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Melilotus albus

vr.tr.melilotus-albus · PHY.LIV
Thing Registry Physical world and living systems

Generated draft, first pass

This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.

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.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Purpose and description

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Melilotus albus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

A physical thing registered under PHY.LIV. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.

It can be observed and measured.

Distinguishing features

Described in 50 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

Physical character

Made of: a living thing.

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.

How it is recognised

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.

Described in 50 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 8 bundles · 17 layers · 19 findings · 51 questions.

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one Melilotus albus from another, and a Melilotus albus from things that resemble it.

Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.

Names and identifiers

The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.

Preferred name, aliases and local names

Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.

  1. What identifies and describes the name of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Stable identifiers and external keys

Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.

  1. What identifies and describes an identifier for a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a Melilotus albus sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.

Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds

The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.

  1. What identifies and describes the kind of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a Melilotus albus from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action
Form, composition and condition What a Melilotus albus is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.

A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.

Form and dimensions

Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.

Measurable dimensions and their units

The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.

  1. What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Material and composition

Anatomy, parts and life stage.

Parts and life stages

The parts of a Melilotus albus and the stages it passes through.

  1. What identifies and describes the composition of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Condition and integrity

Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.

Condition, damage and health

How the condition of a Melilotus albus is judged and by whom.

  1. What identifies and describes the condition of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action
Place and movement Where a Melilotus albus is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).

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.

Location and placement

Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.

Position, container and reference frame

Where a Melilotus albus is, and what that position is measured against.

  1. What identifies and describes the location of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the location of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Movement and transfer

How a Melilotus albus moves on its own.

Movement events and constraints

What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.

  1. What identifies and describes the movement of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a Melilotus albus passes through and the events that move it between them.

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.

Lifecycle stages

From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.

Stages and transitions

The stages worth naming and what moves a Melilotus albus between them.

  1. What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Observations and current status

What is observed about a Melilotus albus, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a Melilotus albus is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action
Taxonomic placement and identification What Melilotus albus is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.

Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.

Accepted name and synonymy

The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.

Accepted name, authority and synonyms

What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.

  1. What is the accepted scientific name of Melilotus albus, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb? definition
  2. Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say? provenance

Field identification

The characters that separate Melilotus albus from what it is confused with.

Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds

Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.

  1. Which observable characters distinguish Melilotus albus from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible? boundary
  2. What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional? provenance
Life stages, condition and behaviour What Melilotus albus does over its life and how its state is judged.

Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.

Stages and reproduction

Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.

Life stages and their marks

The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.

  1. What stages does Melilotus albus pass through, and what observable change marks each transition? definition
  2. Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind? boundary

Health and condition

How condition is assessed and by whom.

Condition assessment

Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.

  1. How is the condition of Melilotus albus judged, on what scale, and by whom? measurement
  2. What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom? action
Habitat, range and conservation status Where Melilotus albus lives and how threatened it is.

Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.

Habitat and range

Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.

Range, introductions and habitat

What to record about where it is found and how it got there.

  1. What is the native range of Melilotus albus, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require? definition
  2. What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one? boundary

Protection and legal status

Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.

Conservation status and legal consequence

The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.

  1. What conservation status does Melilotus albus hold, under which assessment and year? provenance
  2. What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a Melilotus albus came from and when it held.

A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.

Source and authority

Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.

Claim provenance and confidence

The authority behind each claim about a Melilotus albus and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

Time, versions and supersession

When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.

Validity period and supersession

How an old claim about a Melilotus albus is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Melilotus albus, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Melilotus albus, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Melilotus albus is known, and what must it refuse? action

What the second pass must settle

  • 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 Melilotus albus, and on what evidence are they told apart?
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