{ "model": { "rank": 5107, "code": "thing-q26842", "model_id": "vr.tr.silverfish", "name": "silverfish", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise silverfish, distinguish taxonomic identity from individual condition and local occurrence, and choose proportionate observation or management actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q26842/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 70, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.silverfish", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q26842", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26842", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:40:45Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0881c-cfae-7f02-b615-aa67bc2f3869\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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buildings.", "scope_statement": "This model provisionally covers the common silverfish, Lepisma saccharinum, while requiring confirmation that the registry intends this species rather than silverfish broadly; it owns identification, life history, habitat use, population evidence and interactions with human environments.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification and explicit separation of taxon, population and individual records", "Body form, developmental stage, moulting and individual condition", "Microhabitat, moisture conditions, food resources and occurrence", "Reproduction, persistence and evidence of local population change", "Material damage attribution and proportionate management" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other silverfish species and firebrats as independently modelled taxa", "Building-wide moisture faults and their engineering repair", "Collection conservation and restoration of damaged objects", "Pesticide formulation, registration and application protocols", "General household pest communities unrelated to the recorded silverfish occurrence" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for a wingless insect with a tapering body, long antennae and three terminal filaments; this combination supports a silverfish-like identification but does not alone establish the species.", "Record whether the body has silvery scales; allow for developmental stage, moulting and scale loss before interpreting their absence.", "Compare body pattern, bristles and appendage proportions with an authoritative identification key to distinguish common silverfish from long-tailed silverfish and firebrats.", "Use moisture and temperature observations as supporting habitat evidence, never as a substitute for diagnostic morphology.", "Require an organism, specimen or diagnostic image for identification; damage to paper or adhesive alone does not establish silverfish presence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Candidate Lepisma 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terminal filament proportions; unobservable", "why_it_matters": "Captures characters needed to distinguish similar household insects." }, { "name": "Development and condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Egg; immature; adult; unresolved stage; live or dead; moulting evidence; appendage damage", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of identification limits and local reproduction." }, { "name": "Sex determination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Female; male; undetermined, with diagnostic basis", "why_it_matters": "Avoids inferring sex or reproductive capacity from size alone." }, { "name": "Microhabitat conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C and relative humidity in %, with location and sampling period", "why_it_matters": "Connects activity to the conditions actually experienced in refuges." }, { "name": "Resource and refuge association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed contact with cracks, stored paper, adhesives, textiles, debris or other recorded substrates", "why_it_matters": "Separates nearby materials from demonstrated food or shelter use." }, { "name": "Monitoring activity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Individuals per trap-day or per timed inspection, with method and trap location", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparable trends without treating captures as total population size." }, { "name": "Damage attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No damage observed; suspected association; feeding observed; attribution unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents presence alone from being treated as proof of damage." }, { "name": "Geographic and conservation context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Occurrence locality, native or introduced status with source, and dated conservation assessment or assessment not located", "why_it_matters": "Separates local occurrence from range history and conservation status." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic images or a specimen and request expert identification when species characters are unresolved.", "Map refuges and measure moisture conditions around confirmed occurrences.", "Monitor activity using a consistent inspection or trapping method.", "Inspect vulnerable materials and distinguish observed feeding from suspected damage.", "Select and evaluate moisture reduction, refuge reduction or material protection according to verified conditions.", "Escalate persistent, damaging activity to a qualified pest or collection-care specialist with the evidence collected." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-species-boundary", "name": "Identity and species boundary", "description": "Resolve what the registry name denotes and what the available evidence identifies.", "rationale": "Silverfish can function as a species name or a broader common label, leading to incorrect transfer of biological claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-anchor", "name": "Taxonomic anchor", "description": "Anchor the intended concept to an authoritative taxon while preserving uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "registered-sense", "name": "Registered sense", "description": "The draft treats Lepisma saccharinum as a candidate interpretation requiring registry and taxonomic verification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does vr.tr.silverfish denote Lepisma saccharinum specifically or a broader grouping of silverfish?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "registered-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which taxonomic authority verifies the accepted name, naming authority and date, synonyms, and GBIF and NCBI identifiers?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "registered-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-separation", "name": "Diagnostic separation", "description": "Evaluate visible and specialist characters against likely lookalikes.", "findings": [ { "id": "lookalike-exclusion", "name": "Lookalike exclusion", "description": "Record the characters supporting identification and those unavailable in the evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scale, bristle and terminal filament characters distinguish this specimen from long-tailed silverfish and firebrats?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Is the specimen or image adequate for species identification, or must the record remain at a broader taxonomic level?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lookalike-exclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-local-reproduction", "name": "Development and local reproduction", "description": "Interpret individual stages, moulting evidence and signs of reproduction.", "rationale": "A single sighting, a shed skin and a reproducing population imply different states and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "individual-stage-and-condition", "name": "Individual stage and condition", "description": "Describe the observed insect without overstating age or maturity.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-sex-and-moult", "name": "Stage, sex and moult", "description": "Keep stage and sex assignments tied to diagnostic evidence, including the effects of moulting and damage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable characters establish developmental stage and sex, and which require magnification or expert examination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-sex-and-moult-q01" }, { "text": "Could pale appearance, missing scales or short appendages reflect moulting or injury rather than another species or stage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-sex-and-moult-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-establishment", "name": "Population establishment", "description": "Assess whether observations support local reproduction and persistence.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproduction-evidence", "name": "Reproduction evidence", "description": "Distinguish repeated arrivals from evidence that silverfish complete development at the site.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are eggs, confidently identified immature individuals or repeated stage classes documented in the same refuge?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproduction-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What observation period and species-specific developmental evidence would support local establishment rather than repeated introduction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reproduction-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-resources-and-range", "name": "Habitat, resources and range", "description": "Connect occurrences to measured refuge conditions, resource use and geographic context.", "rationale": "Room-level observations and broad distribution claims can conceal the conditions sustaining a local occurrence.", "layers": [ { "id": "refuge-and-resource-use", "name": "Refuge and resource use", "description": "Locate shelter and distinguish actual feeding from proximity to materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "microhabitat-support", "name": "Microhabitat support", "description": "Record temperature, moisture, shelter and feeding evidence at the insect's location.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature and relative humidity occur inside occupied cracks or storage refuges over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "microhabitat-support-q01" }, { "text": "Which paper, adhesive, textile or debris resources show observed feeding rather than simple co-occurrence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "microhabitat-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "geographic-and-conservation-context", "name": "Geographic and conservation context", "description": "Separate verified occurrence from native-range interpretation and formal conservation assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence", "name": "Range and assessment evidence", "description": "Attach geographic and conservation claims to dated sources and the correct taxon.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources distinguish the species' proposed native range from introduced or indoor occurrences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is there an IUCN assessment for the resolved taxon, and what category and assessment year does it report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-monitoring-and-response", "name": "Damage, monitoring and response", "description": "Translate occurrence evidence into justified material protection and management decisions.", "rationale": "Silverfish presence does not by itself establish material damage, population size or a need for intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "activity-and-damage-attribution", "name": "Activity and damage attribution", "description": "Measure comparable activity and assess the causal evidence for damage.", "findings": [ { "id": "activity-linked-to-material-loss", "name": "Activity linked to material loss", "description": "Keep monitoring counts separate from abundance estimates and damage attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do captures per trap-day or sightings per timed inspection vary by location under a consistent method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "activity-linked-to-material-loss-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence links fresh material loss to silverfish rather than another insect, abrasion or earlier damage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "activity-linked-to-material-loss-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-follow-up", "name": "Intervention and follow-up", "description": "Choose actions based on identified conditions and assess their outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "proportionate-response", "name": "Proportionate response", "description": "Tie management to vulnerable materials, demonstrated activity and measurable outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which verified moisture sources, accessible refuges or exposed materials can be addressed to reduce silverfish activity or damage?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-response-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up duration and monitoring results would justify continuing, changing or escalating the intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry provides no sense: this account assumes Lepisma saccharinum, although 'silverfish' can also refer more broadly to related Zygentoma.", "Exact GBIF and NCBI identifiers, native range, and any IUCN assessment category and year require checking; none is asserted here.", "Development proceeds through egg and immature stages to adulthood without a pupal stage; sex differences are subtle and reliable identification requires specialist morphological examination." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of silverfish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Zoological scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Lepisma saccharinum Linnaeus, 1758", "note": "Species in the family Lepismatidae, order Zygentoma." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The species identifier requires verification." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy ID", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The species identifier requires verification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of silverfish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, maintained by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, governs the scientific naming of this animal." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of silverfish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Subject of household and museum integrated pest 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"evidence": [ "Feeding can damage paper, bookbinding paste, wallpaper adhesives and some textiles.", "Damage and shed material can affect stored collections and household goods.", "Misidentification of related household insects can lead to unsuitable pest-management assumptions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of silverfish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Widely distributed through human transport and associated with buildings in many regions.", "Outdoor occurrence depends on local climate and suitable sheltered microhabitats; its original native range is uncertain." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation 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populations." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of silverfish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Lepisma saccharinum specifically, and what authoritative name, authority date, GBIF identifier and NCBI identifier anchor that interpretation?", "Which diagnostic characters reliably separate the intended taxon from locally occurring lookalikes across immature, freshly moulted and damaged specimens?", "What evidence establishes native range, introduced distribution and any IUCN category with assessment year?", "Which species-specific developmental, reproductive and moisture requirements are sufficiently supported to guide interpretation of local persistence?", "What monitoring periods and material-specific damage evidence support intervention decisions without mistaking trap activity for 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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 silverfish, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise silverfish, distinguish taxonomic identity from individual condition and local occurrence, and choose proportionate observation or management actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 70 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a silverfish, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 70 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one silverfish from another, and a silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish 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 silverfish and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 silverfish is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a silverfish, 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 silverfish, 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 silverfish 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 } } } }