{ "model": { "rank": 1027, "code": "thing-q1364", "model_id": "vr.tr.fruit", "name": "fruit", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a fruit, assess its development and condition, and decide whether it may be harvested, handled, stored, propagated or used as food.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1364/", "tier": 2, "score": 198, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Cascabel chili", "Espelette pepper", "Black Pearl pepper", "Capsicum baccatum ‘Ají Panca’", "jalapeño", "pickled pepperoni", "slice of cayenne pepper", "TAM Mild Jalapeño", "babaco fruit", "fruit of Maloideae", "sugar-apple", "chili pepper", "cacao pod", "sivri biber", "Apaxtleco chili pepper", "Takanotsume", "Red Savina", "Carolina Reaper", "Calabrian chili pepper", "chilhuacle negro", "green chili", "Jamaican hot red", "peperoncino", "Dedo de Moca", "Himo tougarashi", "Tabasco pepper", "Banana pepper", "fish pepper", "Rocoto red", "bird's eye chili", "Ají caballero", "Ají dulce", "New Mexico chile", "Korean chili pepper", "Bishop's Crown", "piri piri", "Infinity chilli", "cayenne pepper", "Er jing tiao", "siling haba" ], "aliasCount": 81, "merged": 81, "knownIn": 198, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.fruit", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1364", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1364", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T22:01:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.3, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 55.8, "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: 01a078bc-e7cd-7043-b964-efcec4101d8a\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: fruit\nRegistry id: vr.tr.fruit\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q1364", "registryId": "vr.tr.fruit", "name": "fruit", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1364/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.fruit", "name": "fruit", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a fruit, assess its development and condition, and decide whether it may be harvested, handled, stored, propagated or used as food.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual fruit as a plant reproductive structure, including attached and harvested states, and records culinary usage separately from botanical identity; unresolved uses of the registry term remain explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Botanical identity, cultivar where known, and evidence connecting the fruit to its source plant", "Fruit form, constituent tissues, seed presence and edible-part boundaries", "Development, harvest maturity, ripeness and senescence", "Physical damage, deterioration and evidence relevant to food suitability", "Harvest, handling, storage and preparation constraints specific to the fruit", "Seed-bearing and dispersal roles where relevant to intended use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-plant health, cultivation and lifecycle, owned by the source-plant model", "Orchard, field and crop management", "Seed identity, viability testing and germination after separation from the fruit", "Processed products such as juice, jam and fermented beverages", "Recipes, meals and a person's nutritional or medical requirements", "Commercial lot inventory, packaging systems and shipment management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check developmental origin to distinguish a botanical fruit from a root, stem, leaf or other plant organ; appearance and sweetness alone do not establish identity.", "Distinguish the enclosing fruit structure from a seed inside it, including cases where the enclosing tissues are dry or inconspicuous.", "Record botanical identity and culinary classification separately so that a culinary vegetable is not excluded solely by its food-use label.", "Check whether the object retains an identifiable fruit structure or is a separated portion or transformed product requiring a neighbouring model.", "Do not reject a candidate solely because it lacks visible seeds; establish its identity from source-plant and structural evidence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Source-plant identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked plant or taxon; cultivar if established; evidence and identification confidence", "why_it_matters": "Interpretation of ripeness, edible tissues and handling requirements depends on identity." }, { "name": "Botanical and culinary classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Botanical classification and culinary label recorded independently; unresolved allowed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents everyday food categories from replacing structural identity." }, { "name": "Attachment and harvest state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Attached, detached, harvested, fallen or unknown; event time where known", "why_it_matters": "Determines which developmental and handling actions remain possible." }, { "name": "Fruit mass and dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g; length and diameter in mm; measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of development, portion size and handling needs against relevant references." }, { "name": "Development and ripeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Identity-specific maturity and ripeness assessments, with indicators and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Harvest maturity and readiness for a particular use need separate judgments." }, { "name": "Firmness", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "N with probe and test method, or a defined qualitative scale", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess ripeness and damage susceptibility when interpreted for the identified fruit." }, { "name": "Soluble solids", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°Brix with sampling location, method and temperature where relevant", "why_it_matters": "May inform eating-quality or maturity assessment where a validated interpretation exists." }, { "name": "Tissue and seed configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identified skin, flesh, core, stone, rind or other tissues as applicable; seed presence and distribution", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification, preparation and separation of tissues with different permitted uses." }, { "name": "Damage and deterioration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed bruising, cuts, cracking, shrivelling, lesions, leakage or decay; location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Condition can restrict handling or use independently of ripeness." }, { "name": "Postharvest exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Time and temperature history in h and °C; relative humidity in % when available; gaps explicit", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of condition changes and applicability of storage guidance." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the fruit and map its tissues before assigning food or propagation uses.", "Assess readiness for harvest or a specified use from fruit-specific indicators.", "Select handling and storage conditions using identity, condition and exposure history.", "Inspect, sample or measure ripeness and deterioration while recording whether the action damages the fruit.", "Prepare or separate tissues only where identity and use-specific guidance support the action.", "Retain for seed recovery, defer use or reject a proposed use when evidence is insufficient." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fruit-identity-and-structure", "name": "Fruit identity and structure", "description": "Establish what fruit is present and which physical structures belong to it.", "rationale": "Fruit identity cannot be inferred reliably from sweetness, a market label or seed visibility alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-and-use-identity", "name": "Botanical and use identity", "description": "Separate developmental identity from culinary naming.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-evidence", "name": "Identity evidence", "description": "Record the proposed source taxon, cultivar and evidence supporting botanical and culinary classifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plant taxon and, if known, cultivar produced this fruit, and what evidence supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available evidence establish a botanical fruit, a culinary use of the word fruit, or both?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-tissues-and-boundaries", "name": "Fruit tissues and boundaries", "description": "Identify the fruit's constituent tissues and its boundary with seeds, plant attachments and portions.", "findings": [ { "id": "structural-unit", "name": "Structural unit", "description": "Record what counts as the observed fruit unit and how its tissues and seeds are arranged.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the observed unit one fruit, an aggregate or multiple structure, or a separated fruit portion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "structural-unit-q01" }, { "text": "Which tissues and seeds are present, and which remain attached to the source plant?", "kind": "definition", "id": "structural-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-harvest-and-ripeness", "name": "Development, harvest and ripeness", "description": "Assess developmental progress and readiness for a specified use.", "rationale": "A fruit may be ready to harvest without being ready to eat, and relevant indicators depend on its identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-detachment", "name": "Development and detachment", "description": "Locate the fruit in its development and establish how it became detached.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-maturity", "name": "Harvest maturity", "description": "Record attachment state and evidence supporting a harvest decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the fruit attached, deliberately harvested or fallen, and when was detachment observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvest-maturity-q01" }, { "text": "Which maturity indicators support harvesting this fruit for the intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-maturity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ripeness-and-quality-indicators", "name": "Ripeness and quality indicators", "description": "Interpret measured and observed traits against the requirements of a proposed use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-ripeness", "name": "Use-specific ripeness", "description": "Keep observed colour, firmness, aroma and composition distinct from the inferred ripeness judgment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What colour, firmness, aroma or composition observations were obtained, and by which methods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "use-specific-ripeness-q01" }, { "text": "What identity-specific evidence supports using the fruit now or expecting further ripening after harvest?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-ripeness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-condition-and-use-suitability", "name": "Fruit condition and use suitability", "description": "Assess tissue integrity, deterioration and evidence needed for a proposed food use.", "rationale": "Ripeness does not establish freedom from damage, contamination or tissue-specific hazards.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-integrity-and-deterioration", "name": "Tissue integrity and deterioration", "description": "Locate physical defects and distinguish observations from explanations.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-decay-evidence", "name": "Damage and decay evidence", "description": "Record damage type, distribution and progression without assigning an unsupported cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are bruises, cracks, punctures, lesions, shrivelling or leakage, and how much tissue is affected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-and-decay-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes normal ripening changes from injury or deterioration in this fruit?", "kind": "definition", "id": "damage-and-decay-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "edible-tissues-and-exposure-evidence", "name": "Edible tissues and exposure evidence", "description": "Establish the evidence required before authorising a particular food use.", "findings": [ { "id": "food-use-constraints", "name": "Food-use constraints", "description": "Record tissue-specific use guidance and relevant exposure history, preserving unknowns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissues are supported for the intended food use, at this developmental stage and with what preparation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "food-use-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about treatments, ground contact, contamination events and handling, and where are the evidence gaps?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "food-use-constraints-q02" }, { "text": "Does the available evidence support the proposed use, require further assessment or justify rejecting it?", "kind": "action", "id": "food-use-constraints-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "postharvest-handling-and-destination", "name": "Postharvest handling and destination", "description": "Choose conditions and interventions suited to the fruit's state and intended destination.", "rationale": "Storage, preparation and seed recovery impose different requirements on the same fruit.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-and-ripening-management", "name": "Storage and ripening management", "description": "Connect exposure history and fruit-specific guidance to practical storage decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "postharvest-condition-control", "name": "Postharvest condition control", "description": "Record relevant environmental exposures and the basis for changing storage conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, humidity, duration and nearby ripening-fruit exposures are known since harvest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "postharvest-condition-control-q01" }, { "text": "Which storage or ripening conditions are supported for this identity and maturity, including any chilling or ethylene sensitivity?", "kind": "action", "id": "postharvest-condition-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preparation-and-seed-recovery", "name": "Preparation and seed recovery", "description": "Select interventions and identify when responsibility passes to a portion, product or seed model.", "findings": [ { "id": "destination-specific-intervention", "name": "Destination-specific intervention", "description": "Relate washing, peeling, cutting, processing or seed extraction to the intended outcome.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which handling or preparation actions are justified for the intended use and current tissue condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "destination-specific-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "At what intervention does the tracked thing become a fruit portion, processed product or separated seed requiring another model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "destination-specific-intervention-q02" }, { "text": "If seed recovery is intended, what fruit maturity and extraction evidence is needed before transferring assessment to the seed model?", "kind": "action", "id": "destination-specific-intervention-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.fruit encompass all botanical fruits, including dry fruits, or primarily culinary fruits, and how should overlap with registered nuts, grains and vegetables be resolved?", "What is the authoritative individual unit for aggregate fruits, multiple fruits and detached portions within the registry?", "Which validated taxon- and cultivar-specific references should govern maturity, postharvest ripening and storage assessments?", "Which authoritative sources establish edible tissues, preparation requirements and rejection criteria for each covered fruit identity?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own any of this scope, requiring a registry link or narrower boundaries?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 18 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a fruit, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a fruit, assess its development and condition, and decide whether it may be harvested, handled, stored, propagated or used as food.", "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: Cascabel chili, Espelette pepper, Black Pearl pepper, Capsicum baccatum ‘Ají Panca’, jalapeño, pickled pepperoni, slice of cayenne pepper, TAM Mild Jalapeño, babaco fruit, fruit of Maloideae, sugar-apple, chili pepper.", "81 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 198 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 fruit, 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": [ "Cascabel chili", "Espelette pepper", "Black Pearl pepper", "Capsicum baccatum ‘Ají Panca’", "jalapeño", "pickled pepperoni", "slice of cayenne pepper", "TAM Mild Jalapeño", "babaco fruit", "fruit of Maloideae", "sugar-apple", "chili pepper" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 198 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 81 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 fruit from another, and a fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit 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 fruit and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 fruit is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fruit, 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 fruit, 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 fruit 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 } } } }