{ "model": { "rank": 5492, "code": "thing-q205323", "model_id": "vr.tr.stercorariidae", "name": "Stercorariidae", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Stercorariidae as a bird family, organise evidence about its members, and judge observations and conservation actions at the appropriate taxonomic and geographic level.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q205323/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q205323", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205323", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:29:20Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08849-068d-7a03-899b-5a9295fcad52\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[Taxonomic treatment](https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/society-publications/checklist/charadriiformes-waders-skuas-gulls-and-terns/)", "Resolve records using Catharacta against the selected checklist rather than excluding them by genus spelling; Birds New Zealand places all skua species in Stercorarius. [Taxonomic treatment](https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/society-publications/checklist/charadriiformes-waders-skuas-gulls-and-terns/)", "For field recognition against gulls and terns, require a documented combination of bill structure, wing pattern, tail shape and flight behaviour assessed for age and plumage; food stealing alone is insufficient.", "Do not infer evolutionary placement solely from size or superficial plumage similarity: published research reports discordance between morphological and genetic relationships in skuas. [Primary research](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1688246/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Family taxon concept", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Stercorariidae; rank family; registry id vr.tr.stercorariidae", "why_it_matters": "Prevents family summaries from being mistaken for species or individual records." }, { "name": "Nomenclatural authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed author and date linked to a checked nomenclatural source", "why_it_matters": "Separates authorship of the name from the checklist defining its current membership." }, { "name": "Taxonomic treatment and membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Checklist, version, date, accepted genera and species, and synonym mappings", "why_it_matters": "Makes differing uses of Stercorarius and Catharacta interpretable." }, { "name": "External taxon identifiers", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Verified GBIF and NCBI family identifiers, retrieval dates and concept matches; unresolved when unchecked", "why_it_matters": "Supports evidence linkage without attaching a species or genus identifier to the family." }, { "name": "Identification resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Family confirmed; species supported; species unresolved; possible hybrid; identification disputed", "why_it_matters": "Allows useful observations to remain at the narrowest defensible rank." }, { "name": "Morphology evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Mass in g; wing, bill and tail measurements in mm; method, species, age and sex attached", "why_it_matters": "Prevents pooled measurements from concealing differences among skua species and life stages." }, { "name": "Life stage and plumage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Egg; chick; juvenile; immature; adult; unknown, with separate plumage, morph and moult descriptors", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification and behavioural comparisons conditional on development and plumage." }, { "name": "Sex and dimorphism evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Female; male; unknown, with determination method and species-specific comparative evidence", "why_it_matters": "Avoids unsupported sex assignment from apparent size or colour." }, { "name": "Seasonal range role", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Species or population linked to breeding, passage, nonbreeding or vagrant occurrence, with dates and location", "why_it_matters": "Separates nesting distribution from movement and offshore occurrence." }, { "name": "Feeding interaction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Kleptoparasitism; predation; scavenging; other observed feeding; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed food acquisition from assumptions based on the skua name." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment scope", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed species or population, assessment system, category, year, geography and trend evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a member species' status from becoming an unsupported family-wide status." } ], "affordances": [ "Reconcile skua and jaeger records across common names, synonyms and checklist versions.", "Assess whether an observation supports family identification or a narrower species assignment.", "Compare morphology and life-history evidence while preserving species, age and sex distinctions.", "Summarise seasonal range and feeding relationships without treating all skuas as ecologically identical.", "Identify evidence gaps and route proposed monitoring or disturbance-sensitive activity to species, site and legal reviews." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Establish which family concept the registry entry represents and how member names resolve.", "rationale": "Skua nomenclature and genus treatments can otherwise fragment one family into incompatible records.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-name-and-rank", "name": "Family name and rank", "description": "Anchor Stercorariidae to its nomenclature and taxonomic level.", "findings": [ { "id": "family-concept-anchor", "name": "Family concept anchor", "description": "Record the family name, checked authorship and parent placement separately from species binomials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source establishes the authorship, date and parent placement of Stercorariidae?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "family-concept-anchor-q01" }, { "text": "Does the incoming record describe the family, a member species, a population or an individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "family-concept-anchor-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-crosswalks", "name": "Membership and crosswalks", "description": "Interpret accepted names and historical combinations through a versioned checklist.", "findings": [ { "id": "skua-name-resolution", "name": "Skua name resolution", "description": "Maintain treatment-specific membership and mappings for Stercorarius, Catharacta and regional common names.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which checklist version defines the included genera and species?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "skua-name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "How does that treatment resolve Catharacta combinations and names using 'jaeger'?", "kind": "definition", "id": "skua-name-resolution-q02" }, { "text": "Which GBIF and NCBI identifiers have been verified to represent the same family concept?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "skua-name-resolution-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-variation", "name": "Recognition and variation", "description": "Evaluate evidence for skua identification without overstating species, age or sex resolution.", "rationale": "Variable plumage and resemblance among seabirds make single-feature identification unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-recognition", "name": "Family recognition", "description": "Test a candidate identification against plausible gull and tern alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-field-evidence", "name": "Combined field evidence", "description": "Record visible bill, wing and tail features alongside flight observations and viewing limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed combination of bill structure, wing pattern, tail shape and flight supports Stercorariidae?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-field-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which gull or tern alternatives remain plausible under the observed age, distance and lighting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "combined-field-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "within-family-variation", "name": "Within-family variation", "description": "Separate species distinctions from age, moult, colour variation and uncertain sex.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-identification", "name": "Conditional identification", "description": "Require species-linked interpretation of measurements and plumage rather than a universal skua appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do age, moult and documented colour morph affect the proposed identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditional-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What measurement or validated method supports any sex assignment or claim of sexual dimorphism?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-identification-q02" }, { "text": "Should this record remain at family level or be flagged for specialist review?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-identification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-breeding", "name": "Life cycle and breeding", "description": "Organise development and reproduction as evidence about particular skua species and populations.", "rationale": "Breeding condition and developmental stage affect identification, population interpretation and disturbance decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-stages", "name": "Developmental stages", "description": "Distinguish physical development from assumed chronological age and reproductive maturity.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-maturity", "name": "Stage and maturity", "description": "Preserve the evidence separating chick, juvenile, immature and adult records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed features support the assigned developmental stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-maturity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source establish chronological age or breeding maturity, or only a plumage category?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-and-maturity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breeding-site-use", "name": "Breeding-site use", "description": "Connect reproductive observations to a named species, site and season.", "findings": [ { "id": "breeding-evidence-and-outcome", "name": "Breeding evidence and outcome", "description": "Separate presence near a possible nesting site from confirmed reproduction and measured success.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes nesting, eggs, chicks or fledging at this site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "breeding-evidence-and-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Which species, season and sampling method support reported breeding timing and success?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "breeding-evidence-and-outcome-q02" }, { "text": "What observation method can answer the question while respecting documented nesting-site restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "breeding-evidence-and-outcome-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-range-and-habitat", "name": "Seasonal range and habitat", "description": "Represent where member species breed, travel and occur at sea.", "rationale": "A family distribution assembled from observations can obscure seasonality, vagrancy and population differences.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-evidence", "name": "Range evidence", "description": "Qualify geographic claims by species identity, date and occurrence role.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-occurrence-meaning", "name": "Seasonal occurrence meaning", "description": "Distinguish established seasonal range from isolated or uncertain records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this location represent breeding, passage, nonbreeding use or a vagrant observation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seasonal-occurrence-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated records or range assessment support native occurrence for the identified species?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "seasonal-occurrence-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-and-connectivity", "name": "Habitat and connectivity", "description": "Connect terrestrial breeding locations with marine use only where evidence permits.", "findings": [ { "id": "breeding-to-marine-links", "name": "Breeding-to-marine links", "description": "Distinguish measured movements from inferred connections between breeding and offshore records.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tracking, resighting or survey evidence connects a breeding population to marine areas?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "breeding-to-marine-links-q01" }, { "text": "How were habitat use, seasonal occupancy and survey coverage measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "breeding-to-marine-links-q02" }, { "text": "Can the observed route be generalised beyond the tracked individuals and years?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "breeding-to-marine-links-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-ecological-interactions", "name": "Feeding and ecological interactions", "description": "Record how skuas obtain food and interact with prey, hosts and human food sources.", "rationale": "A reputation for food stealing must not substitute for evidence about diet or ecological effects.", "layers": [ { "id": "food-acquisition", "name": "Food acquisition", "description": "Separate feeding mechanisms and successful acquisition from pursuit alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-feeding-mode", "name": "Observed feeding mode", "description": "Classify each supported interaction as food theft, predation, scavenging or another observed mode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was food actually obtained, and what evidence distinguishes theft from predation or scavenging?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-feeding-mode-q01" }, { "text": "Which prey or host taxon, skua species and seasonal context were identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observed-feeding-mode-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diet-and-impact", "name": "Diet and impact", "description": "Evaluate dietary importance and ecological effects at the scale supported by sampling.", "findings": [ { "id": "interaction-scale", "name": "Interaction scale", "description": "Keep feeding observations distinct from estimates of dietary dependence or effects on other populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which method and sampling period support the estimated contribution of each food source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interaction-scale-q01" }, { "text": "Does evidence demonstrate an effect on the prey or host population, or only individual interactions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interaction-scale-q02" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is needed before changing access to discards or proposing intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "interaction-scale-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-and-action", "name": "Conservation and action", "description": "Interpret assessments, pressures and possible actions without assigning a synthetic status to the entire family.", "rationale": "Species-level status and local conditions must remain distinguishable when deciding what may be done.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment-and-trend", "name": "Assessment and trend", "description": "Attach conservation categories and population estimates to their assessed units.", "findings": [ { "id": "scoped-conservation-evidence", "name": "Scoped conservation evidence", "description": "Record assessment year, geography and taxonomic treatment alongside status and trend.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which member species or population was assessed, in what year and under which assessment system?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "scoped-conservation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Are reported counts individuals, breeding pairs or occupied territories, and how uncertain is the trend?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scoped-conservation-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does a taxonomic revision prevent direct comparison with an earlier assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scoped-conservation-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pressures-and-response", "name": "Pressures and response", "description": "Connect documented local pressures to proportionate, authorised monitoring or management.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-led-action", "name": "Evidence-led action", "description": "Require local evidence before attributing skua declines to disease, food change, disturbance or other pressures.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence links the suspected pressure to the affected species, population and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-led-action-q01" }, { "text": "Which site rules, wildlife permissions and current biosecurity instructions govern the proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-led-action-q02" }, { "text": "What observable outcome would justify continuing, changing or stopping the response?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-led-action-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge, not a source-verified account; family authorship, date and exact database identifiers are omitted.", "Verify the chosen checklist's species limits and treatment of Stercorarius versus Catharacta; the kinds listed are not exhaustive.", "Conservation categories, assessment years, range boundaries and sexual size differences require species-specific verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Great skua (Stercorarius skua)", "South polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)", "Brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus)", "Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)", "Parasitic jaeger or Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)", "Long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Zoological scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Stercorariidae", "note": "A family name, not a species binomial or an individual organism's identifier." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The exact key and taxonomic treatment require verification." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The exact family identifier requires verification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, maintained by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, governs zoological names, including family-group names.", "The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria provide a framework for assessing extinction risk; assessments must be associated with the assessed taxon and date." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Classification and identification in ornithology and biodiversity records.", "Research on kleptoparasitism, predation and seabird food webs.", "Tracking studies of long-distance migration and marine habitat use.", "Monitoring breeding populations and reproductive success." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Applying one species' conservation status to the entire family.", "Confusing immature plumages, colour morphs or similar species during identification.", "Treating changes in genus placement as evidence of distinct biological entities.", "Disturbing breeding colonies; adults may make defensive aerial attacks near nests." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "North American usage commonly calls the three smaller species jaegers; British usage calls them skuas.", "Breeding ranges differ among species, spanning northern high latitudes and southern subantarctic or Antarctic regions.", "Many populations migrate far from breeding grounds and spend substantial periods at sea." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Stercorarius", "difference": "A genus within Stercorariidae; the family and genus are different taxonomic ranks even when a classification places all living members in this genus." }, { "name": "Laridae", "difference": "A separate charadriiform family containing gulls and, in widely used classifications, terns and skimmers." }, { "name": "Catharacta", "difference": "A genus name used in some classifications for the larger skuas, rather than a separate family." }, { "name": "A skua population", "difference": "A geographically or reproductively delimited group of organisms; Stercorariidae is a family-level taxon encompassing multiple species and populations." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Stercorariidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic checklist and version should govern membership, species limits and historical Catharacta mappings?", "What are the verified family-name authority and date, and the matching GBIF and NCBI taxonomy identifiers?", "Which sourced field characters reliably distinguish Stercorariidae from gulls and terns across juvenile, adult and moulting plumages?", "Which life-history, sexual-dimorphism and seasonal-range statements are sufficiently supported across members to summarise at family level?", "What are the latest species-specific IUCN assessment years, categories and regional trends, and where are monitoring gaps too large to judge change?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 39 } }, "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 Stercorariidae, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Stercorariidae as a bird family, organise evidence about its members, and judge observations and conservation actions at the appropriate taxonomic and geographic level.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 67 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 Stercorariidae, 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 67 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 Stercorariidae from another, and a Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 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"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 Stercorariidae is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Stercorariidae, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and 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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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 Stercorariidae is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae, 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 Stercorariidae 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 } } } }