{ "model": { "rank": 1856, "code": "thing-q18789", "model_id": "vr.tr.heron", "name": "heron", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a heron, assess its condition and ecological situation, and choose observation or intervention appropriate to the evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q18789/", "tier": 2, "score": 124, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 124, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.heron", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q18789", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18789", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T21:59:22Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.2, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 66.6, "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: 01a078ba-b064-7e70-b8fa-a3a2c544b9e6\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: heron\nRegistry id: vr.tr.heron\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q18789", "registryId": "vr.tr.heron", "name": "heron", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q18789/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.heron", "name": "heron", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a heron, assess its condition and ecological situation, and choose observation or intervention appropriate to the evidence.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual bird registered as a heron, including identification uncertainty, life stage, bodily condition, behaviour, habitat use and constraints on interaction; the intended boundary between herons, egrets and bitterns remains to be established.", "in_scope": [ "Individual identification, species hypotheses and evidence supporting them", "Life stage, plumage, posture, mobility and visible condition", "Feeding behaviour, prey handling and use of feeding sites", "Movement, roosting, nesting and interactions with other birds", "Exposure to disturbance, entanglement and other immediate hazards", "Observation and intervention decisions tied to the individual" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Wetland hydrology and ecosystem condition beyond the individual's use of the site", "Population abundance, regional trends and conservation assessments", "Colony management and nesting-site infrastructure as independent entities", "Prey species biology and fishery stock management", "Veterinary diagnosis, treatment protocols and rehabilitation facility operations", "Legal instruments and protected-area rules as independent records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Assess bill shape together with neck, leg and body proportions: a long, pointed bill and an elongated neck support a heron hypothesis, while a broad spoon-shaped bill or strongly downcurved bill suggests alternatives.", "Record neck carriage in sustained flight: a retracted neck supports identification as a typical heron rather than a crane or stork, but a single posture is insufficient.", "Use a combination of plumage pattern, bill and leg colours, size, life stage and location to distinguish plausible species; white plumage alone does not establish an egret identification.", "Record standing, stalking and rapid bill-strike feeding as supporting behavioural evidence, without treating these behaviours as unique to herons.", "Do not automatically exclude birds called egrets or bitterns: establish the registry's intended naming and taxonomic boundary before applying that distinction." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification hypothesis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Candidate taxon or common-name group; unresolved; supporting and conflicting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Condition and behaviour must be interpreted against a plausible identity rather than an assumed species." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Nestling; fledgling; immature; adult; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Age changes expected plumage, independence and the meaning of limited flight ability." }, { "name": "Observed plumage and bare-part colours", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Regional plumage patterns and bill, eye and leg colours, with lighting and visibility limitations", "why_it_matters": "These provide identification evidence while allowing for age and seasonal variation." }, { "name": "Body length estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm; method, uncertainty and posture recorded; unknown where no credible scale exists", "why_it_matters": "Size can help separate candidate species, but perspective and neck posture can distort estimates." }, { "name": "Locomotor function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Standing, walking, taking off and flying: observed functional; visibly impaired; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Functional evidence helps distinguish ordinary stationary behaviour from possible injury." }, { "name": "Visible physical concerns", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed wound, wing asymmetry, fouling, entanglement or other concern; none visible; view inadequate", "why_it_matters": "Specific observations can justify escalation without asserting an unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Feeding activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Waiting; stalking; striking; handling prey; swallowing; not feeding; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "A motionless bird may be actively hunting, and an unsuccessful strike is not by itself evidence of poor condition." }, { "name": "Observed feeding success", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Confirmed captures and observed strikes per observation period in minutes", "why_it_matters": "Separating effort, outcome and observation duration supports cautious assessment of feeding performance." }, { "name": "Site use", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Individual linked to a feeding patch, transit route, roost or nest; role confirmed or suspected", "why_it_matters": "The same location can carry different ecological and disturbance implications." }, { "name": "Breeding involvement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Nest building; incubation-like attendance; feeding young; dependent young present; no evidence observed; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Possible dependence of eggs or young changes the consequences of disturbance or removal." }, { "name": "Response to disturbance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No visible response; increased vigilance; interrupted feeding; withdrawal; flushing; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Observed response helps an agent decide when to stop or retreat." } ], "affordances": [ "Observe and document identifying features from a distance that avoids disrupting feeding or nesting.", "Compare species hypotheses using photographs, behaviour, location and life-stage evidence.", "Track feeding, movement and visible condition across explicitly bounded observation periods.", "Associate the bird with feeding, roosting or nesting locations while preserving uncertainty about site use.", "Reduce avoidable disturbance by retreating or changing an observation route when the bird responds.", "Document an immediate hazard and seek qualified wildlife assistance when evidence supports intervention." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "heron-identity", "name": "Heron identity", "description": "Evidence that the observed bird belongs under this registry entry and, where possible, a particular species.", "rationale": "Heron names, similar wading birds and changing plumage create identification and scope errors that affect every later judgement.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-boundary", "name": "Registry boundary", "description": "The relationship between the registry label and biological or common-name groupings.", "findings": [ { "id": "heron-name-coverage", "name": "Heron name coverage", "description": "Record the interpretation used for heron and flag unresolved treatment of egrets and bitterns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this entry cover all Ardeidae or a narrower set of birds commonly called herons?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "heron-name-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which registry decision or taxonomic reference supports the interpretation applied to this bird?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "heron-name-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "Observable features that support or challenge candidate identities.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-evidence", "name": "Species evidence", "description": "Record bill shape, proportions, plumage, bare-part colours and flight posture alongside candidate species.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible features separate this bird from plausible local herons, cranes, storks, ibises or spoonbills?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which photographs or observations support the identification, and which necessary features were obscured?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-and-development", "name": "Body and development", "description": "Life-stage interpretation and observable bodily function.", "rationale": "Immaturity, resting postures and injury can produce superficially similar appearances but require different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "age-and-plumage", "name": "Age and plumage", "description": "Developmental context for appearance and independence.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-evidence", "name": "Developmental evidence", "description": "Record evidence for life stage without inferring age or sex from a single ambiguous colour or ornament.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which plumage, feather-development or dependency observations support the proposed life stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "developmental-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could the observed appearance reflect seasonal plumage, moult or viewing conditions rather than age?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-condition", "name": "Functional condition", "description": "Ability to support the body, move and use the wings and bill.", "findings": [ { "id": "impairment-evidence", "name": "Impairment evidence", "description": "Separate witnessed limitations and visible hazards from behaviours whose significance remains uncertain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the bird been observed bearing weight, walking, taking off or flying, and with what asymmetry or limitation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "impairment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is there direct evidence of a wound, trapped limb, fishing line or bill obstruction that warrants qualified assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "impairment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-site-use", "name": "Feeding and site use", "description": "How the bird uses a feeding patch and acquires or handles prey.", "rationale": "A heron's long pauses and brief strikes require observation over time to interpret activity and possible feeding difficulty.", "layers": [ { "id": "feeding-patch", "name": "Feeding patch", "description": "The immediate physical setting in which feeding is observed.", "findings": [ { "id": "foraging-position", "name": "Foraging position", "description": "Record whether the bird feeds from water, shore, vegetation, a perch or terrestrial ground without assuming every heron is currently using a wetland.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the bird positioned, and what substrate, cover or water conditions can actually be observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "foraging-position-q01" }, { "text": "What behaviour establishes that this location is a feeding patch rather than a resting or transit location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "foraging-position-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prey-acquisition", "name": "Prey acquisition", "description": "Observed hunting sequence and its outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "capture-and-handling", "name": "Capture and handling", "description": "Record waiting, stalking, strikes, captures and swallowing, keeping unidentified prey and hidden outcomes explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many strikes and confirmed captures occurred during the recorded observation period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capture-and-handling-q01" }, { "text": "Was prey swallowed, dropped or still being handled, and how confidently could the prey be identified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "capture-and-handling-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-breeding", "name": "Movement and breeding", "description": "Flight, repeated site use and evidence of reproductive dependence.", "rationale": "A passing bird, a roosting individual and an adult provisioning young have different relationships to a site and different disturbance consequences.", "layers": [ { "id": "movement-and-return", "name": "Movement and return", "description": "Observed movements and the strength of evidence for repeated use by the same individual.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-site-continuity", "name": "Individual site continuity", "description": "Separate repeated heron sightings from demonstrated returns by an identifiable individual.", "questions": [ { "text": "What markings, readable bands or continuous observations support treating successive sightings as the same bird?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-site-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish a feeding site, roost or transit route, or only a single presence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "individual-site-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nest-and-dependent-young", "name": "Nest and dependent young", "description": "The individual's 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"Tie any proposed intervention to observed urgency, applicable local constraints and responder competence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What direct evidence indicates entanglement, collision injury, confinement or another immediate threat?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "response-justification-q01" }, { "text": "Which qualified local responder can assess the situation, including pointed-bill handling risk and possible breeding dependence?", "kind": "action", "id": "response-justification-q02" }, { "text": "Which locally applicable rules govern approaching, capturing, transporting or disturbing this bird or its nest?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "response-justification-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.heron mean the family Ardeidae or a narrower common-name grouping, and where should egrets and bitterns be linked?", "Which authoritative identification resources should govern species, life-stage and seasonal-plumage interpretation in the intended regions?", "Which species-specific observations reliably distinguish normal prolonged stillness or juvenile flight limitations from impairment?", "What evidence is sufficient to establish individual continuity, active nesting and dependence of nearby young without intrusive observation?", "Which local wildlife rules, disturbance guidance and qualified response contacts should an agent consult before proposing intervention?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a heron, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a heron, assess its condition and ecological situation, and choose observation or intervention appropriate to the evidence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 124 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 heron, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 124 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one heron from another, and a heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a heron 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 heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron 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 heron and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 heron is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a heron, 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 heron, 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 heron 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 } } } }