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"Supports assessments of establishment, provenance and possible root-harvest readiness." }, { "name": "Seasonal growth state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Emerging, vegetative, flowering, fruiting, senescent, dormant, dead or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish expected seasonal changes from deterioration requiring investigation." }, { "name": "Root-zone conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Soil moisture with method and units, pH, rooting depth in centimetres and drainage observations", "why_it_matters": "Grounds cultivation decisions in the conditions experienced by the underground system." }, { "name": "Underground organ identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Root, rhizome, mixed sample or unresolved, with identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Propagation and harvesting decisions depend on which organ is present and its condition." }, { "name": "Underground organ condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, cut, decayed, desiccated, mechanically damaged or unexamined", "why_it_matters": "Records damage affecting survival, propagation and the acceptability of harvested material." }, { "name": "Constituent assay evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Sample-linked laboratory results identifying analytes, methods, units, moisture basis and sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents plant identity or perceived sweetness from being treated as proof of composition or suitability for consumption." } ], "affordances": [ "Document and verify botanical identity before applying liquorice-specific management.", "Map connected growth and monitor expansion beyond the intended planting area.", "Assess establishment and seasonal condition to select or defer cultivation interventions.", "Select traceable propagation material and monitor its establishment.", "Assess whether root or rhizome harvesting is justified and record effects on the remaining plant.", "Link sampled or harvested organs to their source plant and transfer them to the appropriate material model." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "liquorice-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Liquorice identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which botanical entity is being called liquorice and what physical subject the record represents.", "rationale": "A missing registry definition leaves both the accepted taxa and the boundary between plant and product unresolved.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-determination", "name": "Botanical determination", "description": "Capture evidence sufficient to evaluate the liquorice identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-liquorice-identification", "name": "Supported liquorice identification", "description": "Record the proposed taxon, diagnostic evidence, determination source and plausible alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxon is intended by liquorice here, and what authority defines that taxon's boundaries?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-liquorice-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed leaf, flower and fruit characters support the determination, and which diagnostic organs were unavailable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-liquorice-identification-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this plant from the specific alternatives proposed by the identifier?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-liquorice-identification-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-subject-boundary", "name": "Living subject boundary", "description": "Distinguish a living plant or connected patch from propagation material and harvested products.", "findings": [ { "id": "plant-patch-or-material", "name": "Plant, patch or material", "description": "Make the represented biological unit explicit without assuming each visible shoot is an independent plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record represent one established plant, a potentially connected patch or a detached piece of material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plant-patch-or-material-q01" }, { "text": "What observations support or leave unresolved underground connections between the recorded shoots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "plant-patch-or-material-q02" }, { "text": "At what event should a detached organ acquire a material record while retaining its link to the source plant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plant-patch-or-material-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-underground-spread", "name": "Origin and underground spread", "description": "Track the origin of the liquorice stock and the spatial development of its underground growth.", "rationale": "Source history and connections between shoots affect traceability, population interpretation and containment decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "stock-origin", "name": "Stock origin", "description": "Record how the plant or patch arrived and which identity claims came with it.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-establishment", "name": "Traceable establishment", "description": "Separate documented origin and establishment events from supplier labels or inferred histories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this liquorice established from seed, a divided underground organ, another propagation method or an unknown source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-establishment-q01" }, { "text": "Which records connect it to source stock, collection location, planting date and any claimed cultivar or accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-establishment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patch-development", "name": "Patch development", "description": "Observe where shoots emerge and how the occupied area changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "spread-and-containment", "name": "Spread and containment", "description": "Relate mapped emergence to the intended growing boundary and evidence of underground continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has the mapped shoot boundary changed between dated observations, including emergence outside the planting area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "spread-and-containment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes connected vegetative spread from separate seedlings or unrelated neighbouring plants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spread-and-containment-q02" }, { "text": "What containment or removal action is justified by the observed spread and the site's management constraints?", "kind": "action", "id": "spread-and-containment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-site-and-seasonal-condition", "name": "Growing site and seasonal condition", "description": "Assess the liquorice plant's growing environment and interpret visible changes in seasonal context.", "rationale": "Management of a plant valued for underground organs requires evidence about both shoot condition and the root zone.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-setting", "name": "Root-zone setting", "description": "Describe the soil volume and conditions available to the underground system.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-limitations", "name": "Root-zone limitations", "description": "Record measured conditions and physical restrictions before diagnosing poor growth or prescribing cultivation changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured moisture, pH and accessible rooting depth, and what observations describe drainage and compaction?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-limitations-q01" }, { "text": "Do containers, barriers, hard layers or neighbouring roots constrain the observed underground growth?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "root-zone-limitations-q02" }, { "text": "Which intervention is supported by evidence applicable to the identified liquorice taxon and this site?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-limitations-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-vitality", "name": "Seasonal vitality", "description": "Interpret shoot emergence, reproduction and dieback using dated observations and local seasonal context.", "findings": [ { "id": "dormancy-or-decline", "name": "Dormancy or decline", "description": "Keep expected seasonal change distinct from suspected damage, disease or loss of viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What growth stage is visible, and how does its timing compare with this plant's previous observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dormancy-or-decline-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports dormancy, recoverable stress or death when shoots are absent or dying back?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dormancy-or-decline-q02" }, { "text": "What further inspection would distinguish the suspected causes without unnecessarily damaging the roots or rhizomes?", "kind": "action", "id": "dormancy-or-decline-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-root-harvest", "name": "Propagation and root harvest", "description": "Support decisions about producing new plants and removing underground organs from established liquorice.", "rationale": "Both operations depend on organ identity, plant condition and the consequences of cutting or removal.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-material", "name": "Propagation material", "description": "Assess the identity, condition and establishment prospects of material intended to produce another plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "viable-traceable-propagule", "name": "Viable, traceable propagule", "description": "Record the selected propagation route and the evidence that the chosen material is suitable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What propagation method is supported for the identified taxon, and which source supports the procedure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "viable-traceable-propagule-q01" }, { "text": "What observations establish the selected seed or underground piece's identity, condition and relevant viability features?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "viable-traceable-propagule-q02" }, { "text": "What establishment observations will justify treating the propagated material as a surviving new plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "viable-traceable-propagule-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-decision", "name": "Harvest decision", "description": "Assess removal of roots or rhizomes against evidence of readiness and the intended fate of the source plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-underground-harvest", "name": "Justified underground harvest", "description": "Require a supported harvest decision rather than inferring readiness from shoot size or an assumed age threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishment history, organ measurements and taxon-specific evidence support harvesting at this time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "justified-underground-harvest-q01" }, { "text": "Which organs and how much material would be removed, and is survival of the source plant intended?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-underground-harvest-q02" }, { "text": "What permissions, conservation constraints and post-harvest observations govern whether the operation may proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-underground-harvest-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-use-evidence", "name": "Composition and use evidence", "description": "Connect plant-level sampling and exposure history to downstream assessment of harvested liquorice material.", "rationale": "Botanical identity does not establish the composition, cleanliness or suitability of a particular harvested organ.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-specific-sampling", "name": "Organ-specific sampling", "description": "Keep analytical evidence attached to the organ, sample and plant actually examined.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-composition-claim", "name": "Bounded composition claim", "description": "Represent constituent results with their sampling limits instead of assigning an assumed composition to every liquorice plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organ, plant or patch supplied the sample, and when and how was it collected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-composition-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which constituents were measured, using what methods, units and 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to remain unapproved?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-use-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Which material or product record receives the harvest, sample results and source-plant links?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-use-assessment-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.liquorice denote Glycyrrhiza glabra specifically, a defined set of Glycyrrhiza species, or another botanical scope?", "Which authoritative identification keys and diagnostic characters distinguish the accepted taxa from relevant lookalikes at vegetative and reproductive stages?", "What taxon- and location-specific evidence establishes suitable growing conditions, seasonal behaviour and reliable propagation procedures?", "Which evidence supports root or rhizome harvest timing, removal limits and recovery expectations for the intended cultivation system?", "Which constituent and contamination assessments are required for each intended downstream use, and which neighbouring model owns those 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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 liquorice, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a liquorice plant, assess its condition and provenance, and determine whether identification, cultivation, propagation, conservation or root harvesting is justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Wybert.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 106 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 liquorice, 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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Wybert" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 106 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one liquorice from another, and a liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice 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 liquorice and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 liquorice is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a liquorice, 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 liquorice, 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 liquorice 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 } } } }