{ "model": { "rank": 6555, "code": "thing-q13241", "model_id": "vr.tr.vanilla", "name": "vanilla", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise living vanilla plants, assess their condition and reproductive state, and choose care, propagation or conservation actions appropriate to their identity and setting.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q13241/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Madagascar vanilla" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.vanilla-food", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q13241", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13241", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:59:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.4, "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: 01a08865-3a68-7fb2-b6fe-f49bf58bc650\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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owns vanilla as living plants assigned to the botanical genus Vanilla, distinguishing taxon, population and individual records; the PHY.LIV placement supports this interpretation, but the registry's intended taxonomic breadth remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic identification and the evidence supporting assignment to Vanilla or a particular species", "Individual plants, propagated lineages and populations, with their relationships explicitly recorded", "Growth, rooting, flowering, pollination and attached-fruit development", "Growing conditions, host or support relationships and plant health", "Wild provenance, cultivation history and conservation constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Harvested and cured vanilla pods as spice products", "Vanilla extracts, flavour formulations and food products", "Vanillin and other isolated chemical substances", "Orchid-wide biology already owned by a broader orchid model", "Plantation businesses, commodity trading and supply-chain certification systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A record concerns a living plant or botanical taxon, rather than something called vanilla because of its flavour, fragrance or colour.", "Assignment to Vanilla requires botanical identification evidence; a nursery label, aroma or commercial product name alone is insufficient.", "A species identification must distinguish the plant from other Vanilla species or hybrids rather than silently treating all vanilla as one commercial species.", "A taxon record describes a classification, a population record describes a situated group, and an individual record describes a particular living plant.", "Attached developing fruit is interpreted through the living plant's reproductive state; harvested fruit requires a linked material or spice-product record." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Genus, species, hybrid or unresolved identification; accepted name and authority linked to a 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"unit_or_values": "Observed rooting, attachment, support stability and root damage, with date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Guides establishment, support adjustment and investigation of poor growth." }, { "name": "Growing environment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, light with stated metric, and root-zone moisture with stated method", "why_it_matters": "Allows plant responses to be compared with measured conditions without inventing universal growing thresholds." }, { "name": "Flowering and fruit-set history", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dated flower counts, pollination events, retained attached-fruit counts and observation intervals", "why_it_matters": "Separates flowering, attempted pollination and observed reproductive outcomes." }, { "name": "Health evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Symptom-free on inspection | symptomatic | suspected cause | confirmed diagnosis | recovering", "why_it_matters": "Keeps visible damage distinct from a verified disease or pest diagnosis." }, { "name": "Origin and conservation context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source locality or supplier, wild or cultivated context, acquisition evidence and dated taxon-specific assessments", "why_it_matters": "Supports provenance checks and decisions about collection, movement and propagation." } ], "affordances": [ "Request diagnostic observations or expert review when a vanilla identification is uncertain.", "Adjust support and growing conditions using observations appropriate to the identified plant.", "Schedule flowering observations and record authorised pollination attempts and their outcomes.", "Plan propagation while preserving parentage, lineage identity and plant-health evidence.", "Investigate decline and select proportionate care or isolation actions from observed symptoms.", "Evaluate whether collection or movement is supported by provenance and applicable requirements." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "vanilla-identity-and-record-boundaries", "name": "Vanilla identity and record boundaries", "description": "Establishes which botanical vanilla is represented and what biological entity the record describes.", "rationale": "The bare name vanilla can conflate a botanical group, a cultivated plant and a spice.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-identification", "name": "Botanical identification", "description": "Connects a proposed identification to diagnostic evidence and taxonomic references.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-vanilla-assignment", "name": "Supported Vanilla assignment", "description": "The model must retain the evidence and uncertainty behind genus, species or hybrid identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vegetative or floral observations support assignment to Vanilla and distinguish the proposed species or hybrid?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-vanilla-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which consulted taxonomic source supports the accepted name, authority and date, and any GBIF or NCBI identifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-vanilla-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "plant-population-and-product-boundaries", "name": "Plant, population and product boundaries", "description": "Separates biological record levels and links reproductive material to neighbouring models.", "findings": [ { "id": "record-subject-and-handoff", "name": "Record subject and handoff", "description": "Each record must identify its biological subject and preserve traceability when material leaves the living plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern a taxon, a local population, an individual plant or a propagated lineage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "record-subject-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "When a cutting or fruit is detached, which linked record takes ownership while retaining the source-plant relationship?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "record-subject-and-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "vanilla-establishment-and-growing-context", "name": "Vanilla establishment and growing context", "description": "Describes rooting, support and environmental conditions relevant to the represented vanilla plant.", "rationale": "Care decisions require evidence about how the plant is established and the conditions it actually experiences.", "layers": [ { "id": "rooting-and-support", "name": "Rooting and support", "description": "Records attachment, root condition and the relationship to living or artificial supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "established-root-support-system", "name": "Established root and support system", "description": "The model must distinguish root or attachment problems from inadequate support and other causes of poor growth.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roots and stem sections are attached, rooted, damaged or unsupported, and how was their condition observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "established-root-support-system-q01" }, { "text": "What support or root-zone adjustment is justified for this plant without damaging established tissues?", "kind": "action", "id": "established-root-support-system-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "microclimate-and-range-context", "name": "Microclimate and range context", "description": "Relates measured growing conditions to taxon-specific habitat evidence and geographic origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "environmental-fit", "name": "Environmental fit", "description": "Environmental suitability must be assessed against the identified taxon and observed plant response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, humidity, light and root-zone moisture does this vanilla experience across relevant daily or seasonal changes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "environmental-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence establishes the taxon's native habitat and range, and distinguishes these from cultivated or introduced occurrences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "environmental-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "vanilla-flowering-and-propagation", "name": "Vanilla flowering and propagation", "description": "Tracks reproductive opportunities, attached-fruit outcomes and the origin of new plants.", "rationale": "Flowering, pollination, fruit retention and propagation are distinct events that must not be collapsed into a single productivity label.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-pollination-and-fruit-set", "name": "Flowering, pollination and fruit set", "description": "Connects dated flower observations and pollination events to subsequent attached-fruit development.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-event-evidence", "name": "Reproductive event evidence", "description": "The model must preserve observed timing, intervention details and outcomes without assuming successful fertilisation from an attempted pollination.", "questions": [ { "text": "When were flowers observed open, and what evidence establishes a receptive period for this taxon and setting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-event-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Was pollination observed or assisted, what pollen source was recorded, and what subsequent fruit retention was measured?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-event-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-lineage", "name": "Propagation and lineage", "description": "Preserves the relationship between source plants, propagation methods and establishment outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-new-plants", "name": "Traceable new plants", "description": "New plant records must retain their origin and avoid treating multiple propagated plants as evidence of genetic diversity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did this plant originate from seed, a cutting or another documented method, and which parent or source records are known?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-new-plants-q01" }, { "text": "What establishment and health evidence is required before the propagated plant is moved or used for further propagation?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-new-plants-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "vanilla-health-and-conservation-decisions", "name": "Vanilla health and conservation decisions", "description": "Supports evidence-based responses to plant decline and provenance-sensitive decisions about wild or cultivated material.", "rationale": "Symptoms, source history and taxon-specific conservation evidence constrain responsible intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "decline-and-diagnosis", "name": "Decline and diagnosis", "description": "Separates observed tissue damage and growth changes from proposed causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-health-response", "name": "Supported health response", "description": "Care decisions must account for symptom location, progression and diagnostic confidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which roots, stems, leaves, flowers or attached fruits show damage, and how has that damage progressed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-health-response-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes environmental stress, mechanical injury, pest damage and disease sufficiently to choose an intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-health-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-wild-population-stewardship", "name": "Origin and wild population stewardship", "description": "Connects acquisition and locality evidence to collection, movement and conservation decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "provenance-sensitive-use", "name": "Provenance-sensitive use", "description": "The model must retain documented origin and dated conservation evidence at the level to which each applies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documents or observations establish whether this vanilla was wild-collected, cultivated or propagated from a known source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "provenance-sensitive-use-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated conservation assessment and applicable collection or movement requirements govern the identified taxon and proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "provenance-sensitive-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded: confirm whether the registry means the genus Vanilla, a particular cultivated species, or the spice; PHY.LIV supports the organism interpretation.", "Verify the accepted treatment and hybrid notation of Vanilla × tahitensis before assigning a taxonomic identifier.", "Species-specific native ranges, conservation assessments and numerical identifiers have not been verified; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of vanilla this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Vanilla planifolia", "Vanilla pompona", "Vanilla × tahitensis" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of vanilla this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants", "value_or_pattern": "Vanilla planifolia Andrews", "note": "Botanical name and author citation for the principal commercial vanilla species; it does not identify every vanilla orchid." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "Requires selection of the intended genus or species." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "Identifies a taxonomic record rather than an individual plant or commercial product." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of vanilla 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": [ "Cultivation for fruits that are cured to produce vanilla flavouring.", "Breeding and maintenance of germplasm for crop improvement.", "Research on orchid reproduction, pollination and plant-fungus relationships." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of vanilla 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": [ "Poor fruit set when suitable pollinators or timely hand pollination are absent.", "Fusarium-associated root and stem rot in cultivated vanilla.", "Waterlogging and inadequate drainage can damage roots and favour disease.", "Narrow genetic diversity in clonally propagated crops can increase vulnerability to disease." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the 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"name": "vanilla spice", "difference": "The spice is processed fruit material; the organism is the living orchid." }, { "name": "vanillin", "difference": "Vanillin is a chemical compound contributing to vanilla aroma, not a plant or the complete mixture of vanilla flavour compounds." }, { "name": "Vanilla planifolia", "difference": "This is one species within Vanilla; the genus includes other species." }, { "name": "individual vanilla vine", "difference": "An individual is a particular living plant; a taxon groups organisms under a biological classification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of vanilla this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.vanilla designate the genus Vanilla, a particular cultivated species, or another botanical grouping despite having no recorded definition?", "Does an existing Vercy 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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 vanilla, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise living vanilla plants, assess their condition and reproductive state, and choose care, propagation or conservation actions appropriate to their identity and setting.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Madagascar vanilla.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 60 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 vanilla, 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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Madagascar vanilla" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one vanilla from another, and a vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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 vanilla and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a vanilla, 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 vanilla, 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 vanilla 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 } } } }