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Reference: [Animal Diversity Web: Grey Heron](https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ardea_cinerea/).", "Require a combination of head pattern, bill profile, body plumage and wing pattern matching a documented crane species; long legs, a long neck or wetland presence alone do not establish Gruidae. Comparison reference: [International Crane Foundation species guide](https://savingcranes.org/).", "Compare an available call recording with an identified crane species reference and check that the visible bird produced it; retain uncertainty when silhouettes could also be storks or other large birds. Reference recordings: [International Crane Foundation species guide](https://savingcranes.org/).", "Do not reject crane identification because a bird perches in a tree: crowned cranes have a developed hind toe supporting this behaviour. Assess their crown and plumage together. Reference: [National Aviary: Gray Crowned-Crane](https://www.aviary.org/birds-habitats/our-birds/?search=Gray+Crowned-Crane)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Gruidae confirmed; probable Gruidae; unresolved large bird; species assignment with authority and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an uncertain sighting or one species' requirements from becoming a family-wide claim." }, { "name": "Assessment subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Individual; pair; family; flock; defined population; family-level statement", "why_it_matters": "Keeps individual condition, flock counts and population trends from being conflated." }, { "name": "Age and dependency", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Egg; chick; dependent juvenile; independent immature; adult; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes how flightlessness, parental proximity and apparent isolation should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Mobility and feeding function", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed walking, standing, flying and feeding: apparently unimpaired; impaired; not observed; not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Supports condition assessment without diagnosing injury from absence of flight alone." }, { "name": "Body mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with measurement date, method, species and age context", "why_it_matters": "Supports longitudinal condition assessment when legitimately available; no universal crane mass threshold is assumed." }, { "name": "Social association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Associated mate, dependent young, family group or flock, with evidence and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Intervention involving one crane may affect a partner or dependent young." }, { "name": "Breeding stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unknown; no breeding evidence; courtship; nest building; incubation; chick rearing; completed attempt; failed attempt", "why_it_matters": "Determines which disturbances and site changes could affect reproduction." }, { "name": "Seasonal movement context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Resident; local or nomadic movement; migration; stopover; wintering; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes temporary occupancy from persistent dependence on a site." }, { "name": "Site dependence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to observed nesting, roosting, feeding and stopover sites, with dates and alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Reveals whether losing one site would disconnect essential daily or seasonal activities." }, { "name": "Crane count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Individuals, with species composition, age classes, survey effort and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Makes aggregation size and repeated counts interpretable without assuming they represent a whole population." }, { "name": "Hazard exposure", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed or suspected connection to disturbance, collision, entanglement, poisoning or habitat loss", "why_it_matters": "Separates an encountered hazard from a demonstrated cause of harm." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or provisionally classify a crane observation using photographs, recordings and species references.", "Plan repeat observations of crane condition, family composition and site use with disturbance-sensitive methods.", "Assess whether proposed changes to water levels, farming activity or access could affect documented crane use.", "Prioritise protection of connected roosting, feeding, breeding and stopover sites.", "Refer an apparently injured or endangered crane to an appropriate specialist with the evidence and intervention constraints.", "Evaluate outcomes of an authorised crane conservation action using comparable observations before and after it." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "hbw-gruidae-1996", "title": "Family Gruidae (Cranes), in Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 3: Hoatzin to Auks", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Family diagnosis, genera, species limits as treated in the mid-1990s, and natural-history synthesis used for definition, kinds and neighbours." }, { "id": "johnsgard-1983", "title": "Cranes of the World", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Morphology (including the tracheal coil), measurements, migration and species accounts underpinning measurements, real-world occurrence and failure modes." }, { "id": "ioc-wbl", "title": "IOC World Bird List", "url": "https://www.worldbirdnames.org/", "what_it_supports": "Current four-genus, 15-species classification (Balearica, Leucogeranus, Antigone, Grus) used for kinds and taxonomic identifiers.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iucn-red-list", "title": "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (Gruidae species assessments)", "url": "https://www.iucnredlist.org/", "what_it_supports": "Threat status, habitat loss, collision and hunting pressures cited under failure modes and regulation.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "icf", "title": "International Crane Foundation species and conservation programmes", "url": "https://savingcranes.org/", "what_it_supports": "Captive breeding, reintroduction, flyway congregations and crop-conflict practice used for real-world use and regional variation.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q25316", "title": "Gruidae (Q25316)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25316", "what_it_supports": "Stable Wikidata identifier for the family.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cites-app", "title": "CITES Appendices I, II and III", "url": "https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php", "what_it_supports": "Species-level trade listings that govern most cranes internationally.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "crane-recognition", "name": "Crane recognition", "description": "Establish whether the subject belongs to Gruidae and how specifically it can be identified.", "rationale": "Large long-legged birds are readily confused, and crane species differ in appearance and ecological requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "family-identification", "name": "Family identification", "description": "Assess the evidence separating cranes from similar birds.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-crane-assignment", "name": "Supported crane assignment", "description": "Record the observed trait combination and competing identifications without treating one suggestive trait as decisive.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed flight posture, plumage, head features or calls support Gruidae?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-crane-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which heron, stork or other local lookalike remains plausible, and what observation would distinguish it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-crane-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-and-subject-resolution", "name": "Species and subject resolution", "description": "Locate an observation within crane taxonomy and distinguish individuals from aggregations.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-identification", "name": "Traceable identification", "description": "Tie species and individual assignments to dated evidence, accounting for immature plumage and uncertain flock membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic reference and diagnostic evidence support the species assignment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does this record concern a recognisable individual, a mixed-species flock or a defined population, and how is that established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crane-condition-and-function", "name": "Crane condition and function", "description": "Assess whether a crane can perform the activities expected for its age and circumstances.", "rationale": "Long-legged locomotion, flight and feeding function affect survival, while age and observation conditions can mimic impairment.", "layers": [ { "id": "locomotion-and-feeding", "name": "Locomotion and feeding", "description": "Observe functional ability without provoking movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-condition", "name": "Functional condition", "description": "Distinguish observed difficulty from an activity that was simply not seen.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the crane stand, walk, use both wings and obtain food, and which functions were actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Could age, resting behaviour or a documented moult state explain apparent flightlessness?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functional-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-through-time", "name": "Condition through time", "description": "Interpret changes using comparable evidence and the crane's living context.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-change-and-care-context", "name": "Condition change and care context", "description": "Keep wild, managed and captive contexts explicit when interpreting body condition or abnormal behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "What repeat observations or legitimate measurements show improvement, deterioration or stable condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-change-and-care-context-q01" }, { "text": "Is the crane free-living, provisioned, captive or recently released, and which records establish that context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-change-and-care-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pair-family-and-breeding", "name": "Pair, family and breeding", "description": "Represent crane relationships and the progress of reproductive attempts.", "rationale": "A crane's state and response to disturbance depend on its associations, breeding stage and dependent young.", "layers": [ { "id": "social-associations", "name": "Social associations", "description": "Distinguish persistent relationships from temporary proximity.", "findings": [ { "id": "pair-and-family-evidence", "name": "Pair and family evidence", "description": "Treat pairing, parentage and juvenile dependency as evidence-based assignments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What repeated association, coordinated calling or care behaviour supports a pair or family relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pair-and-family-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Could the apparent pair or family instead be birds temporarily sharing a feeding or roosting site?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pair-and-family-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-progress", "name": "Reproductive progress", "description": "Track a breeding attempt without equating courtship, nesting and successful recruitment.", "findings": [ { "id": "breeding-stage-and-outcome", "name": "Breeding stage and outcome", "description": "Separate observed eggs, hatchlings, surviving young and fledged young, retaining unknown outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations establish the current breeding stage and numbers of eggs or young?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "breeding-stage-and-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "How can the next stage or outcome be checked without approaching the nest or separating the family?", "kind": "action", "id": "breeding-stage-and-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-sites-and-movement", "name": "Seasonal sites and movement", "description": "Connect crane occupancy to the places and resources needed across daily and seasonal cycles.", "rationale": "Crane habitat use differs among species and seasons; feeding, nesting and roosting cannot be collapsed into a single wetland requirement. Reference: [IUCN crane status survey and action plan](https://savingcranes.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the_cranes_status_survey_and_action_plan.pdf).", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-habitat-use", "name": "Functional habitat use", "description": "Record what cranes actually use each site for and what makes that use possible.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-function-and-suitability", "name": "Site function and suitability", "description": "Evaluate wetland, grassland, agricultural and tree-roosting use where appropriate to the identified cranes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this site used for nesting, feeding, roosting or several functions, and in which season?", "kind": "definition", "id": "site-function-and-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Which measured water conditions, food resources, vegetation or roost structures support the observed use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-function-and-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-connectivity", "name": "Movement and connectivity", "description": "Distinguish local movements, migration and changing detectability.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-dependence-and-counts", "name": "Seasonal dependence and counts", "description": "Interpret crane arrivals, departures and counts in relation to survey coverage and links between sites.", "questions": [ { "text": "What repeated sightings, marked-bird records or tracking evidence connect this site to other seasonal locations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "seasonal-dependence-and-counts-q01" }, { "text": "Could a count change reflect redistribution, migration timing, double counting or survey effort rather than population change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "seasonal-dependence-and-counts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crane-threats-and-intervention", "name": "Crane threats and intervention", "description": "Translate documented crane exposure and condition into proportionate actions.", "rationale": "Hazards must be connected to the actual species and site; documented Red-crowned Crane threats include wetland loss, disturbance, power-line collisions and disease risks at feeding stations. Reference: [International Crane Foundation: Red-crowned Crane](https://savingcranes.org/species/red-crowned-crane/).", "layers": [ { "id": "exposure-and-response", "name": "Exposure and response", "description": "Distinguish a potential hazard, contact with it and demonstrated biological harm.", "findings": [ { "id": "crane-specific-risk-evidence", "name": "Crane-specific risk evidence", "description": "Connect threats to observed flight routes, feeding areas, roosts, nests or affected birds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hazard overlaps documented crane activity, and what evidence shows exposure or harm?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crane-specific-risk-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What changes in feeding, vigilance, displacement, injury or breeding outcome can be measured without assuming causation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crane-specific-risk-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-conditions", "name": "Intervention conditions", "description": "Establish what can be done, by whom and with what evidence of benefit.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-and-evaluable-action", "name": "Permitted and evaluable action", "description": "Compare observation, disturbance reduction, habitat measures and specialist intervention against the crane's condition and dependencies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which action is justified, and what species identification, local authority, permissions and specialist competence must be established before it proceeds?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-and-evaluable-action-q01" }, { "text": "What outcome and stopping criteria will show whether the action helps without separating dependent young or displacing cranes from essential sites?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-and-evaluable-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum and B. pavonina), the African tree-perching pair with a bristled nuchal crest", "Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)", "Sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), including hunted continental populations and listed isolates such as the Mississippi and Cuban subspecies", "Other Antigone cranes: sarus, brolga and white-naped", "Demoiselle and blue cranes (former Anthropoides, now usually placed in Grus)", "Wattled crane (former Bugeranus carunculatus)", "Typical northern Grus: Eurasian, hooded, whooping, black-necked and red-crowned cranes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q25316", "note": "Item for family Gruidae." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "176175", "note": "Integrated Taxonomic Information System taxonomic serial number for Gruidae." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "9105", "note": "NCBI taxid for family Gruidae." }, { "scheme": "ICZN scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Gruidae Vigors, 1825", "note": "Family-group name; species written as binomials under the four living genera." }, { "scheme": "IOC World Bird List", "value_or_pattern": "family Gruidae (15 species)", "note": "Checklist used by many ornithological databases; genus placement of Anthropoides and Bugeranus differs on some other lists." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "CITES Appendices I and II (CITES Secretariat) - most crane species are listed; several (e.g. whooping, Siberian, red-crowned) on Appendix I", "Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), including the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for the Siberian Crane", "U.S. Endangered Species Act (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) - whooping crane (Grus americana) and listed sandhill subspecies", "Migratory Bird Treaty Act (United States) and counterpart migratory-bird conventions with Canada, Mexico, Japan and Russia", "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA, under UNEP) for relevant African-Eurasian populations", "Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - not a taxon statute, but the principal habitat instrument for crane staging and breeding sites" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Managed sport harvest of sandhill cranes in parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico under flyway frameworks", "Flagship wetland conservation, including captive breeding and reintroduction of the whooping crane", "Seasonal wildlife tourism at staging and winter roosts (Platte River in Nebraska; Izumi in Kagoshima; Hortobágy; Hula Valley)", "Grain and sprouting-cereal depredation, which drives both compensation schemes and local persecution", "National and heraldic symbols (grey crowned crane of Uganda; blue crane of South Africa; red-crowned crane in Japan and East Asia)", "Zoo, aviary and International Crane Foundation studbook programmes" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Standing height", "typical_range": "90-180", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Wingspan", "typical_range": "150-250", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Body mass", "typical_range": "2-12", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Clutch size", "typical_range": "1-3 (typically 2)", "unit": "eggs" }, { "quantity": "Incubation period", "typical_range": "28-36", "unit": "days" }, { "quantity": "Wild longevity", "typical_range": "20-40", "unit": "years" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Drainage, conversion and drying of breeding, staging and winter wetlands", "Collision with overhead power lines and wind turbines at traditional flyways and roosts", "Illegal shooting; historical market hunting that reduced the whooping crane to a few tens of birds", "Lead poisoning from ingested spent shot used as grit", "Demographic and genetic bottleneck in the whooping crane", "Highly pathogenic avian influenza and other epizootics at dense roosts, including crane herpesvirus (inclusion body disease)", "Human disturbance at nests and night roosts; nest predation in fragmented habitat", "Persecution and poisoning where cranes damage crops" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In some English dialects 'crane' is still used for herons; the birds are not Gruidae", "Sandhill cranes are a managed game species in parts of North America; almost all other living Gruidae are fully protected", "East Asian wintering concentrations (China, the Korean Peninsula, Izumi) hold several threatened species under different national laws and cultural protection", "African crowned cranes are far more often kept and traded as ornamental birds than typical Gruinae", "Checklist practice differs: IOC/Clements place demoiselle, blue and wattled cranes in Grus and split Antigone; some regional lists retain Anthropoides and Bugeranus" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Herons and egrets (Ardeidae)", "difference": "Cranes fly with the neck fully extended; herons retract it into an S-curve. Cranes also lack powder down and a spear-strike hunting posture." }, { "name": "Storks (Ciconiidae)", "difference": "Storks lack the coiled tracheal loop and bugling unison call, more often travel by soaring, and differ in bill shape and bare-part pattern." }, { "name": "Limpkin (Aramidae)", "difference": "Sister family to Gruidae; a much smaller, spotted marsh bird with a decurved ibis-like bill, not a crane silhouette or bugle." }, { "name": "Rails and coots (Rallidae)", "difference": "Historically the same order Gruiformes, but small, short-necked wetland birds without crane flight profile or unison calling." }, { "name": "Great blue heron versus sandhill crane", "difference": "Sandhill is bulkier, flies with neck out and legs trailing in a straight line, and gives a rattling bugle rather than a croak." }, { "name": "Whooping crane versus American white pelican or snow goose at distance", "difference": "The crane shows long trailing legs, black primaries on a white body, and slow, stiff wingbeats; pelicans tuck the neck and lack trailing legs." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Gruidae this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which taxonomic authority and version should define Gruidae membership and resolve alternative genus or species names in this registry?", "Which identification features remain reliable for juveniles, obscured birds and locally relevant crane lookalikes?", "What species-, age- and season-specific evidence is sufficient to distinguish injury from normal moult or juvenile flightlessness?", "What local evidence establishes acceptable disturbance distances, water conditions and alternative-site availability for each crane population?", "Which existing Vercy world models already own crane, bird, population or habitat concepts, and which parts should be linked rather than duplicated?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 Gruidae, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise cranes of the family Gruidae, assess individuals and populations in their seasonal context, and determine appropriate observation, protection or specialist intervention.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 99 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 Gruidae, 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 99 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 Gruidae from another, and a Gruidae 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, 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 Gruidae 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.", 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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 Gruidae 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 Gruidae came from and when it held.", "rationale": 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"claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Gruidae 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 Gruidae is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Gruidae, 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 Gruidae, by which 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