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Taxonomic reference: [Kew Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/747038-1).", "Apply a regional Coffea identification key to measured leaves, stipules, flowers and fruits; retain the character combination that separates the specimen from locally plausible alternatives rather than treating glossy leaves or coffee cherries as diagnostic.", "When morphology or provenance is inconclusive, compare sampled tissue with authenticated Coffea reference material using a validated genetic identification method; record which alternatives the method can actually exclude.", "On a grafted plant, identify scion and rootstock separately and record the tissue sampled; a result from roots cannot automatically establish the identity of the fruit-bearing canopy.", "Separate species identity from cultivar and breeding ancestry: an Arabica cultivar name or reported introgression requires its own evidence and should not automatically create a separate species entry." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Species identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether Arabica-specific care and propagation assumptions are justified." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named cultivar or accession reference, evidence and confidence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Arabica varieties differ in performance and adaptation, so species identity alone cannot determine management expectations. Reference: [World Coffee Research Arabica catalog](https://varieties.worldcoffeeresearch.org/arabica)." }, { "name": "Scion and rootstock identities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Own-rooted | grafted | unknown, with separate component identities", "why_it_matters": "Keeps canopy identity, root responses and propagation decisions attached to the correct component." }, { "name": "Propagation origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Seed | cutting | tissue culture | graft | unknown, with parent or donor references", "why_it_matters": "Supports traceability and assessment of whether descendants can preserve the intended cultivar." }, { "name": "Growth and reproductive stages", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Seedling, juvenile or reproductive plant; concurrent bud, flower and fruit stages recorded by branch or cohort", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single stage label from hiding different flowering and ripening cohorts." }, { "name": "Canopy and bearing-branch condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height in m; stem diameter in mm at a stated position; live bearing-branch count; defoliation in %", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of growth, crop-bearing capacity and recovery after pruning or injury." }, { "name": "Growing-condition exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C, relative humidity in %, light with stated method, soil moisture with stated method, each over a defined interval", "why_it_matters": "Connects stress and reproductive events to measured exposure rather than altitude or location alone." }, { "name": "Root-zone condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pH with test method; drainage observations; rooting depth in cm; nutrient results with units and sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for assessing root restriction, water stress and nutritional intervention." }, { "name": "Health burden", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Affected leaves, branches or fruits in % with sample size, symptom description and diagnostic confidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed damage from an assumed cause and supports repeatable monitoring." }, { "name": "Fruit load and maturity distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Fruit count per stated sampling unit; maturity-class proportions in % using a cultivar-appropriate reference", "why_it_matters": "Supports harvest selection and interpretation of reproductive demand on the plant." }, { "name": "Biological provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source population or nursery, accession, parent material, collection or acquisition event", "why_it_matters": "Separates wild-origin material from cultivated material and preserves evidence needed for conservation or breeding use." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect, photograph and sample specified organs to establish or revise identification.", "Monitor growth, flowering, fruit cohorts and stress through repeat observations.", "Select and evaluate irrigation, shade, nutrition or pruning changes against plant condition and local evidence.", "Propagate from documented material using a method appropriate to the cultivar and intended genetic fidelity.", "Assess suspected coffee leaf rust, berry damage or root problems and select further diagnosis or locally authorised management.", "Select mature fruit for harvest or reproductive material for collection while retaining its link to the source plant." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "linnaeus-1753", "title": "Species Plantarum, vol. 1 - Carl Linnaeus, Laurentius Salvius (1753)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Original valid publication of the name Coffea arabica L." }, { "id": "powo", "title": "Plants of the World Online: Coffea arabica L. - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/", "what_it_supports": "Accepted botanical name, authorship, family placement, and native range.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "ncbi-tax", "title": "NCBI Taxonomy Browser: Coffea arabica - National Center for Biotechnology Information", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=13443", "what_it_supports": "Taxonomic identifier 13443 and placement among Coffea.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wcr-varieties", "title": "Arabica Coffee Varieties catalog - World Coffee Research", "url": "https://varieties.worldcoffeeresearch.org/", "what_it_supports": "Cultivars actually distinguished in producing countries (Typica, Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai, SL28, Gesha, Mundo Novo, and others).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "davis-2012", "title": "The impact of climate change on indigenous arabica coffee (Coffea arabica): predicting future trends and identifying priorities - Aaron P. Davis, Tadesse Woldemariam Gole, Susana Baena, Justin Moat, PLOS ONE (2012)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047981", "what_it_supports": "Wild origin in Ethiopia/South Sudan highlands and climate sensitivity of the species.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iso-3509", "title": "ISO 3509, Coffee and coffee products - Vocabulary - International Organization for Standardization", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard vocabulary distinguishing arabica coffee from other coffee products." }, { "id": "ico", "title": "Botanical and trade information on arabica coffee - International Coffee Organization", "url": "https://www.ico.org/", "what_it_supports": "Commercial grouping of arabicas in international trade and the species' role as the main mild-coffee crop.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "arabica-identity-and-lineage", "name": "Arabica identity and lineage", "description": "Establish what biological material is present and how securely its species and cultivated identity are known.", "rationale": "Misidentification, uncertain cultivar labels and grafted components can lead to inappropriate care or propagation.", "layers": [ { "id": "species-recognition", "name": "Species recognition", "description": "Evaluate specimen-level evidence against plausible Coffea alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-arabica-identification", "name": "Supported Arabica identification", "description": "Record the identification claim, examined organs, reference method and unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed character combination supports Coffea arabica, and which other Coffea species were explicitly excluded?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-arabica-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What voucher, expert determination or validated assay supports the identification, and which plant tissue was examined?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-arabica-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-and-component-lineage", "name": "Cultivar and component lineage", "description": "Keep cultivar claims, breeding ancestry and graft components distinct from species identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-plant-composition", "name": "Traceable plant composition", "description": "Record cultivar or accession claims and the origins of the canopy and root system.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects this plant to its stated cultivar, accession or breeding parents?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-plant-composition-q01" }, { "text": "Is the plant own-rooted or grafted, and which identity and observations belong to each component?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-plant-composition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growth-flowering-and-fruiting", "name": "Growth, flowering and fruiting", "description": "Represent the plant's architecture and overlapping reproductive cohorts.", "rationale": "Pruning, crop assessment and harvest decisions require branch-level and cohort-level evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-and-bearing-structure", "name": "Vegetative and bearing structure", "description": "Assess the living canopy and branches available for current and subsequent growth.", "findings": [ { "id": "bearing-canopy-condition", "name": "Bearing canopy condition", "description": "Relate measured growth, leaf retention and bearing branches to pruning and damage history.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the plant's size, live stem count, bearing-branch distribution and recent growth at the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bearing-canopy-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which branches could be pruned or retained given their condition, crop and documented response to earlier pruning?", "kind": "action", "id": "bearing-canopy-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reproductive-cohorts", "name": "Reproductive cohorts", "description": "Track flowering events and their subsequent fruit development without assuming uniform maturity.", "findings": [ { "id": "flower-to-fruit-progression", "name": "Flower-to-fruit progression", "description": "Record bud development, flowering, fruit set, loss and maturity by dated cohort.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did each observed cohort flower, and what proportion of sampled flowers developed retained fruit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flower-to-fruit-progression-q01" }, { "text": "Which fruits meet a maturity criterion validated for this cultivar, and which should remain on the plant?", "kind": "action", "id": "flower-to-fruit-progression-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "growing-conditions-and-response", "name": "Growing conditions and response", "description": "Connect the plant's measured environment to its growth, stress and management options.", "rationale": "A generic Arabica growing range cannot substitute for cultivar, site and life-stage evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "canopy-exposure", "name": "Canopy exposure", "description": "Assess temperature, light and moisture exposure during relevant developmental periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-linked-stress", "name": "Exposure-linked stress", "description": "Record the timing and duration of environmental exposure alongside observed plant responses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, light and humidity exposures coincided with leaf injury, wilting, flowering or fruit loss?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-linked-stress-q01" }, { "text": "What local evidence supports adjusting shade or water supply for this cultivar and growth stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-linked-stress-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-water-and-nutrition", "name": "Root water and nutrition", "description": "Assess the root zone and nutrient evidence before attributing poor growth to a deficiency.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-limitation", "name": "Root-zone limitation", "description": "Distinguish insufficient water, poor aeration, restricted roots and suspected nutritional imbalance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root inspection, drainage observations, soil tests and leaf analyses support the suspected limitation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-limitation-q01" }, { "text": "Which irrigation, drainage or nutrition adjustment is justified, and what plant response would demonstrate improvement?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-limitation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "arabica-health-and-recovery", "name": "Arabica health and recovery", "description": "Assess damage affecting the leaves, fruit, stems and roots and evaluate responses to intervention.", "rationale": "Coffee-specific threats require organ-level observations, diagnostic confidence and cultivar-aware interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Symptoms and causal evidence", "description": "Separate visible symptoms from confirmed pest, pathogen or environmental causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnosed-damage-pattern", "name": "Diagnosed damage pattern", "description": "Record affected organs, severity, distribution and evidence for suspected causes such as coffee leaf rust or coffee berry borer.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of a defined sample shows leaf lesions, defoliation, fruit entry holes, dieback or root damage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "diagnosed-damage-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or diagnostic result supports each suspected cause, and what competing explanation remains?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnosed-damage-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-reassessment", "name": "Intervention and reassessment", "description": "Choose a justified response and assess its effects on the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-based-health-response", "name": "Evidence-based health response", "description": "Connect monitoring, sanitation or treatment decisions to diagnosis, cultivar evidence and reproductive stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observed burden justify monitoring, sanitation, isolation or a locally authorised treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-based-health-response-q01" }, { "text": "At what interval and with which repeat measurements will recovery, continuing damage or treatment injury be assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-based-health-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-biological-continuity", "name": "Propagation and biological continuity", "description": "Support reproduction and collection while preserving identity and provenance.", "rationale": "Producing another coffee plant does not by itself preserve a cultivar, accession or conservation lineage.", "layers": [ { "id": "propagation-fitness-and-fidelity", "name": "Propagation fitness and fidelity", "description": "Assess whether the source material and propagation method meet the intended biological outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "suitable-propagation-material", "name": "Suitable propagation material", "description": "Record donor condition, reproductive history and evidence that the selected method can preserve the desired identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the objective species reproduction, cultivar fidelity or a controlled cross, and which propagation method supports it?", "kind": "action", "id": "suitable-propagation-material-q01" }, { "text": "What donor, parentage, pollination and health evidence must accompany the seed or vegetative material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "suitable-propagation-material-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-material-transfer", "name": "Origin and material transfer", "description": "Preserve the distinction between source plants, their biological origins and removed material.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-collection-and-handoff", "name": "Traceable collection and handoff", "description": "Link collection events to source plants and transfer detailed custody of detached material to the appropriate neighbouring model.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes wild, cultivated or uncertain origin, and what collection restrictions apply to this accession?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-collection-and-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "When fruit, seed or cuttings leave the plant, which material record assumes custody while preserving the source-plant link?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-collection-and-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Typica", "Bourbon", "Caturra", "Catuai", "Gesha (Geisha)", "SL28", "Mundo Novo", "Ethiopian landraces (heirloom)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q47685", "note": "Item for the species Coffea arabica." }, { "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy", "value_or_pattern": "13443", "note": "TaxId for Coffea arabica." }, { "scheme": "ITIS TSN", "value_or_pattern": "35191", "note": "Taxonomic Serial Number for Coffea arabica L." }, { "scheme": "Botanical name (ICN)", "value_or_pattern": "Coffea arabica L.", "note": "Linnaean binomial; Species Plantarum (1753)." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "0901.11 (green, not decaffeinated); 0901 more generally", "note": "Coffee heading, not species-specific; covers arabica and other Coffea together." }, { "scheme": "ICO trade groups", "value_or_pattern": "Colombian Milds | Other Milds | Brazilian Naturals", "note": "International Coffee Organization arabica market groups, not botanical taxa." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 3509 Coffee and coffee products - Vocabulary (International Organization for Standardization)", "ISO 10470 Green coffee - Defect reference chart (ISO)", "ISO 4149 Green coffee - Olfactory and visual examination and determination of foreign matter and defects (ISO)", "International Coffee Agreement (International Coffee Organization)", "SCA Coffee Standards and cupping protocol (Specialty Coffee Association)", "Codex Alimentarius CXS 193, ochratoxin A provisions applying to coffee (FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission)", "EU pesticide maximum residue levels in coffee, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 (European Union)", "National green-coffee classification rules, e.g. Brazil MAPA coffee classification instructions (Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Exported as green coffee lots on ICO-reported markets and specialty auctions, then roasted for filter, espresso, and capsule drinks.", "Grown as a highland cash crop, often under shade in smallholder garden or agroforestry systems (Ethiopia, Central America, East Africa).", "Processed as washed, natural, honey, or wet-hulled green coffee depending on origin.", "Used as the recurrent parent in breeding rust-resistant cultivars (including Catimor and Sarchimor introgression lines).", "Minor feedstock for soluble/instant coffee relative to Coffea canephora.", "Sold under geographic indications or origin names such as Jamaica Blue Mountain, Kona, and Ethiopian Yirgacheffe." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Somatic chromosome number", "typical_range": "44 (2n = 4x = 44)", "unit": "chromosomes" }, { "quantity": "Caffeine in green beans", "typical_range": "0.8-1.5", "unit": "% dry mass" }, { "quantity": "Commercial cultivation altitude", "typical_range": "1000-2000", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Mean temperature of producing areas", "typical_range": "15-24", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "Export moisture of green coffee", "typical_range": "10-12.5", "unit": "% wet basis" }, { "quantity": "Bean screen size", "typical_range": "14-19", "unit": "1/64 inch" }, { "quantity": "Cherry-to-green-bean recovery", "typical_range": "18-22 (about 5:1 cherry:green)", "unit": "% mass" }, { "quantity": "Green-coffee yield", "typical_range": "0.5-2.0", "unit": "t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) causing defoliation and yield collapse, especially on Typica/Bourbon-derived stock.", "Coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) tunnelling and spoiling the seed.", "Coffee berry disease (Colletotrichum kahawae) on green cherry in East Africa.", "Frost kill of trees in southern Brazilian producing belts.", "Ochratoxin A from mould on slowly dried or rewetted cherry and green beans.", "Climate warming shrinking suitable cool-highland habitat for wild and cultivated arabica.", "Processing defects (overfermentation, stinkers, quakers) that fail green-coffee grading and cupping.", "Narrow genetic base of many commercial cultivars after the Typica/Bourbon bottleneck." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ethiopia: named by region and process (e.g. washed Yirgacheffe, natural Harrar) and grown as forest, garden, or plantation coffee rather than as a few named cultivars.", "Kenya: SL28/SL34 and later rust-resistant lines; lots graded AA/AB/PB by screen size and density.", "Colombia: almost entirely washed arabica; Excelso/Supremo commercial grades.", "Brazil: predominantly natural or pulped-natural lots from large farms, often Catuai or Mundo Novo.", "Indonesia (notably Sumatra): wet-hulled (giling basah) arabica with a distinctive green-bean appearance and cup.", "Yemen: historic dry-processed mocha from old Typica-related stock.", "Consuming markets: 'arabica' is the default specialty coffee in North America and northern Europe; many southern European espresso and soluble blends remain robusta-heavy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Coffea canephora (robusta)", "difference": "Diploid (2n = 22), self-incompatible, typically ~2-2.5% caffeine versus ~1% in arabica; grown hotter and lower; cup is harsher. Field: larger, more wavy leaves and usually unshaded lowland plantings. Lab: caffeine assay, chromosome count, or DNA." }, { "name": "Coffea liberica", "difference": "Much larger leaves and fruit, more heat-tolerant, woody/smoky cup; not an allotetraploid arabica. Distinguished by morphology and taxonomy, not by roast appearance alone." }, { "name": "Catimor / Sarchimor introgression cultivars", "difference": "Look and are sold as arabica but carry Coffea canephora genome from HdT/Timor Hybrid. Pedigree, rust-resistance history, and molecular markers separate them from pure arabica lineages; field habit is not a reliable test." }, { "name": "Green robusta beans in mixed or mislabelled lots", "difference": "Robusta beans are generally rounder, paler, and have a straighter central cut; arabica is typically flatter/oval with a more sinuous groove. Confirm with caffeine content or DNA barcoding, not visual grading alone." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Coffea arabica this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which regional botanical keys and validated genetic assays provide reliable identification for juvenile, sterile or introgressed material?", "Which cultivar-specific environmental and nutritional thresholds are supported by field evidence for the intended region and production system?", "Which local diagnostic protocols and intervention thresholds should govern suspected leaf rust, berry borer and root disease?", "Which propagation and seed-handling protocols preserve viability and the intended genetic identity for the accessions being modelled?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, and which neighbouring models own cultivars, seed lots and conservation accessions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 Coffea arabica, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Coffea arabica, assess a plant's condition and reproductive potential, and select cultivation, propagation or conservation actions supported by its identity and local circumstances.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: S795 coffee, gayo coffee.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 63 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 Coffea arabica, 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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "S795 coffee", "gayo coffee" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Coffea arabica from another, and a Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica, 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 Coffea arabica 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 } } } }