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[Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=120360)", "Check deciduous, simple, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate leaves with largely entire or finely toothed margins; a common name alone cannot distinguish common medlar from unrelated namesakes. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=120360)", "When separating medlar from similar hawthorns, examine flower arrangement, leaf form and fruit together; solitary flowers alone are insufficient because some Crataegus share that character. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=120360)", "Treat Mespilus germanica and Crataegus germanica as potentially different taxonomic treatments of this same registry concept, not automatically different species. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A726564-1)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic treatment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Scientific name, author, publication year, accepting authority and dated taxon concept", "why_it_matters": "Keeps changes of genus from creating duplicate registry entities." }, { "name": "Observation subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species concept; population; individual tree; scion; rootstock; attached organ", "why_it_matters": "Prevents tree condition, graft identity and population risk from being attributed to the entire species." }, { "name": "Diagnostic morphology", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Leaf, flower and fruit dimensions in mm; flower count per inflorescence; sepal persistence; dated photographs", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification auditable across seasonal and cultivated variation." }, { "name": "Developmental and seasonal state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed; seedling; juvenile; reproductive adult; senescent; dormant; leafing; flowering; fruiting", "why_it_matters": "Separates an individual's life stage from its recurring seasonal state." }, { "name": "Reproductive expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed floral organs; pollen production; fruit set; seed formation; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records reproductive evidence without inventing separate male and female tree classes." }, { "name": "Establishment and provenance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Native; introduced; naturalized; planted; origin uncertain, with locality and evidence", "why_it_matters": "An occurrence or old cultivated tree does not establish native range." }, { "name": "Propagation identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Cultivar or accession; seed parent; propagation method; scion identity; rootstock identity", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed performance to planting material and identifies which tissue belongs to medlar." }, { "name": "Fruit development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Developing; harvest-mature; bletting; bletted; damaged; suspected decay; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes developmental softening from damage and transfers relevant evidence to a fruit-handling model." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment body, taxon concept, geographic scope, category, assessment year and reference; unverified when unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a regional assessment or cultivation abundance from becoming an unsupported global status." } ], "affordances": [ "Reconcile medlar records across scientific names and taxonomy providers.", "Assess identification confidence and request missing flower, leaf or fruit evidence.", "Track flowering, fruit set and tree condition against local seasonal observations.", "Compare planting or propagation options using cultivar, rootstock and site evidence.", "Flag fruit-state observations for harvest and postharvest assessment.", "Evaluate population monitoring or conservation needs from documented provenance and recruitment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "medlar-taxonomic-identity", "name": "Medlar taxonomic identity", "description": "Preserve one medlar concept across competing generic placements and provider records.", "rationale": "The registry name does not have the same acceptance status in every botanical backbone.", "layers": [ { "id": "scientific-name-treatment", "name": "Scientific name treatment", "description": "Separate nomenclatural history from the classification adopted by a provider.", "findings": [ { "id": "mespilus-crataegus-reconciliation", "name": "Mespilus-Crataegus reconciliation", "description": "Mespilus germanica L. was published in 1753; Kew treats it as a synonym of Crataegus germanica, while acknowledging alternative treatments retaining Mespilus. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A726564-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated taxonomic authority governs the accepted name displayed for this registry entry?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mespilus-crataegus-reconciliation-q01" }, { "text": "Does an incoming Crataegus germanica record denote the same species concept or a differently circumscribed taxon?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mespilus-crataegus-reconciliation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "provider-and-subject-links", "name": "Provider and subject links", "description": "Attach identifiers to taxonomic concepts while keeping organism observations separate.", "findings": [ { "id": "medlar-provider-crosswalk", "name": "Medlar provider crosswalk", "description": "GBIF Backbone lists Mespilus germanica L. as species 3031774 in Rosaceae; NCBI provides Taxonomy ID 36616 under that name. Preserve provider and retrieval date with each mapping. [GBIF](https://www.gbif.org/species/3031774), [NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=36616)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which provider record and backbone version support each medlar identifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "medlar-provider-crosswalk-q01" }, { "text": "Does the linked evidence describe the taxon, a local population, a voucher or a living tree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "medlar-provider-crosswalk-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medlar-recognition", "name": "Medlar recognition", "description": "Use combined vegetative and reproductive evidence to identify common medlar.", "rationale": "Shared common names and resemblance to other pome-bearing trees make single-character identification unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-evidence", "name": "Vegetative evidence", "description": "Capture medlar leaf characters and their seasonal availability.", "findings": [ { "id": "leaf-and-habit-check", "name": "Leaf and habit check", "description": "Use leaf shape, margin, hairiness and deciduous habit as supporting evidence, and record whether leaves were available for inspection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do measured leaves match the narrow, simple, largely unlobed medlar profile?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "leaf-and-habit-check-q01" }, { "text": "Which plausible identification remains unresolved without flowers or fruit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "leaf-and-habit-check-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-evidence", "name": "Reproductive evidence", "description": "Combine flowers and pomes with vegetative observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-and-pome-check", "name": "Flower and pome check", "description": "Document flower number and colour, fruit form and persistent sepals; record cultivated provenance before treating unusually large fruit as contradictory evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What flower arrangement, fruit dimensions and sepal features are visible on this same tree?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-and-pome-check-q01" }, { "text": "What voucher or expert determination supports identification when the character combination is incomplete?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "flower-and-pome-check-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medlar-life-cycle", "name": "Medlar life cycle", "description": "Track establishment, seasonal development and reproductive outcomes.", "rationale": "A dormant tree, a juvenile tree and a reproductive tree with failed fruit set require different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-and-phenology", "name": "Establishment and phenology", "description": "Separate age-related development from annually recurring stages.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-stage-sequence", "name": "Local stage sequence", "description": "Record emergence or planting, leafing, flowering and fruiting dates locally rather than assigning one horticultural calendar to every population.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this medlar a seedling, established juvenile or reproductively mature tree, and what supports that judgment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "local-stage-sequence-q01" }, { "text": "When were bud break, flowering and fruit development observed at this locality?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-stage-sequence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-to-recruitment", "name": "Flowering to recruitment", "description": "Distinguish flower production, fruit set and establishment of offspring.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-success", "name": "Reproductive success", "description": "RHS describes medlars as self-pollinating; record actual reproductive performance separately from that horticultural expectation. [RHS medlar guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/medlars/grow-your-own?type=f)", "questions": [ { "text": "What floral-organ observations support reproductive characterization without assuming male and female tree categories?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-success-q01" }, { "text": "What proportions of observed flowers produced fruit, viable seed and established seedlings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-success-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medlar-range-and-persistence", "name": "Medlar range and persistence", "description": "Separate occurrence, historical planting and self-sustaining populations.", "rationale": "Cultivation history can obscure native distribution and make tree abundance a poor proxy for wild-population security.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-and-habitat-evidence", "name": "Range and habitat evidence", "description": "Require locality-specific support for origin and establishment claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "native-versus-cultivated-occurrence", "name": "Native versus cultivated occurrence", "description": "Classify origin and establishment independently, preserving uncertainty where historical planting cannot be distinguished from native occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flora, specimen history or population study supports native status at this locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "native-versus-cultivated-occurrence-q01" }, { "text": "What habitat, elevation, soil moisture and surrounding vegetation accompany this occurrence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "native-versus-cultivated-occurrence-q02" }, { "text": "Is the record a planted tree, a spontaneous individual or evidence of a self-sustaining population?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "native-versus-cultivated-occurrence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-condition", "name": "Population condition", "description": "Judge persistence using recruitment, losses and appropriately scoped assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "wild-population-security", "name": "Wild population security", "description": "Require an attributable conservation assessment and population evidence; leave IUCN category and assessment year unverified until the corresponding record is checked.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified assessment category, year and geographic scope apply to this medlar taxon concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wild-population-security-q01" }, { "text": "Do recruitment, mortality and habitat changes support monitoring or conservation action for this population?", "kind": "action", "id": "wild-population-security-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medlar-cultivation-and-condition", "name": "Medlar cultivation and condition", "description": "Connect tree performance to planting material, site and observed damage.", "rationale": "Cultivar and rootstock relationships affect how an agent interprets growth and chooses interventions.", "layers": [ { "id": "cultivar-and-graft-identity", "name": "Cultivar and graft identity", "description": "Distinguish the medlar scion from supporting rootstock and seed-derived offspring.", "findings": [ { "id": "scion-rootstock-boundary", "name": "Scion-rootstock boundary", "description": "Medlars are commonly grafted onto quince or hawthorn; seed-grown offspring of named varieties may differ from their parents. [RHS medlar guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/medlars/grow-your-own?type=f)", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes cultivar, propagation method and rootstock identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scion-rootstock-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed shoot originate above or below the graft union?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scion-rootstock-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "site-and-tree-health", "name": "Site and tree health", "description": "Relate observed decline or reproductive failure to site conditions before selecting treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "medlar-condition-assessment", "name": "Medlar condition assessment", "description": "RHS identifies poor drainage, strong winds and late frost as cultivation concerns; these are investigation prompts rather than diagnoses for an individual tree. [RHS medlar guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/medlars/grow-your-own?type=f)", "questions": [ { "text": "What drainage, soil-moisture and weather observations coincide with the damaged organs?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "medlar-condition-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence supports a site adjustment, pruning intervention or diagnostic examination?", "kind": "action", "id": "medlar-condition-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "medlar-fruit-transition", "name": "Medlar fruit transition", "description": "Connect fruit development on the tree to harvest and subsequent bletting observations.", "rationale": "Harvest maturity and the softened state associated with eating medlars are distinct judgments.", "layers": [ { "id": "fruit-maturity", "name": "Fruit maturity", "description": "Assess a tree's developing fruit using observations tied to locality and cultivar.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-state-evidence", "name": "Harvest-state evidence", "description": "Record attachment, firmness and visible condition before transferring harvested fruit to a separate handling record.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fruit condition and detachment observations support harvesting this tree now?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-state-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How do maturity observations vary among this tree's fruit and across sampling dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-state-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bletting-and-handoff", "name": "Bletting and handoff", "description": "Preserve the biological link while separating harvested material from the living tree.", "findings": [ { "id": "bletting-versus-decay", "name": "Bletting versus decay", "description": "Bletting involves fruit becoming softer and sweeter and is distinguished from rotting; appearance alone should not settle an uncertain fruit-condition judgment. [RHS medlar guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/medlars/grow-your-own?type=f)", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations distinguish expected bletting from suspected decay in the sampled fruit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bletting-versus-decay-q01" }, { "text": "Which harvest provenance and fruit-state observations must pass to the detached-fruit model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bletting-versus-decay-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; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fruit eaten after bletting.", "Production of preserves, jellies and fruit pastes.", "Ornamental planting for flowers, foliage and distinctive fruit.", "Maintenance of traditional orchard cultivars." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Mespilus germanica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Mature tree height", "typical_range": "Approximately 3-6", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Fruit diameter", "typical_range": "Approximately 2-5, depending on cultivar", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Mespilus germanica 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; 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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 Mespilus germanica, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise common medlar, distinguish taxonomic claims from observations of trees and populations, and support evidence-based cultivation and conservation decisions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 74 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 74 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 Mespilus germanica from another, and a Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 Mespilus germanica is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica, 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 Mespilus germanica 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 } } } }