{ "model": { "rank": 4518, "code": "thing-q28524", "model_id": "vr.tr.anthozoa", "name": "Anthozoa", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Anthozoa, distinguish taxon-level knowledge from observations of polyps and colonies, and assess evidence needed for monitoring or intervention.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q28524/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q28524", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28524", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:24:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25.7, "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: 01a087d7-0654-7622-aa27-df219f1cfd15\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Anthozoa\nRegistry id: vr.tr.anthozoa\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q28524", "registryId": "vr.tr.anthozoa", "name": "Anthozoa", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q28524/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.anthozoa", "name": "Anthozoa", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Anthozoa, distinguish taxon-level knowledge from observations of polyps and colonies, and assess evidence needed for monitoring or intervention.", "definition": "Anthozoa is a class of marine cnidarians comprising sea anemones, corals and their relatives, whose members have a polyp body with a pharynx and internal mesenteries and lack a medusa stage.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.anthozoa in PHY / PHY.LIV as a marine cnidarian taxon encompassing sea anemones, anthozoan corals and their relatives, with traits and observations explicitly qualified by lineage and biological unit.", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic circumscription, authority, rank and identifiers under a named classification", "Anthozoan polyp anatomy and distinctions among included lineages", "Solitary and colonial organisation, development and reproduction", "Marine occurrence, substrate, feeding and symbiotic associations", "Condition assessment and evidence governing conservation or handling decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Hydrozoan fire corals and other non-anthozoan cnidarians", "Coral reefs as complete ecosystems or geological structures", "Standalone models of algal symbionts, pathogens and associated organisms", "Coral skeletons as traded materials, jewellery or construction resources", "Species-specific husbandry protocols and conservation assessments treated as universal Anthozoa properties" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Anthozoa denotes a taxon containing many species; a polyp, colony or local population is an instance at a different biological level.", "The anthozoan life cycle lacks a medusa phase; this helps distinguish it from many other cnidarians but is insufficient alone for identification. [Smithsonian sea anemones](https://ocean.si.edu/holding-tank/images-hide/sea-anemones)", "Anthozoan polyps have an internal pharynx and mesenteries; recognition should combine internal anatomy, external traits and taxonomic evidence. [Smithsonian-hosted Cnidaria reference](https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8431/iz_2009_NZ_Chapter_04_Cnidaria.pdf)", "Eight pinnate tentacles support octocoral identification, while hexacorals typically have unbranched tentacles; a coral-like appearance alone does not establish Anthozoa membership. [Smithsonian coral overview](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-coral-reefs)", "A hard skeleton is not required for membership, and the common name 'coral' also includes hydrozoan fire corals. [Smithsonian coral overview](https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/corals-and-coral-reefs)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic concept", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Accepted name, rank, authority and date, parent taxon, classification source and version", "why_it_matters": "Prevents classifications with different ranks or circumscriptions from being silently merged." }, { "name": "Taxonomy identifier mapping", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Verified WoRMS, GBIF and NCBI identifiers, each with retrieval date and concept match", "why_it_matters": "Links observations to the intended taxon without inventing a species binomial for a higher taxon." }, { "name": "Biological observation unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Taxon, population, genet, colony, ramet, polyp, larva or specimen", "why_it_matters": "Makes abundance, survival and reproduction measurements interpretable." }, { "name": "Polyp diagnostic morphology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tentacle count and branching, mesenterial arrangement, pharynx evidence; observed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification beyond colony silhouette or common name." }, { "name": "Skeletal organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Absent, mineralised framework, sclerites, organic axis, mixed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes structural strategies without equating all anthozoans with stony corals." }, { "name": "Developmental and reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Life stage, maturity, observed sex or sexual system, reproductive mode and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assumptions about spawning, brooding or visible sexual dimorphism across the whole taxon." }, { "name": "Occurrence and habitat", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Coordinates, observation date, depth in m, substrate, locality and species-level range interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Separates a recorded occurrence from an inferred native range or suitable habitat." }, { "name": "Photosymbiosis evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Detected, not detected, untested or unresolved; partner identity and method where available", "why_it_matters": "Conditions interpretation of light dependence and apparent bleaching." }, { "name": "Living tissue extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage of defined colony surface or sampled area, with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates living occupancy from persistent skeletal structure." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed taxon or population, assessment system, category, year and geographic scope", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a species-level threat category from being assigned to Anthozoa as a whole." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an identification to the lowest defensible anthozoan taxon and preserve uncertainty.", "Attach observations to a defined polyp, colony, genet or population without double-counting them.", "Compare condition through time using consistent tissue, growth and habitat measurements.", "Determine whether evidence supports interpreting colour change as bleaching.", "Identify the species, site and permission evidence required before collection, fragmentation or relocation.", "Link applicable conservation assessments to their actual taxonomic and geographic subjects." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Establish what Anthozoa includes under the classification used.", "rationale": "Rank, lineage placement and common names can otherwise create incompatible identifications.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-concept", "name": "Accepted concept", "description": "Document the classification supporting registry membership.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-and-authority", "name": "Classification and authority", "description": "Anthozoa requires a higher-taxon concept record rather than a species binomial.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority, authorship date, rank and circumscription define Anthozoa in the selected backbone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-and-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which WoRMS, GBIF and NCBI records match that concept, and when were they checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-and-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-boundaries", "name": "Membership boundaries", "description": "Separate included lineages from organisms sharing coral-like forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "lineage-and-lookalike-resolution", "name": "Lineage and lookalike resolution", "description": "Identification must distinguish anthozoan membership from vernacular use of 'coral'.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence assigns this record to an included anthozoan lineage rather than Hydrozoa?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lineage-and-lookalike-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "How does the chosen classification place Ceriantharia and any included fossil groups?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lineage-and-lookalike-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "polyp-and-colony-organisation", "name": "Polyp and colony organisation", "description": "Connect diagnostic anatomy to the biological unit being observed.", "rationale": "Anthozoan observations can describe individual polyps, integrated colonies or genetically related fragments.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-anatomy", "name": "Diagnostic anatomy", "description": "Record identification characters and their visibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "polyp-and-skeletal-characters", "name": "Polyp and skeletal characters", "description": "Use tentacles, internal anatomy and skeletal characters together where appropriate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tentacle number and branching pattern are visible in expanded polyps?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "polyp-and-skeletal-characters-q01" }, { "text": "Which mesenterial, sclerite or skeletal characters support identification, and which require examination beyond photographs?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "polyp-and-skeletal-characters-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "biological-individuality", "name": "Biological individuality", "description": "Define the boundaries used for counting and tracking.", "findings": [ { "id": "polyp-colony-genet-boundary", "name": "Polyp, colony and genet boundary", "description": "Physical separation and genetic individuality need separate evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observation concern a solitary polyp, a connected colony, a detached ramet or a genetically established genet?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "polyp-colony-genet-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What rule distinguishes colony growth, fragmentation, fusion and recruitment in repeated counts?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "polyp-colony-genet-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Track life stages and lineage-specific reproductive pathways.", "rationale": "Recruitment, clonal propagation and sexual reproduction have different implications for persistence.", "layers": [ { "id": "life-stage-transitions", "name": "Life-stage transitions", "description": "Interpret larvae, settlement and polyp development.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-settlement-evidence", "name": "Stage and settlement evidence", "description": "Stage assignments must fit the identified lineage rather than an assumed generic coral cycle.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations distinguish a larva, newly settled polyp and established adult in this lineage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-and-settlement-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence links observed larvae or recruits to the identified adult taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-and-settlement-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sexual-and-clonal-pathways", "name": "Sexual and clonal pathways", "description": "Distinguish reproductive mode from observed reproductive condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-system-and-output", "name": "Reproductive system and output", "description": "Sexual system, dimorphism and propagation mode require taxon-specific evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is sex or reproductive maturity established by anatomy, gametes, spawning observations or another validated method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-system-and-output-q01" }, { "text": "Which sexual or asexual processes are documented here, and how are their contributions to recruitment distinguished?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-system-and-output-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "marine-habitat-and-nutrition", "name": "Marine habitat and nutrition", "description": "Relate occurrence to substrate, water conditions and nutritional associations.", "rationale": "Anthozoa cannot be modelled solely through the habitat requirements of shallow reef-building corals.", "layers": [ { "id": "occurrence-and-substrate", "name": "Occurrence and substrate", "description": "Describe the actual setting of the observed animal or population.", "findings": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range-evidence", "name": "Habitat and range evidence", "description": "Maintain separate evidence for occurrence, habitat association and native range.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what coordinates, depth and substrate was the living anthozoan recorded, and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "habitat-and-range-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes native, introduced or uncertain occurrence for the identified species at this location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "habitat-and-range-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-symbiosis", "name": "Feeding and symbiosis", "description": "Record nutritional relationships without assuming photosymbiosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "nutritional-association-evidence", "name": "Nutritional association evidence", "description": "Feeding observations and symbiont detection support different nutritional claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which feeding behaviours or captured food items have actually been observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nutritional-association-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Are photosynthetic symbionts demonstrated, and what evidence establishes their identity or nutritional contribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nutritional-association-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-intervention", "name": "Condition and intervention", "description": "Assess living condition and determine prerequisites for action.", "rationale": "Colour, retained skeleton and colony size alone do not establish health, survival or permission to intervene.", "layers": [ { "id": "living-condition", "name": "Living condition", "description": "Separate observations of tissue and behaviour from diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "tissue-loss-and-colour-change", "name": "Tissue loss and colour change", "description": "Condition interpretation must consider lineage, baseline appearance and symbiosis evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much living tissue remains, and how were lesions, exposed skeleton and normal bare surfaces distinguished?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tissue-loss-and-colour-change-q01" }, { "text": "What baseline and symbiont evidence distinguish bleaching from natural pigmentation, tissue loss or imaging effects?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tissue-loss-and-colour-change-q02" }, { "text": "Which repeated observations would distinguish transient polyp retraction from sustained deterioration?", "kind": "action", "id": "tissue-loss-and-colour-change-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-and-handling", "name": "Conservation and handling", "description": "Bind assessments and intervention decisions to the correct subject and locality.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-and-action-applicability", "name": "Assessment and action applicability", "description": "Conservation categories and handling decisions require species, population and site context.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which conservation assessment applies to this identified taxon or population, with what year and geographic scope?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assessment-and-action-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Before collection, fragmentation or relocation, what identification, site permissions, handling requirements and biological evidence must be established?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-and-action-applicability-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 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and physical disturbance can damage colonies and their habitats.", "Cnidocytes can sting; severity varies substantially among taxa.", "Some zoantharians contain palytoxin and can pose serious exposure hazards during handling." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Anthozoa 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": [ "Anthozoans occur in marine environments worldwide, including polar regions and the deep sea.", "Photosymbiotic reef-building corals are concentrated in warm, shallow tropical and subtropical waters.", "Cold-water corals can form substantial habitats beyond tropical reefs, including in deep water." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which 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"difference": "A colony consists of connected polyps; it is an organismal unit, not the class, a species or a population." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Anthozoa this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current taxonomic backbone should govern Anthozoa's rank, authority and date, and what are its verified WoRMS, GBIF and NCBI identifiers?", "How should differing placements of Ceriantharia and extinct anthozoan groups be represented without implying that all classifications agree?", "Which diagnostic characters reliably support field identification for each major lineage, and where are microscopy or molecular evidence necessary?", "Which lineage-specific rules are needed to distinguish colonies, ramets and genets in abundance and survival records?", "Which species-level range, reproductive, conservation 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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 Anthozoa, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise Anthozoa, distinguish taxon-level knowledge from observations of polyps and colonies, and assess evidence needed for monitoring or intervention.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 74 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 Anthozoa, 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 74 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 Anthozoa from another, and a Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 Anthozoa is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa, 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 Anthozoa 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 } } } }