{ "model": { "rank": 2878, "code": "thing-q132576", "model_id": "vr.tr.impala", "name": "impala", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an impala, assess its condition and ecological circumstances, and determine which observation, care or management actions 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/q132576/", "tier": 2, "score": 95, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 95, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q132576", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132576", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:27:31Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0113764, "turns": 1, "seconds": 176.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 87, "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: 01a07c08-e3dd-7f61-890f-f4a3ac4e6d4e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[African Wildlife Foundation](https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/impala)", "Check the rear view for a black stripe on either side of the tail and a black tail stripe; require a clear view rather than inferring the pattern from a silhouette. [Uganda Wildlife Authority](https://ugandawildlife.org/animals/impala/)", "For a horned animal, check for ridged, lyre-shaped horns rather than treating any curved antelope horns as sufficient identification; male impala have horns, while females lack them, so horn absence alone cannot exclude impala. [Animal Diversity Web](https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Aepyceros_melampus/)", "Check the combination of reddish-brown upperparts, white underparts and white markings around the eyes and ears; coat colour alone is insufficient, especially for atypical individuals or poor images. [African Wildlife Foundation](https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/impala)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed; probable; unresolved; rejected, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents ambiguous antelope sightings from becoming certain impala records." }, { "name": "Taxonomic assignment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded scientific name and authority/version; unresolved assignment allowed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observations interpretable when authorities treat impala forms differently." }, { "name": "Individual identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to an individual supported by tag, collar or distinctive features; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Supports follow-up without confusing another herd member with the same animal." }, { "name": "Sex and life stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sex: male, female or unknown; stage: dependent young, immature, adult or uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Changes interpretation of horns, body size, social position and care needs." }, { "name": "Horn configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Absent; developing; paired intact; asymmetric; broken; obscured", "why_it_matters": "Contributes to recognition and distinguishes development from possible injury." }, { "name": "Body mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with date, method and measured-versus-estimated flag", "why_it_matters": "Supports longitudinal condition assessment when interpreted with sex and life stage." }, { "name": "Body condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Score under a named impala-appropriate protocol; unassessed allowed", "why_it_matters": "Makes nutritional change assessable without inventing a universal healthy threshold." }, { "name": "Locomotor function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unrestricted; uneven gait; reduced weight bearing; unable to rise; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Indicates whether the animal can reach resources and move away from threats." }, { "name": "Reproductive evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unknown; rut behaviour observed; pregnancy suspected or confirmed; lactation observed; dependent young associated", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible behaviour from confirmed reproductive status." }, { "name": "Social association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked companions or herd observation, with time and observed composition", "why_it_matters": "Makes isolation, regrouping and changes in association interpretable." }, { "name": "Feeding activity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Grazing; browsing; ruminating; feeding not observed; unable to feed", "why_it_matters": "Connects current resource use to condition without equating a brief pause with illness." }, { "name": "Immediate resource access", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed or inferred access to forage, water, cover and unobstructed movement", "why_it_matters": "Identifies constraints that can make apparently suitable surroundings unusable." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and document an impala from a distance while preserving uncertainty.", "Associate repeat sightings with an individual when identifying evidence is sufficient.", "Track changes in condition, gait, feeding and herd association.", "Assess whether disturbance, fencing or resource restrictions warrant management review.", "Refer injury or persistent abnormal behaviour for qualified wildlife assessment.", "Evaluate proposed capture, marking, treatment or relocation against animal condition, dependent young, specialist plans and applicable authority." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iucn-aepyceros-melampus", "title": "Aepyceros melampus (impala) assessment", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Species limits, subspecies, range, Red List status, and population remarks used in the definition, kinds, identifiers, and hazards.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "kingdon-field-guide", "title": "The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (2nd ed.)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Field diagnosis, measurements, gait and social system, and the characters that separate impala from gazelles and other antelopes." }, { "id": "skinner-chimimba-2005", "title": "The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion (3rd ed.)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Southern African distribution, black-faced versus common impala, body size, reproduction, and ranching context." }, { "id": "estes-1991", "title": "The Behavior Guide to African Mammals", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Territorial rams, clan ewes, breeding seasonality, and predator-escape behaviour used in real-world use and neighbours." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "impala-recognition", "name": "Impala recognition", "description": "Establish whether the observed animal is an impala and whether it can be recognised again.", "rationale": "Similar antelope, immature animals and incomplete views can produce incorrect identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-anatomy", "name": "Diagnostic anatomy", "description": "Evaluate the combination of heel tufts, rump markings, coat pattern and horns.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Record visible diagnostic features, obscured features and plausible alternative identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which heel, rump, tail and horn features are actually visible in this observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally plausible antelope alternatives remain, and what additional view would distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identification-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxon-and-individual", "name": "Taxon and individual", "description": "Separate the taxonomic label from evidence identifying a particular animal.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-continuity", "name": "Identity continuity", "description": "Retain the authority behind the taxonomic assignment and the evidence connecting sightings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic authority supports the recorded impala assignment, and is a more specific form unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What tag, collar, scar or combination of stable features supports matching this animal to a previous sighting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-stage-and-reproduction", "name": "Life stage and reproduction", "description": "Interpret development, sex and reproductive dependencies.", "rationale": "Horn development, rut behaviour and dependent young change how an impala's state and possible interventions should be judged.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-sex", "name": "Development and sex", "description": "Assess sex and maturity with explicit evidence and uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-assignment", "name": "Developmental assignment", "description": "Record a defensible life-stage assessment without using horn absence as a complete sex test.", "questions": [ { "text": "What anatomy, relative size and horn development support the recorded sex and life stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "developmental-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Could immaturity, horn damage or an obscured view explain the apparent absence of horns?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breeding-and-dependency", "name": "Breeding and dependency", "description": "Record reproductive observations and relationships with dependent young.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-and-care-context", "name": "Reproductive and care context", "description": "Separate suspected reproductive status from confirmed evidence and document maternal associations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What directly observed or professionally confirmed evidence supports rut activity, pregnancy, lactation or nursing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-and-care-context-q01" }, { "text": "Would a proposed intervention separate a nursing pair or disturb a potentially dependent young animal?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-and-care-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-functional-capacity", "name": "Condition and functional capacity", "description": "Assess whether the impala can feed, move and maintain its usual activities.", "rationale": "A mobile herd animal may face serious consequences from impaired feeding or locomotion even when a diagnosis is unavailable.", "layers": [ { "id": "nutrition-and-feeding", "name": "Nutrition and feeding", "description": "Relate observed feeding and body condition to the animal's circumstances.", "findings": [ { "id": "nutritional-trajectory", "name": "Nutritional trajectory", "description": "Track condition and feeding over time while preserving observation method and seasonal context.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has body condition changed under the same assessment method, accounting for life stage and reproductive state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nutritional-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Is the animal grazing, browsing or ruminating, and was the observation long enough to interpret a lack of feeding?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nutritional-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "injury-and-mobility", "name": "Injury and mobility", "description": "Assess visible damage and its functional consequences without assigning unsupported diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-impairment", "name": "Functional impairment", "description": "Record gait, weight bearing, wounds and ability to remain with companions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the impala rise, bear weight, walk and keep pace during naturally occurring movement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed injuries or persistent impairments meet a qualified wildlife responder's escalation criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "functional-impairment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "herd-behaviour-and-habitat-use", "name": "Herd behaviour and habitat use", "description": "Interpret the animal's social position and use of nearby resources.", "rationale": "Herd composition, breeding context and access to forage and cover are necessary to interpret solitary behaviour or changes in movement.", "layers": [ { "id": "social-and-alertness-context", "name": "Social and alertness context", "description": "Observe companions, interactions and responses to disturbance.", "findings": [ { "id": "social-behaviour-interpretation", "name": "Social behaviour interpretation", "description": "Distinguish observed association and behaviour from assumptions about dominance, abandonment or illness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the animal alone or associated with females and young, males, or a mixed group, and for how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "social-behaviour-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes breeding-related pursuit or territorial behaviour from disturbance or unexplained agitation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "social-behaviour-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resources-and-movement", "name": "Resources and movement", "description": "Record the resources and barriers relevant to this impala's current movements.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-habitat-access", "name": "Usable habitat access", "description": "Distinguish nearby resources from resources the animal can safely reach and use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which forage patches, water points and cover areas has this animal actually used during the observation period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-habitat-access-q01" }, { "text": "Do fences, roads, people or other immediate pressures obstruct its observed movement routes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-habitat-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-intervention-decisions", "name": "Observation and intervention decisions", "description": "Connect evidence about this impala to justified actions and follow-up.", "rationale": "Approach, capture and separation can alter behaviour and welfare, so action decisions require more than species recognition.", "layers": [ { "id": "observation-impact", "name": "Observation impact", "description": "Determine whether observation itself changes the state being assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "disturbance-sensitive-observation", "name": "Disturbance-sensitive observation", "description": "Record observer proximity and changes in vigilance, feeding or movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the impala stop feeding, increase vigilance or move away after the observer or vehicle approached?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "disturbance-sensitive-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Should observation distance increase or observation stop to avoid continued displacement?", "kind": "action", "id": "disturbance-sensitive-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "managed-action-and-follow-up", "name": "Managed action and follow-up", "description": "Link a proposed intervention to its justification, responsible specialists and subsequent assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-readiness", "name": "Intervention readiness", "description": "Record the animal-specific reasons and prerequisites for capture, marking, treatment or relocation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed need, applicable authorization and qualified specialist plan justify the proposed action for this impala?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "How will follow-up assess feeding, mobility, condition and reunion with any dependent young or established companions?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says 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(game-ranch colour morph)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q185239", "note": "Item for the living antelope Aepyceros melampus, not the Chevrolet or Apache homonyms." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "9899", "note": "Taxid for Aepyceros melampus." }, { "scheme": "IUCN Red List", "value_or_pattern": "550", "note": "Species assessment identifier for Aepyceros melampus." }, { "scheme": "ICZN scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812)", "note": "Accepted binomial; black-faced form is A. m. petersi Bocage, 1879." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "IUCN Red List assessment of Aepyceros melampus, issued by the IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (species Least Concern; black-faced impala treated as a threatened subspecies in conservation practice).", "CITES Appendices, issued by the CITES Secretariat: the species is not listed.", "Namibia Nature Conservation Ordinance 4 of 1975 and later protected-game rules, issued by the Namibian conservation authority, covering black-faced impala and translocation/hybridisation control.", "South Africa National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act 10 of 2004 (and provincial nature-conservation ordinances) governing keeping, hunting and movement of game, including ranch morphs.", "South Africa Meat Safety Act 40 of 2000, issued by the national agriculture department, for slaughter and sale of impala as game meat.", "Rowland Ward and Safari Club International trophy-measurement codes used by the hunting industry to class rams." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Counted and photographed as a staple plains-game species on East and southern African safari circuits.", "Hunted as trophy and biltong/venison game on ranches and conservancies in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Tanzania.", "Translocated and auctioned as live game, including high-value colour morphs, in the southern African wildlife ranching trade.", "Used as a conservation flagship in Namibia, where black-faced impala were bred and re-established after near-loss in the Kaokoveld.", "Taken as bushmeat and encountered as roadkill or fence-caught animals on mixed livestock-game farms." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "adult male live mass", "typical_range": "45-65", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "adult female live mass", "typical_range": "40-50", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "shoulder height", "typical_range": "70-95", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "male horn length along the curve", "typical_range": "45-90", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "gestation", "typical_range": "194-200", "unit": "day" }, { "quantity": "sprint speed (escape burst)", "typical_range": "60-80", "unit": "km/h" }, { "quantity": "wild longevity", "typical_range": "10-15", "unit": "year" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Predation by lion, leopard, cheetah, African wild dog, spotted hyena and large pythons, especially of lambs and isolated animals.", "Drought and surface-water failure; the species drinks regularly where water is available and concentrates, then crashes, around remaining water.", "Hybridisation of black-faced impala with translocated common impala, which erodes the Namibian-Angolan subspecies.", "Fence entanglement, snaring and vehicle collision on ranches and public roads.", "Anthrax and other outbreak disease (historically rinderpest; locally foot-and-mouth movement controls) in dense or waterhole-concentrated herds.", "Over-harvest and poorly regulated live-capture on some game properties." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "The English name is from Zulu impala; Afrikaans uses rooibok, Swahili swala pala, Shona mhara.", "Black-faced impala is confined to south-west Angola and north-west Namibia (Kaokoland), with extra stocks in Etosha and other Namibian reserves; common impala occupies eastern and southern African savanna and is absent from closed forest, true desert and much of the miombo interior.", "South African ranching distinguishes black, white and saddleback morphs that are not conservation taxa and are not part of East African management practice.", "Kenya treats the species as photographic wildlife (hunting ban); South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania still run legal hunting quotas in places." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)", "difference": "Springbok are smaller, both sexes are horned, and they show a white face and a fold-away white dorsal fan; impala ewes are hornless and carry black metatarsal tufts plus vertical black thigh stripes." }, { "name": "Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii)", "difference": "Thomson's gazelle is much smaller, both sexes are horned, and it has a bold black lateral band; impala lack that flank band and have rump/thigh stripes instead." }, { "name": "Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti)", "difference": "Grant's gazelle has horns in both sexes, gazelle face markings and no black glandular tufts on the hind cannon bones." }, { "name": "bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus)", "difference": "Bushbuck are forest browsers, usually solitary or in pairs, with spots or stripes on the body and short spiral horns in males only; impala are open-savanna herd animals with lyrate ridged horns." }, { "name": "red lechwe (Kobus leche)", "difference": "Lechwe occupy floodplain grassland, have elongated hooves and longer, more sweeping horns; they lack impala's black rump stripes and metatarsal tufts." }, { "name": "common versus black-faced impala", "difference": "Black-faced impala are darker, slightly larger, and have a black blaze from the top of the head down the muzzle; common impala have a paler face without that continuous blaze." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of impala this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic authority should govern this registry entry, particularly the treatment of black-faced impala, while preserving the registry's single-entry boundary?", "Which field identification tests reliably separate impala from locally confused antelope across juveniles, atypical coat colours and incomplete views?", "Which body-condition and non-invasive age-assessment methods are validated for impala, and how do interpretations vary by sex, season and reproductive state?", "What local reproductive timing and young-dependency evidence are needed to distinguish normal separation from a situation requiring assessment?", "Which impala-specific disturbance, capture-risk and post-intervention monitoring criteria are supported for the intended wild or managed setting?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a impala, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an impala, assess its condition and ecological circumstances, and determine which observation, care or management actions are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 95 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 impala, 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 95 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 impala from another, and a impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a impala 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 impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala 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 impala and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 impala is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a impala, 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 impala, 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 impala 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 } } } }