{ "model": { "rank": 5692, "code": "thing-q188238", "model_id": "vr.tr.epiphyte", "name": "epiphyte", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an epiphytic organism, assess its dependence on its growing position, and select evidence-supported monitoring or care actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q188238/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "epiphytic lichen", "epiphytic cactus", "aerophytes", "Airplants" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q188238", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188238", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:01:58Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 11.1, "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": 98.7, "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: 01a07b18-d42e-7000-8263-ac93bd4a9cca\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: epiphyte\nRegistry id: vr.tr.epiphyte\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q188238", "registryId": "vr.tr.epiphyte", "name": "epiphyte", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q188238/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.epiphyte", "name": "epiphyte", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an epiphytic organism, assess its dependence on its growing position, and select evidence-supported monitoring or care actions.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns the epiphytic habit and its expression in an observed individual or delimited patch under vr.tr.epiphyte, PHY / PHY.LIV: attachment, resource acquisition, microhabitat, condition and intervention constraints, with taxonomic identity and supporting-plant identity linked to neighbouring models.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that an organism grows on another plant without parasitic extraction from its living tissues", "Current and historical connections to ground soil, including uncertainty about life-stage changes", "Attachment position, supporting surface and local substrate", "Water and nutrient acquisition at the occupied growing site", "Condition, establishment and reproduction interpreted against epiphytic habit", "Conditions for observation, cultivation, relocation or removal" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Full taxonomic descriptions and species identification systems", "Whole-organism assessment and management of the supporting plant", "Parasitic plants and their mechanisms of host exploitation", "Terrestrial climbers or rock-dwelling occurrences without evidence of an epiphytic phase", "Whole-canopy community inventories and ecosystem nutrient budgets", "Land ownership, collection permits and conservation classifications except as linked action constraints" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the organism is growing on a plant, rather than merely touching it or being temporarily lodged there; non-parasitic growth on other plants is the core working distinction. [Kew plant growth-form overview](https://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/State%20of%20the%20World%27s%20Plants%20and%20Fungi%202023_V2.pdf)", "Inspect the attachment interface and relevant identification evidence for parasitic extraction; contact with bark alone does not establish either parasitism or its absence.", "Trace roots or other connections toward ground soil and record establishment history before distinguishing persistent epiphytism, a temporary epiphytic phase and ordinary terrestrial climbing.", "Separate the observed growing surface from the organism's known habits: a specimen growing on rock or an artificial mount does not by itself demonstrate a natural epiphytic occurrence.", "Do not require conspicuous aerial roots as a universal recognition test: some epiphytic bromeliads have reduced or absent roots. [Kew Bromeliaceae account](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A30000083-2/general-information)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Epiphytic-status evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | provisional | contradicted | unresolved; evidence and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents classification from a common name or a single photograph alone." }, { "name": "Observation unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "individual | clump | delimited patch | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps growth and survival comparisons consistent when individuals are difficult to distinguish." }, { "name": "Supporting plant and occupied position", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "supporting-plant reference; trunk, branch, twig, leaf or other recorded position", "why_it_matters": "Locates the occurrence and links changes in support to changes in epiphyte condition." }, { "name": "Ground-soil connection", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "present | absent after inspection | not observable | unknown; dated history where available", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish current resource access from inferred lifetime growth habit." }, { "name": "Attachment mechanism and integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed mechanism; secure | partly detached | detached | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether handling or support disturbance could dislodge the organism." }, { "name": "Local substrate", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "exposed plant surface | trapped organic material | associated vegetation mat | cultivation medium | mixed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes physical support from the material surrounding absorptive surfaces." }, { "name": "Water-access pathway", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded inputs and absorptive surfaces, each marked observed, inferred or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows care decisions to reflect the actual organism rather than a generic air-plant assumption." }, { "name": "Local drying interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hours between wetting and a defined dryness endpoint; method and weather context", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparisons of moisture exposure before and after environmental changes." }, { "name": "Growing-site microclimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, photosynthetic photon flux density in µmol m−2 s−1; sampling position and period", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed condition to conditions at the organism rather than a distant weather station." }, { "name": "Condition trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "improving | stable | declining | unresolved; dated tissue, attachment and growth observations", "why_it_matters": "Separates a persistent appearance from an active deterioration requiring investigation." }, { "name": "Establishment and reproductive state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "newly arrived | establishing | established | reproductive | senescent | unresolved; taxon-appropriate evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes temporary persistence from successful establishment and informs disturbance timing." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an observed occurrence provisionally and specify the evidence needed to resolve its epiphytic status.", "Map and revisit an individual or patch without disturbing its attachment.", "Compare moisture, light and attachment observations with condition changes to prioritise investigation.", "Plan species-supported watering, shading or mounting adjustments in cultivation.", "Assess whether pruning, support replacement or relocation would disrupt attachment or resource access.", "Document an authorised intervention and evaluate subsequent survival, attachment and growth." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "epiphytic-status", "name": "Epiphytic status", "description": "Determine whether the occurrence expresses an epiphytic habit and how firmly that determination is supported.", "rationale": "Growth on a plant surface alone does not resolve parasitism, terrestrial climbing or a temporary life stage.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-and-nutrition-boundary", "name": "Support and nutrition boundary", "description": "Separate physical support from parasitic use of living supporting-plant tissues.", "findings": [ { "id": "nonparasitic-attachment-evidence", "name": "Non-parasitic attachment evidence", "description": "Record the observed interface and the evidence supporting or challenging a non-parasitic interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows that this organism is established on the supporting plant rather than merely resting against it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "nonparasitic-attachment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or identification evidence distinguishes attachment from parasitic extraction, and what remains unexamined?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonparasitic-attachment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "habit-through-development", "name": "Habit through development", "description": "Distinguish the current growing condition from the organism's establishment history.", "findings": [ { "id": "ground-connection-history", "name": "Ground connection history", "description": "Record soil connections and their timing without inferring an entire life cycle from the present state.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can any root or other resource connection be traced to ground soil, and how complete was the inspection?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "ground-connection-history-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes where the organism began growing and whether its ground connection subsequently changed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ground-connection-history-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-and-growing-site", "name": "Attachment and growing site", "description": "Represent the specific plant surface and attachment that sustain the 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attachment interface and local support changes relevant to dislodgement.", "findings": [ { "id": "detachment-exposure", "name": "Detachment exposure", "description": "Record attachment integrity and observable threats without treating non-parasitism as proof of harmlessness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structures hold the organism in place, and what evidence indicates loosening, breakage or support-surface loss?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "detachment-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Would handling, pruning or mount replacement disrupt attachment or require an assessment of the supporting plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "detachment-exposure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-and-nutrient-access", "name": "Water and nutrient access", "description": "Describe resource inputs, absorptive pathways and retention at the growing site.", "rationale": "A model cannot derive watering or feeding requirements from the epiphyte label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-input-and-retention", "name": "Water input and retention", "description": "Track wetting events and water persistence around the organism's relevant surfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "wetting-and-drying-pattern", "name": "Wetting and drying pattern", "description": "Identify actual water access and drying behaviour without assuming a universal uptake mechanism.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inputs wet the organism or its substrate, and which absorptive surfaces are supported by observations or taxon-specific evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wetting-and-drying-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "How long do relevant surfaces, substrate or water-holding structures remain wet after a recorded input?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wetting-and-drying-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nutrient-access-pathways", "name": "Nutrient access pathways", "description": "Distinguish plausible nutrient sources from demonstrated uptake and dependencies.", "findings": [ { "id": "nutrient-source-evidence", "name": "Nutrient source evidence", "description": "Record candidate nutrient inputs and any established microbial contribution without assuming these occur in every epiphyte.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports nutrient access from deposited material, local substrate, water inputs or cultivation inputs?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nutrient-source-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does this organism have a demonstrated microbial dependency that would constrain cleaning, substrate replacement or feeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "nutrient-source-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "microhabitat-and-condition", "name": "Microhabitat and condition", "description": "Relate exposure and biological observations to the state of the epiphytic occurrence.", "rationale": "Condition must be interpreted at the occupied surface and against the organism's own developmental and seasonal context.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-exposure", "name": "Local exposure", "description": "Characterise environmental conditions at the organism and changes caused by surrounding vegetation or cultivation.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-change", "name": "Exposure change", "description": "Record local light, temperature and humidity alongside relevant changes in shade and airflow.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light, temperature and humidity measurements represent the actual growing position across relevant daily or seasonal variation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-change-q01" }, { "text": "Did canopy opening, relocation or cultivation changes precede an observed change in drying or condition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "exposure-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-persistence", "name": "Growth and persistence", "description": "Separate establishment, normal variation and deterioration through repeat observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-and-establishment-trajectory", "name": "Condition and establishment trajectory", "description": "Track taxon-appropriate signs of growth, reproduction, tissue loss and attachment development.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in live extent, new growth, attachment and reproductive structures occur within the same observation unit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-and-establishment-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes normal seasonal or developmental change from drying injury, decay or another unresolved cause of decline?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "condition-and-establishment-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-disturbance-decisions", "name": "Care and disturbance decisions", "description": "Translate epiphyte-specific observations into justified actions and follow-up checks.", "rationale": "Interventions can change attachment, moisture access and exposure simultaneously, so their prerequisites and outcomes must be explicit.", "layers": [ { "id": "intervention-prerequisites", "name": "Intervention prerequisites", "description": "Establish what supports a proposed care or disturbance action for this occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-suitability", "name": "Action suitability", "description": "Connect proposed watering, shading, mounting or removal to a documented need and applicable constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed condition and taxon-specific evidence justify the proposed intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What attachment, substrate, supporting-plant and linked permission constraints must be satisfied before acting?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "post-intervention-establishment", "name": "Post-intervention establishment", "description": "Evaluate whether the organism persists after its growing conditions are altered.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-outcome", "name": "Intervention outcome", "description": "Compare baseline and follow-up observations at an interval justified for the organism 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drying responses and seasonal tissue change from injury, and support intervention thresholds?", "What observation unit and monitoring interval can distinguish temporary survival from successful establishment in clonal or intermingled epiphyte patches?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "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. 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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": [ "epiphytic lichen", "epiphytic cactus", "aerophytes", "Airplants" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 epiphyte from another, and a epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 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broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a epiphyte is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 epiphyte is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a epiphyte, 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 epiphyte, 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 epiphyte 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 } } } }