{ "model": { "rank": 5509, "code": "thing-q230502", "model_id": "vr.tr.zygoptera", "name": "Zygoptera", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise damselflies, assess observations and populations at the appropriate taxonomic resolution, and choose evidence-based monitoring or habitat actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q230502/", "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": "Q230502", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230502", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:31:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.5, "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: 01a0884b-30c5-7392-8c9d-89d0b612a0ce\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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[ITIS](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102042)", "Adult recognition test: assess widely separated eyes, a usually slender body and wing configuration together; no single silhouette or resting posture should determine identification. [SANBI identification guide](https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2011_BioSeries21.pdf)", "Resting-wing test: wings held together support many damselfly identifications, but spread-wing exceptions require additional characters. [SANBI identification guide](https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2011_BioSeries21.pdf)", "Larval recognition test: external terminal caudal lamellae support Zygoptera identification; assess their form and preservation with a regional key rather than requiring three intact appendages in every observation. [Australian Odonata identification guide](https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/publications/09730AustOdonata.pdf)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identity and crosswalk", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted name, rank, authority, parent taxon, classification version and external identifiers; NCBI Taxonomy ID 50488", "why_it_matters": "Connects damselfly observations to a taxonomic concept without treating Zygoptera as a binomial. [NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/taxonomy/50488/)" }, { "name": "Subject resolution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Suborder; subordinate taxon; local population; individual; specimen; occurrence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an individual's condition or a species assessment from being attributed to the whole suborder." }, { "name": "Identification support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Provisional; supported; expert-verified; unresolved, with diagnostic evidence and alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether species-specific ecological or conservation conclusions are justified." }, { "name": "Life stage and material", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Egg; larva; emerging adult; teneral adult; mature adult; exuvia; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes identification methods, survey detectability and the interpretation of breeding evidence." }, { "name": "Sex, maturity and colour form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Evidence-supported sex, maturity and species-specific colour form; unknown where unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Avoids confusing sexual dimorphism or maturation changes with taxonomic differences." }, { "name": "Diagnostic dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Body, abdomen and hindwing length in mm; stage, method and uncertainty recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with identification keys without imposing one size range on all damselflies." }, { "name": "Breeding-site association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed waterbody or microhabitat, coordinates, date, stage and breeding-evidence category", "why_it_matters": "Separates an adult sighting from evidence that a site supports development." }, { "name": "Survey count and effort", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Individuals or exuviae per defined visit, transect or sampling unit; duration and area recorded", "why_it_matters": "Makes repeat observations interpretable without equating raw counts with population size." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed subordinate taxon, category, geographic scope, assessment year and source", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assignment of one unsupported IUCN status to Zygoptera." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a photographed adult, larva or exuvia to the lowest defensible rank and request missing diagnostic views.", "Link records to a versioned damselfly classification while retaining unresolved or conflicting identifications.", "Design stage-specific surveys and distinguish adult presence from local breeding evidence.", "Compare repeated counts using recorded effort, timing and observation conditions.", "Prioritise habitat investigation or intervention using the identified taxon's requirements and site evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "damselfly-taxonomic-identity", "name": "Damselfly taxonomic identity", "description": "Establishes which taxonomic concept and biological subject a record concerns.", "rationale": "Zygoptera is a broad taxon whose name must not substitute for species identity or individual identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-concept", "name": "Accepted concept", "description": "Anchors the suborder to an explicit classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-rank-and-authority", "name": "Name, rank and authority", "description": "Record the accepted suborder name, authority, parent order and source-specific identifiers without inventing a binomial.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which classification establishes the accepted name, rank and authority of Zygoptera?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-rank-and-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which GBIF and NCBI records refer to the same taxonomic concept, and when were they checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-rank-and-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "subordinate-subjects", "name": "Subordinate subjects", "description": "Separates membership in Zygoptera from the identity of an observed biological subject.", "findings": [ { "id": "taxon-population-individual", "name": "Taxon, population and individual", "description": "Attach occurrence, condition and conservation claims to their actual subjects and taxonomic resolution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this claim concern the suborder, a named species, a local population or one individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "taxon-population-individual-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects this observation to a subordinate damselfly taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "taxon-population-individual-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stage-specific-recognition", "name": "Stage-specific recognition", "description": "Organises the anatomical evidence needed to recognise damselflies at different stages.", "rationale": "Adult photographs, larvae and exuviae expose different characters and support different identification limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "adult-diagnostics", "name": "Adult diagnostics", "description": "Evaluates adult morphology through appropriate regional keys.", "findings": [ { "id": "adult-character-combination", "name": "Adult character combination", "description": "Record eye separation, wing form and venation, markings and relevant terminal structures, together with the views available.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible characters support Zygoptera and exclude plausible neighbouring odonate taxa?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adult-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional views or expert examination would resolve the remaining identification alternatives?", "kind": "action", "id": "adult-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "larval-and-exuvial-diagnostics", "name": "Larval and exuvial diagnostics", "description": "Handles immature morphology and the condition of diagnostic structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "lamellae-and-key-characters", "name": "Lamellae and supporting characters", "description": "Assess caudal lamellae alongside labial, antennal and other characters required by the selected key; distinguish missing structures from diagnostic absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which diagnostic structures are visible, intact, damaged or unobservable in this larva or exuvia?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "lamellae-and-key-characters-q01" }, { "text": "Does the identification key cover this locality, developmental stage and candidate taxon?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lamellae-and-key-characters-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-breeding-habitat", "name": "Development and breeding habitat", "description": "Links developmental state and reproductive evidence to the habitats actually used.", "rationale": "A damselfly's observed stage and behaviour determine what can be inferred about habitat use and successful development.", "layers": [ { "id": "stage-sex-and-maturity", "name": "Stage, sex and maturity", "description": "Interprets appearance and behaviour in developmental context.", "findings": [ { "id": "developmental-interpretation", "name": "Developmental interpretation", "description": "Record stage, sex and maturity separately, with species-specific support for interpreting colour forms or reproductive behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes life stage, sex and maturity rather than relying on colour alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "developmental-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Could the observed appearance reflect maturation, sexual dimorphism or an alternative colour form within the candidate species?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "developmental-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "waterbody-and-emergence", "name": "Waterbody and emergence", "description": "Relates occurrences to larval habitat and evidence of local reproduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-use-and-breeding-evidence", "name": "Site use and breeding evidence", "description": "Separate adult visitation, mating, oviposition, larval presence and emergence; record waterbody or microhabitat conditions at the relevant location and time.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports visitation, attempted reproduction, larval development or completed emergence at this site?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "site-use-and-breeding-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which water permanence, flow, vegetation, substrate and microhabitat observations are relevant to the identified taxon?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-use-and-breeding-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-monitoring-and-response", "name": "Distribution, monitoring and response", "description": "Turns damselfly records into bounded population interpretations and justified actions.", "rationale": "Occurrence, detectability and conservation status operate at different geographic and taxonomic scales.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-and-repeat-observation", "name": "Range and repeat observation", "description": "Distinguishes documented distribution from local survey 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"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": [ "Wetland drainage, stream alteration, and removal of bankside vegetation can eliminate breeding habitat.", "Water pollution can impair aquatic juvenile survival; sensitivity differs among species.", "Drought and changes in water temperature or flow can disrupt development and emergence.", "Identifications based only on colour can confuse sexes, immature adults, and closely related species.", "Treating the entire suborder as having one conservation status obscures differences among species and populations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Zygoptera this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": 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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 Zygoptera from another, and a Zygoptera from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 Zygoptera is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera, 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 Zygoptera 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 } } } }