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Maton; a common-name label alone does not establish identity. [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A796556-1)", "Check for a clump-forming herbaceous perennial with rhizomes and leafy pseudostems; this supports identification but does not distinguish it from every other ginger. [Kew](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A796556-1), [NParks](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/8/6/8648)", "Compare alternate, linear-to-lance-shaped leaves and white flowers with reddish-purple central markings against a botanical reference; require additional evidence for sterile specimens. [NParks](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/8/6/8648)", "When distinguishing it from other cardamom-producing gingers, require a documented reproductive-character comparison or expert determination; aroma, trade name, and capsule color alone are insufficient evidence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified; provisional; expert-confirmed; voucher-supported; conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Prevents cultivation or use decisions from relying on an ambiguous cardamom label." }, { "name": "Accession and propagation lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "source accession, parent clump or seed parents where known, propagation method, acquisition date", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed plants to traceable planting material without assuming that seedlings reproduce a named cultivar faithfully." }, { "name": "Observation unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "seedling; shoot; connected clump; division; accession population", "why_it_matters": "Makes measurements comparable and avoids counting connected shoots as independent plants." }, { "name": "Shoot growth", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pseudostem height in cm; live shoots per defined clump; new shoots per observation interval", "why_it_matters": "Tracks establishment, vigor, and recovery following management." }, { "name": "Phenological condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "establishing; vegetative; flowering; fruit developing; harvest candidate; senescing; mixed", "why_it_matters": "Allows simultaneous stages within a clump and supports stage-appropriate actions." }, { "name": "Canopy light exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "photosynthetic photon flux density in µmol m−2 s−1, with measurement time and canopy position", "why_it_matters": "Relates shade management to the actual light experienced by cardamom shoots." }, { "name": "Root-zone water condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "volumetric water content in %, with depth, substrate, method, and duration of saturation", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes insufficient water from prolonged saturation before irrigation decisions." }, { "name": "Reproductive performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "flowers and retained capsules per tagged inflorescence over a defined interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates flowering abundance from successful capsule development." }, { "name": "Rhizome and shoot health", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no visible symptoms; discoloration; lesions; softening; wilting; shoot loss; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Supports triage while keeping visible symptoms separate from pathogen diagnosis." }, { "name": "Capsule maturity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "immature; developing; harvest candidate; overmature; indeterminate, with assessment method", "why_it_matters": "Makes harvest readiness an evidenced judgment rather than a color-only assumption." } ], "affordances": [ "Request reproductive photographs, a voucher, or expert determination when cardamom identity is uncertain.", "Compare clump growth and flowering across measured shade and root-zone conditions.", "Select traceable planting material and assess whether a clump is suitable for division.", "Track flowering and capsule retention to investigate reproductive shortfalls.", "Flag symptomatic clumps for diagnostic sampling before propagation or treatment.", "Assess capsule harvest readiness and link harvested material to its source accession." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-accession", "name": "Identity and accession", "description": "Establish what biological entity the cardamom record represents.", "rationale": "Common names, cultivar labels, and clonal growth can obscure both species identity and the unit being observed.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-determination", "name": "Taxonomic determination", "description": "Anchor the registered thing to a botanical determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-species-identity", "name": "Accepted species identity", "description": "Kew accepts Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton in Zingiberaceae; preserve the authority and evidence used to apply that name to an instance. [Kew](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A796556-1)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical authority and determination date support this accession's name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-species-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed characters distinguish this specimen from other plants supplied as cardamom?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accepted-species-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-lineage", "name": "Accession lineage", "description": "Separate species identity from cultivar claims and individual clump history.", "findings": [ { "id": "planting-material-traceability", "name": "Planting material traceability", "description": "Record the source and propagation history of each accession without treating an undocumented cultivar label as verified ancestry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this material raised from seed, divided from a recorded clump, or obtained through another propagation method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "planting-material-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports its cultivar or landrace attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "planting-material-traceability-q02" }, { "text": "Does the record refer to one connected clump or several independently established plants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "planting-material-traceability-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clump-architecture-and-renewal", "name": "Clump architecture and renewal", "description": "Describe the living structures that sustain and renew a cardamom clump.", "rationale": "Shoot counts and foliage condition must be interpreted alongside the rhizome system when judging persistence or division readiness.", "layers": [ { "id": "rhizomes-and-pseudostems", "name": "Rhizomes and pseudostems", "description": "Distinguish persistent underground structures from individual leafy shoots.", "findings": [ { "id": "connected-growth-unit", "name": "Connected growth unit", "description": "Model cardamom as a rhizomatous perennial with clumping leafy pseudostems, recording which structures belong to the observed unit. 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[NParks](https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/8/6/8648)", "questions": [ { "text": "What light and temperature measurements represent the cardamom canopy across the day and season?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-canopy-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "What observed growth or flowering response supports changing overhead shade?", "kind": "action", "id": "measured-canopy-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-zone-and-seasonality", "name": "Root zone and seasonality", "description": "Record water availability and drainage in relation to seasonal development.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-condition-and-response", "name": "Water condition and response", "description": "Require root-zone observations and plant response before interpreting wilting or reduced growth as a need for more irrigation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do root-zone moisture and saturation duration change after rainfall or irrigation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-condition-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which seasonal changes coincide with shoot emergence, flowering, or growth decline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-condition-and-response-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence supports adjusting irrigation or drainage for this clump?", "kind": "action", "id": "water-condition-and-response-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-and-capsule-production", "name": "Flowering and capsule production", "description": "Follow reproductive structures from flowering through harvest assessment.", "rationale": "Vegetative vigor does not establish reproductive success, and harvested spice quality belongs to a separate product model.", "layers": [ { "id": "flowering-and-fruit-set", "name": "Flowering and fruit set", "description": "Connect flowering observations to retained developing capsules.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-progression", "name": "Reproductive progression", "description": "Record flower production, visitor observations, and capsule retention separately so 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"Which capsule and seed observations support harvest readiness for spice production or seed propagation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended use require different maturity criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-handoff-q02" }, { "text": "Which source clump, collection date, and maturity assessment accompany the harvested lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvest-readiness-and-handoff-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-intervention", "name": "Health and intervention", "description": "Assess symptomatic cardamom structures and determine justified responses.", "rationale": "Propagating a symptomatic clump or treating an unconfirmed cause can undermine both the accession and its descendants.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptom-localization", "name": "Symptom localization", "description": "Locate damage across leaves, shoots, rhizomes, roots, and reproductive structures.", "findings": [ { "id": 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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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 Elettaria cardamomum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum, 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 Elettaria cardamomum 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 } } } }