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[Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A711687-1)", "On flowering material, check for solitary flowers without an involucre; use this character in a botanical key rather than treating finely divided foliage alone as diagnostic. [Flora of Pakistan](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242426411)", "On fruiting material, check for inflated, tuberculate follicles joined throughout their length. [Flora of Pakistan](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242426411)", "On intact seeds, examine the three-angled form and wrinkled surface; require corroborating provenance or identification evidence for detached seed lots. 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[Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A711687-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic authority and version define the Nigella sativa concept used here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accepted-species-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supplied name identify this species, an infraspecific entity, or only an ambiguous trade label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-species-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-authentication", "name": "Specimen authentication", "description": "Evaluate morphological evidence and record identification limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Record the observed combination of flower involucre, follicle structure, and seed morphology, including unavailable characters and conflicting observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which diagnostic flower, fruit, and seed characters were actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which key, reference specimen, and determiner support exclusion of other Nigella species?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "What additional material or validated test is needed if only detached seeds are available?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-and-population-origin", "name": "Accession and population origin", "description": "Track the biological origin of cultivated material and the establishment history of observed populations.", "rationale": "A collection locality, seed supplier, and native-range assertion describe different aspects of origin.", "layers": [ { "id": "seed-lineage", "name": "Seed lineage", "description": "Connect planting material to documented parentage and acquisition history.", "findings": [ { "id": "accession-traceability", "name": "Accession traceability", "description": "Retain collection or supplier records, accession labels, claimed cultivar identity, and links to parent plants or vouchers.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when was this accession collected or acquired, and from whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accession-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports any cultivar, landrace, or geographic-origin claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accession-traceability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-establishment", "name": "Local establishment", "description": "Separate deliberate planting from recruitment and persistence.", "findings": [ { "id": "occurrence-status", "name": "Occurrence status", "description": "Record whether a locality contains planted individuals, escapes, or a population with observed recruitment; keep regional native status separately sourced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were the observed plants sown, or is their origin undocumented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "occurrence-status-q01" }, { "text": "What observations show recruitment across successive growing seasons?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "occurrence-status-q02" }, { "text": "Which regional botanical authority supports the native or introduced designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "occurrence-status-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Represent the progression from germination through flowering, follicle development, and seed production.", "rationale": "Identification opportunities and management actions depend on reproductive and developmental state.", "layers": [ { "id": "seasonal-development", "name": "Seasonal development", "description": "Follow the plant's annual life cycle with locally observed dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-timing", "name": "Stage and timing", "description": "Nigella sativa is an annual; record stage transitions for the observed accession and site rather than assigning a universal flowering calendar. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A711687-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "When did sowing, emergence, first flowering, fruit development, and senescence occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-timing-q01" }, { "text": "Which environmental and management records accompany those stage transitions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-and-timing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-outcome", "name": "Reproductive outcome", "description": "Observe flower-to-fruit progression and resulting seed production.", "findings": [ { "id": "fruit-set-and-seed-fill", "name": "Fruit set and seed fill", "description": "Record flowering, fruit formation, and filled seed production separately; do not infer successful reproduction from flower presence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of observed flowers produced developing and mature fruits?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-set-and-seed-fill-q01" }, { "text": "How many filled seeds were produced per sampled fruit, and how was filling assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fruit-set-and-seed-fill-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence is needed before recommending pollination or seed-production interventions?", "kind": "action", "id": "fruit-set-and-seed-fill-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivation-and-plant-condition", "name": "Cultivation and plant condition", "description": "Connect Nigella sativa performance to growing conditions and observed damage.", "rationale": "An agent needs accession- and stage-specific evidence before changing cultivation practices.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-and-management-response", "name": "Site and management response", "description": "Track conditions and interventions affecting emergence, growth, and seed production.", "findings": [ { "id": "growing-condition-evidence", "name": "Growing-condition evidence", "description": "Associate soil, water, temperature, light, sowing density, and management observations with measured outcomes; leave optimum ranges unresolved until supported.", "questions": [ { "text": "What soil, moisture, temperature, and light conditions accompanied successful emergence and seed production?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "growing-condition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which Nigella sativa trial or local observation supports the proposed sowing, irrigation, or nutrition action?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "growing-condition-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What measurable outcome would justify continuing or changing that action?", "kind": "action", "id": "growing-condition-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-specific-health", "name": "Organ-specific health", "description": "Distinguish observed injury from an established cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-confidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal confidence", "description": "Locate symptoms on roots, stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits and distinguish normal maturation from unexplained decline.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, at what developmental stage, and in what fraction of plants?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-and-causal-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes maturation, environmental stress, pest injury, and disease?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "symptoms-and-causal-confidence-q02" }, { "text": "Which observation or diagnostic test should precede a treatment decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptoms-and-causal-confidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-propagation-and-harvest-boundary", "name": "Seed propagation and harvest boundary", "description": "Assess reproductive seeds as propagules and preserve their identity when they become harvested material.", "rationale": "Propagation fitness and suitability for a food or extract supply chain require different evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagule-quality", "name": "Propagule quality", "description": "Evaluate a seed lot's identity, viability, and storage history.", "findings": [ { "id": "germination-and-storage-evidence", "name": "Germination and storage evidence", "description": "Record lot-specific germination results and storage exposure; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Common names such as black cumin and black seed can cause substitution with unrelated species.", "Extracted seed oil can become rancid during unsuitable storage.", "Seed and oil products can cause allergic reactions in susceptible individuals." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Nigella sativa 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": [ "Often called kalonji in South Asian culinary contexts.", "Often marketed as black seed or black cumin in English, although these names are not species-specific.", "Cultivated and used as a spice across parts of Southwest Asia, North Africa and South Asia." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Nigella sativa 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; 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 Nigella sativa is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa, 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 Nigella sativa 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 } } } }