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[Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675971-1/general-information)", "Check seed margins for conspicuous wings: S. indicum seeds are unwinged, although an inconspicuous fringe may occur; conspicuously winged specimens require another identification. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675971-1/general-information)", "Compare mature capsules with the documented oblong, four-grooved, short-beaked form; combine this with reproductive evidence rather than identifying from capsule silhouette alone. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675971-1/general-information)", "Check the combination of narrower upper leaves, potentially lobed lower leaves and pale tubular flowers; variable foliage makes a single leaf insufficient. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675971-1/general-information)", "Do not separate species or confirm cultivars by black, brown or white seed colour alone: all occur in S. indicum. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675971-1/general-information)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved; provisional; confirmed against a documented reference", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-specific decisions are justified." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked accession, cultivar declaration, supplier and parent seed lot; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Connects expected behaviour to evidence about the actual planting material." }, { "name": "Seed surface and margin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Surface sculpture, wing or fringe presence, colour and maturity, with magnified images", "why_it_matters": "Supports differentiation from related sesame species without treating colour as decisive." }, { "name": "Developmental stage distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Emergence, vegetative growth, flowering, capsule filling, maturation and senescence; concurrent stages allowed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observations of different organs or sampled plants from being collapsed into one misleading stage." }, { "name": "Capsule-bearing architecture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in cm; branches per plant; capsule-bearing nodes and capsules per sampled plant", "why_it_matters": "Locates reproductive development and supports comparable yield-potential observations." }, { "name": "Root-zone water condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Drying; adequately moist; saturated; standing water; unknown, with observation duration", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for establishment failure and water-related stress assessments." }, { "name": "Damage burden", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of sampled plants or organs affected, with symptom type and sampling denominator", "why_it_matters": "Separates isolated injury from a population-level problem." }, { "name": "Capsule opening and seed retention", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of sampled mature capsules open; retained or lost seed mass under a stated method", "why_it_matters": "Supports harvest decisions using observed loss risk." }, { "name": "Seed moisture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percent moisture, specifying wet or dry basis, method and sampled capsule positions", "why_it_matters": "Makes maturation and harvest assessments comparable without assuming a universal threshold." }, { "name": "Propagation performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Germination and emergence percentages, each with conditions, duration and sample size", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes tested seed performance from successful establishment in the growing environment." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect and sample leaves, flowers, capsules and seeds to support or revise an identification.", "Trace planting material to an accession or parent lot and establish a documented propagation trial.", "Monitor development at specified plant positions and across a defined population sample.", "Investigate stress or damage and select a locally supported cultivation response.", "Compare capsule maturity, opening and seed retention to choose a harvest approach and timing.", "Harvest seeds into a linked lot while preserving parentage, maturity and handling evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sesame-identity", "name": "Sesame identity", "description": "Evidence that the observed plant belongs to the registered species and to any claimed cultivated lineage.", "rationale": "Species identity and cultivar identity require different evidence and support different decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-organs", "name": "Diagnostic organs", "description": "Combined observations of foliage, flowers, capsules and mature seeds.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-determination", "name": "Species determination", "description": "Record the identification, diagnostic observations, reference used and unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "What capsule form and mature seed surface or margin evidence supports S. indicum and excludes the locally plausible alternatives?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Which reference, specimen or expert determination supports the identification, and which diagnostic organs were unavailable?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-determination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivated-lineage", "name": "Cultivated lineage", "description": "Accession and cultivar claims attached to the identified sesame plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "lineage-evidence", "name": "Lineage evidence", "description": "Keep supplier labels, accession records and observed traits distinct, including uncertainty about mixtures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parent seed lot or accession establishes the claimed cultivar identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lineage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Do differences among plants indicate expected variation, a possible mixture or an unresolved identification problem?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lineage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-and-site-response", "name": "Establishment and site response", "description": "The transition from sown sesame seed to an established plant and its observed response to growing conditions.", "rationale": "Sesame is sensitive to waterlogged conditions, making drainage context relevant to establishment and stress assessment. [NParks species account](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/7/2/7200)", "layers": [ { "id": "seed-to-seedling", "name": "Seed to seedling", "description": "Evidence linking seed performance, sowing conditions and actual emergence.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-outcome", "name": "Establishment outcome", "description": "Record germination separately from emergence and subsequent seedling survival.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportions of tested seeds germinated and sown seeds emerged, under which conditions and observation periods?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports retaining the stand, resowing or investigating seed quality and seedbed conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "establishment-outcome-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-zone-response", "name": "Root-zone response", "description": "Plant observations interpreted alongside moisture, drainage and temperature records.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-stress-assessment", "name": "Water stress assessment", "description": "Record exposure and plant response without equating wilting or yellowing with a confirmed cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone moisture or standing-water observations coincide with wilting, yellowing or growth arrest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-stress-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional observation would justify irrigation, drainage correction or continued monitoring for these plants?", "kind": "action", "id": "water-stress-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-seed-development", "name": "Flowering and seed development", "description": "Spatial and temporal observations of sesame flowers, developing capsules and seed formation.", "rationale": "Harvest and propagation decisions need the distribution of reproductive states across the plant and sampled population.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-progression", "name": "Reproductive progression", "description": "Flower and capsule development located by date, branch and node.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-distribution", "name": "Stage distribution", "description": "Represent flowering, filling and maturing structures separately wherever they coexist.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sampled nodes or branches bear flowers, filling capsules and mature capsules on the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-distribution-q01" }, { "text": "What observable criteria distinguish a filling capsule from a mature capsule for this accession?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-distribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-parentage", "name": "Seed parentage", "description": "The reproductive history needed to interpret seed intended for propagation.", "findings": [ { "id": "pollination-provenance", "name": "Pollination provenance", "description": "Record open pollination, controlled selfing or crossing and the evidence supporting any parentage claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were seed-bearing flowers openly pollinated, isolated or deliberately crossed, and what records support that history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pollination-provenance-q01" }, { "text": "Is the evidence sufficient for the intended parentage claim, or must pollen parentage remain unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pollination-provenance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sesame-health-and-integrity", "name": "Sesame health and integrity", "description": "Damage to sesame plants and the evidence needed to judge its cause and reproductive consequences.", "rationale": "Leaf injury, root or stem dysfunction, and capsule damage affect different capabilities and require separate observations.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptom-localization", "name": "Symptom localization", "description": "Symptoms located on roots, stems, leaves, flowers or capsules and mapped across sampled plants.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-pattern", "name": "Damage pattern", "description": "Record incidence, severity and progression while preserving the distinction between symptoms and diagnoses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are affected, how many sampled plants show symptoms, and how has the pattern changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection or diagnostic result supports a pest, pathogen, nutritional or physical explanation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "damage-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-capacity", "name": "Reproductive capacity", "description": "Consequences of damage for plant survival, capsule integrity and recoverable seed.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-response", "name": "Damage response", "description": "Connect the affected sesame organs to a justified next action and a subsequent response check.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much lodging, stem breakage or capsule injury is present, and what reproductive structures remain intact?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-response-q01" }, { "text": "What locally supported evidence justifies treatment, removal, separate harvest or monitoring, and how will its outcome be checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capsule-retention-and-harvest", "name": "Capsule retention and harvest", "description": "The relationship between seed maturation, capsule opening and recoverable seed.", "rationale": "Measured shattering resistance varies among sesame genotypes, so harvest decisions need accession-specific observations. [Experimental assessment of sesame shattering](https://doi.org/10.1186/s44399-025-00008-8)", "layers": [ { "id": "maturity-and-opening", "name": "Maturity and opening", "description": "Separate seed maturity from capsule opening and actual seed loss.", "findings": [ { "id": "retention-assessment", "name": "Retention assessment", "description": "Record capsule opening and retained seed under a stated sampling and handling method.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of sampled mature capsules has opened, and what seed loss is observed before and during handling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "retention-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the claimed shattering behaviour of this accession under the present conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retention-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-decision-and-handoff", "name": "Harvest decision and handoff", "description": "A justified harvest decision and traceable transfer from parent plants to detached seed.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-readiness", "name": "Harvest readiness", "description": "Combine maturity distribution, measured moisture, observed retention and the intended harvest method without imposing an unverified universal threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observed maturity and retention profile justify harvesting now with the proposed method, and which local criterion supports that decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "Which parent plants or sampled population produced the harvested lot, and which quality or storage decisions pass to its separate model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "harvest-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional identification key and voucher material adequately distinguish S. indicum from all locally plausible Sesamum species, especially when mature seeds are unavailable?", "Which accession-specific observations reliably distinguish physiological seed maturity from readiness for the intended harvest method?", "Which moisture and capsule-retention thresholds have been validated for the local cultivar, climate and equipment?", "Which locally important diseases and pests require dedicated observations, diagnostic methods or intervention thresholds?", "What isolation and parentage evidence is sufficient for the intended seed-saving or breeding use under local pollination conditions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "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. 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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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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, 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must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 Sesamum indicum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum, 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 Sesamum indicum 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 } } } }