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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Aconitum\nRegistry id: vr.tr.aconitum\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q155904", "registryId": "vr.tr.aconitum", "name": "Aconitum", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q155904/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.aconitum", "name": "Aconitum", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Aconitum, distinguish genus-level knowledge from evidence about particular plants, and judge appropriate identification, conservation and handling actions.", "definition": "Aconitum L. (1753) is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, commonly called monkshoods or wolfsbanes, distinguished by a helmet-shaped upper sepal and including many highly poisonous species.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the botanical genus Aconitum associated with vr.tr.aconitum in PHY / PHY.LIV, together with the evidence needed to identify and assess its members; Aconitum L., published in 1753, is an accepted genus in Ranunculaceae, not a species binomial. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/326013-2)", "in_scope": [ "Genus circumscription, nomenclatural authority, synonyms and links to subordinate taxa.", "Diagnostic morphology and evidence supporting identification of living plants or botanical specimens.", "Life stage, reproductive state and condition of identified individuals or populations.", "Species-specific habitat, geographic occurrence, establishment and conservation evidence.", "Plant-associated toxicity evidence and constraints on observation, cultivation, collection and handling." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Standalone chemical models of aconitine and other isolated alkaloids.", "Medicinal preparations, homeopathic products and products sold under the name aconite.", "Clinical diagnosis and treatment of poisoning.", "Complete species monographs that duplicate separately registered species models.", "Whole ecosystem models or general horticultural business operations." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check taxonomic rank: Aconitum names a genus; Aconitum napellus names one species and cannot stand for every member. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/326013-2)", "Inspect floral architecture: the upper sepal forms a hood enclosing specialised nectar-bearing petals; record these structures rather than identifying from flower colour alone. [Flora of North America](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=100300)", "When Delphinium is a candidate, use a regional key to evaluate the upper sepal and enclosed petals; the genera have related floral morphology, so general resemblance is insufficient. [Flora of North America](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=100300)", "Resolve labels such as monkshood, wolfsbane or aconite to a botanical identification and physical entity before applying plant traits to a specimen, extract or retail product." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic concept", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted genus or subordinate taxon, authority, source version and determination date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence for one species or historical name from becoming a claim about the entire genus." }, { "name": "Biological record level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Genus concept; species concept; population; individual; specimen; observation", "why_it_matters": "Separates a conservation assessment from a plant's condition and an occurrence from a taxon's range." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved; provisional genus; confirmed genus; provisional species; confirmed species; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls which species-specific conclusions an agent can support." }, { "name": "Floral diagnostic measurements", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hood height and width in mm; nectary measurements in mm; key-defined shape categories", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification evidence inspectable and comparable with the selected flora." }, { "name": "Phenological state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed; seedling; vegetative; budding; flowering; fruiting; dormant; senescent; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains missing diagnostic organs and determines suitable observation timing." }, { "name": "Occurrence context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Native; introduced established; casual escape; cultivated; uncertain, with locality and date", "why_it_matters": "A planted monkshood does not establish a native or naturalised population." }, { "name": "Habitat measurements", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Elevation in m; substrate pH; soil moisture with method; canopy cover in percent", "why_it_matters": "Supports species-specific habitat assessment without assigning one habitat requirement to the genus." }, { "name": "Toxicity evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified taxon, plant part, exposure route, evidence source and uncertainty; any assay includes analyte, method and units", "why_it_matters": "Separates a hazard flag from an unsupported estimate of a particular plant's chemical composition." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed taxon or population, assessment system, category, geographic scope and year; unknown when unverified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents threatened-species status from being inherited by every Aconitum plant." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a name or specimen to Aconitum and retain competing species identifications when evidence is incomplete.", "Request diagnostic photographs or expert determination using an appropriate regional botanical key.", "Track flowering, fruiting, recruitment and condition at a named site.", "Compare an occurrence with documented species range and distinguish cultivation from wild establishment.", "Evaluate whether observation, propagation, collection or relocation is supported by identification, hazard and conservation evidence.", "Flag an exposure concern and route it to an appropriate poison-information service." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Anchor Aconitum records to a stated botanical concept and evidence level.", "rationale": "The registered name is a genus, so neither a single binomial nor a single organism can represent its full scope.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-and-circumscription", "name": "Name and circumscription", "description": "Define which taxonomic treatment determines membership in Aconitum.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-genus-concept", "name": "Accepted genus concept", "description": "Record authority, publication date, accepted placement and source-specific identifiers without treating name matching as concept matching.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment and version define the accepted Aconitum concept and its included species?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-genus-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified GBIF and NCBI identifiers correspond to this genus, and do their circumscriptions agree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-genus-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "record-subject", "name": "Record subject", "description": "Separate genus knowledge from identified plants, subordinate taxa and preparations.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-and-determination", "name": "Subject and determination", "description": "Attach each assertion to its actual subject and preserve the history of identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe the 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they support.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the upper sepal's shape and dimensions, and what nectary features are visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hood-and-nectary-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed characters resolve Aconitum against Delphinium and other candidates in the applicable flora?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hood-and-nectary-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "incomplete-and-variable-specimens", "name": "Incomplete and variable specimens", "description": "Handle vegetative plants, damaged specimens and cultivated forms without overconfident naming.", "findings": [ { "id": "supporting-diagnostic-characters", "name": "Supporting diagnostic characters", "description": "Record leaf division, stem and inflorescence form, hair characters and available fruits as supporting evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, indumentum and fruit characters required by the selected key are observable or missing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supporting-diagnostic-characters-q01" }, { "text": "Should determination remain at genus level until flowering, additional photographs or specialist examination?", "kind": "action", "id": "supporting-diagnostic-characters-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life cycle and condition", "description": "Describe the state of an Aconitum plant or population through time.", "rationale": "Seasonal disappearance, reproductive phase and poor condition require different interpretations and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-development", "name": "Seasonal development", "description": "Track emergence, flowering, fruiting and dormancy for the identified taxon and locality.", "findings": [ { "id": "phenology-and-persistence", "name": "Phenology and persistence", "description": "Distinguish observed seasonal state from inferred death or reproductive failure.", "questions": [ { "text": "What life stage and phenological state were observed, on which dates and for which identified taxon?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phenology-and-persistence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes dormancy or loss of above-ground growth from death of the individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phenology-and-persistence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-recruitment", "name": "Reproduction and recruitment", "description": "Assess reproductive activity and population renewal without equating shoots with individuals.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-state-and-counting-unit", "name": "Reproductive state and counting unit", "description": "Separate flower reproductive phase, fruit production, seedling recruitment and vegetative multiplication.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the reported sexual difference concern flower phase, flower type or separate individuals, and what taxon-specific evidence supports it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproductive-state-and-counting-unit-q01" }, { "text": "How many flowering stems, fruiting units and seedlings were observed, and how were shoots distinguished from individuals?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-state-and-counting-unit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-habitat-and-conservation", "name": "Range, habitat and conservation", "description": "Locate populations ecologically and geographically and establish conservation constraints.", "rationale": "The genus's broad range cannot establish whether a particular species belongs at a site or requires protection.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-habitat", "name": "Occurrence and habitat", "description": "Attach range and habitat evidence to identified taxa and documented occurrences.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-establishment", "name": "Local establishment", "description": "Kew places the genus's native range in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; evaluate individual occurrences at species and locality level. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/326013-2)", "questions": [ { "text": "What voucher, coordinates, coordinate uncertainty and observation date substantiate this occurrence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes native occurrence, garden planting, escape or sustained naturalisation at this site?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-establishment-q02" }, { "text": "What elevation, moisture, substrate and vegetation context characterise the occupied microsite?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-establishment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-protection", "name": "Population protection", "description": "Connect conservation assessments and site pressures to proposed interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-and-intervention", "name": "Assessment and intervention", "description": "Keep global assessment, local legal protection and observed population trend separate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which IUCN or regional assessment applies to this exact taxon, with what year and geographic scope?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assessment-and-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Given documented threats and applicable collection or movement restrictions, which monitoring or management actions are justified?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-and-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "toxicity-and-human-interaction", "name": "Toxicity and human interaction", "description": "Connect botanical identity and exposure evidence to handling and use decisions.", "rationale": "Aconitum identification has direct consequences for planting, collection and accidental exposure.", "layers": [ { "id": "plant-hazard-evidence", "name": "Plant hazard evidence", "description": "Record the basis and limits of toxicity assertions.", "findings": [ { "id": "taxon-part-and-exposure", "name": "Taxon, part and exposure", "description": "Poison Control identifies serious poisoning risk from Aconitum napellus; retain the taxon, plant part and exposure context rather than inventing a uniform genus-wide potency. [Poison Control](https://www.poison.org/articles/why-is-monkshood-considered-a-poison--174)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source supports the hazard for the identified taxon, plant part and exposure route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "taxon-part-and-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Is a chemical concentration actually measured in this material, inferred from another specimen or unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "taxon-part-and-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-use-boundaries", "name": "Handling and use boundaries", "description": "Assess intended interactions and distinguish botanical management from product or clinical decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-interaction", "name": "Permitted interaction", "description": "Record the proposed activity, exposed people or animals, relevant handling guidance and escalation pathway.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source-backed precautions apply to the proposed planting, handling, collection or disposal activity in this setting?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-interaction-q01" }, { "text": "Does the request concern a living plant, a processed preparation or an actual exposure requiring a neighbouring product or clinical model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-interaction-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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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. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 Aconitum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Aconitum, 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 Aconitum, 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 Aconitum 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 } } } }