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[Kew botanical description](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A837530-1/general-information)", "Check for the combined reproductive pattern of yellow flowers in compound umbels and absent involucral bracts and bractlets; use the combination to narrow Apiaceae identification, not as a sufficient species test. [Burke Herbarium](https://www.burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Anethum+graveolens)", "Confirm leaves divided into threadlike segments together with the reproductive characters; threadlike leaves alone do not separate dill from fennel. [SEINet flora description](https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=Anethum+graveolens)", "Use annual growth history as supporting evidence against fennel, while retaining uncertainty when only a young plant or detached shoot is available. [Kew botanical description](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A837530-1/general-information)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | corroborated | disputed; supporting observations required", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a feathery-leaved Apiaceae specimen from being treated as confirmed dill." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named cultivar or accession linked to supplier, label or collection record; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Makes growth and harvest expectations traceable without inferring cultivar from appearance." }, { "name": "Leaf division", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Threadlike terminal segments present | absent | not observable", "why_it_matters": "Records a recognition character that must be interpreted with flowers and fruits." }, { "name": "Mature fruit morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Dorsal compression and lateral wings: present | absent | uncertain | immature", "why_it_matters": "Supplies a useful check against fennel and other superficially similar plants." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seedling | vegetative | bolting | flowering | green fruit | mature fruit | senescent; mixed stages allowed", "why_it_matters": "Connects the observed plant to leaf, flower-head or fruit harvest decisions." }, { "name": "Time to reproductive transition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Days from recorded sowing or emergence to first visible flowering stem; origin specified", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparisons between sowings without assuming a universal bolting date." }, { "name": "Plant height and posture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in cm and stem angle from vertical in degrees, with observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of elongation, lodging and possible support needs." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volumetric water content in percent, with depth and method", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for irrigation decisions when combined with drainage and plant response." }, { "name": "Green foliage condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "turgid | wilted | yellowing | necrotic | mixed; affected proportion recorded", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed leaf condition from an unverified explanation of its cause." }, { "name": "Harvest objective", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "fresh foliage | flowering heads | culinary fruits | propagation material | ecological retention | mixed", "why_it_matters": "The desired organ changes whether flowering and fruit retention are desirable." }, { "name": "Observed damage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percent affected foliage or stems, with symptoms, photographs and suspected cause separately recorded", "why_it_matters": "Makes the need for intervention assessable without equating insect presence with unacceptable injury." } ], "affordances": [ "Observe and document leaves, umbels and mature fruits to strengthen or reject a dill identification.", "Sow traceable planting material and monitor establishment against a stated leaf or fruit objective.", "Adjust watering, exposure or physical support in response to measured conditions and plant posture.", "Harvest selected foliage or heads when identity, condition and the intended use support that action.", "Retain selected umbels through fruit maturation and link collected material to its parent plants.", "Monitor flowering visitors and volunteer seedlings when deciding whether to retain or remove reproductive plants." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "powo-anethum-graveolens", "title": "Anethum graveolens L. - Plants of the World Online", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Accepted botanical name, family placement, native range and synonymy used in the definition and identifiers (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)." }, { "id": "linnaeus-sp-pl", "title": "Species Plantarum 1: 263 (1753), Anethum graveolens - Linnaeus", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Protologue and still-current Linnaean binomial and authority." }, { "id": "eur-ph-dill-oil", "title": "European Pharmacopoeia monograph Anethi aetheroleum (dill oil) - EDQM, Council of Europe", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Pharmacopoeial identity of dill oil, carvone specification and the medicinal/flavouring oil as a regulated article." }, { "id": "fda-21cfr-182", "title": "21 CFR 182.10 and 182.20 - U.S. Food and Drug Administration", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "GRAS listing of dill as a spice and of dill essential oil/extractives as flavouring, underpinning food-use and regulation fields." }, { "id": "iso-6571", "title": "ISO 6571, Spices, condiments and herbs - Determination of volatile oil content - International Organization for Standardization", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The standard method behind typical seed and herb oil-content ranges used in trade analysis." }, { "id": "esa-quality-minima", "title": "Quality Minima Document for herbs and spices - European Spice Association", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Trade grades for dried dill and dill seed (ash, acid-insoluble ash, moisture, volatile oil minima) as actually bought and sold." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dill-identity", "name": "Dill identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed organism belongs to the registered species.", "rationale": "Dill shares conspicuous foliage and umbel characters with neighbouring Apiaceae, so recognition needs explicit evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-recognition", "name": "Vegetative recognition", "description": "Assess what can be established before flowers or mature fruits are available.", "findings": [ { "id": "provisional-dill-identification", "name": "Provisional dill identification", "description": "Record leaf division, overall habit and plant origin while keeping vegetative identification provisional when necessary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed leaf and growth characters support dill, and which plausible local alternatives remain?", "kind": "definition", "id": "provisional-dill-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does identification originate from a plant label, traceable seed lot, botanical key or expert determination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "provisional-dill-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-confirmation", "name": "Reproductive confirmation", "description": "Use flowers and mature fruits to test the provisional determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "dill-reproductive-character-set", "name": "Dill reproductive character set", "description": "Capture flower colour, umbel bracts and fruit compression and wings as an assessable combination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the observed umbels and fully developed fruits agree with the cited dill description?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dill-reproductive-character-set-q01" }, { "text": "What additional specimen or expert check is needed if fruit characters are missing or inconsistent?", "kind": "action", "id": "dill-reproductive-character-set-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dill-development-and-objective", "name": "Dill development and objective", "description": "Relate the plant's annual development to the organs being retained or harvested.", "rationale": "The transition from leafy growth to flowering has different implications for foliage production and fruit production.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-history", "name": "Establishment history", "description": "Locate the individual or stand within a traceable sowing and emergence history.", "findings": [ { "id": "dill-cohort-origin", "name": "Dill cohort origin", "description": "Distinguish deliberately sown plants from volunteers and preserve uncertainty about cultivar.", "questions": [ { "text": "When and from which labelled source was this dill sown, or what evidence identifies it as a volunteer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dill-cohort-origin-q01" }, { "text": "What proportion of the observed cohort has emerged and established, using which dates and count boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dill-cohort-origin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-transition", "name": "Flowering transition", "description": "Track bolting, flowering and fruiting against the intended output.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-dependent-management", "name": "Stage-dependent management", "description": "Treat reproductive development as an observed change whose desirability depends on the harvest objective.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stages occur on this plant or within this stand, and when did the first flowering stems appear?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-dependent-management-q01" }, { "text": "Does the objective justify continued leaf harvest, retention of umbels or establishment of a subsequent sowing?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-dependent-management-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dill-growing-condition", "name": "Dill growing condition", "description": "Assess environmental fit and the plant's observed response.", "rationale": "Foliage condition and stem stability determine whether this dill can sustain the intended harvest.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "Record moisture, drainage, light and weather alongside the plant's response.", "findings": [ { "id": "site-response-evidence", "name": "Site-response evidence", "description": "Use sunny, well-drained cultivation guidance as context while grounding interventions in local observations. [NC State Extension](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/anethum-graveolens/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone moisture, drainage behaviour and daily light exposure accompany the observed dill growth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "site-response-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which adjustment is justified by those observations, and what subsequent plant response would demonstrate improvement?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-response-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "foliage-and-stem-condition", "name": "Foliage and stem condition", "description": "Assess leaf condition and the stability of elongating or reproductive stems.", "findings": [ { "id": "dill-decline-or-lodging", "name": "Dill decline or lodging", "description": "Separate wilting, discoloration and bent or broken stems from assumptions about drought, disease or normal senescence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves and stems are affected, how extensively, and how has the condition changed over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dill-decline-or-lodging-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports watering, support, further diagnosis or removal of an affected plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "dill-decline-or-lodging-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dill-harvest-and-propagation", "name": "Dill harvest and propagation", "description": "Govern removal of foliage or reproductive material and preserve its origin.", "rationale": "A leaf cut, a harvested flower head and retained propagation material have different readiness criteria and consequences.", "layers": [ { "id": "foliage-and-head-harvest", "name": "Foliage and head harvest", "description": "Assess the requested organ and the effects of removing it from the living plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvestable-dill-organs", "name": "Harvestable dill organs", "description": "Record organ identity, condition, previous cuts and intended use before selecting harvest material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the requested material foliage, a flowering umbel or a fruiting head, and what observable condition is required?", "kind": "definition", "id": "harvestable-dill-organs-q01" }, { "text": "How much can be removed under the stated objective, and what evidence supports the expected remaining growth?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvestable-dill-organs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-and-seed-retention", "name": "Fruit and seed retention", "description": "Assess attached reproductive material and transfer provenance to any collected lot.", "findings": [ { "id": "dill-propagule-readiness", "name": "Dill propagule readiness", "description": "Distinguish botanical fruits or mericarps from the commercial label 'dill seed', and distinguish visible maturity from tested viability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What maturation and shedding observations support collection of the retained dill fruits?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dill-propagule-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "When material is detached, which parent, collection and identity records must pass to its separate material-lot model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dill-propagule-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dill-biotic-interactions", "name": "Dill biotic interactions", "description": "Assess organisms using the dill plant and the consequences of reproductive retention.", "rationale": "Feeding, flower visitation and volunteer establishment can change whether harvest, intervention or retention is appropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "feeding-and-flower-visitation", "name": "Feeding and flower visitation", "description": "Record feeding injury and visits to flowering umbels without assigning unsupported ecological roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "interaction-specific-response", "name": "Interaction-specific response", "description": "Link observed organisms to the affected dill organs, injury severity and management objective.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organisms are observed feeding or visiting umbels, and what direct evidence supports the recorded interaction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interaction-specific-response-q01" }, { "text": "Does the measured injury or retention objective justify observation, protection or a separately assessed intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "interaction-specific-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "volunteer-establishment", "name": "Volunteer establishment", "description": "Track seedlings attributed to retained or shed dill fruits within an explicit site boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "dill-recruitment-boundary", "name": "Dill recruitment boundary", "description": "Distinguish wanted replacement plants from unwanted establishment without inferring regional invasiveness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are confirmed dill volunteers appearing relative to retained fruiting plants and the managed boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dill-recruitment-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Should fruiting heads or volunteers be retained or removed under the site's stated planting objective?", "kind": "action", "id": "dill-recruitment-boundary-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": [ "European / carvone-type garden dill (A. graveolens in the strict horticultural and spice-trade sense)", "Indian dill / sowa (A. graveolens var. sowa; often treated as A. sowa Roxb.), traded as a distinct seed and oil", "Leaf / dill-weed types grown for fresh or dried herb (e.g. Dukat, Hera)", "Seed / oil types grown for fruit and distilled seed oil (tall, late, high umbel yield)", "Dwarf and container cultivars (e.g. Fernleaf)", "Dual-purpose bouquet types (leaf then seed from the same stand)", "Mammoth / long-standing pickling types grown for large herbage with cucumbers", "Commodity oils distinguished as dill-weed oil versus dill-seed oil" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": "Linnaean binomial", "value_or_pattern": "Anethum graveolens L., Sp. Pl. 1: 263 (1753)", "note": "Accepted name in POWO/WFO for the cultivated dill; Indian sowa is variously a variety or a synonym." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q26686", "note": "Item for the species Anethum graveolens." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "29584", "note": "Taxonomic Serial Number for Anethum graveolens L." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "40922", "note": "txid for Anethum graveolens." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS symbol", "value_or_pattern": "ANGR2", "note": "PLANTS database code for Anethum graveolens L." }, { "scheme": "CAS (dill oil, unspecified)", "value_or_pattern": "8006-75-5", "note": "Common CAS Registry Number for Anethum graveolens oil as a mixture, not a single constituent." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": [ "European Pharmacopoeia, Anethi aetheroleum (dill oil) - EDQM / Council of Europe", "21 CFR 182.10 (spices GRAS, including dill) and 182.20 (essential oils and extractives GRAS, including dill) - U.S. FDA", "ISO 6571 (volatile-oil content of spices, condiments and herbs) - ISO", "European Spice Association Quality Minima Document (dried dill herb and dill seed) - ESA", "Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 (pesticide MRLs on food, including dill as a herb/spice crop) - European Union", "Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India (śatapuṣpā / sowa fruit) - Ministry of Ayush, Government of India" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": [ "Fresh or dried leaves (dill weed) as a culinary herb with fish, potatoes, eggs, yogurt sauces (tzatziki), gravlax and cucumber salads", "Whole or ground fruits (dill seed) in pickling spice, breads, sausages, curries and distilled spirits such as aquavit", "Industrial flavouring: steam-distilled seed oil and herb oil in pickles, snacks, sauces and fragrance", "Commercial cucumber pickling in North America and northern Europe, where 'dill pickle' is a named product style", "Traditional carminative and galactagogue uses of the fruit and oil in European herbalism and of sowa in Ayurveda", "Garden and field crop: sown as a short-season annual, also used as an umbellifer companion and insectary plant" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": "Mature plant height", "typical_range": "40-170", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Volatile oil in dried fruit (seed)", "typical_range": "2-5", "unit": "mL/100 g" }, { "quantity": "Volatile oil in dried herb (weed)", "typical_range": "0.2-1.5", "unit": "% (m/m)" }, { "quantity": "(S)-(+)-carvone in European seed oil", "typical_range": "30-60", "unit": "% of oil (peak area)" }, { "quantity": "Dillapiole in Indian sowa seed oil", "typical_range": "20-50", "unit": "% of oil (peak area)" }, { "quantity": "Thousand-fruit weight", "typical_range": "1.0-2.5", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Days from sowing to leaf harvest", "typical_range": "40-70", "unit": "d" }, { "quantity": "Field seed yield", "typical_range": "0.6-1.8", "unit": "t/ha" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": [ "Premature bolting in heat or long days, which ends usable leaf production and coarsens flavour", "Umbellifer diseases (Alternaria blight, powdery mildew) that stain or abort seed and drop oil content below trade minima", "Substitution or blending of dill-seed oil with caraway oil (both carvone-rich), detected only by full GC profile and optical rotation, not by carvone assay alone", "Chemotype mix-up: European carvone oil versus Indian dillapiole oil sold as 'dill oil', causing flavour and pharmacopoeial failures", "Apiaceae pollen/food allergy and celery-carrot-mugwort-spice cross-reactivity; concentrated oil can irritate skin and mucosa", "Low-level furanocoumarins typical of the family: far weaker phototoxicity than Heracleum, but relevant to undiluted oil on skin", "Post-flowering leaf quality collapse (the usual reason fresh-cut dill has a very short market window)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": [ "Northern and eastern Europe (ukrop, dild, till, Dill): fresh herb is the primary product; seed is secondary", "India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: sowa seed and oil, with dillapiole chemistry, are the traded article and the Ayurvedic drug; 'dill' on a label may not match European oil", "North America: split market of greenhouse/field fresh herb versus field seed for the pickle industry", "Mediterranean to western Asia: wild and feral stands; the species is archaeophytic rather than a recent introduction in much of this belt" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens 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": "Foeniculum vulgare (fennel)", "difference": "Both have yellow umbels and fine leaves; fennel smells of anethole (anise), is perennial with a thickened crown or bulb, and has longer, paler mericarps - dill is an annual with a caraway-like carvone odour and a slender taproot." }, { "name": "Carum carvi (caraway)", "difference": "Seeds are the usual mix-up: caraway mericarps are more crescent-curved with paler ridges; the plant is biennial with white, not yellow, flowers. Seed oils both contain carvone and limonene; separate by plant habit, flower colour and the rest of the GC profile (and by optical/chiral carvone context)." }, { "name": "Petroselinum crispum (parsley), vegetative plants", "difference": "Young dill is glaucous blue-green and anise-caraway scented; parsley is deeper green, broader-segmented (flat-leaf) or crispate, and lacks dill's phellandrene-carvone leaf odour." }, { "name": "Anethum sowa / Indian dill (when treated as a separate species)", "difference": "Fruits tend to be slightly larger; seed oil is dillapiole-rich rather than carvone-dominant - GC of the oil, not leaf morphology, is the reliable trade test." }, { "name": "Cuminum cyminum (cumin), as a dry seed", "difference": "Cumin fruits are bristly, greyer-brown and smell of cuminaldehyde, not carvone; they are not produced on a yellow-umbelled annual of dill's habit." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Anethum graveolens this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional botanical key and comparison specimens are needed to resolve local dill look-alikes, especially before fruiting?", "How should the registry's species boundary handle material labelled Indian dill or Anethum sowa under the selected taxonomic authority?", "Which cultivar-specific and locally validated observations predict bolting and the useful foliage-harvest period?", "What cutting intensity, fruit-maturity criteria and viability tests are supported for the intended cultivar and use?", "Which locally relevant pests, diseases and treatment-history constraints materially change harvest or retention decisions?" ], "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 Anethum graveolens, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Anethum graveolens, assess a dill plant's development and condition, and choose justified cultivation, harvest or seed-retention actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 113 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 113 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 Anethum graveolens from another, and a Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records 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"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 Anethum graveolens between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 Anethum graveolens is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens, 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 Anethum graveolens 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 } } } }