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organs to an explicit identification judgment.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Recognition should combine leaf, calyx, epicalyx and flower-arrangement observations with an appropriate botanical key.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed leaf, calyx and epicalyx characters support D. caryophyllus under the identification key used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which similar Dianthus species or hybrids remain plausible, and what additional organ or observation would distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivated-material-provenance", "name": "Cultivated material provenance", "description": "Keep cultivar, trade-name and ancestry evidence distinct from species identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultivar-attribution", "name": "Cultivar attribution", "description": "A cultivar label is a traceable attribution whose reliability and taxonomic implications require assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supplier, accession or breeder record supports the cultivar name attached to this plant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cultivar-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available record place this material within D. caryophyllus or describe an interspecific hybrid requiring a neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cultivar-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-flowering", "name": "Growth and flowering", "description": "Describe the shoot architecture and floral development relevant to carnation assessment.", "rationale": "Carnation management depends on branching, stem strength, bud distribution and flower form rather than plant size alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "shoot-architecture", "name": "Shoot architecture", "description": "Assess nodes, lateral shoots and the stems carrying flowers.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-bearing-stems", "name": "Flower-bearing stems", "description": "Stem dimensions, branching and mechanical condition determine how shoots contribute to display or harvest.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the lengths, diameters, branching patterns and bending conditions of representative flower-bearing stems?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-bearing-stems-q01" }, { "text": "Would support, pinching or lateral-bud removal improve the intended single-flower or spray presentation at this stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "flower-bearing-stems-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "floral-development", "name": "Floral development", "description": "Track bud opening, petal form and reproductive observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "bud-to-flower-transition", "name": "Bud-to-flower transition", "description": "Flower stage and form should be recorded directly, including calyx splitting and the visibility of reproductive organs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of assessed shoots carries closed buds, opening flowers, fully open flowers or senescent flowers?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bud-to-flower-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Are calyx splitting, malformed petals or inaccessible reproductive organs present, and how do they affect the intended use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bud-to-flower-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivation-response", "name": "Cultivation response", "description": "Relate root-zone and above-ground conditions to the performance of the identified carnation material.", "rationale": "Useful cultivation decisions require actual measurements and a relevant growing context rather than universal prescriptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-function", "name": "Root-zone function", "description": "Assess moisture, drainage and chemistry alongside root condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-and-substrate-condition", "name": "Water and substrate condition", "description": "Interpret moisture and chemistry measurements together with drainage behaviour and visible root health.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured moisture, pH and electrical conductivity, and how were they sampled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-and-substrate-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What irrigation or drainage adjustment is supported by these readings, root observations and guidance for this cultivar and substrate?", "kind": "action", "id": "water-and-substrate-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-environment", "name": "Flowering environment", "description": "Connect temperature and light exposure to shoot development and flowering observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "environmental-response-evidence", "name": "Environmental response evidence", "description": "Cultivar and production context must accompany claims about flowering schedules or environmental tolerances.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, light exposure and day-length records accompany the observed bud initiation and flower-opening dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "environmental-response-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which cultivar-specific evidence supports changing these conditions to address delayed flowering or weak stems?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "environmental-response-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-stock-health", "name": "Propagation and stock health", "description": "Assess the suitability of carnation material for multiplication and the health evidence needed before using it.", "rationale": "Propagation must preserve the intended plant identity while accounting for donor condition and potential transmission of health problems.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-material", "name": "Propagation material", "description": "Track donor identity, shoot selection and establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "cutting-readiness-and-establishment", "name": "Cutting readiness and establishment", "description": "Vegetative propagation assessment links each cutting to its donor and records rooting and subsequent growth.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified donor supplied the cutting, and what evidence supports its suitability as propagation stock?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cutting-readiness-and-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "What rooting and new-growth observations justify moving this cutting into the next cultivation stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "cutting-readiness-and-establishment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptom-assessment", "name": "Symptom assessment", "description": "Separate carnation symptom observations from causal diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-and-transmission-concerns", "name": "Decline and transmission concerns", "description": "Wilting, discolouration, lesions, distorted growth and root deterioration require contextual investigation before treatment or propagation decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, how are symptoms distributed among plants, and when did they first appear?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-and-transmission-concerns-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or diagnostic test is needed before treating the plant or accepting it as a cutting donor?", "kind": "action", "id": "decline-and-transmission-concerns-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ornamental-and-cut-flower-use", "name": "Ornamental and cut-flower use", "description": "Assess whether flowers meet the intended display or harvest purpose and how their condition changes after cutting.", "rationale": "Carnation usefulness includes flower presentation and postharvest performance, which cannot be inferred from species identity alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-suitability", "name": "Harvest suitability", "description": "Evaluate opening stage, stem condition and visible flower defects against a stated use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-flower-readiness", "name": "Use-specific flower readiness", "description": "Readiness depends on the required presentation, handling route and cultivar 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus 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 Dianthus caryophyllus is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Dianthus caryophyllus, 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 Dianthus caryophyllus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge 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