{ "model": { "rank": 5845, "code": "thing-q193818", "model_id": "vr.tr.hip", "name": "hip", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a hip, describe its anatomical and functional state, and determine which observations or actions are appropriate given available evidence and constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q193818/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "human hip", "right hip", "left hip" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 64, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.hip-plant", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q193818", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193818", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:36:17Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00223822, "turns": 1, "seconds": 18.9, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 69.4, "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: 01a07b38-b140-7402-8978-6b20c598a36d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: hip\nRegistry id: vr.tr.hip\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model say" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q193818", "registryId": "vr.tr.hip", "name": "hip", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q193818/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hip", "name": "hip", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a hip, describe its anatomical and functional state, and determine which observations or actions are appropriate given available evidence and constraints.", "definition": "The hip is the synovial ball-and-socket joint (articulatio coxae) in which the femoral head articulates with the acetabulum of the pelvis, transmitting body weight to the lower limb and permitting multi-axial motion of the thigh.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the hip as a living anatomical region centred on the articulation between the femoral head and acetabulum, including the local structures needed to describe its movement, support and condition; species, laterality and the intended regional boundary must be explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, laterality and anatomical location of a particular hip", "The femoral head-acetabulum articulation and its local supporting structures", "Hip movement, stability and contribution to weight bearing", "Locally observed symptoms, structural changes and functional limitations", "Hip-specific intervention history, implanted components and action constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The pelvis or femur as complete skeletal structures", "Lumbar spine and sacroiliac joints as independent anatomical entities", "The knee and the remainder of the lower limb", "Whole-person gait, mobility and systemic disease models", "Clinical encounters, treatment protocols and implant product specifications" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Locate the articulation of a femoral head with an acetabulum; a pelvic landmark or sacroiliac articulation alone does not identify the hip joint.", "Distinguish the joint itself from the broader lateral or anterior hip region by recording the anatomical referent of each observation.", "Identify the proximal femoral articulation with the pelvis rather than the distal femoral articulation at the knee.", "Distinguish a living hip containing replacement components from an isolated prosthetic device.", "Resolve anatomical usage explicitly when the word 'hip' could instead denote a garment measurement, external body contour or plant fruit." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Anatomical referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "joint; surrounding hip region; external landmark; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents observations about different anatomical extents from being treated as observations of the same structure." }, { "name": "Organism and species", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to the individual organism and its species", "why_it_matters": "Anatomical interpretation and movement expectations depend on the organism." }, { "name": "Laterality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "left; right; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates the two hips and prevents findings or actions from being assigned to the wrong side." }, { "name": "Articular configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "native; partially replaced; totally replaced; other surgically altered configuration; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes which structures exist and how observations and constraints should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Joint alignment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported alignment or congruence, assessment method, time and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Records the relationship between articulating structures without inferring it from symptoms alone." }, { "name": "Range of motion", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees by movement direction, with active or passive method, position and assessment time", "why_it_matters": "Makes movement limitation interpretable and comparable across assessments." }, { "name": "Pain or discomfort", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "location, reported quality, named severity scale, timing and provoking activity; absent or unknown where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Separates the reported experience from assumptions about its anatomical cause." }, { "name": "Load-bearing performance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed task, loading conditions, assistance, symptoms and completion", "why_it_matters": "Shows what the hip contributes during a specific activity without confusing performance with permission to load it." }, { "name": "Local tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "structure-specific observation, method, date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Keeps findings about cartilage, bone, capsule, labrum and nearby soft tissues anatomically distinct." }, { "name": "Current movement and loading restrictions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to an applicable instruction, its issuer, affected side, conditions and review date", "why_it_matters": "Supports action decisions using documented constraints rather than assumed restrictions." } ], "affordances": [ "Attach an examination, image or reported symptom to the correct hip and anatomical structure.", "Compare hip movement or task performance over time under recorded assessment conditions.", "Compare left and right hips while retaining separate findings and avoiding an assumption that either side is normal.", "Check whether a proposed movement, loading task or assessment conflicts with documented hip-specific restrictions.", "Identify missing or conflicting evidence that requires clarification before interpreting hip condition or planning an action.", "Link local findings to relevant clinical assessments and intervention records without inferring a diagnosis from a single observation." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "pending research", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "will be replaced" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hip-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Hip identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which hip and which anatomical extent an observation concerns.", "rationale": "The word hip can refer to a joint, a surrounding region or a body contour, and paired hips require unambiguous identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "organism-and-side", "name": "Organism and side", "description": "Anchors a hip to its organism and laterality.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-hip", "name": "Identified hip", "description": "Records the organism, species and side supported by the available identification evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism, species and side does this hip record describe?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identified-hip-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes the side, and do examination notes and image labels agree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-hip-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "joint-and-regional-extent", "name": "Joint and regional extent", "description": "Separates the articulation from adjacent tissues and neighbouring anatomical regions.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-anatomical-boundary", "name": "Observation anatomical boundary", "description": "Assigns each observation to the joint, a named local structure or an unresolved regional location.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this observation concern the femoral head-acetabulum articulation, a surrounding structure or only a reported hip-area location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observation-anatomical-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the observation cross into a pelvis, femur, lumbar spine or other neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observation-anatomical-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hip-structure-and-integrity", "name": "Hip structure and integrity", "description": "Describes the articulation and local tissues as observed, including altered anatomy.", "rationale": "Hip function and permissible assessment depend on the configuration and condition of the articulating and supporting structures.", "layers": [ { "id": "articular-configuration", "name": "Articular configuration", "description": "Captures native or altered joint anatomy and the relationship between articulating components.", "findings": [ { "id": "articulating-structures-and-alignment", "name": "Articulating structures and alignment", "description": "Records which native structures or replacement components form the hip and what evidence describes their alignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which native articulating structures and replacement components are present in this hip?", "kind": "definition", "id": "articulating-structures-and-alignment-q01" }, { "text": "What examination, imaging or operative evidence describes their alignment, and when was it obtained?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "articulating-structures-and-alignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-tissue-integrity", "name": "Local tissue integrity", "description": "Keeps observations of articular and periarticular tissues distinct.", "findings": [ { "id": "structure-specific-condition", "name": "Structure-specific condition", "description": "Records supported observations about named hip tissues without treating an unexamined structure as normal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hip structure was assessed, and what condition or change was actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "structure-specific-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which local structures remain unassessed or cannot be resolved by the method used?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "structure-specific-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hip-movement-and-load", "name": "Hip movement and load", "description": "Captures movement capacity and hip contribution to specified loaded activities.", "rationale": "A structural description alone does not establish how a hip moves or performs during standing, transfers or locomotion.", "layers": [ { "id": "directional-movement", "name": "Directional movement", "description": "Records hip motion with the conditions needed to interpret it.", "findings": [ { "id": "measured-hip-motion", "name": "Measured hip motion", "description": "Describes motion by direction, active or passive assessment, position and limiting response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What range was measured for each assessed hip movement, using which position and active or passive method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-hip-motion-q01" }, { "text": "Was the observed endpoint associated with pain, resistance, weakness, compensation or a documented precaution?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-hip-motion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "loaded-task-performance", "name": "Loaded task performance", "description": "Relates the hip to specific tasks while preserving whole-body and environmental context.", "findings": [ { "id": "hip-contribution-under-load", "name": "Hip contribution under load", "description": "Records performance during a named activity and distinguishes local evidence from whole-person limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which task and loading conditions was hip performance observed, with what assistance or support?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hip-contribution-under-load-q01" }, { "text": "What supports attributing the observed limitation to this hip rather than another joint, balance or general capacity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hip-contribution-under-load-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hip-symptoms-and-action-context", "name": "Hip symptoms and action context", "description": "Connects reported symptoms, intervention history and current constraints to decisions about this hip.", "rationale": "Hip-area symptoms do not establish their source, and action decisions require current, attributable instructions and evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptom-location-and-course", "name": "Symptom location and course", "description": "Records symptoms in their spatial, activity and time context.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-hip-symptom-pattern", "name": "Reported hip symptom pattern", "description": "Preserves the location and course of symptoms separately from any proposed anatomical explanation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is discomfort reported, when does it occur, and which activities provoke or relieve it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reported-hip-symptom-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Who reported or observed it, and what evidence, if any, connects it to a particular hip structure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reported-hip-symptom-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interventions-and-current-constraints", "name": "Interventions and current constraints", "description": "Tracks changes to the hip and the instructions governing proposed activities or assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "hip-intervention-history", "name": "Hip intervention history", "description": "Links relevant procedures or injuries to the affected side, anatomical changes and dated evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented injuries or interventions changed this hip, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "hip-intervention-history-q01" }, { "text": "Which anatomical or functional consequences are documented, and which remain unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "hip-intervention-history-q02" } ] }, { "id": "permitted-next-action", "name": "Permitted next action", "description": "Checks a proposed hip-related action against applicable instructions and unresolved information.", "questions": [ { "text": "What current instruction governs the proposed hip movement, loading task or assessment, and who issued it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed action meet those conditions, or must a specific uncertainty be resolved first?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-next-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "native (unreplaced) hip joint", "hip region (coxal region of the lower limb)", "primary osteoarthritis of hip", "total hip arthroplasty / prosthetic hip", "hip dysplasia (developmental dysplasia of the hip)", "femoroacetabular impingement morphology", "pediatric / immature hip", "hip fracture (proximal femoral fracture involving the hip)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of hip this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend hip to mean the joint specifically or the broader anatomical region?", "Should this entry cover hips across species, or should its initial operational scope be human anatomy?", "Which adjacent registry entries own the labrum, capsule, periarticular muscles and bursae, and how should shared observations be linked?", "Which assessment methods and contextual reference values should support comparisons across age, species and surgically altered hips?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this anatomical concept and therefore provide the authoritative 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a hip, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify a hip, describe its anatomical and functional state, and determine which observations or actions are appropriate given available evidence and constraints.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: human hip, right hip, left hip.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 64 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 hip, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "human hip", "right hip", "left hip" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 hip from another, and a hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hip 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 hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip 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 hip and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 hip is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hip, 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 hip, 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 hip 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 } } } }