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mature tree in nature, under aesthetic canons that developed in Japan from Chinese penjing.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the recorded identity, condition, design intent and intervention constraints of a living bonsai specimen or intentionally composed planting, including its relationship to its container; whether the registry instead intends bonsai as a knowledge discipline remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Recognition of a specimen or planting as bonsai, including material being developed toward that purpose", "Species identity, seasonal state and evidence of physiological condition", "Root system, substrate and container relationships affecting continued cultivation", "Intended composition and the structural features being developed or retained", "Care and training history, readiness for intervention and recovery evidence" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Botanical taxonomy and species descriptions maintained by plant models", "General nursery production and landscape tree management", "The ceramic container as an independently collected or manufactured object", "Tools, fertilisers and pest-control products as products", "Ownership transactions, valuations and exhibition administration", "Bonsai as an entire artistic tradition, teaching curriculum or body of literature" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record evidence of sustained cultivation toward an intentional tree or landscape composition; small size or placement in a pot alone does not establish bonsai identity.", "Distinguish an actively developed bonsai from candidate nursery material by recorded selection, development intent and training history; allow an unresolved or transitional classification.", "Distinguish bonsai from a genetically dwarf plant by recording cultivation intent independently of naturally compact growth.", "Distinguish a living planting from an artificial miniature or detached deadwood display by identifying its living plant components.", "Distinguish container-based bonsai cultivation from landscape tree training by recording where the roots are established and whether ground growing is a temporary development phase." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Botanical identity confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed species or cultivar; provisional identification; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Care and training decisions require an identification with explicit uncertainty." }, { "name": "Cultivation classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "candidate material; pre-bonsai; bonsai in development; maintained bonsai; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates recognition and development intent from an unsupported claim of completion." }, { "name": "Composition membership", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "living individuals and associated components belonging to one intended composition", "why_it_matters": "Supports both single-tree specimens and plantings whose identity depends on several trees." }, { "name": "Recorded dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "height and canopy width in cm; trunk diameter in mm, each with measurement landmarks and date", "why_it_matters": "Makes growth and proportion comparisons interpretable without equating size with quality." }, { "name": "Seasonal development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed bud, shoot, leaf and dormancy state, with date and location", "why_it_matters": "Intervention timing should reflect the specimen's actual development and environment." }, { "name": "Vigour distribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed growth and decline by crown region, with comparison period and confidence", "why_it_matters": "A strong region can conceal weakness elsewhere and alter pruning priorities." }, { "name": "Root-zone condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed moisture, drainage, root occupancy and substrate condition; unknown where uninspected", "why_it_matters": "Supports watering and repotting decisions while separating observations from assumptions." }, { "name": "Design intent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded front, intended silhouette, trunk relationships and retained features; undecided permitted", "why_it_matters": "Allows proposed cuts or repositioning to be evaluated against a stated composition." }, { "name": "Training constraints", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "wires, guy lines, anchors and supports linked to affected plant parts and inspection records", "why_it_matters": "Makes mechanical shaping and its inspection needs traceable." }, { "name": "Intervention recovery", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed; recovering; evidence supports another intervention; intervention deferred", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a calendar date alone from being treated as evidence of readiness." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify bonsai status and flag uncertain identity or development boundaries.", "Compare dated observations to detect regional decline, structural change or progress toward a design.", "Assess watering, placement and seasonal protection needs against identified species and observed conditions.", "Evaluate proposed pruning, wiring or repotting against vigour, timing, design intent and recent interventions.", "Schedule inspections of wire contact, drainage and recovery using explicit evidence and review triggers.", "Preserve alternative design options and request specialist assessment when evidence is insufficient for an irreversible action." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wiki-en-bonsai", "title": "Bonsai", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai", "what_it_supports": "Definition versus casual Western usage; distinction from genetic dwarfing; history from penjing and hachi-no-ki; Kokufu-ten, Nippon Bonsai Association and World Bonsai Friendship Federation; indoor failure of temperate trees; related arts (penjing, bunjae, hòn non bộ, saikei).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wiki-en-styles", "title": "Bonsai styles", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_styles", "what_it_supports": "Named Japanese style canon (chokkan, moyogi, shakan, kengai, yose-ue and others) as a communication system, not a rigid code.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wiki-ja-bonsai", "title": "盆栽", "url": "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%86%E6%A0%BD", "what_it_supports": "Japanese material classes (shohaku, zōki with mimono/hanamono/hamono, kusamono); 1965 Nippon Bonsai Association; All Japan Shohin Bonsai Association; contrast with topiary.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "vce-426-601", "title": "The Art of Bonsai (VCE 426-601)", "url": "https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/426/426-601/426-601.html", "what_it_supports": "Specialist horticultural definition (tree in a pot imitating an old tree); size span from under about 5 cm to over 150 cm; common trunk-orientation styles; proportion of parts.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q64365", "title": "Bonsai (Q64365)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64365", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata item and multilingual labels for the Japanese miniature-tree art.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "mbs-styles", "title": "Bonsai styles & Classifications", "url": "https://minnesotabonsaisociety.org/2018/02/11/bonsai-styles/", "what_it_supports": "Size-class table used by hobby clubs (keshitsubo through imperial) with approximate centimetre ranges.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "omiya-mlit", "title": "Shapes of Bonsai (Omiya Bonsai Art Museum)", "url": "https://www.mlit.go.jp/tagengo-db/R1-01361.html", "what_it_supports": "Museum statement that named shapes follow nature and are guides, not mandatory rules; chokkan, moyogi, fukinagashi, kengai, ne-tsuranari, yose-ue.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bonsai-identity", "name": "Bonsai identity", "description": "Establishes what living material constitutes the bonsai and why that classification applies.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish an intentionally cultivated composition from any small potted plant without excluding developing material.", "layers": [ { "id": "cultivation-status", "name": "Cultivation status", "description": "Records the evidence connecting the material to bonsai cultivation.", "findings": [ { "id": "bonsai-intent-and-stage", "name": "Bonsai intent and stage", "description": "Record stated intent, observable development work and the basis for assigning a cultivation stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports treating this material as bonsai, pre-bonsai or a candidate rather than simply a potted plant?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bonsai-intent-and-stage-q01" }, { "text": "Who assigned its current development stage, and which observations or training records support that assignment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bonsai-intent-and-stage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-composition", "name": "Living composition", "description": "Identifies the plants and structural relationships that make up one bonsai composition.", "findings": [ { "id": "plant-members-and-origins", "name": "Plant members and origins", "description": "Record botanical identifications, individual plants and known graft or shared-root relationships without assuming every trunk is a separate tree.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which living individuals, trunks and grafted components belong to this composition, and which relationships remain uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plant-members-and-origins-q01" }, { "text": "What records or examinations support each botanical identification and the known origin of the material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "plant-members-and-origins-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-condition", "name": "Living condition", "description": "Relates observed plant condition to seasonal development and the growing environment.", "rationale": "Aesthetic progress cannot establish physiological readiness for care or training.", "layers": [ { "id": "season-and-placement", "name": "Season and placement", "description": "Records the specimen's current growth phase and actual exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "phenology-and-exposure", "name": "Phenology and exposure", "description": "Record seasonal observations alongside light, temperature and wind exposure relevant to this specimen.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bud, shoot, foliage or dormancy observations establish the specimen's current seasonal state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "phenology-and-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "Which placement or protection changes are supported by its identification, current exposure and observed response?", "kind": "action", "id": "phenology-and-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-vigour", "name": "Regional vigour", "description": "Assesses living condition across the composition rather than assigning an unsupported whole-tree health label.", "findings": [ { "id": "growth-and-decline-pattern", "name": "Growth and decline pattern", "description": "Record the location and progression of growth, dieback, damage and suspected pest or disease signs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which crown regions or individual trees show changed growth, foliage condition or dieback relative to dated observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "growth-and-decline-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What additional observation or specialist assessment is needed before attributing those changes to a cause or selecting treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "growth-and-decline-pattern-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-container-system", "name": "Root and container system", "description": "Records how roots, substrate and containment function together.", "rationale": "The visible composition depends on a root environment whose condition cannot reliably be inferred from appearance above the substrate.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-and-substrate", "name": "Water and substrate", "description": "Tracks observations needed to interpret watering response and substrate performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-zone-water-behaviour", "name": "Root-zone water behaviour", "description": "Record moisture observations, water penetration and drainage, including how and where each was assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does moisture vary through the accessible root zone, and what method and timing were used to assess it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-zone-water-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "What observed drying, water penetration or drainage behaviour justifies changing watering practice or investigating the substrate?", "kind": "action", "id": "root-zone-water-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "roots-and-repotting", "name": "Roots and repotting", "description": "Connects root evidence and container suitability to a justified repotting decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "repotting-need-and-readiness", "name": "Repotting need and readiness", "description": "Record inspected root condition, anchorage, previous root work and the evidence for intervention timing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was directly observed about root distribution, condition and anchorage, and what remains hidden or inferred?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "repotting-need-and-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports repotting now, and how would the proposed root work and container change account for species, season and recovery state?", "kind": "action", "id": "repotting-need-and-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivated-form", "name": "Cultivated form", "description": "Records the intended visual composition and the plant structures that support or constrain it.", "rationale": "An agent needs explicit design intent to distinguish purposeful features from defects and avoid destroying future options.", "layers": [ { "id": "composition-intent", "name": "Composition intent", "description": "Captures the selected or provisional viewing arrangement and desired relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "front-silhouette-and-relationships", "name": "Front, silhouette and relationships", "description": "Record the intended front, trunk movement, canopy outline and relationships among trees, container and visible roots.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which front, silhouette and trunk relationships define the current design, and which remain provisional?", "kind": "definition", "id": "front-silhouette-and-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Which features are deliberate choices that should be preserved even if a general styling convention would suggest changing them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "front-silhouette-and-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "structural-development", "name": "Structural development", "description": "Tracks the role of branches, trunks, roots and deadwood in the developing composition.", "findings": [ { "id": "retained-and-transitional-structures", "name": "Retained and transitional structures", "description": "Record permanent candidates, temporary growth, unresolved alternatives and living structures requiring protection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which branches or leaders are retained design elements, temporary development growth or unresolved alternatives?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retained-and-transitional-structures-q01" }, { "text": "Before removing or reshaping a structure, which future design options and living tissues must be accounted for?", "kind": "action", "id": "retained-and-transitional-structures-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "training-and-recovery", "name": "Training and recovery", "description": "Connects interventions to their purpose, mechanical effects and observed recovery.", "rationale": "A plausible styling action may be inappropriate when existing constraints or recent work have reduced the specimen's capacity to tolerate it.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanical-training", "name": "Mechanical training", "description": "Records active shaping devices and the plant parts they affect.", "findings": [ { "id": "wire-and-support-condition", "name": "Wire and support condition", "description": "Record wire, guy lines and supports, their intended effect, contact condition and inspection needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are shaping devices attached, what movement do they impose, and what contact damage or instability is visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wire-and-support-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What observed change should trigger adjustment or removal, and how can that action protect the affected branch or trunk?", "kind": "action", "id": "wire-and-support-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-sequence", "name": "Intervention sequence", "description": "Makes recent work and recovery evidence part of subsequent decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "work-history-and-next-action", "name": "Work history and next action", "description": "Record the timing, extent and purpose of pruning, root work and other substantial interventions, together with follow-up observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What substantial work was performed, on which parts, and what records establish its date and extent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "work-history-and-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "What specimen-specific recovery evidence supports the next proposed intervention or requires it to be deferred?", "kind": "action", "id": "work-history-and-next-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Shohaku (松柏) bonsai: pines, junipers and other conifers shown for needles, bark and deadwood", "Hamono / zōki (葉物・雑木) bonsai: deciduous foliage trees shown for ramification and seasonal leaf", "Hanamono (花物) bonsai: trees shown primarily in flower (ume, satsuki azalea, cherry)", "Mimono (実物) bonsai: trees shown primarily in fruit (crabapple, persimmon, pyracantha)", "Kusamono (草物): potted herbaceous plants displayed as companions or as a class of their own", "Shohin and mame: small-format trees, typically about 5-25 cm, judged as a separate exhibition class", "Yose-ue: multi-tree forest plantings in one container", "Indoor tropical bonsai: Ficus and other subtropical woody plants sold and kept indoors, a Western commercial class rather than a classical Japanese one" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of bonsai 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": "Q64365", "note": "Item for the Japanese art and the trained miniature tree; not a botanical taxon." }, { "scheme": "Japanese name", "value_or_pattern": "盆栽 (bonsai)", "note": "The characters are the same as Chinese pénzāi; in Japanese use they name the Japanese tree-in-pot tradition, not every potted dwarf plant." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of bonsai 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": [ "Nippon Bonsai Association (日本盆栽協会) - Kokufu-ten invitational exhibition practice and the de facto quality canon for Japanese display trees.", "All Japan Shohin Bonsai Association (全日本小品盆栽協会) - size and display conventions for shohin-class trees.", "World Bonsai Friendship Federation - recurring world convention and exhibition framework for national organisations outside Japan.", "National plant-protection organisations acting under the FAO International Plant Protection Convention - phytosanitary certification of live trees in pots when they move in international trade." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of bonsai 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": [ "Contemplative single-tree display in a tokonoma or on a stand, often with a kusamono accent and a suiseki or scroll.", "Juried exhibitions (Kokufu-ten in Tokyo; museum collections at Omiya and the U.S. National Arboretum).", "Amateur and professional nursery culture: seedlings, cuttings, collected yamadori and imported stock trained over years.", "Garden-centre 'indoor bonsai' (often Ficus or juniper in a ceramic pot) sold as house plants, which is the form most non-specialists meet.", "Diplomatic and commemorative gifts of named old trees; not grown for food or medicine." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of bonsai 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": "Display height of the tree", "typical_range": "Hobby and exhibition trees commonly 15-90; named size classes run from about 3-8 (keshitsubo/mame) through 13-25 (shohin) up to about 150-200 (omono/imperial)", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "Years as a trained bonsai", "typical_range": "Hobby trees often 10-80; documented masterpieces 500-800", "unit": "year" }, { "quantity": "Hands to lift (traditional size shorthand)", "typical_range": "1 (mame/shohin) to 6-8 (hachi-uye/imperial)", "unit": "person-hands" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of bonsai 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": [ "Temperate outdoor species kept as indoor houseplants weaken and die; classical bonsai is outdoor culture.", "Rapid drought: the shallow pot holds little water relative to leaf area.", "Root rot and anaerobic media from overwatering or blocked drainage.", "Training wire biting through cambium and girdling a branch or trunk.", "Scale, spider mite and fungal outbreaks in a dense, confined canopy.", "Frost kill of containerized roots, which lack the insulation of ground soil.", "Yamadori collecting that depletes wild old trees and can be illegal on protected land.", "Loss of taper, nebari or proportion from heavy topping or nursery 'instant bonsai' cuts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of bonsai 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": [ "Japan: tree-centred composition in a plain shallow pot; figurines and landscape props are generally omitted.", "China (penjing / pénzāi): often a tray landscape with rocks, water suggestion and sometimes figurines; same characters, different aesthetic brief.", "Korea (bunjae, 분재): cognate pot-tree tradition with its own exhibition practice.", "Vietnam (hòn non bộ): miniature living mountains with rock, water and plants, not a single-tree portrait.", "Europe and North America: the loanword is applied to almost any diminutive potted tree, including tropical indoor stock that would not pass a Japanese show." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of bonsai 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": "Penjing", "difference": "Chinese tray-landscape art; if rocks, water and figurines carry the scene as much as the tree, it is penjing. Japanese bonsai isolates the tree and usually drops the landscape props." }, { "name": "Genetic dwarf or cultivar miniature", "difference": "A dwarf cultivar stays small by genotype even in open ground. Bonsai is ordinary stock held small by pot, prune and root work; plant it out and it resumes near-normal size." }, { "name": "Topiary", "difference": "Topiary clips a plant into a geometric or ornamental outline. Bonsai aims at the illusion of an old tree in nature, including trunk taper, nebari and branch hierarchy." }, { "name": "Saikei", "difference": "A living tray landscape of several plants and soil/rock, judged as a scene. A bonsai is judged as one (or a designed group of) tree(s)." }, { "name": "Ordinary potted tree or houseplant", "difference": "Container culture alone is not bonsai. The test is whether the plant is in a display pot and trained to Japanese proportion and style canons." }, { "name": "Hòn non bộ", "difference": "Vietnamese miniature mountain-and-water landscape; water and rock massing are essential. Bonsai does not require water." }, { "name": "Ikebana", "difference": "Cut-stem arrangement, not a living rooted tree kept for decades." }, { "name": "Bonkei", "difference": "Dry tray landscape, typically without living trees." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of bonsai this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the INF / INF.KNW registry placement intend bonsai as a knowledge discipline, a cultivation practice or the living cultivated thing modelled here?", "Which existing Vercy world or plant models already own this concept or parts of it, and where should this entry link instead of duplicating them?", "What operational boundary should distinguish candidate material, pre-bonsai and bonsai, particularly during temporary ground development?", "Which authoritative species- and climate-specific sources should establish intervention timing, recovery indicators and care constraints?", "How should identity persist when a multi-tree composition is divided, a principal tree dies or living components are replaced?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "discipline or field of knowledge", "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 bonsai, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a bonsai, assess its living condition and cultivated form, and identify care or training actions justified by its species, environment and development stage.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Indoor bonsai, shōhin bonsai, Mambonsai, saikei.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 93 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 bonsai, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "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": [ "Indoor bonsai", "shōhin bonsai", "Mambonsai", "saikei" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 93 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 bonsai from another, and a bonsai 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai 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 bonsai between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a bonsai 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a bonsai says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a bonsai contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a bonsai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a bonsai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a bonsai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a bonsai and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a bonsai, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a bonsai, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a bonsai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What bonsai studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does bonsai take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does bonsai establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where bonsai is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark bonsai as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place bonsai, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a bonsai 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 bonsai and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai 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 bonsai is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a bonsai, 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 bonsai, 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 bonsai is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }