{ "model": { "rank": 3270, "code": "thing-q38584", "model_id": "vr.tr.dingo", "name": "dingo", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a dingo record, assess the condition and ecological context of the animal or population, and determine which actions are justified by evidence and local authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q38584/", "tier": 2, "score": 88, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 88, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q38584", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38584", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:18:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 27.3, "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: 01a07c3a-ea1f-7e21-af21-c2e78a38a171\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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disputed.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the dingo concept registered as vr.tr.dingo in PHY / PHY.LIV, distinguishing taxonomic treatments, populations and individual animals while recording uncertainty in ancestry, identification and management classification.", "in_scope": [ "Dingo identity, competing taxonomic treatments and evidence supporting identification", "Individual life stage, sex, reproductive condition, health and behaviour", "Population ancestry, reproduction, distribution and connectivity", "Habitat use, diet and ecological relationships", "Dingo-specific conservation, cultural context and management constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Domestic dog breeds, ownership and husbandry except where needed to assess a dingo interaction", "Other canid taxa except as identification or ancestry comparators", "General ecosystem models beyond the dingo's recorded relationships", "Livestock enterprise operations beyond documented interactions with dingoes", "Legal instruments and cultural knowledge systems as independently modelled entities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A dingo identification must state its evidence and confidence; a sandy coat, erect ears or free-ranging behaviour alone does not establish identity.", "Separate ancestry classification from ownership and captivity: whether an animal is owned, captive or free-ranging does not itself resolve whether it is a dingo.", "Compare any proposed genetic identification with its reference populations, markers and classification threshold; retain uncertain or conflicting results.", "Require a named taxonomic treatment when distinguishing dingo from domestic dog or wolf categories, rather than treating one rank or scientific name as universally settled.", "Distinguish a dingo population from an individual sighting and from an administrative category such as wild dog; membership in one does not automatically establish the others." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Record subject", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "dingo concept | population | individual | observation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents population assessments, individual condition and uncertain sightings from being treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Taxonomic treatment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Scientific name, rank, nomenclatural authority and date, adopting source and source version", "why_it_matters": "Makes identification interpretable when authorities use different classifications." }, { "name": "External taxonomy mappings", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Verified GBIF and NCBI identifiers with mapped name, rank and retrieval date", "why_it_matters": "Supports record exchange without assuming that different databases delimit the same concept." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | conflicting; evidence and assessor recorded", "why_it_matters": "Controls how strongly downstream conclusions may rely on dingo identity." }, { "name": "Ancestry assessment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Reported classification or ancestry estimate with method, reference panel, uncertainty and date", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an ancestry label from concealing methodological choices or unsupported precision." }, { "name": "Life stage and reproductive condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Estimated age in months or years; locally defined life stage; sex; reproductive observations; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of dependency, movement, reproduction and intervention needs." }, { "name": "Body condition and health", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Mass in kg where measured; named condition scale; injuries, clinical observations and assessment date", "why_it_matters": "Separates an animal's welfare needs from judgments about its ecological or administrative status." }, { "name": "Spatial occurrence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Coordinates with uncertainty in m, observation date, detection method and access restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Supports range and habitat analysis while distinguishing evidence of presence from established residency." }, { "name": "Population connectivity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Movement or gene-flow links between named populations, with method and time interval", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of isolation, dispersal and ancestry change." }, { "name": "Human interaction state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed avoidance, approach, food seeking, livestock interaction or defensive behaviour with context", "why_it_matters": "Enables responses to documented behaviour without treating proximity alone as dangerousness." }, { "name": "Conservation and management classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Issuing authority, assessed unit, jurisdiction, category, assessment year and effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a historical or geographically limited designation from becoming a universal action rule." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare a sighting, specimen or genetic result with explicit dingo identification criteria and retain unresolved alternatives.", "Assess an individual's condition and dependency to identify appropriate observation or qualified welfare referral.", "Evaluate population trends and connectivity using evidence matched to the same population boundary and time period.", "Investigate reported ecological or livestock interactions by separating direct evidence from attribution.", "Check proposed monitoring, sampling, capture, relocation or control against applicable authority, welfare requirements and local consultation.", "Revise classifications when stronger evidence arrives while preserving earlier interpretations and their provenance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dingo-identity-and-ancestry", "name": "Dingo identity and ancestry", "description": "Establish what a record means by dingo and how that identification was reached.", "rationale": "Taxonomic names, visible appearance, ancestry estimates and management labels can delimit different sets of animals.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-concept", "name": "Taxonomic concept", "description": "Bind the dingo concept to explicit authorities and external mappings.", "findings": [ { "id": "named-treatment", "name": "Named taxonomic treatment", "description": "Record the adopted scientific name and rank without erasing alternative treatments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scientific name, rank, nomenclatural authority and date does the selected source assign to dingo?", "kind": "definition", "id": "named-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified GBIF and NCBI records correspond to that treatment, and do their boundaries agree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "named-treatment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-evidence", "name": "Identification evidence", "description": "Evaluate morphological, contextual and genetic evidence at the appropriate confidence level.", "findings": [ { "id": "ancestry-and-appearance", "name": "Ancestry and appearance", "description": "Keep observable traits and ancestry interpretations separate, including disagreements between them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations or analyses support identification as a dingo rather than a domestic dog or an animal of unresolved ancestry?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ancestry-and-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "If genetic evidence is used, what reference populations, markers, thresholds and uncertainty support the reported classification?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "ancestry-and-appearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "individual-life-and-welfare", "name": "Individual life and welfare", "description": "Represent an individual dingo's development, reproduction and condition.", "rationale": "Age, dependency and health change how observations should be interpreted and what intervention is appropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Assess life stage and reproductive condition using stated evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "age-sex-and-dependency", "name": "Age, sex and dependency", "description": "Distinguish measured or observed attributes from estimates based on appearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes this dingo's estimated age, sex and reproductive condition, and which attributes remain unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "age-sex-and-dependency-q01" }, { "text": "Is this individual a dependent young animal, a provisioning adult or neither, and what observations support that interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "age-sex-and-dependency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-care", "name": "Condition and care", "description": "Assess welfare in the context of life stage, location and recent history.", "findings": [ { "id": "welfare-assessment", "name": "Welfare assessment", "description": "Record condition and injuries without inferring illness from an unsupported visual impression.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measurements or qualified observations support the assessment of body condition, injury, disease or distress?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "welfare-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence warrant continued observation, referral or authorised intervention, accounting for dependent animals?", "kind": "action", "id": "welfare-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-range-and-continuity", "name": "Population range and continuity", "description": "Define dingo populations and assess their distribution, persistence and connections.", "rationale": "A sighting, a breeding population and a taxon's range support different conclusions.", "layers": [ { "id": "range-and-origin", "name": "Range and origin", "description": "Separate contemporary occurrence from historical presence and origin classifications.", "findings": [ { "id": "spatial-and-historical-boundaries", "name": "Spatial and historical boundaries", "description": "Attach range statements to a geographic unit, period and explicit meaning of native or introduced.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish current dingo presence or residency in the area, and over what period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "spatial-and-historical-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "How does the cited authority distinguish native range, historical introduction, subsequent spread and translocation for this area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "spatial-and-historical-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "demography-and-connectivity", "name": "Demography and connectivity", "description": "Evaluate population change and exchanges across defensible boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-continuity", "name": "Population continuity", "description": "Assess breeding, survival and dispersal while accounting for imperfect detection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sampling design and detection correction support estimates of dingo abundance, recruitment or population trend?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What movement or genetic evidence connects this population to neighbouring dingoes or domestic dogs?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "behaviour-and-ecological-relationships", "name": "Behaviour and ecological relationships", "description": "Interpret dingo social behaviour, habitat use and feeding relationships in their observed context.", "rationale": "Ecological effects and encounter responses require local evidence rather than assumptions attached to a predator label.", "layers": [ { "id": "social-and-spatial-behaviour", "name": "Social and spatial behaviour", "description": "Describe associations, den use and movement without assuming every encounter represents a stable group.", "findings": [ { "id": "group-and-space-use", "name": "Group and space use", "description": "Link repeated observations to supported interpretations of association and habitat use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What repeated observations distinguish a persistent social association from a temporary aggregation of dingoes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "group-and-space-use-q01" }, { "text": "How do recorded movement and den-use patterns vary with season, reproductive condition and access to human food?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "group-and-space-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-and-ecological-effects", "name": "Feeding and ecological effects", "description": "Separate diet evidence, predation events and broader ecosystem effects.", "findings": [ { "id": "diet-and-causal-attribution", "name": "Diet and causal attribution", "description": "Require evidence appropriate to claims about consumption, killing or changes in other populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence distinguishes dingo predation from scavenging or mere presence near prey or livestock remains?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diet-and-causal-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison or study design supports a claimed dingo effect on prey, other predators or vegetation in this setting?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diet-and-causal-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-coexistence-and-authority", "name": "Conservation, coexistence and authority", "description": "Connect conservation assessments and documented encounters to locally justified decisions.", "rationale": "The same animal may be described differently by conservation, land-management and cultural authorities, with different implications for action.", "layers": [ { "id": "status-and-local-context", "name": "Status and local context", "description": "Locate assessments and responsibilities in a specific time, jurisdiction and community context.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-and-custodianship", "name": "Assessment and custodianship", "description": "Record the assessed biological unit and relevant local authority without generalising across regions or communities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there an applicable IUCN or other conservation assessment, and what taxonomic unit, category, assessment year and current validity does it specify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assessment-and-custodianship-q01" }, { "text": "Which Traditional Owners, land managers or other responsible parties should inform decisions here, and what limits apply to recording or sharing their knowledge?", "kind": "action", "id": "assessment-and-custodianship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "encounters-and-interventions", "name": "Encounters and interventions", "description": "Evaluate proposed responses to observed dingo behaviour and documented impacts.", "findings": [ { "id": "proportionate-authorised-response", "name": "Proportionate authorised response", "description": "Tie intervention to incident evidence, applicable rules and measurable outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed behaviour or verified damage supports concern, and were feeding, approach, den proximity or other encounter conditions recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "proportionate-authorised-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which response is authorised and supported by the evidence, and how will its welfare, conflict and population outcomes be evaluated?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-authorised-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge, not a researched account; verify taxonomic treatment, authority formatting and database identifiers.", "Verify any current IUCN assessment, assessment year and jurisdiction-specific legal status before adding them.", "Body measurements vary with sex and population; males are generally larger. The timing of arrival in Australia and definitions of dingo ancestry remain research questions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Zoological nomenclature", "value_or_pattern": "Canis dingo Meyer, 1793", "note": "A species-level name used for the dingo; taxonomic rank and preferred name vary among authorities." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric Taxonomy ID", "note": "The current identifier and placement require verification." }, { "scheme": "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon key", "note": "The accepted-name treatment and associated key require verification." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Study of dog ancestry, domestication and adaptation to free-living conditions.", "Study of predator effects on prey populations and ecological communities.", "Cultural relationships with Aboriginal peoples, including companionship and hunting.", "Conservation and livestock-management planning." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Adult body mass", "typical_range": "Approximately 10-20", "unit": "kg" }, { "quantity": "Gestation duration", "typical_range": "Approximately 61-65", "unit": "days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Predation on livestock can generate conflict and lethal control.", "Interbreeding with other domestic dogs complicates population identification and conservation objectives.", "Habituation and deliberate feeding can increase the risk of bites or serious attacks on people.", "Poisoning, trapping and shooting can affect population persistence and social organisation.", "Coat colour alone cannot reliably establish ancestry." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Dingoes occupy Australian habitats ranging from deserts to forests; body size, coat and diet vary geographically.", "They are absent from Tasmania, and their distribution in parts of southeastern and southwestern Australia has been substantially altered by settlement and control.", "K'gari supports a geographically isolated island population with particular cultural and conservation significance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of dingo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a dingo, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a dingo record, assess the condition and ecological context of the animal or population, and determine which actions are justified by evidence and local authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 88 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 dingo, 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 88 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 dingo from another, and a dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo 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 dingo and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 dingo is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a dingo, 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 dingo, 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 dingo 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 } } } }