{ "model": { "rank": 6760, "code": "thing-q62614", "model_id": "vr.tr.androgen", "name": "androgen", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an androgen, distinguish its chemical identity from its biological activity, and assess what evidence is needed to interpret or act on it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q62614/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "steroidal androgen", "testosterone furoate", "dihydrotestosterone" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q62614", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62614", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:26:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0887e-1896-74e3-8dcb-879dc0afc407\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns androgen as a class of biologically active substances and the androgen-specific properties of its members, including receptor activity, metabolic conversion, physiological context and measurement interpretation.", "in_scope": [ "Membership in the androgen class and the evidence supporting that classification", "Individual androgen identities, endogenous origins and exogenous forms", "Androgen receptor activity and distinctions between direct action and activity following metabolic conversion", "Production, transport, tissue conversion and clearance relevant to androgen availability", "Measurement and interpretation of androgen exposure in a specified biological context" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-organism taxonomy, anatomy or identity", "Complete models of endocrine diseases or reproductive conditions", "Individual diagnosis, prescribing and treatment selection", "Full drug-product formulation, manufacturing and supply-chain records", "Comprehensive models of other hormone classes or the androgen receptor itself" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Test whether classification rests on androgenic biological activity or conversion to an active androgen; steroid structure alone does not establish membership.", "Distinguish an androgen receptor agonist from an antagonist: receptor binding without the direction of its effect is insufficient.", "Distinguish testosterone as a particular androgen from androgen as the wider class; the terms are not interchangeable.", "Distinguish direct receptor activity from precursor status, since metabolic conversion can account for an observed androgenic effect.", "Distinguish the active substance from a medicine containing it, and from the concentration measured in a specimen." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "androgen class | specified molecule | specified derivative | measured analyte", "why_it_matters": "Prevents class-level statements from being treated as properties of every member or every specimen." }, { "name": "Chemical identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Resolved chemical entity, including stereochemistry and derivative or ester status where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Similar names can denote substances with different activation, transport or analytical behaviour." }, { "name": "Origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "endogenous | exogenous | mixed | unknown, with organism and source context", "why_it_matters": "A molecule's identity alone does not establish how it entered a biological system." }, { "name": "Androgen receptor activity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Assay-specific potency and efficacy, such as EC50 in mol/L and response relative to a named reference", "why_it_matters": "Activity comparisons require the assay, receptor system and reference substance." }, { "name": "Metabolic activation and conversion", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Precursor-to-product 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"Class membership", "description": "Record the operational definition and evidence used to include a substance.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-androgen-classification", "name": "Basis of androgen classification", "description": "Separate demonstrated androgenic activity from classification based on naming, structure or precursor relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "What definition of androgen is being used, and does it include weak precursors or nonsteroidal receptor agonists?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-androgen-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports including this substance under that definition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-androgen-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "molecular-and-product-boundaries", "name": "Molecular and product boundaries", "description": "Separate the class, a chemical member and a preparation containing that member.", "findings": [ { "id": "resolved-androgen-entity", "name": "Resolved androgen entity", "description": "Identify the precise molecule or derivative to which an assertion applies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which chemical identity, stereochemistry and derivative status does the name resolve to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "resolved-androgen-entity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the assertion concern the active androgen, an ester or other precursor, a formulated product, or a measured analyte?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "resolved-androgen-entity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "receptor-action-and-response", "name": "Receptor action and response", "description": "Connect androgen exposure to receptor activity and observed biological endpoints.", "rationale": "Binding, activation and physiological response are distinct evidence steps.", "layers": [ { "id": "androgen-receptor-pharmacology", "name": "Androgen receptor pharmacology", "description": "Describe activity in a defined receptor and assay system.", "findings": [ { "id": "binding-versus-activation", "name": "Binding versus activation", "description": "Keep receptor affinity separate from agonist efficacy and functional potency.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence demonstrate binding, receptor activation, antagonism or a mixture dependent on assay conditions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "binding-versus-activation-q01" }, { "text": "Which assay, receptor system, reference agonist and units support the reported potency or efficacy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "binding-versus-activation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-dependent-effects", "name": "Context-dependent effects", "description": "Locate androgen-associated responses in tissues, organisms and exposure conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-of-biological-response", "name": "Attribution of biological response", "description": "Assess whether a response is attributable to the parent androgen, its metabolites or another mechanism.", "questions": [ { "text": "In which organism, tissue, developmental stage and exposure interval was the response observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attribution-of-biological-response-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates androgen receptor-mediated effects from metabolite-mediated effects or other pathways?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-of-biological-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "production-transport-and-metabolism", "name": "Production, transport and metabolism", "description": "Trace how an androgen becomes available and changes within a biological system.", "rationale": "Circulating abundance alone cannot represent local production, activation or removal.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-availability", "name": "Origin and availability", "description": "Record endogenous production, external exposure and transport.", "findings": [ { "id": "sources-and-circulating-fractions", "name": "Sources and circulating fractions", "description": "Distinguish the origin of the substance from its distribution between free and bound forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies endogenous production sites or exogenous exposure for this androgen in the system under study?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sources-and-circulating-fractions-q01" }, { "text": "Which free and protein-bound fractions were measured or estimated, and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sources-and-circulating-fractions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissue-conversion-and-clearance", "name": "Tissue conversion and clearance", "description": "Represent activation, interconversion, inactivation and elimination as substance-specific pathways.", "findings": [ { "id": "metabolic-fate", "name": "Metabolic fate", "description": "Track transformations without assuming that all androgens share the same pathways.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which conversions are established for this molecule, including any 5α-reduction or aromatisation, and in which tissues and organisms?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "metabolic-fate-q01" }, { "text": "Which products retain androgenic activity, acquire another hormonal activity, or represent inactivation and clearance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "metabolic-fate-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "measurement-interpretation-and-action", "name": "Measurement, interpretation and action", "description": "Determine what an androgen measurement supports and what further evidence an action requires.", "rationale": "Analytical limitations and biological context can change the meaning of a reported androgen value.", "layers": [ { "id": "analytical-evidence", "name": "Analytical evidence", "description": "Specify the analyte, specimen and method behind a measurement.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-androgen-result", "name": "Interpretable androgen result", "description": "Preserve enough analytical context to evaluate specificity and comparability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which androgen, specimen matrix, collection time, units and total or free fraction does the result describe?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-androgen-result-q01" }, { "text": "What method, quantification limits, cross-reactivity or other interference evidence governs confidence in this result?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-androgen-result-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-boundaries", "name": "Decision boundaries", "description": "Connect available evidence to bounded interpretation and appropriate next steps.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-before-intervention", "name": "Evidence before intervention", "description": "Distinguish a laboratory observation from a conclusion about tissue effects or a justified intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which method- and population-appropriate reference context supports interpreting this result, and what remains uncertain about tissue response?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-before-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What additional verification or qualified review is needed before this evidence informs supplementation, suppression or another intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-before-intervention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research.", "DHEA and androstenedione are commonly grouped with androgens, but much of their physiological androgenic effect depends on conversion to more potent molecules.", "Androgens occur in all sexes; neither the class nor its physiological functions should be restricted to males." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of androgen 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 lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Testosterone", "Dihydrotestosterone (DHT)", "Androstenedione, a weak androgen and precursor", "Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), principally an androgen precursor", "11-oxygenated androgens", "Synthetic anabolic-androgenic steroids" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of androgen this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "CAS Registry Number", "value_or_pattern": "58-22-0", "note": "Identifies testosterone specifically; androgen is a functional class with no single CAS number." }, { "scheme": "CAS Registry Number", "value_or_pattern": "521-18-6", "note": "Identifies dihydrotestosterone specifically." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of androgen 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": [ "Endogenous regulation of sexual differentiation, puberty and reproductive function.", "Maintenance of muscle, bone and other androgen-responsive tissues.", "Prescribed androgen replacement for established hormone deficiency.", "Masculinizing hormone therapy.", "Measurement in investigations of androgen excess, deficiency and steroid synthesis disorders." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of androgen 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": "Serum total testosterone concentration", "typical_range": "Reference intervals depend on age, sex, pubertal stage, sampling time and assay.", "unit": "nmol/L or ng/dL" }, { "quantity": "Serum free testosterone concentration", "typical_range": "Reference intervals depend on population and whether the value is measured or calculated.", "unit": "pmol/L or pg/mL" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of androgen 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": [ "Androgen excess can cause acne, hirsutism or virilization, depending on the individual and exposure.", "Exogenous androgens can suppress gonadotropin secretion and sperm production.", "Androgen treatment can cause erythrocytosis.", "Some orally active, 17α-alkylated anabolic-androgenic steroids can cause liver injury.", "Androgen exposure during pregnancy can disrupt fetal sexual development." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of androgen 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": "Testosterone", "difference": "A particular androgen molecule; androgen denotes the broader functional class." }, { "name": "Anabolic-androgenic steroid", "difference": "A steroid with anabolic and androgenic activity; the term androgen emphasizes androgen-receptor-mediated activity." }, { "name": "Androgen precursor", "difference": "Supplies substrate for production of active androgens; precursor status alone does not establish substantial direct receptor activity." }, { "name": "Antiandrogen", "difference": "Reduces androgen production or action rather than activating androgen signaling." }, { "name": "Estrogen", "difference": "Acts principally through estrogen receptors; some androgens can be converted into estrogens by aromatase." }, { "name": "Androgen receptor", "difference": "The receptor protein that mediates androgen signaling, rather than a substance that activates it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of androgen this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative definition should govern inclusion of weak androgen precursors and nonsteroidal androgen receptor agonists in this registry entry?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover androgen, requiring this entry to link to it rather than own a duplicate model?", "Should the initial publication cover human physiology only, or include other organisms with explicitly separated evidence?", "Which primary sources and reference assays can substantiate member-specific activity, conversion pathways and measurement limitations?", "How should the model represent disputed or context-dependent claims about tissue selectivity and relative anabolic versus androgenic effects?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "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 androgen, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise an androgen, distinguish its chemical identity from its biological activity, and assess what evidence is needed to interpret or act on it.", "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: steroidal androgen, testosterone furoate, dihydrotestosterone.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 58 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 androgen, 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": [ "steroidal androgen", "testosterone furoate", "dihydrotestosterone" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 androgen from another, and a androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen 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 androgen and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 androgen is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a androgen, 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 androgen, 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 androgen 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 } } } }