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[Flora of North America key](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=104543)", "Inspect fruit shape and surface: the combination of hairless, approximately four-sided siliques, a prominent valve midrib and a short seedless beak supports identification. [Flora of New Zealand](https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/taxon/Brassica-nigra.html)", "Check leaves at multiple stem positions: stalked, lobed lower leaves and narrower, unlobed upper leaves support the determination; record upper-leaf attachment when assessing Brassica rapa as an alternative. [Flora of New Zealand](https://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/taxon/Brassica-nigra.html)", "Compare with white mustard: conspicuously bristly fruits with a broad, flattened beak favour Sinapis alba over Brassica nigra. [UC Davis mustard descriptions](https://sarep.ucdavis.edu/covercrop/mustards)", "For loose seeds, require a documented parent plant, validated seed key or laboratory determination; a black or brown seed colour does not by itself distinguish this entry from other mustard material." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed plant or lot linked to photographs, voucher, identification key, determiner and date", "why_it_matters": "Makes the species assignment auditable when common names and seed appearance are ambiguous." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved mustard; provisional Brassica nigra; supported determination; conflicting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-dependent actions can proceed or need further examination." }, { "name": "Mature silique dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm; record valve-body length, beak length and width separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with regional keys without confusing total fruit length with valve-body length." }, { "name": "Silique orientation and surface", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Appressed, ascending or spreading; hairless or hairy; cross-section and valve midrib observations", "why_it_matters": "Captures the most useful fruit characters for distinguishing black mustard." }, { "name": "Leaf position and attachment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Basal, lower stem or upper stem; stalked, sessile or clasping; lobing and hair observations", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unlike leaf positions from producing misleading comparisons." }, { "name": "Developmental stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seed; seedling; vegetative; flowering; immature fruit; mature fruit; senescent; dead; mixed", "why_it_matters": "Determines which identification evidence and interventions are available." }, { "name": "Plant condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed wilting, chlorosis, tissue loss, lesions, lodging and recovery; cause confirmed or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible damage from unsupported diagnosis." }, { "name": "Reproductive load", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Flowers or siliques per sampled plant; plants sampled; fraction of fruits mature", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of impending seed production and collection timing." }, { "name": "Seed release condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Fruits closed; opening; shedding observed; spent; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Changes how plants and collected material should be handled." }, { "name": "Seed-lot germination", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percent germinated with sample size, pretreatment, conditions and test duration", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes tested propagation potential from assumptions based on seed appearance." }, { "name": "Occurrence context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Plant or stand linked to location, observation date, land use, planting history and local status evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports different decisions for a deliberate planting and an unplanned occurrence." } ], "affordances": [ "Document and identify a plant using mature fruits, leaves and a suitable regional key.", "Monitor flowering, fruit maturation and seed release to schedule collection or containment.", "Collect traceable voucher material or seed while recording parent identity and developmental stage.", "Assess a seed lot for propagation using documented germination results and local planting constraints.", "Select and document a removal or containment action based on seed maturity, site objectives and applicable local rules.", "Refer harvested material to a food, feed or processing model with its identity and handling history attached." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "fna-7-brassica-nigra", "title": "Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae - Brassica nigra (Flora of North America Editorial Committee / Oxford University Press)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Accepted name and authorship, diagnostic morphology (petiolate upper leaves, siliques appressed to the rachis), North American status, and separation from other weedy mustards." }, { "id": "usda-plants-brni", "title": "PLANTS Database: Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J. Koch, symbol BRNI (USDA NRCS)", "url": "https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=BRNI", "what_it_supports": "USDA PLANTS identifier BRNI, currently accepted name, and United States occurrence as a naturalized/weedy plant.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ncbi-taxid-3707", "title": "NCBI Taxonomy Browser: Brassica nigra, taxid 3707 (National Center for Biotechnology Information)", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=3707", "what_it_supports": "NCBI taxonomic identifier 3707 used in genomic and sequence records for this species.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "u-1935-brassica-genomes", "title": "Genome-analysis in Brassica with special reference to the experimental formation of B. napus and peculiar mode of fertilization (Nagaharu U, Japanese Journal of Botany, 1935)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Placement of B. nigra as the diploid BB genome (n = 8, 2n = 16) in U's triangle of crop brassicas." }, { "id": "eu-1169-2011", "title": "Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, Annex II (European Parliament and Council)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/1169/oj", "what_it_supports": "Mustard listed as a substance or product causing allergies or intolerances that must be declared on prepacked foods in the EU.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "black-mustard-identification", "name": "Black mustard identification", "description": "Resolve whether an observed plant or propagule belongs to this registry entry.", "rationale": "Yellow flowers and mustard common names do not establish Brassica nigra identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxon-and-specimen", "name": "Taxon and specimen", "description": "Connect the registered name to a specific determination and physical subject.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-determination", "name": "Traceable determination", "description": "Record the authority, evidence and uncertainty behind the identification without creating separate things for nomenclatural alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic reference and version define the Brassica nigra concept used for this determination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Which voucher, photographs or parent-plant record connect this physical subject to that determination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-determination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mustard-lookalike-tests", "name": "Mustard lookalike tests", "description": "Evaluate fruit and leaf evidence against plausible alternative mustard species.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Assess multiple characters together and preserve uncertainty when mature fruits are unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the mature fruit orientation, valve-body length, beak length, surface hairs and cross-section?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed characters exclude Brassica juncea, Brassica rapa, Sinapis alba and other locally plausible lookalikes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "If only seedlings or loose seeds are available, what additional evidence is needed before assigning this species?", "kind": "action", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-condition", "name": "Growth and condition", "description": "Assess development and damage in the observed black mustard plant.", "rationale": "Identification, collection and intervention depend on the organs present and whether apparent decline reflects damage or maturation.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-observation", "name": "Developmental observation", "description": "Track the local sequence from emergence through reproductive development.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-timing", "name": "Stage and timing", "description": "Record dated stages rather than importing a flowering calendar from another region.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vegetative, flowering and fruiting stages coexist on this plant or within the sampled stand?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-and-timing-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated observations establish emergence, first flowering and first mature fruit at this location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-and-timing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-decline", "name": "Damage and decline", "description": "Distinguish observed injury from normal developmental changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-without-assumed-cause", "name": "Condition without assumed cause", "description": "Describe symptoms by organ and retain a separate confidence assessment for their cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of leaves, stems and reproductive structures shows damage, wilting or premature death?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-without-assumed-cause-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes normal senescence from water stress, herbivory, disease or treatment injury?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "condition-without-assumed-cause-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fruit-seed-and-recruitment", "name": "Fruit, seed and recruitment", "description": "Assess seed production, release and the potential to establish another generation.", "rationale": "A plant's reproductive state determines both propagation opportunities and containment needs.", "layers": [ { "id": "fruit-maturity-and-release", "name": "Fruit maturity and release", "description": "Observe the transition from developing siliques to released seed.", "findings": [ { "id": "seed-release-readiness", "name": "Seed release readiness", "description": "Use direct fruit and seed observations to judge collection timing and handling needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of sampled siliques contains developed seeds, and what fraction is open or has shed seeds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seed-release-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "How should collection or removal be timed and handled given the observed seed-release condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "seed-release-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagule-performance", "name": "Propagule performance", "description": "Connect seed-lot tests and field emergence to subsequent establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "viability-and-emergence-evidence", "name": "Viability and emergence evidence", "description": "Keep germination results, viability assessments and inferred dormancy distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What germination or viability result was obtained under which conditions, using how many seeds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "viability-and-emergence-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes nonviable seeds from viable seeds that did not germinate under the test conditions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "viability-and-emergence-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What field observations link new seedlings to this occurrence rather than a separate seed introduction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "viability-and-emergence-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-and-spread", "name": "Occurrence and spread", "description": "Place black mustard plants within a documented site and introduction history.", "rationale": "The appropriate response depends on planting intent, local establishment and evidence of spread.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-and-origin", "name": "Site and origin", "description": "Record where the plants occur and how their presence is explained.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-context", "name": "Establishment context", "description": "Distinguish documented sowing from spontaneous occurrence and unresolved origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this occurrence deliberately sown, linked to escaped cultivation, associated with introduced material or of unknown origin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "establishment-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which local authority or flora supports any assigned native, introduced, naturalised or regulated status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "establishment-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stand-change", "name": "Stand change", "description": "Measure whether the occurrence persists or expands beyond its documented boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "spread-evidence", "name": "Spread evidence", "description": "Separate measured change from assumptions that every black mustard occurrence is invasive.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have occupied area, plant density and reproductive plant counts changed under comparable surveys?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "spread-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows recruitment beyond the planted or previously observed boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spread-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-intervention", "name": "Use and intervention", "description": "Connect identification and reproductive state to a justified handling decision.", "rationale": "The same black mustard material may be retained, propagated, sampled, harvested or removed for different documented purposes.", "layers": [ { "id": "collection-and-use-boundaries", "name": "Collection and use boundaries", "description": "Establish what material is being collected and which downstream assessment owns its intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-destination", "name": "Material destination", "description": "Preserve plant identity and handling provenance when material becomes a voucher, seed lot or harvested ingredient.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs are being collected, at what developmental stage, and for which intended destination?", "kind": "action", "id": "material-destination-q01" }, { "text": "Which downstream model must assess food, feed, extraction or medicinal suitability before that use is authorised?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-destination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-follow-up", "name": "Intervention and follow-up", "description": "Choose and evaluate actions using the observed plant and seed state.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-dependent-action", "name": "Stage-dependent action", "description": "Record the objective, applicable constraints and evidence that an intervention achieved its intended result.", "questions": [ { "text": "Given identity confidence, fruit maturity and site objectives, should this occurrence be retained, monitored, collected or removed?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-dependent-action-q01" }, { "text": "What handling and locally applicable constraints govern moving plants, seeds or associated soil?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-dependent-action-q02" }, { "text": "What follow-up observations will detect surviving plants, later seed maturation or new recruitment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-dependent-action-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and 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"High-erucic seed oil (limited edible or industrial use)", "Historical Dijon-type condiment mustard (now largely replaced in trade by Brassica juncea)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J.Koch", "note": "Basionym Sinapis nigra L.; family Brassicaceae." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "3707", "note": "Standard taxid in sequence and genome records." }, { "scheme": "USDA PLANTS symbol", "value_or_pattern": "BRNI", "note": "Identifier for the United States and territories." }, { "scheme": "EPPO code", "value_or_pattern": "BRSNI", "note": "Plant-protection code for Brassica nigra." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "23062", "note": "Taxonomic Serial Number in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System (HS)", "value_or_pattern": "1207.50", "note": "Mustard seeds as a commodity heading; not species-specific (also covers Sinapis alba and Brassica juncea)." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex II - mustard is a mandatory labelled food allergen (European Parliament and Council).", "Canadian priority-allergen rules - mustard must be declared on food labels (Health Canada / Canadian Food Inspection Agency).", "Regulation (EU) 2019/1870 amending contaminants rules - maximum erucic acid in vegetable oils, with a distinct limit for mustard oil used as food (European Commission).", "ISTA International Rules for Seed Testing - purity, other-seed, and germination methods applied to Brassica seed lots (International Seed Testing Association).", "OECD Seed Schemes for Brassica and Sinapis - varietal certification of mustard seed moving in international trade (OECD)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Whole seeds used in pickling spice, sausage, and hot-oil tempering (tadka) for pungency.", "Ground or steeped to make hot mustard condiments; historically the seed of Dijon mustard, now mostly replaced in factories by Brassica juncea because nigra siliques shatter.", "Pressed for a high-erucic mustard oil in some traditional and industrial uses, far less often than B. juncea.", "Traditional mustard plasters (counter-irritant poultices) using crushed seed.", "Cover crop or green manure, and a volunteer weed of cereals and roadsides.", "Invasive annual forming dense stands on California coastal sage, grassland, and disturbed ground.", "BB-genome parent in Brassica genetics, resynthesis, and breeding (U's triangle)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Chromosome number (BB genome)", "typical_range": "2n = 16 (n = 8)", "unit": "chromosomes" }, { "quantity": "Plant height at flowering", "typical_range": "0.5-2.5", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Seed diameter", "typical_range": "1.0-1.5", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Thousand-seed mass", "typical_range": "1.5-3", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Seed oil content", "typical_range": "25-40", "unit": "% of dry seed mass" }, { "quantity": "Erucic acid in seed oil", "typical_range": "about 25-45", "unit": "% of fatty acids" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Siliques dehisce at ripeness, so combine harvest sheds much of the seed - the main agronomic reason commerce shifted to Brassica juncea.", "Invasive annual stands can displace native forbs and raise dry fuel load in Mediterranean-climate grasslands.", "IgE-mediated mustard allergy, a priority allergen in the EU and Canada and a cause of undeclared-ingredient recalls.", "Allyl isothiocyanate vesicates skin and irritates mucosa (mustard plasters; handling of freshly crushed seed).", "High-erucic seed oil is restricted as an edible oil in several jurisdictions because of historical cardiac-lipidosis concerns.", "Glucosinolate-rich forage can be goitrogenic to livestock when mustard dominates the sward.", "Volunteer weed in small-grain crops and a contaminant of other mustard-seed lots." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In grocery and export trade, lots labelled \"black mustard seed\" are often Brassica juncea, not B. nigra.", "France: historically tied to Dijon mustard; commercial Dijon is now typically B. juncea.", "California and much of the western United States: encountered mainly as an invasive wild plant, not as a crop.", "Canadian Prairie mustard production is Sinapis alba (yellow) and Brassica juncea (brown/Oriental), with little or no B. nigra.", "Ethiopia and parts of the eastern Mediterranean retain more true B. nigra as a spice; Ethiopian mustard as an oilseed/vegetable is the separate species B. carinata.", "English trade names black / brown / yellow mustard do not map cleanly onto species." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Brassica juncea (brown/Indian/Oriental mustard)", "difference": "Juncea seeds are larger and usually brown rather than jet-black; siliques spread from the rachis rather than lying appressed; 2n = 36 (AABB) versus 2n = 16 (BB)." }, { "name": "Sinapis alba (white/yellow mustard)", "difference": "Seeds are pale yellow and larger; the main glucosinolate is sinalbin, not sinigrin; siliques are bristly with a long flattened beak." }, { "name": "Brassica rapa (field mustard / turnip rape)", "difference": "Upper cauline leaves of B. rapa clasp the stem with auricles; B. nigra upper leaves are petiolate and do not clasp; 2n = 20 (AA)." }, { "name": "Hirschfeldia incana (shortpod mustard)", "difference": "Short, hairy siliques with a persistent swollen beak; a frequent California roadside misidentification of \"black mustard.\"" }, { "name": "Brassica tournefortii (Saharan mustard)", "difference": "Different basal-rosette phenology and fruit; another invasive mustard of the south-western United States, not the classical spice seed." }, { "name": "Brassica carinata (Ethiopian mustard)", "difference": "Tetraploid BBCC crop (2n = 34) with larger plants and seeds; an oilseed/vegetable, not small-seeded black mustard spice." }, { "name": "Sinapis arvensis (charlock / wild mustard)", "difference": "Spreading bristly siliques and different leaf division; seeds are not the commercial black-mustard spice." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Brassica nigra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current taxonomic authority should govern the registry concept, and how should alternative generic placements be linked to this entry?", "Which regional identification keys and validated seed tests reliably separate Brassica nigra from locally occurring mustard lookalikes when mature fruits are absent?", "What locally supported germination, dormancy and soil seed-persistence evidence should determine propagation tests and monitoring duration?", "Which collection or containment methods are effective at each reproductive stage under the intended site's conditions?", "Which plant-part composition, contamination and handling evidence must accompany material intended for food, feed or extraction?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }, "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. 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra, by which 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"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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra 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 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"observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra 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", 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"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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra 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": 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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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra, 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 Brassica nigra 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 Brassica nigra is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": 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