{ "model": { "rank": 3380, "code": "thing-q130882", "model_id": "vr.tr.allium-ursinum", "name": "Allium ursinum", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Allium ursinum, assess its seasonal and population state, and decide whether observation, cultivation, collection or protection is 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/q130882/", "tier": 2, "score": 86, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 86, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q130882", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130882", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:36:55Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.6, "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: 01a07c4b-7461-7e30-9dfd-43176012e080\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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(1753), commonly called wild garlic or ramsons, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant species in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to Europe and parts of western Asia and characteristic of moist deciduous woodland.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species concept Allium ursinum L. (1753), registry vr.tr.allium-ursinum in PHY / PHY.LIV, and the species-specific evidence needed to interpret individual plants and populations; it keeps taxonomic identity, local condition and harvested material distinct.", "in_scope": [ "Accepted taxonomy, authority, identifiers and interpretation of common names", "Diagnostic plant characters and exclusion of poisonous lookalikes", "Bulb persistence, seasonal growth, reproduction and recruitment", "Native range, local establishment and woodland habitat relationships", "Population condition, conservation evidence and constraints on intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Full models of other Allium species or poisonous lookalikes", "Harvested food batches, recipes and commercial food quality", "Extract chemistry, medicinal efficacy and clinical treatment", "Whole woodland ecosystems and land ownership systems", "Generic gardening equipment and collection logistics" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check broad, flat, pointed oval leaves against the narrow tubular leaves of crow garlic, Allium vineale; garlic scent alone does not separate Allium species. [RHS identification guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-crow-garlic)", "On flowering plants, seek umbels of white, star-shaped, six-parted flowers together with matching foliage; record the attachment of flowers and leaves to the same plant. [RHS identification guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-crow-garlic)", "Require a botanical comparison with lily-of-the-valley, Convallaria majalis, and autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale, when identifying young leaves; both are documented poisonous confusions. [BfR identification warning](https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/press-release/wild-garlic-confusion-often-leads-to-poisoning/)", "Treat garlic odour as supporting evidence only: odour remaining on fingers can compromise subsequent checks, and a mixed handful cannot establish the identity of every leaf. [BfR identification warning](https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/press-release/wild-garlic-confusion-often-leads-to-poisoning/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Accepted taxon", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Allium ursinum L., 1753; species; Amaryllidaceae", "why_it_matters": "Anchors the registry to an accepted botanical concept. [Kew taxon record](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A529088-1/general-information)" }, { "name": "External taxonomic mappings", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "GBIF species 2857601; NCBI Taxonomy 4684; record retrieval date and taxonomic treatment", "why_it_matters": "Connects occurrence and sequence evidence while preserving differences between reference systems. [GBIF record](https://www.gbif.org/species/2857601/metrics), [NCBI record](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=4684&mode=Info)" }, { "name": "Observation subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "taxon; population; patch; shoot; bulb; individual of established identity; detached specimen", "why_it_matters": "Prevents patch area or shoot counts from being reported as numbers of genetically distinct individuals." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved; provisional; expert-supported; voucher-supported; conflicting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether a record can support species-specific action." }, { "name": "Leaf dimensions and architecture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "blade length and width in mm, accompanied by leaf-shape and attachment observations", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification evidence reviewable without treating size alone as diagnostic." }, { "name": "Seasonal stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seed; seedling; vegetative growth; flowering; fruiting; senescing; dormant bulb; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates normal seasonal disappearance from mortality; spring foliage dies back during summer. [RHS seasonal description](https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-crow-garlic)" }, { "name": "Reproductive expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed floral organs, flowering status, fruit production and any supported sexual variation; unknown where unexamined", "why_it_matters": "Avoids imposing male and female individual categories without botanical evidence." }, { "name": "Local establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "native; introduced and established; planted; casual; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "The native range is western and central Europe to the Caucasus, but each locality needs its own evidence. [Kew distribution summary](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A529088-1/general-information)" }, { "name": "Patch extent and abundance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "occupied area in m²; cover in percent; shoots or flowering stems per m²; survey date and method", "why_it_matters": "Supports repeatable local assessment despite dense growth and seasonal visibility." }, { "name": "Microsite conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "soil moisture with method; soil pH; canopy cover in percent; observation season", "why_it_matters": "Tests habitat suitability and explanations for change rather than assuming all woodland is equivalent." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "assessment authority, category, geographic scope, assessment year and source; unverified if absent", "why_it_matters": "Keeps global or regional extinction risk separate from local abundance and statutory protection." } ], "affordances": [ "Document and submit a photographed or appropriately authorised voucher observation for identification.", "Schedule repeat surveys around local emergence, flowering and senescence.", "Compare patch cover, flowering and recruitment using consistent sampling units.", "Assess a proposed cultivation site and monitor establishment or unwanted spread.", "Evaluate collection requests against identification confidence, local permission and population condition.", "Flag uncertain identity, unexplained decline or unresolved assessment evidence for specialist review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxon-and-record-boundaries", "name": "Taxon and record boundaries", "description": "Anchor ramsons records to the registered species while distinguishing plants, patches and products.", "rationale": "The common name wild garlic and the appearance of a dense colony do not uniquely identify either a taxon or an individual.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-species-concept", "name": "Accepted species concept", "description": "Resolve botanical names and external identifiers.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-and-crosswalk", "name": "Authority and crosswalk", "description": "Keep the accepted name, authority, reference treatment and identifier mappings together.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated taxonomic treatment supports Allium ursinum L. (1753) for this record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-and-crosswalk-q01" }, { "text": "Do the GBIF and NCBI mappings refer to the same species circumscription used here?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-and-crosswalk-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "plant-patch-and-material", "name": "Plant, patch and material", "description": "Specify what an observation or proposed action concerns.", "findings": [ { "id": "counting-unit-and-identity", "name": "Counting unit and identity", "description": "Do not equate a shoot, bulb, contiguous patch or detached leaf with a genetically distinct individual.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern the species, a local population, a patch, a shoot or detached material?", "kind": "definition", "id": "counting-unit-and-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence justifies treating the observed unit as one individual rather than several connected or neighbouring plants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "counting-unit-and-identity-q02" }, { "text": "At what point should harvested material be linked to a separate food or specimen model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "counting-unit-and-identity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-and-lookalikes", "name": "Identification and lookalikes", "description": "Build a reviewable identification from associated plant characters and explicit alternatives.", "rationale": "Young ramsons leaves can be confused with poisonous plants, while other alliums also smell of garlic.", "layers": [ { "id": "associated-diagnostic-characters", "name": "Associated diagnostic characters", "description": "Record foliage and reproductive structures belonging to the same plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "whole-plant-evidence", "name": "Whole-plant evidence", "description": "Combine leaf architecture, flower arrangement and seasonal context instead of relying on one detached leaf.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the blade dimensions, shape and attachment, and are flowers demonstrably attached to the same plant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "whole-plant-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed characters distinguish this specimen from Allium vineale and other locally occurring alliums?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "whole-plant-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "poisonous-confusions", "name": "Poisonous confusions", "description": "Record exclusion evidence and limits of identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "lookalike-exclusion", "name": "Lookalike exclusion", "description": "An identification decision must address plausible poisonous alternatives and mixed vegetation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical characters exclude Convallaria majalis and Colchicum autumnale at the observed growth stage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Could scent transfer or leaves from neighbouring plants have compromised the evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q02" }, { "text": "Should identification remain unresolved pending flowering material or expert examination?", "kind": "action", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-persistence-and-reproduction", "name": "Seasonal persistence and reproduction", "description": "Interpret above-ground observations through the life cycle of a bulbous perennial.", "rationale": "Leaf disappearance, flowering failure and population loss are different states requiring different evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "emergence-and-dormancy", "name": "Emergence and dormancy", "description": "Track local seasonal stages without imposing a universal calendar.", "findings": [ { "id": "phenology-versus-mortality", "name": "Phenology versus mortality", "description": "Use repeat observations to distinguish expected dieback from abnormal loss.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were emergence, flowering, fruiting and leaf senescence observed at this locality?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phenology-versus-mortality-q01" }, { "text": "Does apparent absence represent seasonal dormancy, inadequate survey timing or supported mortality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phenology-versus-mortality-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sexual-and-vegetative-recruitment", "name": "Sexual and vegetative recruitment", "description": "Distinguish seed recruitment from bulb-mediated expansion; both routes are reported for this species. [RHS propagation context](https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-crow-garlic)", "findings": [ { "id": "recruitment-evidence", "name": "Recruitment evidence", "description": "Record reproductive observations without inferring successful recruitment from flowers alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What floral sexual expression is documented, and is any claimed sexual dimorphism supported for this population?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recruitment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What counts of flowers, fruits and identifiable seedlings support successful sexual recruitment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recruitment-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seedlings from shoots produced through underground bulb multiplication?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recruitment-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-woodland-establishment", "name": "Range and woodland establishment", "description": "Connect each occurrence to geographic provenance and measured site conditions.", "rationale": "Species-wide native range does not establish the origin or suitability of a particular woodland occurrence.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-origin", "name": "Occurrence origin", "description": "Separate native populations from plantings and introductions.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-native-status", "name": "Local native status", "description": "Use regional botanical evidence and site history to interpret establishment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regional flora, specimen or historical record supports native or introduced status at this location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-native-status-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a self-maintaining population, a recent planting or an occurrence of uncertain origin?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-native-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "woodland-microsite", "name": "Woodland microsite", "description": "Relate patch performance to moisture, soil and seasonal canopy conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-suitability-and-change", "name": "Site suitability and change", "description": "Damp woodland is a documented habitat context; local suitability still requires observation. [RHS habitat account](https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/wild-garlic-and-crow-garlic)", "questions": [ { "text": "What soil moisture, drainage, pH and canopy conditions accompany occupied and unoccupied microsites?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-suitability-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "Have changes in shading, drainage or disturbance preceded a measured change in the patch?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "site-suitability-and-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-condition-and-intervention", "name": "Population condition and intervention", "description": "Translate local condition and sourced constraints into justified management decisions.", "rationale": "A widespread species may have vulnerable local populations, and a vigorous garden patch may need a different response from a native woodland population.", "layers": [ { "id": "condition-and-assessment", "name": "Condition and assessment", "description": "Keep field trends, extinction-risk assessments and legal protection separate.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-trend", "name": "Population trend", "description": "Assess change using comparable seasonal surveys and declared counting units.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have occupied area, cover, flowering-stem density and recruitment changed under the same survey method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-trend-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed damage or site changes explain concern, and which explanations remain hypotheses?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-trend-q02" } ] }, { "id": "assessment-scope-and-date", "name": "Assessment scope and date", "description": "Require an original assessment before asserting an IUCN category; 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 86 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 Allium ursinum from another, and a Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, and in what units 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"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 Allium ursinum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 Allium ursinum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum, 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 Allium ursinum 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 } } } }