{ "model": { "rank": 5675, "code": "thing-q157634", "model_id": "vr.tr.clematis", "name": "Clematis", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Clematis plant, assess its seasonal condition and select care, propagation or containment actions appropriate to its identity and growing context.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q157634/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Clematis 'Ernest Markham'" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.clematis", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q157634", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157634", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T08:58:59Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 8.9, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 105, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b16-0107-73b1-9ad6-68d569caa6f1\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Clematis\nRegistry id: vr.tr.clematis\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q157634", "registryId": "vr.tr.clematis", "name": "Clematis", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q157634/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.clematis", "name": "Clematis", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Clematis plant, assess its seasonal condition and select care, propagation or containment actions appropriate to its identity and growing context.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns the Clematis-specific evidence and decisions for a living plant under vr.tr.clematis in PHY / PHY.LIV, including species, hybrid and cultivar distinctions within this entry; it provisionally interprets the undefined registry name as the botanical genus.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of Clematis and confidence in species, hybrid or cultivar attribution", "Climbing or non-climbing habit, stem continuity and attachment to supports", "Seasonal growth, flowering wood, pruning group and regeneration", "Root-zone suitability, symptoms and response to care", "Propagation identity, seedling establishment and local spread" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Construction and structural certification of trellises, walls and other supports", "Whole-garden design, irrigation infrastructure and soil classification", "Pathogen taxonomy and laboratory diagnostic procedures", "Human or animal diagnosis and treatment following plant exposure", "Regional ecosystem management and nursery commercial operations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect several nodes for opposite leaves, often compound; combine this with reproductive evidence rather than identifying Clematis from leaf arrangement alone. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329401-2/general-information)", "For a climbing specimen, inspect whether leaf stalks or leaf axes wrap around supports, helping distinguish it from climbers using separate tendrils or attachment roots; absence of this behaviour does not exclude non-climbing Clematis. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329401-2/general-information)", "Examine floral organs for petal-like sepals rather than treating the showy parts as ordinary petals; record additional organs and compare with an appropriate species or cultivar description. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329401-2/general-information)", "Inspect mature fruit for a head of individual achenes with persistent styles, often elongated and feathery; this helps separate Clematis from climbers bearing berries or capsules, but a fluffy seed head alone is insufficient. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329401-2/general-information)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity resolution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Clematis suspected; genus confirmed; species supported; hybrid supported; cultivar supported; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines how specifically care and reproductive behaviour can be inferred." }, { "name": "Identity evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Plant linked to dated observations, diagnostic references, accession records and supplier labels", "why_it_matters": "Separates a recorded name from an identification supported by evidence." }, { "name": "Growth and attachment habit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Leaf-stalk climbing; scrambling; trailing; erect non-climbing; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Guides support selection and interpretation of unsupported stems." }, { "name": "Plant extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height, horizontal spread and selected shoot length in cm or m, with date", "why_it_matters": "Shows whether growth fits its support and whether intervention changes vigour." }, { "name": "Seasonal phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dormant; emerging; extending; budding; flowering; fruiting; senescing; mixed; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Places leaf loss, shoot inactivity and care actions in seasonal context." }, { "name": "Flower-bearing wood", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Previous-season shoots; current-season shoots; both; unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Helps predict whether cutting a stem would remove a flowering opportunity." }, { "name": "Pruning-group assessment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "RHS group 1; group 2; group 3; unresolved, with evidence and regional context", "why_it_matters": "Connects identity and flowering observations to a justified pruning approach." }, { "name": "Stem and crown viability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Viable buds; active basal shoots; damaged stems; suspected dead tissue; confirmed dead tissue; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Prevents failed top growth from being treated automatically as death of the whole plant." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volumetric water content in %, with depth, method, location and time", "why_it_matters": "Supports investigation of water stress without relying only on surface appearance." }, { "name": "Collapse pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Absent; isolated shoot; several shoots; whole canopy; recurring, with onset and associated symptoms", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence needed to investigate wilting before assigning a cause." }, { "name": "Support relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Plant linked to occupied support, attachment points, ties and neighbouring vegetation", "why_it_matters": "Makes training or removal possible without confusing intertwined plants." }, { "name": "Reproductive establishment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No fruit observed; developing fruit; mature fruit; seedlings suspected; seedlings confirmed", "why_it_matters": "Informs propagation and assessment of spread beyond the intended location." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic organs and qualify or revise a Clematis identification.", "Train and secure shoots according to their observed attachment habit and available support.", "Choose or defer pruning using flowering wood, seasonal phase and identity evidence.", "Investigate decline and adjust growing conditions while tracking the plant's response.", "Select a supported propagation method and preserve the relationship to the parent plant.", "Assess fruiting and escaped seedlings before deciding whether to retain, relocate or contain growth." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "clematis-identity", "name": "Clematis identity", "description": "Evidence that the plant belongs to Clematis and how narrowly it can be named.", "rationale": "Species and cultivar uncertainty can change care decisions even when the genus is recognisable.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-organs", "name": "Diagnostic organs", "description": "Joint interpretation of leaves, attachment structures, flowers and fruit.", "findings": [ { "id": "genus-identification", "name": "Genus identification", "description": "Record observed diagnostic combinations, missing organs and competing identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, attachment, flower and fruit observations jointly support Clematis?", "kind": "definition", "id": "genus-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally plausible lookalike remains possible, and what observation would separate it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "genus-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-and-cultivar", "name": "Species and cultivar", "description": "Resolution of botanical names, hybrid attribution and horticultural labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-confidence", "name": "Name confidence", "description": "Keep label claims distinct from independently supported identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where did the species or cultivar name originate, and what evidence corroborates it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which decisions require a narrower identification than the evidence currently supports?", "kind": "action", "id": "name-confidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shoots-and-support", "name": "Shoots and support", "description": "The plant's physical extent, attachment behaviour and continuity through tangled growth.", "rationale": "A useful intervention must target the right Clematis stems and accommodate how this plant holds itself up.", "layers": [ { "id": "stem-continuity", "name": "Stem continuity", "description": "Trace shoots to their base and distinguish live structure from entangled neighbours.", "findings": [ { "id": "plant-boundary", "name": "Plant boundary", "description": "Establish which stems and basal shoots belong to the individual being assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can each proposed pruning target be traced to this Clematis rather than a neighbouring climber?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plant-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What are the current height, spread and locations of viable buds and basal shoots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "plant-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-and-training", "name": "Attachment and training", "description": "Fit between observed growth habit and the occupied support.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-fit", "name": "Support fit", "description": "Record successful attachment, unsupported extensions and damaging ties or contact points.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which support elements can this plant actually grasp, and where do shoots remain unsupported?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "support-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which shoots can be redirected or secured without breaking stems or constricting growth?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-pruning", "name": "Flowering and pruning", "description": "Flowering chronology and shoot age as evidence for pruning decisions; RHS distinguishes three groups using flowering time and flowering wood. [RHS pruning guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/clematis/pruning-guide)", "rationale": "A generic seasonal pruning instruction cannot represent the differences among Clematis flowering patterns.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-evidence", "name": "Flowering evidence", "description": "Dated observations connecting flower flushes to identifiable shoot generations.", "findings": [ { "id": "flowering-wood-assessment", "name": "Flowering wood assessment", "description": "Support or withhold a pruning-group assignment using identity and observed flowering.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did each flowering flush occur locally, and did it arise on previous-season or current-season shoots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flowering-wood-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What reference or observation supports the proposed pruning group, and does any evidence conflict?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "flowering-wood-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pruning-decision", "name": "Pruning decision", "description": "Translate flowering evidence and plant condition into a specific intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "cut-selection", "name": "Cut selection", "description": "Identify the purpose, timing, retained buds and expected flowering consequences of proposed cuts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended operation establishment pruning, routine pruning, removal of damaged stems or renovation?", "kind": "action", "id": "cut-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which stems and buds would remain, and what flowering would probably be lost or deferred?", "kind": "action", "id": "cut-selection-q02" }, { "text": "If flowering behaviour is unresolved, what observation should precede substantial pruning?", "kind": "action", "id": "cut-selection-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-zone-and-decline", "name": "Root zone and decline", "description": "Growing conditions, symptom patterns and recovery evidence.", "rationale": "Wilting must be investigated in context rather than converted directly into a diagnosis of Clematis wilt.", "layers": [ { "id": "growing-context", "name": "Growing context", "description": "Conditions experienced by the roots and canopy of this particular plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-fit", "name": "Site fit", "description": "Compare measured conditions with requirements supported for the identified Clematis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the root-zone moisture, drainage behaviour, canopy light exposure and recent temperature extremes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which requirements are verified for this species or cultivar, and which remain assumptions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "site-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collapse-and-recovery", "name": "Collapse and recovery", "description": "Distinguish observed symptoms from their proposed causes; Clematis wilt is one possible explanation requiring supporting evidence. [RHS Clematis wilt guide](https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/clematis-wilt)", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-assessment", "name": "Decline assessment", "description": "Record onset, affected organs, stem injuries, root-zone conditions and surviving growth before selecting a response.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shoots collapsed, how quickly, and what discoloration, lesions, breakage or basal regrowth accompanies them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates water stress, mechanical injury, seasonal dieback and a possible disease process?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "decline-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Which intervention and follow-up observation would test the leading explanation while preserving viable growth?", "kind": "action", "id": "decline-assessment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-spread", "name": "Propagation and spread", "description": "Reproductive material, parentage and establishment outside the intended planting.", "rationale": "Producing another plant, preserving a named cultivar and allowing local spread are different decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-intent", "name": "Propagation intent", "description": "Match the desired offspring identity to a supported propagation method.", "findings": [ { "id": "offspring-identity", "name": "Offspring identity", "description": "Record parent material, method and the evidence needed before assigning the parent's cultivar name to offspring.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the objective to preserve a named cultivar, multiply an identified species or raise variable seedlings?", "kind": "definition", "id": "offspring-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which propagation method is supported for this Clematis, and how will parentage and identity be retained?", "kind": "action", "id": "offspring-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-beyond-planting", "name": "Establishment beyond planting", "description": "Observed recruitment and location-specific evidence relevant to retaining or containing the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "spread-decision", "name": "Spread decision", "description": "Separate seedlings, connected growth and unrelated plants before assessing spread; attach regional conclusions to an identified taxon.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are plants beyond the intended boundary independent seedlings, connected stems or a different species?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spread-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What current local evidence about this taxon supports allowing seed set, removing recruits or seeking a containment decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "spread-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.clematis denote the whole botanical genus, including non-climbing forms and horticultural hybrids, or a narrower intended concept?", "Which regional identification keys and cultivar records adequately cover lookalikes and ambiguous nursery labels?", "How should pruning-group confidence and exceptions be represented when identity is uncertain or flowering differs across climates?", "Which species- or cultivar-specific thresholds for moisture, temperature and establishment are sufficiently supported to guide intervention?", "Which taxa and locations require additional evidence about spread, conservation restrictions or handling hazards before propagation, relocation or removal?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 22 } }, "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 Clematis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Clematis plant, assess its seasonal condition and select care, propagation or containment actions appropriate to its identity and growing context.", "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: Clematis 'Ernest Markham'.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 Clematis, 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": [ "Clematis 'Ernest Markham'" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Clematis from another, and a Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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 Clematis and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 Clematis is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Clematis, 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 Clematis, 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 Clematis 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 } } } }