{ "model": { "rank": 5417, "code": "thing-q156005", "model_id": "vr.tr.ebony", "name": "ebony", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify organisms called ebony, assess their biological and conservation state, and determine which management actions require further evidence or authorization.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q156005/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Gaboon ebony", "black and white ebony" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.ebony", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q156005", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156005", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:19:48Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.5, "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: 01a08840-918e-71d0-b945-9d209af15d91\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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harvested material.", "scope_statement": "This model owns ebony as a common-name grouping of living trees under PHY.LIV, with species identity requiring verification; it records links to ebony-producing wood without treating the timber category as a single taxon.", "in_scope": [ "Resolution of the name ebony to an evidenced taxon in a particular locality", "Separation of taxon, population and individual-tree records", "Diagnostic botanical observations and identification confidence", "Life stage, reproductive condition, health and regeneration", "Native or introduced occurrence, habitat and population pressures", "Conservation assessments and constraints on collection or management" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Commercial ebony timber grading, pricing and inventory", "Processing, drying and mechanical performance of harvested wood", "Manufacture and care of ebony instruments, furniture or carvings", "Ebony as a colour, personal name or cultural designation", "Unrelated trees identified solely by dark wood", "A comprehensive model of every species in a genus containing ebony-producing trees" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The name ebony alone does not establish a species: require a botanical determination tied to a specimen, observation or authoritative record.", "Dark heartwood alone does not establish that a living tree belongs to the intended ebony taxon.", "Leaves, bark, flowers and fruits provide botanical identification evidence; timber appearance belongs to a related material-identification process.", "A standing tree, a population and a taxon require distinct records, even when all carry the name ebony.", "An ebony trade label must be resolved separately from the locally used botanical common name." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Ebony name usage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "botanical common name | local name | trade name | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a timber label from silently becoming a biological identification." }, { "name": "Verified taxonomic identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted scientific name, authorship, taxonomic authority, dated determination and external identifiers where available", "why_it_matters": "Provides the species-specific basis for interpreting ecology and conservation evidence." }, { "name": "Biological record level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "taxon | population | individual", "why_it_matters": "Prevents species-level assessments from being mistaken for individual-tree condition." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved | provisional | expert-determined; supporting evidence recorded", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-dependent actions can be justified." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "seed | seedling | juvenile | mature | senescent; taxon-specific criteria required", "why_it_matters": "Supports regeneration assessment and appropriate care." }, { "name": "Tree dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in m; stem diameter in cm with measurement height and method", "why_it_matters": "Allows growth and population structure to be assessed without assuming size proves age or heartwood yield." }, { "name": "Reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "flowers observed | fruits observed | neither observed | unknown; observation date and reproductive role where established", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and regeneration planning without assuming a reproductive system." }, { "name": "Occurrence and origin", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Georeferenced locality linked to native | introduced | cultivated | uncertain status and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates natural populations from planted specimens." }, { "name": "Heartwood evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unobserved | directly observed | inferred from taxon; method and uncertainty recorded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents destructive inspection or unsupported claims about a standing tree's timber." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessment authority, category, year, geographic scope and assessed taxon", "why_it_matters": "Makes conservation judgments traceable to the correct species and assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an ebony common-name record to a supported taxonomic determination.", "Request non-destructive botanical observations needed to distinguish candidate taxa.", "Monitor identified trees and populations for health, reproduction and regeneration.", "Compare a locality with evidenced range and habitat information for the resolved taxon.", "Check species identity, provenance and applicable restrictions before collection, propagation or harvesting.", "Link a harvested specimen to a separate wood-material record while preserving biological provenance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ebony-name-and-identity", "name": "Ebony name and identity", "description": "Resolve what ebony denotes in each record before applying biological claims.", "rationale": "Ebony can function as a common name or timber label, neither of which supplies a unique species identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-resolution", "name": "Name resolution", "description": "Establish the sense and local referent of the ebony label.", "findings": [ { "id": "document-ebony-usage", "name": "Document ebony usage", "description": "Record how the name was supplied and which organism it is intended to denote.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does ebony here name a living tree, a botanical grouping or a commercial wood category?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "document-ebony-usage-q01" }, { "text": "Which locality, language, label or registry source establishes this use of ebony?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "document-ebony-usage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-determination", "name": "Taxonomic determination", "description": "Connect the common name to independently supported botanical identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "anchor-species-identification", "name": "Anchor species identification", "description": "Require taxonomic evidence before importing species-level attributes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What accepted scientific name, authorship and taxonomic source support this ebony identification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "anchor-species-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which voucher, diagnostic observations or expert determination supports it, and do any GBIF or NCBI identifiers refer to the same taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "anchor-species-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "botanical-recognition-and-development", "name": "Botanical recognition and development", "description": "Recognize ebony trees through botanical evidence and interpret their developmental state.", "rationale": "A dark-wood reputation cannot substitute for identification of a living tree or evidence of maturity.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-observations", "name": "Diagnostic observations", "description": "Gather the characters needed to distinguish the candidate ebony taxon.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-botany-from-wood-colour", "name": "Separate botany from wood colour", "description": "Use an appropriate botanical key and retain uncertainty when diagnostic organs are absent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, bark, flower or fruit characters distinguish this candidate ebony from locally confusable trees?", "kind": "definition", "id": "separate-botany-from-wood-colour-q01" }, { "text": "Which required characters were actually observed, and which remain unavailable because of season or life stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "separate-botany-from-wood-colour-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Record growth stage and reproductive evidence for the identified taxon.", "findings": [ { "id": "establish-maturity-and-reproductive-role", "name": "Establish maturity and reproductive role", "description": "Keep observed size and reproduction distinct from assumptions about age, sex or heartwood development.", "questions": [ { "text": "What measured dimensions and reproductive observations support the assigned life stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establish-maturity-and-reproductive-role-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes this taxon's reproductive system and any observable sexual differences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "establish-maturity-and-reproductive-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ebony-populations-and-habitat", "name": "Ebony populations and habitat", "description": "Place identified ebony organisms within an evidenced ecological and population context.", "rationale": "Common-name records can conceal different species, introduced plantings and populations with different regeneration conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-and-site", "name": "Range and site", "description": "Separate documented native occurrence from cultivation and uncertain records.", "findings": [ { "id": "verify-occurrence-context", "name": "Verify occurrence context", "description": "Interpret locality against the resolved taxon's range and habitat evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this ebony occurrence native, introduced or cultivated, and which dated source supports that classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verify-occurrence-context-q01" }, { "text": "What site observations describe the moisture, substrate, canopy and disturbance conditions occupied by these trees?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verify-occurrence-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-regeneration", "name": "Condition and regeneration", "description": "Assess living-tree condition and evidence of population replacement.", "findings": [ { "id": "assess-ebony-recruitment", "name": "Assess ebony recruitment", "description": "Distinguish the survival of existing trees from successful reproduction and establishment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What survey records distinguish seedlings, juveniles and mature ebony trees within a stated area and date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assess-ebony-recruitment-q01" }, { "text": "What observed damage, mortality or establishment failures warrant monitoring or a management response?", "kind": "action", "id": "assess-ebony-recruitment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-and-material-boundary", "name": "Conservation and material boundary", "description": "Connect biological evidence to permissible interventions and trace any transition into harvested material.", "rationale": "Actions involving ebony require the correct taxon and provenance; a living-tree record cannot establish timber properties or permission to harvest.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-and-permissions", "name": "Assessment and permissions", "description": "Keep conservation assessments separate from jurisdiction-specific action constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "check-taxon-specific-constraints", "name": "Check taxon-specific constraints", "description": "Determine which assessments and rules apply to this identified organism and proposed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "What conservation assessment applies to the resolved ebony taxon, with what year and geographic scope?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "check-taxon-specific-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What current local protections, ownership permissions or trade controls must be checked before the proposed collection, movement or harvest?", "kind": "action", "id": "check-taxon-specific-constraints-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tree-to-timber-provenance", "name": "Tree-to-timber provenance", "description": "Preserve identity across sampling or harvesting without merging biological and material models.", "findings": [ { "id": "link-ebony-material-with-evidence", "name": "Link ebony material with evidence", "description": "Record the evidential connection between an identified tree and any resulting wood specimen.", "questions": [ { "text": "What specimen or custody records connect wood labelled ebony to this identified tree or population?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "link-ebony-material-with-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about colour, density, grade and usability require examination in the linked wood model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "link-ebony-material-with-evidence-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; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry provides no sense; its living-organism domain supports the tree interpretation, but the intended scope should be confirmed.", "Check accepted species names, author citations, native ranges and database identifiers before publication.", "Conservation assessments, assessment years and trade restrictions must be checked for each species and population; no collective ebony status is asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of ebony this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Ceylon ebony (Diospyros ebenum)", "African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora)", "Macassar ebony (Diospyros celebica)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of ebony this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants", "value_or_pattern": "Diospyros followed by a species epithet and, where needed, an author citation", "note": "Ebony has no single scientific binomial because the common name covers multiple species." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric identifier for a taxon record", "note": "Resolve the species before assigning an identifier; none is asserted here." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy TaxID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric identifier for a taxonomy record", "note": "Applies to a particular indexed taxon, not collectively to everything called ebony." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of ebony 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": [ "Source of wood for musical-instrument components, including fingerboards.", "Source of wood for carving, turning, inlay and decorative furniture.", "Living components of forest ecosystems that provide habitat and food resources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of ebony 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": [ "Overharvesting of valuable mature trees can deplete wild populations.", "Habitat loss can reduce populations independently of timber harvesting.", "Common-name ambiguity can cause species misidentification and misleading timber provenance.", "Woodworking dust can irritate the skin and respiratory tract; this concerns processing the material rather than the living tree." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of ebony 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": [ "Ceylon ebony is associated with Sri Lanka and southern India.", "African ebony commonly refers to Diospyros crassiflora from tropical Africa.", "Macassar ebony is associated with Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is known for striped rather than uniformly black heartwood." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of ebony 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": "Diospyros", "difference": "The botanical genus includes ebony-producing species and other trees, including persimmons; membership alone does not make a tree an ebony." }, { "name": "Ebony wood", "difference": "Harvested heartwood is a material; the tree is a living organism with reproduction, growth and ecological relationships." }, { "name": "African blackwood", "difference": "Dalbergia melanoxylon belongs to Fabaceae, whereas the principal ebony species belong to Diospyros in Ebenaceae." }, { "name": "Ebonized wood", "difference": "Wood darkened by treatment need not come from an ebony-producing species." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of ebony this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's underlying source intend ebony as living trees or as wood, and does the PHY.LIV placement need correction?", "Which taxa and regional common-name usages belong under this entry without turning it into an unsupported single taxon?", "Which accepted names, authorities, GBIF identifiers and NCBI taxonomy identifiers can be verified for the intended referents?", "What native ranges, reproductive systems and diagnostic characters are supported for those taxa?", "Which dated conservation assessments and current jurisdiction-specific restrictions apply to the intended taxa and locations?" ], "statistics": { 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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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a ebony, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify organisms called ebony, assess their biological and conservation state, and determine which management actions require further evidence or authorization.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Gaboon ebony, black and white ebony.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 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 ebony, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Gaboon ebony", "black and white ebony" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one ebony from another, and a ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony 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 ebony and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 ebony is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ebony, 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 ebony, 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 ebony 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 } } } }