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Taxonomic baseline: [NCBI Taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=5340&mode=Info).", "in_scope": [ "Genus circumscription, nomenclatural authority, identifiers and relationships to accepted member species.", "Evidence supporting Agaricus identification, including morphology, microscopy and sequence placement.", "Distinction between mycelium, fruiting bodies, spores, specimens, cultures and populations.", "Species-qualified substrate associations, occurrence evidence and fruiting conditions.", "Limits on identification-dependent collection, cultivation and use decisions." ], "out_of_scope": [ "All gilled mushrooms collectively, including fungi called agarics outside Agaricus.", "Complete species models for Agaricus bisporus, Agaricus campestris or other members.", "Mushrooms as food products, ingredients or commercial stock.", "Detailed mushroom-farm equipment, production processes and business operations.", "Clinical diagnosis or treatment of mushroom poisoning.", "Population-specific conservation management plans." ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check taxonomic rank and accepted placement: Agaricus is a genus within Agaricaceae, not the family or the order Agaricales. [Kew taxon record](https://species.data.kew.org/species/17030).", "For typical exposed-gill fruiting bodies, assess free gills, a dark brown spore deposit and a partial-veil ring together; these are supporting characters, not individually decisive tests. [Agaricus review](https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_7_4_3.pdf).", "Record ring architecture, bruising response, odour and microscopic characters when separating similar Agaricus candidates; cap appearance alone supplies insufficient discriminating evidence. [Agaricus review](https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_7_4_3.pdf).", "Check whether an unusual enclosed fruiting body belongs to a recognised sequestrate lineage before rejecting Agaricus solely because exposed gills are absent. [Agaricus review](https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_7_4_3.pdf).", "Require a species determination before equating an Agaricus record with the cultivated button mushroom, A. bisporus. [NCBI PubChem taxonomy](https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy/5340)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxon concept and authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Agaricus L., 1753; selected taxonomic treatment, version and retrieval date", "why_it_matters": "Defines which member species and historical names the record includes." }, { "name": "Registry and taxonomy linkage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "vr.tr.agaricus; NCBI:5340; independently verified GBIF and nomenclatural identifiers", "why_it_matters": "Connects evidence without merging genus, species and historical-name records." }, { "name": "Biological referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Genus concept, species, population, mycelial individual, fruiting body, specimen or culture", "why_it_matters": "Prevents fruiting-body counts from becoming unsupported counts of individuals." }, { "name": "Identification resolution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Candidate genus, supported genus, section, species complex, species or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Constrains which ecological and use claims may be applied." }, { "name": "Fruiting-body character profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Gill attachment and maturity colour, spore-deposit colour, veil remnants, ring structure and base morphology", "why_it_matters": "Preserves observable evidence for comparison with a relevant identification key." }, { "name": "Bruising and odour observations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tissue examined, colour response, elapsed seconds or minutes, odour descriptor and observation conditions", "why_it_matters": "Makes transient or subjective identification characters reviewable." }, { "name": "Spore dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and width in micrometres, sample size and preparation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparisons among morphologically similar candidate species." }, { "name": "Development and viability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Spore, mycelium, primordium, immature or mature fruiting body, senescent material; viability separately assessed", "why_it_matters": "Separates reproductive appearance from evidence that the underlying fungus remains alive." }, { "name": "Substrate and occurrence context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Substrate description, habitat, coordinates with uncertainty, date and wild or cultivated origin", "why_it_matters": "Supports ecological interpretation without treating an occurrence as proof of native range." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed species or population, assessment body, category, year and geographic scope; unresolved where unchecked", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a member species' status from being assigned to the entire genus." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve an Agaricus name against a documented taxonomic treatment and retain unresolved mappings.", "Compare a specimen's characters with a geographically appropriate key and record competing identifications.", "Link photographs, vouchers, microscopy and sequence accessions to the same sampled material.", "Record fruiting events and substrate associations while preserving uncertainty about mycelial individuals.", "Select further microscopy, sequencing or expert review when identification remains insufficient.", "Route cultivation or food-use questions to the identified species and strain model." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "agaricus-taxonomic-identity", "name": "Agaricus taxonomic identity", "description": "Resolve the modern genus and the member concepts to which observations refer.", "rationale": "A genus-level registry entry must not silently become a model of a familiar edible species.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-genus-concept", "name": "Accepted genus concept", "description": "Establish the authority, rank and source-backed circumscription.", "findings": [ { "id": "genus-authority-and-identifiers", "name": "Genus authority and identifiers", "description": "Record the selected treatment of Agaricus and verified external identifiers, including disagreement between providers.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic treatment establishes the authority, date and circumscription used for Agaricus?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "genus-authority-and-identifiers-q01" }, { "text": "Do the NCBI, GBIF and nomenclatural records denote the same genus concept?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "genus-authority-and-identifiers-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "member-and-name-resolution", "name": "Member and name resolution", "description": "Connect member species and historical usages without broadening the registry meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-name-and-species-mapping", "name": "Historical name and species mapping", "description": "Require an explicit mapping for historical Agaricus names and distinguish genus-only records from resolved member species.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this name denote a currently included species, a historical combination now placed elsewhere or an unresolved usage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-name-and-species-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Which publication or curated record supports its accepted-name mapping?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-name-and-species-mapping-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "agaricus-identification-evidence", "name": "Agaricus identification evidence", "description": "Organise the observations needed to support or revise an Agaricus determination.", "rationale": "Similar fruiting bodies and variable characters require several independent lines of identification evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "fruiting-body-examination", "name": "Fruiting-body examination", "description": "Capture the whole fruiting body, its maturity and diagnostic character combinations.", "findings": [ { "id": "macroscopic-character-combination", "name": "Macroscopic character combination", "description": "Record gills, spore deposit, veil remnants, stipe base and tissue responses, explicitly marking missing or developmentally obscured characters.", "questions": [ { "text": "What gill attachment, mature spore-deposit colour, ring structure and intact-base features were actually observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "macroscopic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternatives remain consistent with these observations under the regional key?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "macroscopic-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "Were bruising and odour observations recorded with tissue location, timing and specimen condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "macroscopic-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "microscopic-and-molecular-resolution", "name": "Microscopic and molecular resolution", "description": "Resolve ambiguous or atypical material through traceable laboratory evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "voucher-linked-identification", "name": "Voucher-linked identification", "description": "Connect spore measurements and sequence evidence to a voucher and report the resolution they support.", "questions": [ { "text": "What spore measurements and other microscopic characters discriminate the remaining candidates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "voucher-linked-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which voucher, sequence accession and authenticated references support molecular placement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "voucher-linked-identification-q02" }, { "text": "Should the determination remain at Agaricus or species-complex level pending additional evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "voucher-linked-identification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mycelium-fruiting-and-reproduction", "name": "Mycelium, fruiting and reproduction", "description": "Describe observed biological material without equating a mushroom with the complete fungal individual.", "rationale": "Agaricus records must distinguish fruiting events, persistent mycelium and reproductive evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "biological-unit-and-stage", "name": "Biological unit and stage", "description": "Identify what was observed, sampled or counted.", "findings": [ { "id": "fruiting-body-versus-individual", "name": "Fruiting body versus individual", "description": "Separate visible reproductive structures from inferred mycelial individuals and population records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record describe a fruiting body, mycelial sample, culture or inferred individual?", "kind": "definition", "id": "fruiting-body-versus-individual-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports treating adjacent or recurrent fruiting bodies as the same individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fruiting-body-versus-individual-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-and-culture-state", "name": "Reproductive and culture state", "description": "Record maturity, viability and species-qualified reproductive behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-evidence", "name": "Reproductive evidence", "description": "Keep observed sporulation and culture viability separate from assumptions about mating systems or sexual dimorphism.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations establish fruiting maturity, spore production or culture viability?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which species- or strain-specific evidence establishes the mating system rather than importing assumptions from another Agaricus member?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "substrate-range-and-persistence", "name": "Substrate, range and persistence", "description": "Attach ecological claims to identified material, places and observation periods.", "rationale": "Agaricus habitat and distribution claims need member-level evidence and must distinguish fruiting visibility from persistence.", "layers": [ { "id": "substrate-and-fruiting-context", "name": "Substrate and fruiting context", "description": "Record where material grows and the conditions under which fruiting was observed.", "findings": [ { "id": "substrate-association", "name": "Substrate association", "description": "Agaricus is described as saprotrophic; record the actual substrate and distinguish it from nearby vegetation. [Agaricus review](https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_7_4_3.pdf).", "questions": [ { "text": "What substrate is physically associated with the sampled mycelium or fruiting body?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "substrate-association-q01" }, { "text": "Does the claimed ecological relationship rest on direct evidence or only on nearby plants?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "substrate-association-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-and-conservation-scope", "name": "Occurrence and conservation scope", "description": "Interpret locality records and conservation assessments at the correct taxonomic scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence", "name": "Range and assessment evidence", "description": "Distinguish observed occurrence, inferred native distribution, cultivation records and assessed conservation units.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which verified records support native, introduced or cultivated occurrence for the identified species?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which species or population does a conservation assessment cover, and what are its category, year and geographic scope?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does an apparent decline reflect comparable surveys, or could changes in fruiting and detection explain it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "range-and-assessment-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collection-cultivation-and-use-decisions", "name": "Collection, cultivation and use decisions", "description": "Tie proposed actions to identification resolution, material provenance and purpose.", "rationale": "Genus membership alone cannot establish that a specimen is suitable for a proposed food or cultivation use.", "layers": [ { "id": "use-claim-applicability", "name": "Use-claim applicability", "description": "Separate a biological determination from evidence supporting a specific use.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-specific-use-evidence", "name": "Species-specific use evidence", "description": "The genus includes both edible and poisonous species; keep any use claim attached to its identified subject and supporting evidence. [Agaricus review](https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_7_4_3.pdf).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified species and material does the proposed use claim actually cover?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "species-specific-use-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What identification or use evidence remains missing before the agent can support the requested action?", "kind": "action", "id": "species-specific-use-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sampling-and-culture-handoff", "name": "Sampling and culture handoff", "description": "Preserve biological identity when material is collected, archived or transferred into cultivation.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-material-and-next-action", "name": "Traceable material and next action", "description": "Link collected material and derived cultures to the original voucher, site and determination before handing off to species-specific workflows.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which voucher and collection record establish the identity and origin of this culture or sample?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-material-and-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "Should the next step be documentation, permitted sampling, expert determination or transfer to a verified species-and-strain cultivation model?", "kind": "action", "id": "traceable-material-and-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Botanical and fungal nomenclatural author citation", "value_or_pattern": "Agaricus L.", "note": "Genus attributed to Linnaeus, 1753; this names a genus, not a species." }, { "scheme": "MycoBank", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric fungal-name identifier", "note": "Identifiers distinguish nomenclatural records; the exact genus identifier requires checking." }, { "scheme": "GBIF taxon key", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric taxon identifier", "note": "The genus and its constituent species have separate taxon records." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "Numeric Taxonomy ID", "note": "The exact genus identifier is not supplied from recall." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Agaricus this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants: governs scientific naming; adopted through international botanical congress procedures and published through the International Association for Plant Taxonomy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Agaricus 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": [ "Agaricus bisporus is cultivated commercially as button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms.", "Some wild species are collected for food.", "Cultivated species support research into mushroom development, fungal genetics, and compost decomposition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Agaricus 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": [ "The genus includes poisonous species; genus membership does not establish edibility.", "Some species cause gastrointestinal poisoning.", "Misidentification can confuse edible Agaricus with dangerous mushrooms in other genera, including Amanita.", "Odour, staining, or a single visible feature is insufficient for reliable identification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Agaricus 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": [ "Species composition varies among regions and habitats, including grasslands, woodlands, and disturbed ground.", "Commercial cultivation and movement of growing materials complicate distinctions between native and introduced distributions.", "Common names and traditional food use vary by region." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Agaricus 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; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Agaricus bisporus", "difference": "A species within Agaricus; its cultivation traits do not describe every member of the genus." }, { "name": "Agaricaceae", "difference": "The family containing Agaricus and other genera." }, { "name": "Amanita", "difference": "A separate genus typically producing a white spore print, whereas Agaricus produces a brown spore print; this distinction alone is not an edibility test." }, { "name": "Agaric", "difference": "A general term for a gilled mushroom, not a synonym for the genus Agaricus." }, { "name": "Mushroom fruiting body", "difference": "A reproductive structure produced by a fungus; Agaricus names a taxon rather than an individual structure or harvested food." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Agaricus this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current nomenclatural treatment and verified GBIF identifier should anchor the registry's Agaricus concept, including atypical sequestrate members?", "Which regional keys and authenticated reference sequences adequately resolve the species complexes likely to occur in the intended deployment area?", "Which member-species records establish native range rather than cultivation, introduction or historical misidentification?", "Which Agaricus species have relevant IUCN or regional assessments, and what assessment years and geographic scopes apply?", "Which reproductive, culture and use claims are supported for particular species or strains, and which remain unresolved?" ], "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. 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 Agaricus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise records of Agaricus, evaluate identification and biological state, and choose evidence-supported observation, sampling or referral actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 67 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 Agaricus, 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 67 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 Agaricus from another, and a Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 Agaricus is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Agaricus, 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 Agaricus, 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 Agaricus 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 } } } }