{ "model": { "rank": 3938, "code": "thing-q148396", "model_id": "vr.tr.melissa-officinalis", "name": "Melissa officinalis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Melissa officinalis, assess its living individuals and populations, and choose evidence-based cultivation, monitoring or collection actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q148396/", "tier": 2, "score": 80, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 80, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q148396", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148396", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:07:00Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0878f-b913-70f2-a4bd-5545e1cb378c\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Melissa officinalis\nRegistry id: vr.tr.melissa-officinalis\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q148396", "registryId": "vr.tr.melissa-officinalis", "name": "Melissa officinalis", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q148396/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.melissa-officinalis", "name": "Melissa officinalis", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Melissa officinalis, assess its living individuals and populations, and choose evidence-based cultivation, monitoring or collection actions.", "definition": "Melissa officinalis L. (lemon balm) is a species of aromatic perennial herb in the mint family, Lamiaceae, distinguished by opposite, toothed leaves with a lemon-like scent and small flowers borne in axillary clusters.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species-level biological identity of Melissa officinalis under vr.tr.melissa-officinalis in PHY / PHY.LIV, with explicitly linked observations of populations, individual plants and propagules; harvested products remain separate entities.", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic identity, authority, synonyms, subspecies and cultivar attribution.", "Identification from vegetative and flowering material, with evidence and uncertainty.", "Life stages, seasonal growth, reproduction and propagation.", "Native and introduced occurrence, habitat and local population behaviour.", "Plant condition, cultivation decisions and collection provenance.", "Conservation assessments and location-specific management constraints." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other Melissa species and unrelated plants sold under ambiguous balm or lemon common names.", "Essential oils, dried herbal materials, extracts and formulated products as independent things.", "Clinical efficacy, prescribing, therapeutic dosage and patient treatment.", "Chemical substances considered independently of the sampled plant.", "Whole garden, farm or ecosystem management beyond this species' participation." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check opposite, ovate, wrinkled leaves with rounded teeth together with square stems; this combination supports recognition but does not uniquely identify the species. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/melissa-officinalis/)", "Record a lemon-like scent from gently bruised foliage as supporting evidence; require morphology as well when distinguishing plants traded as lemon balm, lemon mint or lemon verbena. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/melissa-officinalis/)", "Inspect small, two-lipped flowers grouped in upper leaf axils, documented as white in the horticultural reference; compare their arrangement with a regional key for suspected mint or catnip lookalikes. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/melissa-officinalis/)", "Resolve a label to the accepted Melissa officinalis L., published in 1753, within Lamiaceae; retain subspecies attribution because Kew recognises subsp. officinalis and subsp. inodora within this species. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/450084-1)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic determination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted taxon concept, authority, reference version, GBIF identifier and NCBI Taxonomy identifier when verified", "why_it_matters": "Connects the registry entry to biological evidence without assuming different taxonomic databases use identical boundaries." }, { "name": "Observation subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species; population; genetic individual; rooted shoot; propagule", "why_it_matters": "Prevents population counts, individual health and species conservation status from being conflated." }, { "name": "Infraspecific identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Verified subspecies; documented cultivar; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Allows identification and cultivation evidence to apply to the appropriate material." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved; provisional; confirmed, with examiner and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether observation, propagation or collection can proceed on a dependable identification." }, { "name": "Phenological condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed; seedling; vegetative; budding; flowering; fruiting; senescent; dormant; dead", "why_it_matters": "Supports seasonal comparisons and distinguishes temporary loss of shoots from plant death." }, { "name": "Plant size", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and canopy width in cm, with date and growth stage", "why_it_matters": "Tracks growth or recovery without treating size alone as a diagnostic character." }, { "name": "Leaf aroma observation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Lemon-like; other; undetected; untested, with leaf age and observation method", "why_it_matters": "Separates a sensory observation from species confirmation or measured chemical composition." }, { "name": "Site conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil pH; volumetric water content in %; direct light in hours/day; temperature in degrees C", "why_it_matters": "Links growth and stress observations to the conditions experienced by the plant." }, { "name": "Local establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Planted; casual escape; established population; unresolved, with locality and date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes cultivation from independently persisting occurrence." }, { "name": "Recruitment and spread", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "New seedlings per square metre per survey interval; occupied area in square metres", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for containment decisions and population change." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment body, category, geographic scope, assessment year and taxon concept; unknown until verified", "why_it_matters": "Keeps formal threat assessments separate from garden abundance or local nuisance status." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate plant using documented morphology and escalate ambiguous material for expert determination.", "Monitor seasonal growth, flowering, recruitment and plant condition.", "Select and evaluate site care or propagation methods using evidence applicable to the accession and locality.", "Assess escape and establishment before planting, moving or containing material.", "Collect permitted vouchers or plant material while preserving identity, locality and donor provenance.", "Link harvested material to a separate product model without transferring unsupported medicinal claims." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxon-and-record-boundaries", "name": "Taxon and record boundaries", "description": "Anchor lemon balm records to the registered species and distinguish the biological subjects being observed.", "rationale": "Common names, subspecies, cultivated accessions and individual plants must not become competing definitions of the registry entry.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name-and-crosswalks", "name": "Accepted name and crosswalks", "description": "Establish the nomenclatural reference and external identifier mappings.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-authority-and-taxonomic-concept", "name": "Name authority and taxonomic concept", "description": "Record the accepted name, publication authority and the treatment governing included subspecies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment defines Melissa officinalis for this model, including authority, publication date and included subspecies?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-authority-and-taxonomic-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified GBIF and NCBI Taxonomy records match that treatment, and where do their boundaries differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-authority-and-taxonomic-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-population-and-accession", "name": "Species, population and accession", "description": "Separate species statements from observations of planted or wild material.", "findings": [ { "id": "biological-subject-and-lineage", "name": "Biological subject and lineage", "description": "Identify whether a record concerns a population, plant, rooted shoot or propagule and retain accession ancestry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this observation concern the species, a local population, a genetic individual or a rooted shoot?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "biological-subject-and-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "What voucher, supplier record or donor accession supports the assigned subspecies or cultivar?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "biological-subject-and-lineage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lemon-balm-identification", "name": "Lemon balm identification", "description": "Combine leaf, stem, scent and flower evidence while tracking unresolved lookalikes.", "rationale": "A lemon scent or a nursery label alone cannot establish the identity of a living plant.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-evidence", "name": "Vegetative evidence", "description": "Assess recognition when flowers are unavailable.", "findings": [ { "id": "leaf-stem-and-aroma-combination", "name": "Leaf, stem and aroma combination", "description": "Document vegetative characters together and distinguish missing evidence from contradictory evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf arrangement, blade shape, margin, surface texture and stem cross-section are visible on this specimen?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "leaf-stem-and-aroma-combination-q01" }, { "text": "How was foliage aroma assessed, and which locally plausible lemon-scented or mint-family lookalikes remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "leaf-stem-and-aroma-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-confirmation", "name": "Flowering confirmation", "description": "Use reproductive structures and a suitable key to strengthen determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "floral-key-and-voucher", "name": "Floral key and voucher", "description": "Record diagnostic floral details and preserve evidence that another observer can examine.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flower-position, corolla and calyx characters distinguish this specimen from competing identifications in the regional flora?", "kind": "definition", "id": "floral-key-and-voucher-q01" }, { "text": "Should identification remain provisional until flowering photographs or a permitted voucher can be examined?", "kind": "action", "id": "floral-key-and-voucher-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-life-and-reproduction", "name": "Seasonal life and reproduction", "description": "Follow establishment, seasonal persistence and the origin of new plants.", "rationale": "Care and population estimates depend on growth stage and on whether new shoots represent recruitment or vegetative continuity.", "layers": [ { "id": "phenology-and-persistence", "name": "Phenology and persistence", "description": "Track seasonal transitions under the observed climate and management.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-regrowth", "name": "Stage and regrowth", "description": "Associate plant condition with dated evidence of emergence, flowering, senescence and recovery.", "questions": [ { "text": "When does this accession emerge, flower, fruit and lose its above-ground growth at this site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-regrowth-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes dormancy or recent cutting from irreversible death of the plant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-and-regrowth-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-function-and-propagation", "name": "Reproductive function and propagation", "description": "Record sexual function, seed production and vegetative propagation without imposing animal sex categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "offspring-origin-and-fertility", "name": "Offspring origin and fertility", "description": "Separate flower-level reproductive observations from claims about plant sex, fertility or clonal identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What floral sexual organisation and fertility are documented, and is any sexual dimorphism relevant to this accession?", "kind": "definition", "id": "offspring-origin-and-fertility-q01" }, { "text": "Are new plants seed-derived or vegetatively propagated, and what evidence supports their parentage and cultivar fidelity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "offspring-origin-and-fertility-q02" }, { "text": "Which propagation method has demonstrated acceptable establishment for this material under comparable conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "offspring-origin-and-fertility-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-habitat-and-establishment", "name": "Range, habitat and establishment", "description": "Place occurrences in their geographic and ecological context.", "rationale": "Kew describes a native range from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and separately lists introduced regions; local occurrence therefore needs an origin assessment. [Kew POWO](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/450084-1)", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-site-fit", "name": "Occurrence and site fit", "description": "Connect locality evidence to range attribution and measured growing conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-and-microhabitat", "name": "Origin and microhabitat", "description": "Distinguish native occurrence, introduction and planting while recording the actual site.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated flora or occurrence evidence supports native, introduced or unresolved origin at this locality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-and-microhabitat-q01" }, { "text": "What light, drainage, soil moisture and temperature conditions accompany persistence or decline here?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "origin-and-microhabitat-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recruitment-and-ecological-effects", "name": "Recruitment and ecological effects", "description": "Assess persistence beyond planting and observed interactions with surrounding organisms.", "findings": [ { "id": "escape-spread-and-flower-visitors", "name": "Escape, spread and flower visitors", "description": "Use local observations to evaluate establishment, neighbouring vegetation and floral visitation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do repeated surveys show surviving recruits outside the planted area, increasing cover or effects on neighbouring vegetation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "escape-spread-and-flower-visitors-q01" }, { "text": "Which flower visitors were observed, and what additional evidence would establish effective pollination?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "escape-spread-and-flower-visitors-q02" }, { "text": "Does the documented local spread justify monitoring, seed-set control or containment?", "kind": "action", "id": "escape-spread-and-flower-visitors-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-care-and-collection", "name": "Condition, care and collection", "description": "Support care and collection decisions while preserving the boundary between a 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"collection-and-conservation", "name": "Collection and conservation", "description": "Check collection context and hand harvested material to the appropriate neighbouring model.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-and-collection-permission", "name": "Assessment and collection permission", "description": "Keep formal conservation status, local population condition and collection constraints distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified IUCN or regional assessment applies, with assessment year, geographic scope and taxonomic coverage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assessment-and-collection-permission-q01" }, { "text": "Given local population condition, ownership and applicable collection rules, may this plant be sampled or harvested?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-and-collection-permission-q02" } ] }, { "id": "harvested-material-handoff", "name": "Harvested material handoff", "description": "Preserve donor identity and sampling context without making product quality or therapeutic efficacy properties of the species.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which donor accession, organ, growth stage, collection date and treatment history belong with the removed material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvested-material-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "At what point must drying, extraction, chemical assay, contamination testing or therapeutic claims be handled by a separate material or product model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "harvested-material-handoff-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 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"value_or_pattern": "Melissa officinalis L.", "note": "The botanical authority abbreviation L. refers to Carl Linnaeus; the name was published in 1753." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Integer identifier", "note": "The exact identifier and its association with an accepted taxon or synonym require verification." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Integer identifier", "note": "The exact identifier is not recalled confidently." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, adopted through International Botanical Congresses, governs its scientific naming.", "The European Pharmacopoeia, published by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare, includes a Melissa leaf monograph for the herbal material rather than the living species." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Leaves are used to flavour foods and beverages.", "Dried leaves are used in herbal infusions.", "The plant is cultivated in herb gardens and as a fragrant ornamental.", "Flowers provide forage for bees and other visiting insects.", "Plant material is used to produce aromatic extracts and essential oil." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis 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": "Height of established flowering plants", "typical_range": "Approximately 30-100", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Self-seeding can lead to unwanted establishment beyond the intended planting area.", "Persistently waterlogged soil can cause root deterioration and plant loss.", "Lemon scent alone is insufficient for botanical identification because unrelated plants can have similar aromas." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Its native range is broadly associated with the Mediterranean region and western Asia; precise boundaries require checking against a taxonomic source.", "Cultivation and naturalisation have extended its occurrence beyond its native range, so a local record does not establish native status." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Melissa", "difference": "Melissa is the genus; Melissa officinalis is a species within it." }, { "name": "Aloysia citrodora", "difference": "Lemon verbena is a woody plant in Verbenaceae with narrow leaves; lemon balm is an herbaceous member of Lamiaceae with broader, toothed leaves." }, { "name": "Mentha", "difference": "Mints belong to a different genus within Lamiaceae; shared aromatic foliage does not establish membership in Melissa." }, { "name": "Melissa leaf", "difference": "The harvested herbal material consists of plant leaves and has material-quality requirements; it is not the species as a taxonomic entity." }, { "name": "A population or individual of Melissa officinalis", "difference": "A population is a geographically situated group and an individual is one organism; the species encompasses these without sharing their particular age, condition or abundance." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Melissa officinalis this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which GBIF and NCBI Taxonomy identifiers match the adopted species concept, and how do their subspecies treatments align with Kew?", "What current global IUCN and regional assessments exist, with which assessment years and taxonomic coverage?", "Which regional diagnostic characters reliably distinguish both accepted subspecies and relevant lookalikes, particularly when scent or flowers are unavailable?", "How do accession, climate and propagation method affect flowering, fertility, seasonal persistence and recruitment?", "Which local evidence establishes ecological impacts, cultivation limits and sustainable collection intensity for the population being managed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 32 } }, "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 Melissa officinalis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Melissa officinalis, assess its living individuals and populations, and choose evidence-based cultivation, monitoring or collection actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 80 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 80 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 Melissa officinalis from another, and a Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis 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": 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"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 Melissa officinalis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what 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what asserted this about an observation of a Melissa officinalis, 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 Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis 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.", 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"life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Melissa officinalis 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 Melissa officinalis 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", 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