{ "model": { "rank": 3184, "code": "thing-q168002", "model_id": "vr.tr.ankle", "name": "ankle", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify an ankle, record its structure and functional state, and determine what observation, support or further assessment is appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q168002/", "tier": 2, "score": 89, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "right ankle", "left ankle" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 89, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.ankle", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q168002", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168002", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:04:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c2e-9302-7341-9acf-493b570be30a\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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foot, using human anatomy as the default and distinguishing the talocrural joint from the broader ankle region and neighbouring joints.", "in_scope": [ "Individual ankle identity, laterality and anatomical boundaries", "Talocrural articulation and the distal tibiofibular relationship", "Local ligaments, tendons and other tissues relevant to ankle function", "Ankle movement, stability and load-bearing function", "Observed symptoms, structural changes and functional limitations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The whole person or organism and its general health record", "The entire foot, lower leg or knee", "Subtalar and other foot joints as independently modelled anatomical structures", "Ankle injuries and diseases as general diagnostic entities", "Footwear, braces, prostheses and implants as independently modelled products", "Treatment protocols and clinical decisions requiring professional assessment" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An ankle is a body part at the lower-leg-foot junction, not an organism or taxon.", "In the narrow joint sense, the tibia and fibula form an articulation with the talus; this distinguishes it from the knee and joints farther into the foot.", "The medial and lateral malleoli provide landmarks for the ankle region, but the region includes surrounding tissues rather than only these bony prominences.", "Talocrural motion is principally described through dorsiflexion and plantarflexion; inversion and eversion observations require attention to neighbouring joints.", "A particular ankle requires a host-body reference and laterality; the word alone identifies an anatomical kind rather than an individual structure." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host body and anatomical context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to person or organism; species; relevant developmental context", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the individual body part and prevents human anatomical assumptions from being applied silently to other species." }, { "name": "Laterality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Left | right | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observations, images and actions attached to the correct ankle." }, { "name": "Referent extent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Talocrural joint | broader ankle region | explicitly defined ankle complex", "why_it_matters": "Prevents measurements and claims about different anatomical extents from being treated as equivalent." }, { "name": "Structural configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Described native anatomy, developmental variation, acquired alteration or surgical reconstruction; unknown where unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which structures are present and which anatomical assumptions remain applicable." }, { "name": "Dorsiflexion and plantarflexion range", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees, with active or passive mode, knee position, loading condition and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Describes available motion while preserving the conditions needed for comparison." }, { "name": "Stability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported giving way and separately documented examination findings, including method and date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes experienced instability from measured laxity or other assessed findings." }, { "name": "Pain and swelling", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Location, onset, course and provoking conditions; named pain scale or swelling measurement when used", "why_it_matters": "Records local change without turning a symptom into an unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Load-bearing capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed or reported standing and walking performance, assistance used, and separately recorded prescribed restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Separates what the ankle tolerates from what a care plan permits." }, { "name": "Movement contribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relationship to subtalar motion, foot motion, lower-leg movement and whole-limb task", "why_it_matters": "Avoids attributing every movement at the leg-foot junction to the talocrural joint." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and distinguish the left or right ankle using anatomical landmarks.", "Associate observations and imaging findings with the relevant ankle structure.", "Record motion and load-bearing performance under stated assessment conditions.", "Compare ankle observations over time or against the opposite side with explicit limitations.", "Link an ankle to documented injuries, procedures, supports and activity restrictions.", "Flag missing assessment information before proposing actions that depend on ankle condition." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "ankle-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Ankle identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which ankle is represented and what anatomical extent the record covers.", "rationale": "Ankle can mean a specific joint or a wider region, and observations are unusable if their side or extent is ambiguous.", "layers": [ { "id": "body-and-side", "name": "Body and side", "description": "Anchors the ankle to an individual body and laterality.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-ankle-reference", "name": "Individual ankle reference", "description": "The record should identify the host body, side and species context before attaching measurements or actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body and which side does this ankle belong to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "individual-ankle-reference-q01" }, { "text": "What record or observation establishes the ankle's identity and laterality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-ankle-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "joint-versus-region", "name": "Joint versus region", "description": "Separates the talocrural joint from the surrounding region and any broader functional grouping.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-anatomical-extent", "name": "Declared anatomical extent", "description": "Each record should make clear whether ankle denotes the talocrural articulation, surrounding tissues or a defined combination of joints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does ankle here mean the talocrural joint, the ankle region or an explicitly defined ankle complex?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-anatomical-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Which neighbouring structures are referenced for context rather than owned by this record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-anatomical-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "articulation-and-local-tissues", "name": "Articulation and local tissues", "description": "Records the anatomical components that support ankle movement and stability.", "rationale": "Ankle observations need structural localisation to distinguish articular, ligamentous and tendon-related concerns.", "layers": [ { "id": "bones-and-articulations", "name": "Bones and articulations", "description": "Describes the distal tibia, distal fibula, talus and their relevant relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "articular-configuration", "name": "Articular configuration", "description": "The model should distinguish the talocrural articulation from the distal tibiofibular relationship and document known alterations to either.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is documented about the talus within the tibiofibular mortise and the distal tibiofibular relationship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "articular-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Which examination, image or operative record supports any reported structural alteration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "articular-configuration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ligaments-tendons-and-localisation", "name": "Ligaments, tendons and localisation", "description": "Maps supporting and crossing soft tissues to their local anatomical positions.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-tissue-attribution", "name": "Local tissue attribution", "description": "Findings should identify the implicated tissue when established, retaining regional descriptions when attribution remains uncertain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the observation localised to a named ligament, tendon or other tissue, or only to an ankle region?", "kind": "definition", "id": "local-tissue-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the implicated structure cross the ankle while extending into the lower leg or foot, requiring a linked structure record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-tissue-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "motion-and-mechanical-function", "name": "Motion and mechanical function", "description": "Describes ankle movement and performance under load.", "rationale": "Ankle function depends on assessment position, loading and contributions from adjacent joints.", "layers": [ { "id": "angular-movement", "name": "Angular movement", "description": "Records dorsiflexion and plantarflexion with enough context to interpret them.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextualised-range-of-motion", "name": "Contextualised range of motion", "description": "Angular measurements should preserve the method, reference position, knee position and active or passive assessment mode.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dorsiflexion and plantarflexion were measured, using which reference position and method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextualised-range-of-motion-q01" }, { "text": "Was the knee bent or straight, was the ankle loaded, and was movement active or passive?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextualised-range-of-motion-q02" }, { "text": "How were contributions from the foot and neighbouring joints accounted for?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextualised-range-of-motion-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-load-transfer", "name": "Stability and load transfer", "description": "Captures giving way, assessed stability and participation in standing or walking.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-mechanical-state", "name": "Task-specific mechanical state", "description": "Reported giving way, assessed laxity and load-bearing performance should remain distinct observations tied to a task and time.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which standing, walking or other loading task was ankle difficulty or giving way observed or reported?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-specific-mechanical-state-q01" }, { "text": "What assessment supports a statement about ankle stability, and who performed it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "task-specific-mechanical-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-state-and-change", "name": "Local state and change", "description": "Organises ankle symptoms and changes across observations.", "rationale": "A useful ankle model must distinguish current observations, historical events and unresolved explanations.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-visible-signs", "name": "Symptoms and visible signs", "description": "Localises pain, swelling and other recorded changes without assuming their cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-observation", "name": "Localised observation", "description": "Symptoms and signs should carry an anatomical location, timing and observation method, with diagnoses recorded separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where around the ankle are pain, swelling or other changes located, and when did they begin?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Which details were reported by the person, directly observed or measured with an instrument?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "localised-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-comparison", "name": "Course and comparison", "description": "Connects ankle observations to baseline, earlier records and the opposite side.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-change", "name": "Interpretable change", "description": "Comparisons should preserve assessment conditions and avoid assuming that the opposite ankle provides an unaffected baseline.", "questions": [ { "text": "What has changed in ankle motion, symptoms or task performance since the previous comparable observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-change-q01" }, { "text": "Are assessment conditions and the chosen baseline sufficiently comparable to support the stated change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpretable-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supports-restrictions-and-assessment", "name": "Supports, restrictions and assessment", "description": "Links ankle condition to existing supports, documented restrictions and unresolved assessment needs.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish observed ability from authorised activity and understand when evidence is insufficient for an action.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-and-care-context", "name": "Support and care context", "description": "Records ankle-related devices, procedures and activity instructions through linked records.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-support-and-restrictions", "name": "Documented support and restrictions", "description": "Braces, casts, implants and prescribed restrictions should be linked to the correct ankle with their source and applicable period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which support, procedure or activity restriction currently applies to this ankle?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-support-and-restrictions-q01" }, { "text": "Who documented the restriction or support instruction, and what dates or review conditions govern it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-support-and-restrictions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-for-next-actions", "name": "Evidence for next actions", "description": "Identifies what must be established before an ankle-dependent action can be proposed.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-dependent-action", "name": "Assessment-dependent action", "description": "An action involving ankle loading, movement or support should be grounded in relevant observations and any applicable care instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What ankle observations and documented instructions support the proposed movement, loading or support action?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-dependent-action-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved ankle condition requires qualified assessment before that action can be evaluated?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-dependent-action-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.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This description assumes human 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle 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 ankle and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 ankle is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ankle, 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 ankle, 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 ankle 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 } } } }