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See [FAO batoid identification guide](https://www.fao.org/docrep/pdf/009/y4160e/y4160e35.pdf).", "Check elongated, shark-like candidates for batoid anatomy instead of requiring every member to have a broad, rounded disc. See [FAO batoid identification guide](https://www.fao.org/docrep/pdf/009/y4160e/y4160e35.pdf).", "Separate batoids from flattened bony fishes by examining gill openings and pectoral-fin attachment rather than silhouette. See [FAO batoid identification guide](https://www.fao.org/docrep/pdf/009/y4160e/y4160e35.pdf).", "Require a taxonomic placement for Batomorphi membership; a common label such as ray or skate does not establish the accepted descendant taxon.", "Identify whether a record concerns the higher taxon, a constituent species, a population or an individual before assigning biological state or conservation information." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic concept and authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Name usage linked to classification source, rank, authorship where applicable, publication date and version.", "why_it_matters": "Prevents silently equating Batomorphi with differently circumscribed names or classifications." }, { "name": "External taxonomy mapping", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Verified GBIF, NCBI and other relevant identifiers, each with matched name, rank and retrieval date; unresolved allowed.", "why_it_matters": "Supports interoperable records without inventing identifiers or assuming databases use identical concepts." }, { "name": "Biological subject level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Higher taxon; species; population; individual; specimen; observation.", "why_it_matters": "Prevents individual measurements or species assessments from becoming claims about all Batomorphi." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Confirmed; provisional; unresolved, with diagnostic evidence and deepest supported taxonomic placement.", "why_it_matters": "Determines which descendant-specific knowledge can be applied." }, { "name": "Gill and pectoral configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Gill-opening position and count; pectoral attachment to head; observed, obscured or unknown.", "why_it_matters": "Provides anatomical evidence for distinguishing batoids from similar-looking fishes." }, { "name": "Disc width and total length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres or centimetres, with anatomical endpoints, method and uncertainty.", "why_it_matters": "Preserves comparable size measurements across broad-disc and elongated forms." }, { "name": "Sex and maturity evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Sex assessment; clasper observations where applicable; immature, mature or uncertain; method and date.", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed sexual anatomy from unsupported assumptions about reproductive maturity." }, { "name": "Reproductive mode and life stage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-supported reproductive mode; egg or embryo, juvenile, adult or unresolved stage.", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assigning one reproductive strategy or developmental schedule to the whole grouping." }, { "name": "Habitat and occurrence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Location, date, depth in metres, salinity with stated scale, substrate and water-column position.", "why_it_matters": "Connects an occurrence to environmental conditions without converting it into a native-range claim." }, { "name": "Defensive capability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tail spine, electric organ, toothed rostrum, other documented capability, absent or unknown; evidence required.", "why_it_matters": "Allows lineage-specific encounter precautions without assuming every batoid can sting." }, { "name": "Conservation assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Assessed taxon or population, assessment system, category, assessment year, geographic scope and source.", "why_it_matters": "Keeps threat categories attached to the entity and period actually assessed." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a reported batoid name to a supported taxonomic concept and retain unresolved mappings.", "Guide collection of diagnostic photographs and measurements appropriate to the suspected lineage.", "Compare observations only where species identity, life stage and measurement methods support comparison.", "Associate occurrences with habitat and range evidence while distinguishing isolated sightings from established populations.", "Flag missing identification, welfare, hazard or legal evidence before proposing handling, collection or release.", "Route descendant-specific conservation and husbandry questions to the relevant species or population model." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxonomic-identity", "name": "Taxonomic identity", "description": "Define which batoid taxonomic concept the registry entry represents.", "rationale": "A higher taxon needs explicit membership and name mappings before evidence can be inherited by its descendants.", "layers": [ { "id": "name-and-circumscription", "name": "Name and circumscription", "description": "Establish the accepted usage and its boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-bound-concept", "name": "Authority-bound concept", "description": "Record the classification supporting Batomorphi, including its rank and relationship to alternative batoid names.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority, date and classification version define Batomorphi for this entry?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-bound-concept-q01" }, { "text": "Are Batoidea and Batomorphii equivalent usages in that classification, or do their ranks or memberships differ?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-bound-concept-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-record-level", "name": "Membership and record level", "description": "Connect descendant taxa and observations without confusing their biological levels.", "findings": [ { "id": "descendant-and-identifier-links", "name": "Descendant and identifier links", "description": "Preserve supported descendant membership and database mappings, including disagreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which constituent orders and families are included, and how are extinct lineages treated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "descendant-and-identifier-links-q01" }, { "text": "Which verified GBIF and NCBI records match this concept rather than merely a similar name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "descendant-and-identifier-links-q02" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern Batomorphi as a whole, one species, a population or a particular organism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "descendant-and-identifier-links-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "batoid-recognition", "name": "Batoid recognition", "description": "Identify batoids through diagnostic anatomy and lineage-aware measurements.", "rationale": "Broad discs, elongated bodies and misleading common names make silhouette-based identification unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-anatomy", "name": "Diagnostic anatomy", "description": "Assess visible structures before accepting a batoid identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "gills-head-and-disc", "name": "Gills, head and disc", "description": "Document gill position and pectoral attachment as diagnostic characters; 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See [FAO guide](https://www.fao.org/docrep/pdf/009/y4160e/y4160e35.pdf).", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the gill openings visible on the underside, and how do the pectoral fins connect to the head?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gills-head-and-disc-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations exclude a flattened shark or bony flatfish?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gills-head-and-disc-q02" }, { "text": "What additional views are needed if the underside or fin attachments are obscured?", "kind": "action", "id": "gills-head-and-disc-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lineage-resolution", "name": "Lineage resolution", "description": "Determine how far identification and measurement can reliably proceed.", "findings": [ { "id": "body-form-and-size-evidence", "name": "Body form and size evidence", "description": "Record rostrum, disc, tail and fin characters alongside measurements appropriate to the candidate lineage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rostral, tail, fin or disc characters support the proposed descendant identification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "body-form-and-size-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What anatomical endpoints and units define the recorded disc width or total length?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "body-form-and-size-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What is the deepest taxonomic placement supported without guessing from colour or body outline?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "body-form-and-size-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-reproduction", "name": "Development and reproduction", "description": "Represent reproductive and developmental evidence at the correct descendant level.", "rationale": "Batoid reproductive strategies and maturity indicators require more specific treatment than a single group-wide life cycle.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproductive-strategy", "name": "Reproductive strategy", "description": "Establish the reproductive mode before interpreting eggs, embryos or reproductive observations.", "findings": [ { "id": 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"Which GBIF and NCBI identifiers match the adopted concept, and where do their descendant memberships disagree?", "Does the registry intend to include extinct batoid lineages, and is an existing world model already authoritative for this same concept?", "Which identification characters and measurement protocols are reliable across constituent lineages, including elongated forms and incomplete specimens?", "Which descendant-specific sources will establish reproductive biology, native ranges, dated conservation assessments and encounter protocols without unsupported group-wide extrapolation?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 38 } }, "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. 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A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 88 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Batomorphi from another, and a Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 Batomorphi is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi, 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 Batomorphi 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 } } } }