{ "model": { "rank": 6437, "code": "thing-q3758978", "model_id": "vr.tr.gavia", "name": "Gavia", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a bird as Gavia, assess its observed condition and ecological context, and select justified observation, protection or referral actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q3758978/", "tier": 2, "score": 60, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 60, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q3758978", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758978", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:31:09Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00589832, "turns": 1, "seconds": 16.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 90.1, "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: 01a07c46-55b4-7363-a436-ed2ab0bdd321\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Gavia\nRegistry id: vr.tr.gavia\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3758978", "registryId": "vr.tr.gavia", "name": "Gavia", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3758978/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.gavia", "name": "Gavia", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a bird as Gavia, assess its observed condition and ecological context, and select justified observation, protection or referral actions.", "definition": "Genus of diving waterbirds (loons/divers) in the family Gaviidae.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally interpret vr.tr.gavia as the biological genus Gavia, the loons or divers, and own the genus-level recognition and assessment requirements for its members while retaining species-specific uncertainty; the registry meaning still requires confirmation. [ITIS Gavia record](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174468).", "in_scope": [ "Assignment to Gavia, with evidence and unresolved alternative identifications", "Species, age and plumage qualifications needed to interpret a loon observation", "Swimming, diving, feeding and flight capability of an observed bird", "Breeding, chick dependence and seasonal use of aquatic sites", "Observed threats, disturbance responses and prerequisites for intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete species-level models for individual Gavia species", "Lake, river, coastal and marine ecosystem condition beyond its relevance to the bird", "Independent models of prey populations and food webs", "Veterinary diagnosis, treatment protocols and rehabilitation facility management", "Wildlife legislation and permit administration", "Fossil specimen description and reconstruction of extinct taxa" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check taxonomic rank: Gavia denotes a genus within Gaviidae, not the Common Loon alone or every diving waterbird. [ITIS Gavia record](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174468).", "Compare the combined bill shape, elongated body, swimming profile and flight silhouette against grebes, cormorants and diving ducks; diving behaviour alone does not establish Gavia. Common Loon provides one species-specific reference, not a universal silhouette. [Cornell Common Loon identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Loon/id).", "Test identification against smaller, slender-billed loons as well as large, heavy-billed forms; a Common Loon appearance must not become a genus-wide requirement. [Cornell Red-throated Loon identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-throated_Loon/id).", "Recheck identification using age- and season-appropriate plumage: absence of the Common Loon's conspicuous breeding pattern does not exclude even that species. [Cornell Common Loon identification](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Loon/id)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic assignment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Gavia sp.; supported species assignment; tentative Gavia; unresolved diving waterbird", "why_it_matters": "Controls which species-specific expectations can be applied without turning uncertainty into a false identification." }, { "name": "Identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to dated photographs, recordings, field observations or specimen determinations and the identification authority", "why_it_matters": "Allows another observer to reassess difficult nonbreeding or distant birds." }, { "name": "Bill and head profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed bill thickness, colour, carriage and head contour; obscured; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison among loon species and similar waterbirds without relying on a single mark." }, { "name": "Age and plumage assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Age: chick, immature, adult or unknown; plumage: breeding, nonbreeding, transitional or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates appearance changes from taxonomic differences and helps interpret dependence." }, { "name": "Dive duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds between observed submergence and resurfacing, with tracking confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports behavioural assessment only when the same bird is followed and missed resurfacing is excluded." }, { "name": "Aquatic activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Resting, swimming, diving, prey handling, preening, interacting or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed behaviour from inferred feeding success or distress." }, { "name": "Site use", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated association with breeding water, feeding water, migration stopover or nonbreeding site; role uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Makes habitat interpretation conditional on species, season and direct evidence." }, { "name": "Reproductive association", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Nest attendance, incubation, accompanying chicks, provisioning, no reproductive evidence or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies potential dependence and disturbance sensitivity without treating adult presence as breeding proof." }, { "name": "Functional condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed swimming, diving and flight performance; visible impairment; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates demonstrated ability from an ability that has simply not been observed." }, { "name": "Threat evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of attached fishing gear, surface contamination, collision, disturbance or other suspected exposure", "why_it_matters": "Supports a documented response without asserting an unverified cause or diagnosis." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare photographs and field observations with species- and plumage-appropriate references, retaining Gavia sp. when necessary.", "Record repeated dive, feeding and movement observations with observation effort and tracking uncertainty.", "Associate sightings with breeding, feeding and seasonal sites without inferring permanent residency.", "Adjust observation position or activity when a documented response indicates disturbance.", "Refer evidence of injury, entanglement or stranding to an appropriate wildlife responder.", "Check species, location and applicable authority before proposing capture, marking, sampling or relocation." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "placeholder", "title": "pending research", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "will be replaced after lookups" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "loon-identity", "name": "Loon identity", "description": "Establish whether the subject belongs to Gavia and how far identification can be resolved.", "rationale": "A genus-level record must accommodate multiple loon species and uncertain observations without silently becoming a Common Loon model.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-anchor", "name": "Taxonomic anchor", "description": "Connect the registry name to a documented biological concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "gavia-concept", "name": "Gavia concept", "description": "Record the authority and rank supporting the interpretation of Gavia, separately from the identity of an observed bird.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does registry provenance confirm that vr.tr.gavia denotes the loon genus rather than another use of Gavia?", "kind": "definition", "id": "gavia-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Which taxonomic authority and version govern accepted membership and name mappings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gavia-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-discrimination", "name": "Field discrimination", "description": "Evaluate visible and audible evidence against plausible alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-identification", "name": "Supported identification", "description": "Retain diagnostic observations, competing identifications and the finest supported taxonomic resolution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed bill, head, body, plumage or vocal features support Gavia over the local grebes, cormorants and diving ducks?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Do viewing conditions and age-specific marks support a species determination, or only Gavia sp.?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "aquatic-performance", "name": "Aquatic performance", "description": "Describe how the observed loon moves and obtains food in its immediate setting.", "rationale": "Diving and surface behaviour are central to assessment, but observation gaps can easily be mistaken for impairment or feeding failure.", "layers": [ { "id": "dive-and-surface-cycle", "name": "Dive and surface cycle", "description": "Track submergence, resurfacing and surface activity for a reliably followed bird.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-dive-performance", "name": "Observed dive performance", "description": "Record timed behaviour with visibility, water conditions and uncertainty about individual continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dive durations and surface intervals were observed, and how was the same bird tracked?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-dive-performance-q01" }, { "text": "Could waves, distance or an unseen resurfacing explain an apparently prolonged dive?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-dive-performance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-evidence", "name": "Feeding evidence", "description": "Distinguish searching and diving from demonstrated prey capture or provisioning.", "findings": [ { "id": "prey-acquisition", "name": "Prey acquisition", "description": "Record visible prey handling and transfer without assuming that every dive produces food.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was prey capture, swallowing or delivery to a chick actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "prey-acquisition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the prey identification and distinguishes it from an unidentified object?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "prey-acquisition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seasonal-water-use", "name": "Seasonal water use", "description": "Relate loon observations to particular waters, seasons and movement opportunities.", "rationale": "A sighting alone cannot establish breeding, residency or habitat suitability across the genus.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-role", "name": "Site role", "description": "Determine what the bird demonstrably uses a waterbody for.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-water-association", "name": "Documented water association", "description": "Link dated observations to a site role while separating actual use from range-based expectations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do observations establish feeding, resting, breeding or passage at this site?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-water-association-q01" }, { "text": "Which species-specific evidence supports interpreting this freshwater or coastal occurrence in this season?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-water-association-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-opportunity", "name": "Movement opportunity", "description": "Assess observed access to usable water and departure options.", "findings": [ { "id": "departure-and-confinement", "name": "Departure and confinement", "description": "Record actual movement constraints without assigning one takeoff requirement to all Gavia.", "questions": [ { "text": "What open water, ice, obstacles and attempted departures were observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "departure-and-confinement-q01" }, { "text": "What species- and condition-specific evidence is needed before calling this bird stranded or unable to depart?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "departure-and-confinement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "breeding-and-dependence", "name": "Breeding and dependence", "description": "Assess reproductive activity and the relationships on which dependent young rely.", "rationale": "Nest attendance and adult-chick interactions change the significance of disturbance and any proposed intervention.", "layers": [ { "id": "nest-association", "name": "Nest association", "description": "Separate confirmed nesting behaviour from an adult merely occupying suitable water.", "findings": [ { "id": "breeding-evidence", "name": "Breeding evidence", "description": "Record nesting evidence, timing and observation limits without requiring an intrusive nest inspection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed attendance, incubation or chick evidence supports the assigned breeding stage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "breeding-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can missing evidence be obtained through distant observation without approaching the suspected nest?", "kind": "action", "id": "breeding-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dependent-young", "name": "Dependent young", "description": "Track observed chick association, provisioning and separation.", "findings": [ { "id": "adult-chick-continuity", "name": "Adult-chick continuity", "description": "Record dependence directly and avoid inferring abandonment from a brief absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many chicks were visible, and what adult attendance or food transfers were observed over what duration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "adult-chick-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What species- and age-specific evidence would distinguish ordinary separation from a situation requiring expert assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "adult-chick-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-response", "name": "Condition and response", "description": "Connect evidence of impairment or disturbance to proportionate, authorised action.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish unobserved capability, normal loon behaviour and credible injury before recommending interference.", "layers": [ { "id": "impairment-evidence", "name": "Impairment evidence", "description": "Assess visible condition and function without substituting remote inference for diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-concern", "name": "Functional concern", "description": "Document abnormal movement, attached gear or contamination and preserve uncertainty about cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which swimming, diving, posture or wing-use abnormalities were directly observed, and for how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-concern-q01" }, { "text": "Is the suspected fishing gear or contamination visible in supporting evidence, or only inferred from behaviour?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "functional-concern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-decision", "name": "Intervention decision", "description": "Choose between continued observation, reducing disturbance and specialist referral.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-next-action", "name": "Justified next action", "description": "Tie the proposed action to observed urgency, dependent young, responder competence and verified local requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence support withdrawing, monitoring from farther away or contacting a wildlife responder now?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "Before capture, marking, sampling or relocation, which applicable permissions and qualified personnel must be verified?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-next-action-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Common loon / Great northern diver", "Red-throated loon", "Black-throated loon / Arctic loon", "Pacific loon", "Yellow-billed loon / White-billed diver" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Gavia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry provenance confirm the genus interpretation, and does an existing Vercy model already own this concept?", "Should extinct species assigned to Gavia be represented here through taxonomic links, or remain entirely within palaeontological models?", "Which validated identification criteria resolve difficult immature and nonbreeding birds, particularly Arctic versus Pacific and Common versus Yellow-billed Loons?", "Which species-, age- and season-specific baselines support interpretation of dive behaviour, flight capability and adult-chick separation?", "Which local disturbance guidance and responder criteria can support action decisions without inventing universal approach distances or intervention thresholds?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 21 } }, "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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Gavia, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a bird as Gavia, assess its observed condition and ecological context, and select justified observation, protection or referral actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Gavia, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 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 Gavia from another, and a Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia 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 Gavia and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 Gavia is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Gavia, 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 Gavia, 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 Gavia 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 } } } }