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[Kew](https://www.kew.org/plants/sacred-lotus)", "Inspect a mature reproductive head for separate fruits seated in pits of an expanded receptacle, supporting lotus identification rather than relying on the common name 'water lily'. [Kew](https://www.kew.org/plants/sacred-lotus)", "Record flower colour: pink or white flowers support N. nucifera identification, but colour must be combined with other characters and accession evidence when cultivated ancestry is uncertain. [Flora of Pakistan](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200007079)", "For a mature fruiting specimen, compare the receptacle profile and fruit proportions with the botanical description: N. nucifera has a gradually tapered or rounded receptacle and fruits usually more than 1.5 times longer than wide. Use a comparative key to evaluate other Nelumbo. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200007079)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-dependent interventions can proceed or require further identification." }, { "name": "Accession and ancestry evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to supplier, collection event, voucher, cultivar record and any documented hybrid ancestry", "why_it_matters": "Connects the observed plant to provenance without treating a trade label as proof." }, { "name": "Observed biological unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "seedling | shoot | connected rhizome division | container planting | stand | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Prevents visible shoots from being counted automatically as independent plants." }, { "name": "Leaf architecture", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Petiole attachment, margin continuity, floating or emergent position, with photographs", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and distinguishes leaf position from plant identity." }, { "name": "Organ-specific development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each observed organ: initiating | expanding | mature | senescing | absent | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Allows flowers, leaves and fruiting heads at different stages to coexist in one plant record." }, { "name": "Rhizome and growing-tip condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact | damaged | suspect decay | apparently dormant | unobserved, with inspection method", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about division, transplantation and recovery prospects." }, { "name": "Water depth above rooting sediment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, timestamped and referenced to the sediment surface", "why_it_matters": "Describes the actual exposure of the rooting zone rather than total pond depth." }, { "name": "Water and rooting-zone temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees Celsius, with sensor position and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for seasonal growth, dormancy and stress assessments." }, { "name": "Leaf injury burden", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of inspected leaf area affected, with sample size and symptom description", "why_it_matters": "Makes deterioration trackable without assigning an unsupported cause." }, { "name": "Stand extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m² and dated mapped perimeter", "why_it_matters": "Supports monitoring of expansion and assessment of containment outcomes." }, { "name": "Propagule history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Parent accession, collection date, storage conditions, treatment and germination observations", "why_it_matters": "Separates known viability evidence from assumptions based on appearance or age." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and document a specimen using leaf and reproductive characters, provenance and explicit confidence.", "Monitor seasonal development and investigate departures from the plant's recorded baseline.", "Adjust cultivation conditions against locally supported requirements and observe the response.", "Propagate through documented seed handling or rhizome division while preserving accession identity.", "Map expansion and choose containment or relocation actions using site-specific evidence.", "Assess whether particular organs may be removed or harvested, linking ownership, plant recovery and intended-use requirements." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "powo", "title": "Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:605396-1", "what_it_supports": "Accepted scientific name, family, distribution, and nomenclatural authority.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Nelumbo nucifera (Q16528)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16528", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifiers (Wikidata, ITIS, GBIF, NCBI) and vernacular names.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fao", "title": "Nelumbo nucifera (sacred lotus) - crop and food use", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Edible rhizome, seed, and traditional food uses.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "iucn", "title": "Nelumbo nucifera - species assessment notes", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Conservation status and native-range context.", "url_status": "dead" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "lotus-identity", "name": "Lotus identity", "description": "Evidence that the observed material belongs to Nelumbo nucifera and the limits of that determination.", "rationale": "Lotus common names, water-lily resemblance and uncertain cultivated ancestry can produce consequential misidentification.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-organs", "name": "Diagnostic organs", "description": "Leaf and reproductive evidence available on the actual specimen.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-species-determination", "name": "Supported species determination", "description": "Record observed diagnostic characters, the identification reference and competing identifications; distinguish unavailable characters from absent ones.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, flower, receptacle and fruit characters support Nelumbo nucifera rather than Nymphaea or another Nelumbo?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-species-determination-q01" }, { "text": "What additional observation or expert determination is needed when flowers and mature fruits are unavailable?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-species-determination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-provenance", "name": "Accession provenance", "description": "Connection between the physical plant, its recorded name and its origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultivated-material-identity", "name": "Cultivated material identity", "description": "Keep supplier labels, cultivar assignments and ancestry claims separate from independently supported identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which collection, voucher or supplier records substantiate the species and cultivar labels?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cultivated-material-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does evidence of uncertain or hybrid ancestry require a qualified identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cultivated-material-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rhizome-and-stand", "name": "Rhizome and stand", "description": "The physical unit being tracked and its above-ground and below-ground organisation.", "rationale": "Care, counting and removal depend on whether observations concern a shoot, a connected rhizome system or an entire stand.", "layers": [ { "id": "plant-boundaries", "name": "Plant boundaries", "description": "Evidence connecting visible shoots to a shared planting or rhizome system.", "findings": [ { "id": "tracked-lotus-unit", "name": "Tracked lotus unit", "description": "Define the observation unit without claiming genetic individuality from shoot counts or proximity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this record tracking a shoot, a demonstrably connected rhizome system, a container accession or a mapped stand?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tracked-lotus-unit-q01" }, { "text": "What observations establish rhizome connection, and where is connection merely inferred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tracked-lotus-unit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rhizome-integrity", "name": "Rhizome integrity", "description": "Condition and location of the structures relevant to persistence and division.", "findings": [ { "id": "division-and-regrowth-capacity", "name": "Division and regrowth capacity", "description": "Record inspected rhizome segments, growing tips, damage and inspection limits before judging division or recovery options.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rhizome segments and growing tips are visible, intact or damaged, and which remain unexamined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "division-and-regrowth-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports dividing or moving this material at its current developmental stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "division-and-regrowth-capacity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "aquatic-growing-conditions", "name": "Aquatic growing conditions", "description": "The plant's exposure to water, rooting sediment, light and seasonal temperature.", "rationale": "Lotus condition cannot be interpreted from foliage alone without the aquatic and sediment conditions experienced by its rooting system.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-and-sediment", "name": "Water and sediment", "description": "Measured rooting-zone conditions and their changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "rooting-zone-exposure", "name": "Rooting-zone exposure", "description": "Associate plant observations with water depth, water-level variation, sediment condition and relevant water-quality measurements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What water depth above sediment and recent water-level changes has this planting experienced?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rooting-zone-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally supported evidence justifies changing water level, substrate or nutrient inputs for this accession?", "kind": "action", "id": "rooting-zone-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-growth-context", "name": "Seasonal growth context", "description": "Light and temperature observations used to interpret growth and inactivity.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation", "name": "Seasonal state interpretation", "description": "Evaluate apparent inactivity against environmental history and prior growth records rather than equating missing foliage with death.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light exposure and water or sediment temperatures accompanied emergence, flowering and foliage loss?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes seasonal dormancy from injury or death in this planting?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seasonal-state-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproduction-and-propagules", "name": "Reproduction and propagules", "description": "Flowering, fruit development and the identity and viability of propagation material.", "rationale": "A flowering lotus, a fruiting receptacle and a viable seed lot represent different reproductive outcomes and require different actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "flower-to-fruit", "name": "Flower to fruit", "description": "Observed progression from buds and flowers to fruit-bearing receptacles.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-outcome", "name": "Reproductive outcome", "description": "Track dated flowering and fruit observations without interpreting flower presence as successful seed production.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many marked buds reached flowering and subsequently produced apparently developed fruits?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence of pollination, parentage or fruit abortion is available for those reproductive heads?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-outcome-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-establishment", "name": "Seed establishment", "description": "Seed-lot history, handling and observed germination.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagule-viability-evidence", "name": "Propagule viability evidence", "description": "Record the condition and treatment of the fruit wall or seed coverings, test conditions and actual establishment outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What collection, storage and pretreatment history belongs to this propagule lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagule-viability-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What germination or establishment trial supports using the lot, and what treatment is justified by that evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "propagule-viability-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Plant-specific evidence for care, organ 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"description": "Consequences and prerequisites of harvesting, thinning, containment or relocation.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-plant-intervention", "name": "Permitted plant intervention", "description": "Connect the intended action to plant identity, retained rhizome material, propagule handling, site authority and any requirements supplied by neighbouring models.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shoots, rhizomes, fruits or seeds would the action remove, retain or transfer, and what outcome is intended?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-plant-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What permissions, local spread assessment and intended-use checks must be satisfied before removal, relocation or harvest?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-plant-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", 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Japanese 'renkon', Chinese 'ou' and 'lianzi'.", "South and Southeast Asia: strong ritual and temple use; India often 'sacred lotus' / kamala.", "Australia: native or long-naturalized populations treated as wild wetland flora as well as a crop.", "North America: ornamental water-garden plant; often confused in naming with native Nelumbo lutea.", "Europe: mainly ornamental; food use is imported processed product rather than field crop." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Nelumbo nucifera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Nelumbo lutea (American lotus)", "difference": "Yellow flowers, native to North America; N. nucifera typically 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Nelumbo nucifera, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Nelumbo nucifera, assess the condition of a plant or stand, and select evidence-supported actions for its care, propagation, containment or harvest.", "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: Ōga lotus.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 105 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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": [ "Ōga lotus" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 105 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 Nelumbo nucifera from another, and a Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 Nelumbo nucifera is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera, 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 Nelumbo nucifera 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 } } } }