{ "model": { "rank": 5652, "code": "thing-q29164", "model_id": "vr.tr.akita", "name": "Akita", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an Akita as a domestic dog breed designation, assess an individual dog's condition and needs, and choose suitable care or handling actions without treating breed expectations as individual facts.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q29164/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q29164", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29164", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:51:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.8, "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: 01a0885d-9ecd-7783-ac4b-943edb6b21cc\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Akita\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 188 things:\n# Batch 006: 1001 registered", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.4, "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: 01a0885d-9ec5-7e31-aed9-68dc1911d2a2\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Akita\nRegistry id: vr.tr.akita\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for " } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q29164", "registryId": "vr.tr.akita", "name": "Akita", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q29164/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.akita", "name": "Akita", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an Akita as a domestic dog breed designation, assess an individual dog's condition and needs, and choose suitable care or handling actions without treating breed expectations as individual facts.", "definition": "Akita denotes a large Japanese-origin domestic dog breed, with Japanese Akita and American Akita treated as separate breeds or related breed types depending on the kennel registry.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Akita breed identity and the breed-specific evidence needed to assess individual dogs, provisionally interpreting vr.tr.akita as a dog breed entry while leaving its coverage of Japanese Akita and American Akita unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Akita identity, ancestry evidence and the naming conventions of the relevant breed authority", "Physical characteristics interpreted against a named breed standard and the dog's age and sex", "Individual health, mobility, coat condition and environmental comfort", "Observed behaviour, handling requirements and compatibility with a proposed household", "Life-stage care, breeding evidence and welfare decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Akita Prefecture, Akita city and other geographic names", "Domestic dog taxonomy and biological characteristics shared across all dogs", "American Akita as a separately published concept unless registry scope explicitly includes it", "Kennel clubs, pedigree registries and breeder organisations as institutions", "Veterinary diseases and treatments as independent clinical models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Confirm that the source uses Akita for a dog breed rather than a geographic place or another namesake.", "Resolve whether an Akita label denotes Japanese Akita, American Akita or an authority-specific umbrella; a bare name is insufficient.", "Assess the combination of body size, head proportions, erect ears, curled tail and coat against a named Akita standard rather than accepting any one feature as proof.", "Check identification and ancestry records when distinguishing a documented Akita from an Akita-type dog or crossbreed; visual resemblance alone does not settle ancestry.", "Compare the applicable standard with those for commonly confused spitz-type breeds, including Shiba, rather than classifying from colour or silhouette alone." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Breed designation and authority", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Verbatim designation; issuing authority; standard identifier and version; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "The meaning of Akita must be established before applying appearance or breeding criteria." }, { "name": "Identity and ancestry evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to individual identification, pedigree, parentage evidence and source records", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented ancestry from an owner's label or an appearance-based estimate." }, { "name": "Height at withers", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cm, with age, sex, date and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with the applicable standard and distinguishes growth from adult proportions." }, { "name": "Body mass and condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg and body-condition score using a named scale", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a large frame from excess weight and supports mobility and care assessment." }, { "name": "Coat and external appearance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed coat length, texture, colour, markings, ear carriage and tail carriage", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for standard comparison while keeping appearance separate from ancestry and health." }, { "name": "Context-specific behavioural response", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed response to people, dogs, other animals and handling, with context and date", "why_it_matters": "Allows handling decisions to follow individual evidence rather than breed stereotypes." }, { "name": "Health and screening evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated veterinary examinations and screening results linked to the individual and interpreting professional", "why_it_matters": "Makes health and breeding judgments traceable without treating missing results as normal findings." }, { "name": "Environmental comfort", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed comfort or distress during rest and activity, with temperature, humidity and exposure", "why_it_matters": "Supports adjustments to activity, shelter and coat care using the dog's actual response." } ], "affordances": [ "Reconcile an Akita label with a named breed authority and flag unresolved Japanese versus American scope.", "Compare documented morphology with the applicable standard while separating conformation from welfare.", "Build an individual care profile covering coat maintenance, body condition, activity and environmental comfort.", "Plan introductions and handling from recorded responses to people and animals.", "Identify missing veterinary or breeding evidence and refer decisions requiring professional assessment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "akita-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Akita identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what the Akita designation means and which individual or breed population a record concerns.", "rationale": "Japanese and American naming boundaries must be resolved before other Akita-specific judgments are reliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "breed-name-resolution", "name": "Breed name resolution", "description": "Interprets the registry label through explicit breed-authority terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-dependent-akita-scope", "name": "Authority-dependent Akita scope", "description": "Record the authority's exact designation and keep the registry's intended coverage explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which breed authority and standard version define Akita in this record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-dependent-akita-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Does vr.tr.akita cover Japanese Akita only, American Akita as well, or an unresolved label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-dependent-akita-scope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-and-ancestry", "name": "Individual and ancestry", "description": "Separates the breed concept from a particular dog's identity and ancestry evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-versus-attributed-identity", "name": "Documented versus attributed identity", "description": "Preserve the difference between documented breed ancestry, reported identity and visual attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identification links this dog to the pedigree or parentage records being cited?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-versus-attributed-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Is Akita status documented, reported by a keeper, inferred from appearance or unresolved?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-versus-attributed-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "akita-form-and-development", "name": "Akita form and development", "description": "Records the physical evidence used to recognise an Akita and interpret its development.", "rationale": "An Akita assessment needs a combination of traits and an explicit standard, with allowances for life stage.", "layers": [ { "id": "standard-linked-appearance", "name": "Standard-linked appearance", "description": "Compares observable traits with the selected Akita standard.", "findings": [ { "id": "combined-morphological-evidence", "name": "Combined morphological evidence", "description": "Evaluate body proportions, head, ears, tail and coat together without making appearance a substitute for ancestry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed head, ear, tail, coat and body traits support the selected Akita designation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "combined-morphological-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which traits help distinguish this dog from a Shiba, another spitz-type breed or an Akita cross?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "combined-morphological-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-body-condition", "name": "Growth and body condition", "description": "Interprets size and proportions using age, sex and longitudinal observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "size-with-developmental-context", "name": "Size with developmental context", "description": "Record height, mass and body condition separately so expected frame size does not conceal an individual welfare concern.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the dog's age, sex, height, mass and body-condition score, and how have they changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "size-with-developmental-context-q01" }, { "text": "Does a departure from the applicable size standard reflect development, measurement uncertainty or a concern requiring assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "size-with-developmental-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "akita-health-and-coat-care", "name": "Akita health and coat care", "description": "Connects individual clinical evidence, coat condition and environmental exposure to care decisions.", "rationale": "Breed-linked care requires verified screening guidance and direct observations, with health kept distinct from show criteria.", "layers": [ { "id": "clinical-and-screening-record", "name": "Clinical and screening record", "description": "Tracks examinations and screening relevant to the resolved Akita designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-health-evidence", "name": "Verified health evidence", "description": "Use dated clinical records and researched screening recommendations rather than an assumed list of Akita diseases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which screening recommendations are supported for this Akita designation by the relevant veterinary or breed-health authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-health-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What examination results, symptoms or mobility changes require follow-up for this individual?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-health-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coat-and-environment", "name": "Coat and environment", "description": "Assesses coat maintenance and comfort under the dog's actual living conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-coat-and-comfort", "name": "Individual coat and comfort", "description": "Record shedding, tangling, skin changes and responses to weather before selecting grooming or activity adjustments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What coat, shedding and skin observations distinguish routine maintenance from a change needing assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-coat-and-comfort-q01" }, { "text": "How should grooming, shelter or exercise timing change in response to this dog's observed environmental discomfort?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-coat-and-comfort-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "akita-behaviour-and-placement", "name": "Akita behaviour and placement", "description": "Supports handling and household decisions through individual behavioural evidence.", "rationale": "An Akita label cannot establish temperament or compatibility, while the dog's size and actual responses affect practical management.", "layers": [ { "id": "social-and-handling-responses", "name": "Social and handling responses", "description": "Documents responses to unfamiliar people, animals and routine physical handling.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-behaviour-evidence", "name": "Contextual behaviour evidence", "description": "Keep observed behaviour, reported history and breed generalisations distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has this Akita responded to unfamiliar people, other dogs, smaller animals and grooming or veterinary handling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contextual-behaviour-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which responses were directly observed, under what conditions, and which are only reported?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-behaviour-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "household-and-management-fit", "name": "Household and management fit", "description": "Matches the individual dog's requirements to a proposed home and handling arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-placement", "name": "Evidence-based placement", "description": "Assess introductions, containment and handler capability using the dog's physical and behavioural profile.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the proposed household meet this dog's handling, grooming, activity and separation needs?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-placement-q01" }, { "text": "What introduction or supervision arrangements follow from this dog's recorded responses to resident people and animals?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-placement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "akita-breeding-and-population", "name": "Akita breeding and population", "description": "Separates individual reproductive decisions from breed-population identity and diversity.", "rationale": "Akita breed boundaries affect pedigree interpretation, while breeding suitability needs evidence beyond appearance or registration.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-suitability", "name": "Reproductive suitability", "description": "Records the evidence needed to assess a proposed breeding decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "breeding-evidence-and-welfare", "name": "Breeding evidence and welfare", "description": "Keep registration eligibility, health evidence and individual welfare as separate assessments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified health, ancestry and behavioural evidence is available for each proposed parent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "breeding-evidence-and-welfare-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved findings require veterinary or qualified breeding advice before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "breeding-evidence-and-welfare-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "breed-population-boundaries", "name": "Breed population boundaries", "description": "Interprets population claims using a named register, geography and time period.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-is-not-species", "name": "Population is not species", "description": "Treat Akita as a breed designation within domestic dogs and do not assign species-level taxonomy or conservation assessments directly to the breed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which register, geographic area and date define any claimed Akita population or ancestry pool?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "population-is-not-species-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a claim about breed diversity or population vulnerability, independently of species conservation status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-is-not-species-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 living-organism domain supports the dog interpretation, but the registry should resolve whether Akita means the Japanese breed or includes the American type.", "Breed nomenclature and standards should be checked against the intended registry and its current edition.", "This is unverified recall; species-level taxonomy identifiers and conservation assessments should not be assigned as breed-specific identifiers or status." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Akita this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Japanese Akita", "American Akita" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Akita 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": "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "255", "note": "Akita, the Japanese breed." }, { "scheme": "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "344", "note": "American Akita, recognized separately." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Akita 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": [ "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed standard for Akita.", "Fédération Cynologique Internationale breed standard for American Akita.", "American Kennel Club breed standard for Akita." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Akita 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": [ "Companion dog.", "Conformation showing and pedigree breeding.", "Historically used for hunting large game in Japan.", "Watchdog and guarding roles." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Akita this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Hip dysplasia can impair mobility.", "Gastric dilatation-volvulus is a potentially fatal emergency.", "Breed-associated autoimmune disorders include sebaceous adenitis and uveodermatologic syndrome.", "Aggression toward other dogs can require careful management and controlled introductions.", "Large size and strength can make poorly managed encounters hazardous." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Akita 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": [ "FCI nomenclature separates Akita and American Akita.", "American Kennel Club usage of Akita generally refers to the American type.", "Japanese and American standards differ in accepted appearance, including coat colors and head characteristics." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Akita this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Shiba Inu", "difference": "A distinct Japanese breed with substantially smaller adult size." }, { "name": "Domestic dog", "difference": "Akita is a breed within the domestic dog, not a separate species." }, { "name": "Individual Akita", "difference": "An individual animal has its own identity, health and behavior; the breed describes a population and breeding standard." }, { "name": "Akita Prefecture", "difference": "The Japanese geographic region associated with the breed's origin, rather than an organism or breed." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Akita this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's original source identify Akita specifically as Japanese Akita, and is American Akita registered separately?", "Which authoritative breed standards and versions should govern naming, distinguishing morphology and sex-specific size expectations?", "Which current veterinary and breed-health sources substantiate Akita-specific screening priorities and the limits of those tests?", "What evidence supports Akita-specific behavioural tendencies, and how strongly can it inform assessment of an individual dog?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this breed concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, 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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. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 65 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 Akita from another, and a Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita 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 Akita and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 Akita is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Akita, 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 Akita, 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 Akita 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 } } } }