{ "model": { "rank": 5020, "code": "thing-q214293", "model_id": "vr.tr.bubo", "name": "Bubo", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a suspected bubo, describe its local state and evolution, and connect it to appropriate clinical assessment without treating the swelling itself as a confirmed disease diagnosis.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q214293/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 70, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.bubo", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q214293", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214293", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:29:43Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 14.7, "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: 01a08812-a5c4-7f92-a214-a6c109630db2\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[CDC plague signs](https://www.cdc.gov/plague/signs-symptoms/index.html), [CDC LGV guidance](https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/lgv.htm).", "Assess suppuration explicitly rather than assuming that every bubo contains an established drainable collection.", "Do not restrict recognition to the groin: plague-associated buboes can involve axillary or cervical nodes. [CDC clinical diagnosis](https://www.cdc.gov/plague/hcp/diagnosis-testing/index.html)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Nodal localisation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Affected lymph-node basin, side and supporting examination or imaging observation", "why_it_matters": "Separates a nodal manifestation from neighbouring masses and links it to a drainage territory." }, { "name": "Extent of nodal involvement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Single discernible node; multiple discernible nodes; confluent nodal swelling; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a regional swelling from being represented as an unjustifiably precise count of nodes." }, { "name": "Swelling dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres along specified axes, with method and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time while distinguishing external swelling from imaging measurements of a node." }, { "name": "Pain and tenderness", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Patient-reported pain on a named scale; separately recorded elicited tenderness", "why_it_matters": "Keeps subjective pain distinct from an examination finding." }, { "name": "Local inflammatory features", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Warmth, erythema and oedema individually present, absent or not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis for describing the swelling as inflammatory reviewable." }, { "name": "Suppuration evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not assessed; suspected clinically; collection demonstrated; purulent material observed; no collection demonstrated", "why_it_matters": "Separates suspicion of pus from direct evidence and supports cause-specific procedural review." }, { "name": "Overlying skin integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact; ulcerated; spontaneously draining; procedural opening; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes spontaneous progression from changes caused by intervention." }, { "name": "Clinical trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "New; enlarging; stable; regressing; recurrent; unresolved, with dated observations", "why_it_matters": "Makes progression and response visible without equating local improvement with cure." }, { "name": "Etiological attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked suspected or confirmed cause, evidence, author and date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an appearance-based hypothesis from becoming an unsupported diagnosis." } ], "affordances": [ "Assemble the examination and imaging evidence supporting or challenging a bubo label.", "Track the same nodal swelling across visits using location, dimensions and local findings.", "Associate the swelling with plausible drainage-territory lesions and exposure history without asserting causation.", "Link a specimen and its results to the exact sampled swelling.", "Flag documented deterioration for clinical review under the relevant disease or triage model.", "Record clinician-directed sampling or local treatment and compare subsequent observations." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bubo-recognition", "name": "Bubo recognition", "description": "Establish the intended medical sense and the evidence needed to apply it to a particular swelling.", "rationale": "The registry provides no definition, and recognising a bubo requires more than recognising a regional lump.", "layers": [ { "id": "term-and-threshold", "name": "Term and threshold", "description": "Make the adopted meaning and clinical threshold explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "bubo-label-basis", "name": "Bubo label basis", "description": "Record who applied the label, the definition they used and whether it denotes a suspected or established clinical sign.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which definition of bubo is being used, and does it require pain, acute inflammation or suppuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bubo-label-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Who applied the term, and what examination or documentary evidence supported it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bubo-label-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nodal-origin", "name": "Nodal origin", "description": "Distinguish lymph-node swelling from other masses in the same anatomical region.", "findings": [ { "id": "nodal-versus-neighbouring-mass", "name": "Nodal versus neighbouring mass", "description": "Capture the evidence of nodal origin and unresolved alternatives such as a hernia or a non-nodal abscess.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports lymph-node involvement rather than a skin, soft-tissue or hernial lesion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nodal-versus-neighbouring-mass-q01" }, { "text": "What additional assessment has the clinician identified as necessary if nodal origin remains uncertain?", "kind": "action", "id": "nodal-versus-neighbouring-mass-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-anatomy-and-local-state", "name": "Regional anatomy and local state", "description": "Describe which nodes are involved and the physical state of the swelling.", "rationale": "Location, extent and tissue changes determine what is being followed and whether observations concern the same manifestation.", "layers": [ { "id": "basin-and-extent", "name": "Basin and extent", "description": "Locate the swelling and make its measured extent reproducible.", "findings": [ { "id": "mapped-nodal-swelling", "name": "Mapped nodal swelling", "description": "Identify basin, laterality, discernible nodes and dimensions without confusing a nodal group with one node.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which basin and side are affected, and are individual nodes distinguishable within the swelling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mapped-nodal-swelling-q01" }, { "text": "Do recorded dimensions describe a node, a collection or the whole external swelling, and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mapped-nodal-swelling-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inflammation-and-breakdown", "name": "Inflammation and breakdown", "description": "Separate symptoms, inflammatory signs, suspected collections and skin disruption.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-tissue-state", "name": "Local tissue state", "description": "Record pain, tenderness, warmth, skin changes and the evidence for pus or drainage as separate observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inflammatory features are reported by the patient and which were observed on examination?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-tissue-state-q01" }, { "text": "Is suppuration suspected or demonstrated, and is any opening spontaneous or procedure-related?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-tissue-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cause-and-diagnostic-evidence", "name": "Cause and diagnostic evidence", "description": "Connect the local sign to possible causes while preserving the distinction between hypothesis and confirmation.", "rationale": "A bubo does not identify its cause; causal interpretation must remain tied to history, examination and testing.", "layers": [ { "id": "drainage-and-exposure-context", "name": "Drainage and exposure context", "description": "Relate the nodal basin to relevant lesions, exposures and symptom timing.", "findings": [ { "id": "causal-context", "name": "Causal context", "description": "Record clinically relevant entry-site lesions and exposure history as evidence for competing explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there a skin or mucosal lesion in the relevant drainage territory, and how does its timing relate to the swelling?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "causal-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented exposures support each proposed cause, and which alternatives remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "causal-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specimen-and-attribution", "name": "Specimen and attribution", "description": "Connect diagnostic results to their actual specimen and anatomical source.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-cause-assessment", "name": "Traceable cause assessment", "description": "Keep sample identity, test limitations and clinician interpretation attached to each etiological claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the tested material obtained from this bubo, another lesion or a systemic specimen, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-cause-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What does the result establish about this swelling, and what uncertainty remains because of timing, prior treatment or test limitations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-cause-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-clinical-actions", "name": "Course and clinical actions", "description": "Track progression and connect changes in the bubo to accountable clinical decisions.", "rationale": "Local progression, systemic illness and procedural needs must be assessed together without embedding a universal treatment rule for every bubo.", "layers": [ { "id": "trajectory-and-escalation", "name": "Trajectory and escalation", "description": "Relate local change to the patient's wider clinical state and the relevant escalation pathway.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-and-systemic-course", "name": "Local and systemic course", "description": "Maintain separate timelines for nodal swelling and systemic symptoms so local appearance does not substitute for assessment of the patient.", "questions": [ { "text": "How rapidly have dimensions, pain and skin integrity changed between dated observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-and-systemic-course-q01" }, { "text": "Do concurrent systemic symptoms or exposure findings trigger urgent review under the linked clinical pathway?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-and-systemic-course-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-follow-up", "name": "Intervention and follow-up", "description": "Record the reason for local intervention and define how its outcome will be assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "cause-specific-local-management", "name": "Cause-specific local management", "description": "Document clinician-directed sampling, aspiration, drainage or observation with the suspected cause, applicable guidance and follow-up criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "What clinician decision and cause-specific guidance justify the proposed local action?", "kind": "action", "id": "cause-specific-local-management-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up findings would demonstrate local resolution or require reassessment of persistent or recurrent swelling?", "kind": "action", "id": "cause-specific-local-management-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": [ "No sense was supplied; the medical meaning is assumed, but the registry identity should be checked against the owl genus.", "The listed kinds distinguish underlying infections rather than a formal exhaustive classification.", "No diagnostic code or numerical size threshold is asserted from recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Bubo 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": [ "Plague-associated bubo", "Chancroid-associated bubo", "Lymphogranuloma venereum-associated bubo" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Bubo 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": [ "Clinical recognition of regional lymph-node inflammation in the assessment of infectious disease.", "A characteristic clinical finding in bubonic plague.", "Assessment of inguinal lymph-node involvement in chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Bubo 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": [ "Suppuration, with abscess formation and possible spontaneous drainage.", "An underlying infection may disseminate; plague can progress to septicemic or pneumonic disease.", "Mistaking any enlarged lymph node for a bubo can obscure other infectious or noninfectious causes." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Bubo 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": "Lymphadenopathy", "difference": "Lymphadenopathy broadly describes abnormal lymph nodes; a bubo specifically denotes pronounced inflammatory enlargement associated with infection." }, { "name": "Lymphadenitis", "difference": "Lymphadenitis is inflammation of lymph nodes generally; a bubo is a conspicuous localized manifestation." }, { "name": "Bubonic plague", "difference": "Bubonic plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis; a bubo is a clinical finding that can also occur in other infections." }, { "name": "Abscess", "difference": "An abscess is a localized collection of pus; a bubo involves a lymph node and need not have suppurated." }, { "name": "Bubo (owl genus)", "difference": "The capitalized taxonomic name denotes a genus of owls, rather than a pathological lymph-node swelling." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Bubo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry record confirm the medical sense of Bubo, and what explains its placement in XCT / XCT.STA?", "Which terminology authorities require acute pain, tenderness or suppuration for the bubo label, and which use it more broadly?", "Should one manifestation encompass an entire confluent nodal group, or should individually identifiable nodes be represented separately within it?", "Which validated observation methods and change thresholds support meaningful follow-up across different nodal basins and causes?", "Which existing Vercy models already own lymphadenitis, the relevant diseases and clinical escalation, so this entry can link to them without duplicating their content?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Bubo, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a suspected bubo, describe its local state and evolution, and connect it to appropriate clinical assessment without treating the swelling itself as a confirmed disease diagnosis.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 70 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 Bubo, 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 70 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 Bubo from another, and a Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo 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 Bubo and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 Bubo is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Bubo, 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 Bubo, 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 Bubo 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 } } } }