces?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regional-surface-observations-q01" }, { "text": "What lighting, calibration, magnification and wavelength coverage support the recorded pattern, including any claimed ultraviolet feature?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regional-surface-observations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "petal-development-and-condition", "name": "Petal development and condition", "description": "Track developmental changes and distinguish them from handling effects or tissue injury.", "rationale": "A folded, wilted or detached petal cannot be interpreted correctly without stage and observation history.", "layers": [ { "id": "expansion-and-senescence", "name": "Expansion and senescence", "description": "Place observations within the petal's progression from bud development to senescence and detachment.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-state-evidence", "name": "Developmental state evidence", "description": "Record stage and transitions using repeated observations or a documented staging reference.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence places this petal in bud development, unfolding, expansion or senescence?", "kind": "definition", "id": "developmental-state-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "When did changes in expansion, posture, colour or attachment occur relative to flower opening?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-state-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-handling-response", "name": "Damage and handling response", "description": "Assess local tissue condition and retain uncertainty about the cause of visible changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-and-intervention-record", "name": "Condition and intervention record", "description": "Map wilting, tears, bruising and discolouration to petal regions and relate them to documented exposure or handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regions are affected, to what extent, and what observations distinguish normal ageing from injury or water loss?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-and-intervention-record-q01" }, { "text": "Given the petal's condition and the observation objective, should it remain attached, be handled with support or be sampled?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-and-intervention-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "petal-interactions-and-investigation", "name": "Petal interactions and investigation", "description": "Connect petal features to observed floral interactions and design interpretable investigations.", "rationale": "Attraction, guidance and access functions require evidence beyond petal appearance, and manipulation can alter the whole flower.", "layers": [ { "id": "visitor-contact-and-access", "name": "Visitor contact and access", "description": "Record how visitors encounter and use particular petal regions.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-petal-use", "name": "Observed petal use", "description": "Distinguish direct records of landing, gripping or passage from proposed guidance or attraction functions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visitors contact which petal regions, and what behaviour occurs before and after contact?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-petal-use-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a landing, guidance or access role, and which claims remain hypotheses?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-petal-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sampling-and-manipulation", "name": "Sampling and manipulation", "description": "Choose methods that preserve the evidence needed to interpret petal observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-petal-intervention", "name": "Interpretable petal intervention", "description": "Document sampling location, preparation and controls, including consequences for the remaining corolla.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can imaging or another non-destructive observation answer the question, or is removal of a specified petal region required?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretable-petal-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What matched flowers, developmental stages and handling controls are needed to distinguish an intervention effect from natural variation?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretable-petal-intervention-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 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is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Free petals", "Petals united into a tube or cup", "Clawed petals with a narrow basal stalk", "Fringed petals", "Spurred petals" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of petal 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": [ "Petal shape, number, colour and arrangement help identify flowering plants.", "Petals can attract pollinators and guide their approach to reproductive structures.", "Petal traits are selected in ornamental plant breeding.", "Petals of selected species supply fragrances, pigments or culinary ingredients." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of petal 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": [ "Water loss can cause wilting and reduce floral display.", "Fungal infection and herbivory can damage petal tissue.", "Frost, heat and mechanical injury can cause discolouration or tissue collapse.", "Petals are not universally edible; suitability depends on species and exposure to contaminants." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of petal 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": "corolla", "difference": "The corolla comprises all the petals 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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 petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a petal 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a petal 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 petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal 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 petal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 petal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a petal, 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 petal, 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 petal 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 } } } }