{ "model": { "rank": 5959, "code": "thing-q370239", "model_id": "vr.tr.cinnamomum-verum", "name": "Cinnamomum verum", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Cinnamomum verum, assess the condition of its living plants and attributable botanical material, and decide whether identification, cultivation, propagation or harvest is justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q370239/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q370239", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370239", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:20:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0020213, "turns": 1, "seconds": 15.4, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 99.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07b61-0c81-7ac1-bf29-e6f9a63c3d6c\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Kew taxon reference](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:463752-1/general-information)", "For living plants, require an applicable botanical key and documented leaf, twig and available reproductive characters that exclude candidate congeners; leave identification unresolved when the available organs cannot support that exclusion.", "For prepared bark quills, inspect the cross-section: multiple fine rolled layers support Ceylon cinnamon attribution, whereas cassia typically has a relatively thick rolled layer; processing form limits this screening test. [BfR cinnamon identification guidance](https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/service/frequently-asked-questions/topic/faq-on-coumarin-in-cinnamon-and-other-foods/)", "For powdered material, visual appearance cannot reliably separate Ceylon cinnamon from cassia; request traceable analytical authentication. Low coumarin is supporting evidence, not a standalone species verdict. [BfR cinnamon guidance](https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/service/frequently-asked-questions/topic/faq-on-coumarin-in-cinnamon-and-other-foods/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Species determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed | excluded; evidence and determination date required", "why_it_matters": "Prevents cinnamon trade names from becoming unsupported C. verum identifications." }, { "name": "Biological subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole plant | rooted cutting | seed | shoot | leaf | bark | other specified organ | mixed material", "why_it_matters": "Determines which recognition tests and biological actions apply." }, { "name": "Source plant connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified parent plant, accession or voucher; documented | inferred | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Carries identification evidence into detached bark and propagation material without assuming traceability." }, { "name": "Diagnostic organ observations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "leaf arrangement, venation, shape and surfaces; twig, flower and fruit characters; images and key reference", "why_it_matters": "Allows a reviewer to reproduce or challenge exclusion of similar Cinnamomum species." }, { "name": "Stem size and regrowth age", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "stem diameter in mm at a stated position; months since documented cutting or emergence", "why_it_matters": "Supports evaluation of a specific stem for harvest rather than treating the whole plant as uniformly ready." }, { "name": "Reproductive and propagation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vegetative | flowering | fruiting; seed maturity or cutting rooting state recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether reproductive identification or a proposed propagation action is currently possible." }, { "name": "Root-zone conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "temperature in °C, soil pH, moisture with method-specific units, and waterlogging duration in hours", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed plant stress with measured growing conditions without inventing universal suitability thresholds." }, { "name": "Bark and shoot condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | wounded | healing | dieback present | other observed condition; organ and affected extent specified", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions to defer bark removal, inspect damage or monitor recovery." }, { "name": "Bark peelability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "untested | separates continuously | tears | adheres; test method and sampled stem required", "why_it_matters": "Provides direct evidence relevant to a proposed bark harvest." }, { "name": "Material authentication result", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "consistent | inconsistent | inconclusive | not tested; method, comparison material and sampled organ required", "why_it_matters": "Separates a laboratory result from an unsupported assertion that all material from a supplier is C. verum." }, { "name": "Coumarin concentration in sampled material", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mg/kg with moisture basis, analytical method, uncertainty and detection limit", "why_it_matters": "Provides a material-specific observation for authentication review and linked product assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic organs and seek a defensible species determination.", "Collect a permitted voucher or analytical sample while recording damage and source identity.", "Select traceable seed or vegetative material for propagation under an applicable protocol.", "Adjust growing conditions in response to measured conditions and observed plant stress.", "Assess and, when justified, select particular stems for cutting and bark harvesting.", "Hold disputed botanical material for authentication before attributing it to C. verum." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "Research in progress", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Will be replaced after lookups" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "species-recognition", "name": "Species recognition", "description": "Establish whether the observed plant or material belongs to Cinnamomum verum.", "rationale": "The name cinnamon is insufficient to distinguish this species from commercially similar congeners.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxon-determination", "name": "Taxon determination", "description": "Connect the claimed identity to a botanical concept and reproducible evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-species-assignment", "name": "Supported species assignment", "description": "Record the determination, botanical reference, determiner and unresolved competing identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which botanical reference defines the Cinnamomum verum concept used for this determination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Who identified this specimen, from which evidence, and on what date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q02" }, { "text": "Which alternative Cinnamomum identifications remain possible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-species-assignment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-dependent-identification", "name": "Form-dependent identification", "description": "Choose evidence appropriate to a living plant, detached organ or processed sample.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-evidence-sufficiency", "name": "Diagnostic evidence sufficiency", "description": "Record the available organs or material form and whether the selected examination can resolve species identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, twig, flower or fruit observations satisfy the selected key's separating characters?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-sufficiency-q01" }, { "text": "Has peeling, grinding or mixing removed the characters needed to distinguish C. verum from cassia?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-sufficiency-q02" }, { "text": "What additional specimen or validated authentication test is needed before accepting the attribution?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-evidence-sufficiency-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "plant-and-organ-continuity", "name": "Plant and organ continuity", "description": "Maintain the identity of source plants, harvested organs and propagation material.", "rationale": "Species evidence must remain connected to the particular bark, shoot or seed being assessed.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-accession", "name": "Source accession", "description": "Distinguish biological origin from purchase location or trade designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-plant-origin", "name": "Traceable plant origin", "description": "Record the source accession, collection or nursery history and the basis of any cultivar claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which collection, nursery accession or source plant supplied this individual?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-plant-origin-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports any claimed cultivar, collection locality or propagation lineage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-plant-origin-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organ-attribution", "name": "Organ attribution", "description": "Track the botanical part and separation event without turning the species model into a product inventory.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-detached-material", "name": "Attributable detached material", "description": "Connect detached bark, leaves, shoots or seeds to their source and record breaks in attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organ was removed from which plant or stem, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-detached-material-q01" }, { "text": "Was material pooled across plants or species so that individual attribution was lost?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributable-detached-material-q02" }, { "text": "Which linked product or batch model takes ownership after processing or commercial pooling?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributable-detached-material-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-propagation", "name": "Growth and propagation", "description": "Assess development and the suitability of material for producing further plants.", "rationale": "A living C. verum plant can supply diagnostic reproductive organs, harvestable stems or propagation material at different times.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-phenology", "name": "Development and phenology", "description": "Record current growth and reproductive observations at plant and stem level.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-developmental-state", "name": "Observed developmental state", "description": "Separate measured stem development and observed flowering or fruiting from assumed age-based readiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured sizes and documented ages of the stems under consideration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-developmental-state-q01" }, { "text": "Are new shoots, flowers or fruits present, and when were they observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-developmental-state-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-material", "name": "Propagation material", "description": "Assess the identity, condition and protocol suitability of seeds or vegetative material.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-readiness", "name": "Propagation readiness", "description": "Record evidence for attempting propagation and the distinction between species attribution and lineage claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source, collection date and handling history are known for the seeds or cuttings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagation-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What germination, maturity, rooting or viability observations support using this material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "propagation-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Which C. verum propagation protocol applies to the material and intended lineage outcome?", "kind": "action", "id": "propagation-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-condition-and-recovery", "name": "Growing condition and recovery", "description": "Connect growing conditions and organ damage to continued growth and recovery from intervention.", "rationale": "Decisions about propagation and bark harvest require evidence that the particular plant can tolerate the proposed action.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-response", "name": "Site response", "description": "Relate measured root-zone and exposure conditions to observed C. verum performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "growth-limiting-conditions", "name": "Growth-limiting conditions", "description": "Record environmental observations and symptoms without assigning a cause solely from appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, moisture, drainage and soil pH observations accompany poor shoot or leaf growth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "growth-limiting-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally applicable C. verum cultivation evidence supports changing these conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "growth-limiting-conditions-q02" }, { "text": "What adjustment and follow-up observation would test the suspected limitation?", "kind": "action", "id": "growth-limiting-conditions-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-regrowth", "name": "Damage and regrowth", "description": "Assess bark wounds, stem decline and new growth following cutting or injury.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-recovery-state", "name": "Intervention recovery state", "description": "Locate damage and record healing or regrowth before proposing further tissue removal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stems or organs show wounds, lesions, dieback or suspected pest activity, and to what extent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intervention-recovery-state-q01" }, { "text": "What cutting or bark-removal history precedes the current condition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intervention-recovery-state-q02" }, { "text": "Should further harvesting be deferred pending recovery or diagnosis?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-recovery-state-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bark-harvest-and-material-assessment", "name": "Bark harvest and material assessment", "description": "Evaluate particular stems for harvest and preserve evidence about the resulting botanical material.", "rationale": "C. verum bark use makes stem selection, peelability and material authentication central decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "stem-harvest-readiness", "name": "Stem harvest readiness", "description": "Assess a proposed cutting or peeling action against plant condition and an applicable harvest protocol.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-stem-selection", "name": "Justified stem selection", "description": "Record stem measurements, bark behaviour and the evidence supporting the timing and extent of harvest.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stem dimensions, regrowth history and condition support selecting this stem?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "justified-stem-selection-q01" }, { "text": "What limited peelability observation is available, and what damage did obtaining it cause?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "justified-stem-selection-q02" }, { "text": "Which applicable protocol and collection authority justify the proposed cutting or bark removal?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-stem-selection-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvested-material-evidence", "name": "Harvested material evidence", "description": "Assess the identity and condition of attributed bark before handing decisions to a product model.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-attribution-and-condition", "name": "Material attribution and condition", "description": "Record quill or fragment observations, deterioration and analytical evidence without treating species identity as product clearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bark structure, moisture and visible deterioration were observed in the sampled material?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-attribution-and-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which authentication results support or contradict C. verum attribution, with what method limitations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-attribution-and-condition-q02" }, { "text": "Should the material be held for further examination or transferred with its evidence to a linked product assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "material-attribution-and-condition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 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"Which botanical keys and voucher collections reliably distinguish C. verum from the congeners encountered in each intended deployment region, especially when reproductive organs are absent?", "Which authentication methods and reference populations are validated for intact bark, powder and mixtures, and what are their detection limits and failure modes?", "Which locally validated stem-size, regrowth, season and peelability criteria justify harvest while preserving plant recovery?", "Which C. verum cultivation and propagation protocols establish usable environmental ranges, seed-handling limits and diagnostic responses to locally important pests or diseases?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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 63 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 Cinnamomum verum from another, and a Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 Cinnamomum verum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum, 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 Cinnamomum verum 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 } } } }