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for its flowers, essential oil and ornamental value.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the species-level identity and biological requirements of Lavandula angustifolia, with observations attached to identified plants, cultivated accessions or populations; cultivar, site and product records remain linked contexts.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification and differentiation from other lavenders and lavender hybrids", "Plant morphology, growth habit and seasonal development", "Growing conditions, establishment and responses to environmental stress", "Plant health, pruning and propagation readiness", "Flowering and harvest readiness for a declared intended use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The genus Lavandula and characteristics shared across all lavender species", "Separate species and hybrids, including Lavandula latifolia, Lavandula stoechas and lavandin", "Cultivar registration, ownership and commercial nursery inventories", "Essential-oil extraction, finished-product composition and product certification", "Clinical efficacy, medicinal dosing and therapeutic recommendations", "Whole-farm economics and landscape design beyond this species' requirements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check an identification against narrow leaves, woody perennial growth and lavender-type flowering structures together; leaf width or scent alone cannot establish the species.", "Inspect flowering-stem branching and floral characters when distinguishing it from Lavandula latifolia and Lavandula × intermedia; record an unresolved identification if the available material lacks diagnostic structures.", "Check for conspicuous terminal bracts characteristic of the Lavandula stoechas group rather than treating every purple-flowered lavender as Lavandula angustifolia.", "Treat the common name 'English lavender', flower colour and nursery labels as supporting evidence requiring botanical corroboration.", "Separate species identity from cultivar appearance: unusual flower colour, compact habit 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"Allows growing conditions to be compared with documented requirements for the accession and cultivation system." }, { "name": "Live growth distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "mapped leafy shoots, visible buds, bare woody portions and dead portions", "why_it_matters": "Pruning decisions require evidence of living growth rather than assumptions about regrowth from old wood." }, { "name": "Health observations", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vigorous | reduced vigour | wilting | discolouration | dieback | crown or root symptoms | undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Keeps observed symptoms separate from an unverified diagnosis." }, { "name": "Material destination", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "ornamental display | propagation | dried flowers | culinary supply | distillation | conservation | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "The intended destination changes which identity, treatment-history and harvest evidence an agent needs." } ], "affordances": [ "Document diagnostic structures and seek expert determination when lavender species or hybrids remain plausible.", "Assess a planting position using measured light, root-zone conditions and local exposure records.", "Inspect decline and choose additional observations before attributing symptoms to drought, excess moisture, disease or seasonal change.", "Plan pruning around seasonal development and the observed distribution of live shoots.", "Select and trace propagation material according to whether species identity or a particular cultivar must be preserved.", "Assess flowering material for a stated harvest purpose and retain its plant identity and treatment history." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-lavender-boundaries", "name": "Identity and lavender boundaries", "description": "Establish what biological material the name Lavandula angustifolia denotes and whether an observed plant belongs to it.", "rationale": "Lavender common names, cultivar labels and 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"name": "Diagnostic comparison", "description": "Test identification against the lavenders most likely to be confused with this species.", "findings": [ { "id": "exclude-similar-lavenders", "name": "Exclude similar lavenders", "description": "Use a botanical key and multiple observable characters to evaluate competing species and hybrid identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "What leaf, flowering-stem, calyx and bract observations distinguish this material from Lavandula latifolia and Lavandula × intermedia in the selected key?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exclude-similar-lavenders-q01" }, { "text": "Are terminal bracts and other floral characters consistent with Lavandula angustifolia or suggestive of the Lavandula stoechas group?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exclude-similar-lavenders-q02" }, { "text": "Which missing structures must be photographed or collected before the identification can be resolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "exclude-similar-lavenders-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-and-flowering", "name": "Growth and flowering", "description": "Describe the living woody framework, new growth and flowering progression of the identified lavender.", "rationale": "Seasonal stage and the location of living shoots determine what pruning and harvest actions are plausible.", "layers": [ { "id": "woody-framework-and-live-shoots", "name": "Woody framework and live shoots", "description": "Distinguish live leafy growth from bare wood and confirmed dead tissue.", "findings": [ { "id": "pruning-relevant-growth-map", "name": "Pruning-relevant growth map", "description": "Record where living shoots and buds occur before proposing cuts to a woody lavender plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are leafy shoots and visible live buds located relative to bare woody stems and proposed pruning points?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pruning-relevant-growth-map-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed pruning depth and timing for this plant's condition and local season?", "kind": "action", "id": "pruning-relevant-growth-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flowering-progression", "name": "Flowering progression", "description": "Track floral development using the plant's observed stage rather than a fixed calendar.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-flowering-stage", "name": "Observed flowering stage", "description": "Distinguish unopened buds, open flowers and spent flowering structures across the plant.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of sampled flowering spikes is in bud, actively flowering or spent, and when was it observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-flowering-stage-q01" }, { "text": "How does the current flowering stage affect the choice to retain flowers, deadhead or harvest for the declared use?", "kind": "action", "id": "observed-flowering-stage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-site-and-decline", "name": "Growing site and decline", "description": "Relate lavender growth and symptoms to root-zone 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supported changes to placement, substrate or watering address the observed limitation?", "kind": "action", "id": "site-suitability-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stress-and-health-assessment", "name": "Stress and health assessment", "description": "Separate symptom records from explanations of lavender decline.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-differential", "name": "Decline differential", "description": "Evaluate moisture stress, weather injury and possible crown or root disease as hypotheses requiring evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the distribution and progression of wilting, discolouration or dieback across shoots, crown and accessible roots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decline-differential-q01" }, { "text": "Which recent watering, rainfall, temperature or transplant events preceded the symptoms?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "decline-differential-q02" }, { "text": "What inspection or diagnostic result is needed before selecting treatment or removing the 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"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 recall-based information; no sources were consulted.", "Dimensions are approximate and vary with cultivar and growing conditions.", "A researcher should verify precise native distribution, infraspecific taxonomy and any standards applicable to a particular essential-oil or medicinal product." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Lavandula angustifolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a 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"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": [ "Cultivated as an ornamental shrub in borders, low hedges and containers.", "Flowers distilled to obtain essential oil for perfumery and fragranced products.", "Dried flowers used in sachets and floral arrangements.", "Food-grade flowers used in small quantities as culinary flavouring.", "Planted to provide floral resources for bees and other pollinating insects." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Lavandula angustifolia 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": "Mature flowering height", 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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. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 59 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 Lavandula angustifolia from another, and a Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 Lavandula angustifolia is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia, 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 Lavandula angustifolia 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 } } } }