{ "model": { "rank": 4756, "code": "thing-q21102", "model_id": "vr.tr.beagle", "name": "beagle", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a beagle as a domestic dog breed, assess an individual beagle's condition and needs, and identify appropriate care, handling and activities.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q21102/", "tier": 2, "score": 72, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 72, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q21102", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21102", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:56:19Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.5, "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: 01a087f4-18f1-7313-a2eb-f8fb191c14de\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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protocols and treatment prescriptions", "Commercial breeding businesses, animal sale transactions and research protocols" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Interpret 'beagle' as a domestic dog breed designation, not a separate wild species or an individual animal's identity.", "Use documented ancestry or an explicitly attributed identification assessment; a tricolour coat alone does not establish beagle identity.", "Compare the combination of compact hound proportions, pendant ears, muzzle, tail carriage and measured size with an identified beagle standard; no single feature is sufficient.", "Consider confusion with harriers, foxhounds, basset hounds and hound crosses through both morphology and ancestry evidence.", "Record scent-following behaviour as functional evidence, while recognising that it neither proves ancestry nor guarantees an individual's working ability." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Breed identification evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented pedigree | attributed assessment | reported ancestry | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates substantiated breed identity from appearance-based or owner-reported labels." }, { "name": "Applicable breed standard", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "issuing organisation, standard identifier, version or date, jurisdiction", "why_it_matters": "Makes conformation and size classifications interpretable without treating one standard as universal." }, { "name": "Height at withers", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, with age and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports size assessment and comparison with the selected standard." }, { "name": "Body mass and condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg and body-condition score with the scoring system identified", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes body size from excess or insufficient condition when judging mobility and activity needs." }, { "name": "Life stage and reproductive status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "age or estimated age; developmental stage; recorded sex; reproductive status", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for growth, physical differences, behaviour and permitted activities." }, { "name": "Scent engagement and disengagement", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed search persistence and response to interruption, with setting and date", "why_it_matters": "Informs enrichment, scent-work suitability and management where following an odour could lead to escape." }, { "name": "Recall under distraction", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "successful responses / observed trials, with cue, distance, distraction and containment", "why_it_matters": "Supports evidence-based decisions about handling and controlled freedom." }, { "name": "Vocalisation pattern", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "barking | baying | howling | other; trigger, duration and frequency", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish activity-related communication from possible distress and assess household compatibility." }, { "name": "Social and separation responses", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed responses to people, dogs, other animals and time alone", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assumptions about sociability from replacing an individual assessment." }, { "name": "Functional readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "comfortable | limited | assessment needed, with observed mobility, recovery and professional restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Connects proposed scent work or exercise to the individual's present capacity." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a beagle identification claim and retain the evidence and unresolved uncertainty.", "Compare recorded morphology with a named breed standard without equating conformation with health.", "Select controlled scent games and training tasks using observed motivation and functional capacity.", "Adjust containment, lead handling and recall practice using evidence from scent-distraction observations.", "Assess household fit through vocalisation, social behaviour, separation responses and available enrichment.", "Flag changes in condition or behaviour for an appropriate care review and record resulting restrictions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "breed-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Breed identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish what the beagle designation means and which entity a record describes.", "rationale": "Beagle is a breed designation whose evidence, standards and populations must not be confused with species taxonomy or an individual dog.", "layers": [ { "id": "breed-concept", "name": "Breed concept", "description": "Locate the registered thing within domestic dogs and delimit adjacent hound concepts.", "findings": [ { "id": "breed-not-species", "name": "Breed, population and individual", "description": "Keep breed-level descriptions separate from attributes of a named dog or a defined breeding population.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe the beagle breed, a defined beagle population or an individual dog?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "breed-not-species-q01" }, { "text": "Which domestic-dog model supplies the inherited taxonomy and shared canine characteristics?", "kind": "definition", "id": "breed-not-species-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Record how an animal was identified as a beagle and the limits of that identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "ancestry-and-attribution", "name": "Ancestry and attribution", "description": "Distinguish pedigree-supported identity from reported ancestry and visual resemblance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pedigree record, assessor or other evidence supports the beagle designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ancestry-and-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What uncertainty remains about a hound cross or another similar breed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ancestry-and-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hound-form-and-conformation", "name": "Hound form and conformation", "description": "Describe the physical combination relevant to recognising and assessing a beagle.", "rationale": "Beagle identification requires several features together, and formal size or conformation judgements depend on the selected standard.", "layers": [ { "id": "size-and-proportions", "name": "Size and proportions", "description": "Record measured stature and proportions with developmental and standard context.", "findings": [ { "id": "standard-relative-size", "name": "Standard-relative size", "description": "Interpret height and proportions against a cited standard rather than an assumed universal threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the measured height at the withers, and how old was the dog when measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "standard-relative-size-q01" }, { "text": "Which organisation's beagle standard and edition define any assigned size classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "standard-relative-size-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-features", "name": "Recognition features", "description": "Assess the combined head, ears, coat, body and tail characteristics.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-hound-appearance", "name": "Combined hound appearance", "description": "Use the whole physical pattern while avoiding identification from colour alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the observed ears, muzzle, body proportions and tail carriage compare with the cited beagle description?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-hound-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations help distinguish this dog from a harrier, foxhound, basset hound or hound cross?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "combined-hound-appearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "scent-behaviour-and-control", "name": "Scent behaviour and control", "description": "Assess scent engagement and the handling decisions it creates.", "rationale": "Scent pursuit is central to the beagle model, but its intensity and controllability require individual evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "olfactory-engagement", "name": "Olfactory engagement", "description": "Describe motivation and persistence during controlled searching.", "findings": [ { "id": "search-and-disengagement", "name": "Search and disengagement", "description": "Record how the dog starts, sustains and leaves a scent-search task.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which odours and settings elicit sustained searching, and how is that response observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "search-and-disengagement-q01" }, { "text": "Which cues or rewards allow the dog to disengage from a scent in a controlled setting?", "kind": "action", "id": "search-and-disengagement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pursuit-management", "name": "Pursuit management", "description": "Connect observed distraction and pursuit behaviour to containment and handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "recall-and-containment", "name": "Recall and containment", "description": "Base freedom of movement on demonstrated responses and the surrounding hazards.", "questions": [ { "text": "How reliably does the dog respond to recall when a scent or moving animal competes for attention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recall-and-containment-q01" }, { "text": "What lead, enclosure or supervision arrangements are appropriate for the observed behaviour and location?", "kind": "action", "id": "recall-and-containment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "social-life-and-household-fit", "name": "Social life and household fit", "description": "Assess companionship, time alone and vocal behaviour in the actual living environment.", "rationale": "Expectations about a sociable hound must be checked against the individual's responses and household circumstances.", "layers": [ { "id": "companionship-and-separation", "name": "Companionship and separation", "description": "Record interactions and responses to absence without assuming a uniform breed temperament.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-social-responses", "name": "Individual social responses", "description": "Distinguish observed comfort with companions from tolerance of separation or other animals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What responses have been observed around familiar people, unfamiliar dogs and smaller animals?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-social-responses-q01" }, { "text": "What happens during time alone, and what evidence supports changes to companionship or gradual separation practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-social-responses-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vocal-communication", "name": "Vocal communication", "description": "Interpret barking, baying and howling through their triggers and context.", "findings": [ { "id": "vocalisation-context", "name": "Vocalisation context", "description": "Avoid treating every hound vocalisation as either a problem or harmless breed behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "When does barking, baying or howling occur, and for how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vocalisation-context-q01" }, { "text": "What additional observations distinguish search-related excitement from possible distress or unmet needs?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vocalisation-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-care-and-activities", "name": "Condition, care and activities", "description": "Connect life stage and observed condition with care and suitable beagle activities.", "rationale": "Breed appearance and scent motivation alone cannot establish whether an individual can comfortably perform a proposed task.", "layers": [ { "id": "life-stage-and-condition", "name": "Life stage and condition", "description": "Track growth, body condition and functional changes relevant to everyday activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-care-baseline", "name": "Individual care baseline", "description": "Record individual condition and attributed health information without converting breed risk claims into diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the dog's age, body mass, body-condition score and observed movement or recovery limitations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-care-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented individual findings or verified breed-related concerns justify a professional care review?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-care-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-selection", "name": "Activity selection", "description": "Match scent enrichment, training and working roles to demonstrated capacity and welfare.", "findings": [ { "id": "suitable-scent-activities", "name": "Suitable scent activities", "description": "Treat suitability for scent games or formal scent work as an individual assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which proposed scent activities match this beagle's motivation, training, life stage and recorded restrictions?", "kind": "action", "id": "suitable-scent-activities-q01" }, { "text": "What observed fatigue, discomfort, avoidance or loss of engagement should end or modify a session?", "kind": "action", "id": "suitable-scent-activities-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the dog breed, inferred from the name and living-organism domain; no sources were consulted.", "Height ranges describe breed standards, not the full observed variation among individual dogs; current standard wording should be checked.", "Species-level taxonomy identifiers, native-range descriptions and IUCN assessments should not be presented as breed-specific records." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of beagle 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": [ "13-inch variety under the American Kennel Club standard", "15-inch variety under the American Kennel Club standard" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of beagle 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": "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "161", "note": "Breed-standard number for the Beagle; not a species-level taxonomic identifier." }, { "scheme": "Pedigree registration number", "value_or_pattern": "Registry-specific identifier", "note": "Identifies an individual registered dog within a kennel club's records, rather than the breed." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of beagle 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": [ "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed standard for the Beagle, classified in Group 6: Scent hounds 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without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Adult height at the withers under the FCI standard", "typical_range": "33-40", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Height at the withers for the AKC 13-inch variety", "typical_range": "Up to 13", "unit": "in" }, { "quantity": "Height at the withers for the AKC 15-inch variety", "typical_range": "Over 13 and up to 15", "unit": "in" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of beagle 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": [ "Strong scent-following behaviour can lead to roaming or escape.", "Food-seeking behaviour and excess feeding can contribute to obesity.", "Pendant ears can be associated with 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variation hold for the sense of beagle 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": "Domestic dog", "difference": "The domestic dog is the broader biological category; the beagle is one breed within it." }, { "name": "Harrier", "difference": "A separately recognised scent-hound breed that is generally taller than the beagle." }, { "name": "Basset Hound", "difference": "A separately recognised scent-hound breed with markedly shorter legs relative to its body and heavier construction." }, { "name": "Individual beagle", "difference": "An individual has its own age, sex, health and registration history; the breed describes a population and breeding standard." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how 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"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 beagle, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a beagle as a domestic dog breed, assess an individual beagle's condition and needs, and identify appropriate care, handling and activities.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 72 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 beagle, 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 72 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 beagle from another, and a beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle 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 beagle and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 beagle is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a beagle, 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 beagle, 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 beagle 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 } } } }