{ "model": { "rank": 2802, "code": "thing-q10798", "model_id": "vr.tr.sus", "name": "Sus", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise organisms provisionally identified as members of the genus Sus, assess their condition and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q10798/", "tier": 2, "score": 97, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 97, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q10798", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10798", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:51:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.005287, "turns": 1, "seconds": 17.6, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 79.1, "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: 01a07bb4-b798-7080-8ee3-7ef396576097\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Sus\nRegistry id: vr.tr.sus\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model say" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q10798", "registryId": "vr.tr.sus", "name": "Sus", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q10798/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.sus", "name": "Sus", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise organisms provisionally identified as members of the genus Sus, assess their condition and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "definition": "The genus of even-toed ungulates that includes the domestic pig and its wild relatives, treated in livestock and wildlife practice as the living swine lineage rather than a single breed or product.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interprets Sus as a biological genus and owns the identification, condition, life history and management context of individual organisms assigned to it; the registry meaning must be confirmed before operational use.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting or challenging assignment of an organism to Sus", "Species attribution, domestic or wild status, and uncertain ancestry", "Individual life stage, physical condition and observable behaviour", "Reproductive condition and dependent-young relationships", "Location, containment, exposure and constraints on intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The authoritative taxonomy and nomenclatural history of Suidae", "Farm operations, commercial production and ownership accounting", "Population abundance estimates and ecosystem-wide impact models", "Disease-agent biology and veterinary treatment protocols", "Meat, carcasses and other products as separately managed things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require a documented taxonomic determination supporting Sus rather than another suid genus; a common name containing 'pig' is insufficient.", "Require identification evidence that explicitly excludes peccaries when locality or appearance makes that confusion plausible.", "Separate genus identification from species identification: evidence for Sus alone must not automatically establish Sus scrofa.", "Separate ancestry from living circumstances: apparent wildness or free-ranging behaviour alone must not establish wild, feral or domestic origin.", "Require an individual-organism referent; a taxonomic name, herd record, carcass or product does not satisfy this provisional model's boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Assigned taxon, identification method, reference, confidence and unresolved alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether this model applies and how specific subsequent conclusions may be." }, { "name": "Identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to dated observations, photographs, diagnostic examinations or laboratory determinations", "why_it_matters": "Makes recognition reviewable when appearance, ancestry or naming is ambiguous." }, { "name": "Origin and living status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Separately recorded ancestry and domestic, feral, wild, captive or unresolved living status", "why_it_matters": "Prevents conflating provenance with present behaviour or containment." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Dependent young, juvenile, adult or unresolved; estimated age and method where available", "why_it_matters": "Changes the interpretation of size, independence and care needs." }, { "name": "Body mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg; measured or estimated, with date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports longitudinal condition assessment and handling feasibility." }, { "name": "Body condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Score under a named applicable assessment method, or descriptive observation when no suitable method is established", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes body size from nutritional condition without assuming a universal scoring scale." }, { "name": "Observable functional condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of locomotion, breathing, responsiveness, feeding, drinking and visible injury", "why_it_matters": "Supports triage without presenting observations as a diagnosis." }, { "name": "Reproductive and dependency status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed or assessed sex, pregnancy, lactation and dependency; unknown permitted for each", "why_it_matters": "Identifies possible consequences of separation, capture or relocation." }, { "name": "Social and maternal associations", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Associated individuals or groups, suspected relationship, observation period and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence about dependent young and social context." }, { "name": "Containment and contact context", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Free-ranging, enclosed, escaped or unresolved; recorded contact with other pigs, people and shared resources", "why_it_matters": "Shapes feasible handling, exposure assessment and responsibility." } ], "affordances": [ "Request targeted identification evidence or specialist review when Sus assignment remains uncertain.", "Track individual condition through repeat observations using comparable methods.", "Record rooting, foraging, resting and social behaviour with their environmental context.", "Flag apparent distress or impaired function for qualified assessment.", "Evaluate observation, approach, containment or movement against dependency, welfare, exposure and authority constraints." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "pending research", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "schema bootstrap" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sus-identification-and-origin", "name": "Sus identification and origin", "description": "Establishes why the organism belongs under Sus and which finer identity claims are supported.", "rationale": "Pig terminology, similar-looking animals and uncertain ancestry can produce materially different interpretations of the same observation.", "layers": [ { "id": "genus-and-species-determination", "name": "Genus and species determination", "description": "Separates evidence for genus membership from evidence for a particular species.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-sus-assignment", "name": "Supported Sus assignment", "description": "Records a taxonomic conclusion with the diagnostic evidence, reference and alternatives considered.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed or tested characters support Sus rather than another suid genus or a peccary?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-sus-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which identification reference or qualified determination was used, and does it support genus or species resolution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-sus-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ancestry-and-living-status", "name": "Ancestry and living status", "description": "Separates inherited background from domestication claims and present living circumstances.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-status-separation", "name": "Origin and status separation", "description": "Records documented ancestry and current circumstances without treating appearance or roaming as proof of origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "What breeding, capture, ownership or genetic evidence supports the claimed ancestry or domestic origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-status-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the organism wild, feral, domestic, captive or unresolved under the definitions relevant to this setting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "origin-status-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pig-body-and-functional-condition", "name": "Pig body and functional condition", "description": "Interprets body measurements and observable function for the identified Sus organism.", "rationale": "Size alone cannot establish age, nutritional condition or fitness for handling across uncertain species and domestic backgrounds.", "layers": [ { "id": "growth-and-body-condition", "name": "Growth and body condition", "description": "Places measurements in the context of taxon, life stage and available assessment methods.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-body-assessment", "name": "Interpretable body assessment", "description": "Retains measurement method and uncertainty and avoids applying unsupported reference ranges.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the organism's measured or estimated mass and life stage, and how were they established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-body-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which body-condition method is applicable to this species or domestic background, and what limits its interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpretable-body-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-feeding-and-distress", "name": "Movement, feeding and distress", "description": "Captures observable changes in locomotion, snout use, intake and responsiveness.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-change-and-escalation", "name": "Functional change and escalation", "description": "Distinguishes recorded impairment from an inferred cause and identifies when qualified assessment is needed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes are visible in gait, weight-bearing, rooting or feeding, breathing and responsiveness relative to prior observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-change-and-escalation-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed signs justify prompt veterinary or wildlife assessment under an applicable protocol?", "kind": "action", "id": "functional-change-and-escalation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-dependency-and-behaviour", "name": "Reproduction, dependency and behaviour", "description": "Records reproductive evidence, relationships and behaviour relevant to interpreting or disturbing this organism.", "rationale": "An intervention involving one pig may affect dependent young or associated animals that are not immediately visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-and-young-associations", "name": "Reproductive and young associations", "description": "Establishes reproductive condition and possible dependencies without assuming them from proximity.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-dependency-assessment", "name": "Supported dependency assessment", "description": "Records evidence of pregnancy, lactation, nursing and dependence with explicit uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations or qualified examinations support the recorded reproductive condition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-dependency-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which young may depend on this organism, and what evidence distinguishes nursing or care from simple co-occurrence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-dependency-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "foraging-and-social-context", "name": "Foraging and social context", "description": "Interprets rooting, resource use and interactions within an observed setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextualised-pig-behaviour", "name": "Contextualised pig behaviour", "description": "Records behaviour with observation duration, nearby resources and responses to other animals or people.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rooting, feeding, resting and social interactions were observed, for how long and around which resources?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextualised-pig-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "How should observed avoidance, approach, aggression or young-associated behaviour constrain the next observation or approach?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextualised-pig-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-exposure-and-intervention", "name": "Containment, exposure and intervention", "description": "Connects the organism's location and contact history to feasible, authorised actions.", "rationale": "Sus organisms can occur across husbandry and wildlife contexts, so movement or containment decisions require explicit context.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-barriers-and-pig-contact", "name": "Range, barriers and pig contact", "description": "Records enclosure status, observed barrier interactions and contact opportunities.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-and-exposure-evidence", "name": "Containment and exposure evidence", "description": "Separates confirmed movement and contact from suspected escape routes or exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where has this organism been observed, and what evidence shows confinement, escape or passage through barriers?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "containment-and-exposure-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What direct contact or shared feed, water, equipment or space with other pigs is documented, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "containment-and-exposure-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-movement-decisions", "name": "Handling and movement decisions", "description": "Determines whether an intended intervention has adequate authority, information and practical support.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-intervention", "name": "Justified intervention", "description": "Records the proposed action and its prerequisites, including unresolved facts that could change the decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has authority for this organism, and which current local requirements govern capture, possession or movement in its recorded status?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "justified-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What qualified personnel, facilities and precautions are needed for the proposed action given size, behaviour, dependent young and contact history?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-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 evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "wild boar (Sus scrofa)", "domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus / Sus domesticus)", "bearded pig (Sus barbatus)", "Javan warty pig (Sus verrucosus)", "Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus)", "Philippine warty pig (Sus philippensis)", "Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons)", "Oliver's warty pig (Sus oliveri)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Sus this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.sus denote the genus Sus, an individual-organism kind, or another concept, and does an existing world model already cover that intended meaning?", "Which taxonomic authority and revision should govern included species and the treatment of domestic forms or mixed ancestry?", "Which diagnostic observations reliably distinguish relevant Sus species from other suids and peccaries in the intended operating regions?", "Which body-condition, age-estimation and behavioural assessment methods are validated for the species and domestic backgrounds this entry must cover?", "Which jurisdictional and veterinary sources should determine operational handling, reporting and movement constraints?" ], "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 Sus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise organisms provisionally identified as members of the genus Sus, assess their condition and context, and determine which observations or interventions are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 97 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 Sus, 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.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "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": [], "standing": "Described in 97 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Sus from another, and a Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus 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 Sus and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 Sus is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sus, 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 Sus, 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 Sus 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 } } } }