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[Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:486336-1/general-information)", "Inspect reproductive structures for solitary pea-like flowers and inflated, glandular-hairy pods, usually containing one or two seeds; require the combination rather than seed count alone. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:486336-1/general-information)", "Inspect intact seeds for a curved beak over the hilum and a peripheral groove when distinguishing chickpea from round peas or flattened lentils; incomplete material requires additional evidence. [Kew botanical descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:486336-1/general-information)", "Treat small angular desi seeds and larger plump kabuli seeds as variation within chickpea, not a species boundary. [Kew cultivar descriptions](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:486336-1/general-information)", "For suspected wild Cicer relatives, require a documented botanical determination or validated identity test; a chickpea-like seed and a common-name label do not settle species identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | supported | disputed; evidence and determiner recorded", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether chickpea-specific expectations can be applied." }, { "name": "Cultivar or accession", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named cultivar or accession linked to its provider record; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects the individual to documented maturity, adaptation and resistance claims." }, { "name": "Seed type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "desi | kabuli | other documented type | mixed sample | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of seed appearance and intended uses without creating separate species." }, { "name": "Observed developmental stages", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "seed | germinating | vegetative | flowering | pod setting | seed filling | mature | senescent; concurrent stages allowed", "why_it_matters": "Makes stress observations and harvest decisions specific to the organs currently developing." }, { "name": "Flower and pod retention", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Counts and percentages for tagged flowers or pods over a stated interval", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes reproductive initiation from successful seed production." }, { "name": "Root nodulation assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unexamined | no nodules observed | nodules observed | effectiveness assessed; method recorded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents visible nodules from being treated as proof of adequate nitrogen fixation." }, { "name": "Symptom and damage burden", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Affected plants, organs or seeds as a percentage; severity scale and sampling basis recorded", "why_it_matters": "Separates an isolated lesion from a widespread condition requiring intervention." }, { "name": "Seed moisture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% water by mass, with wet or dry basis, method and sampling date", "why_it_matters": "Supports maturity, drying and storage assessments using an applicable threshold." }, { "name": "Seed germination", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% normal seedlings under a stated test protocol and test date", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for propagation suitability rather than inferring it from seed appearance." }, { "name": "Seed size", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g per 100 seeds, with moisture basis and sample definition", "why_it_matters": "Supports within-type comparison and detection of poorly filled or heterogeneous seed samples." }, { "name": "Material treatment history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked inoculation, coating, chemical treatment, drying or heating events", "why_it_matters": "Conditions subsequent propagation and food or feed routing decisions." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and document a chickpea plant or seed sample, escalating uncertain determinations.", "Select and sow seed when identity, germination and treatment records support propagation.", "Assess root nodulation and decide whether further inoculation or nutrition investigation is justified.", "Monitor flowering, pod retention and stress to support stage-specific cultivation decisions.", "Sample symptomatic plants or damaged seeds and refer them for diagnostic testing.", "Harvest, segregate or route seeds to propagation, storage or processing workflows when recorded condition supports the intended use." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "chickpea-identity-and-lineage", "name": "Chickpea identity and lineage", "description": "Establish what material belongs to Cicer arietinum and which cultivated lineage it represents.", "rationale": "Species identity and cultivar identity support different decisions and must not be inferred from the same weak label.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-determination", "name": "Botanical determination", "description": "Evaluate the evidence identifying the observed plant or seed.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-character-combination", "name": "Diagnostic character combination", "description": "Record observed diagnostic organs, conflicting characters and the limits of the available material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, flower, pod or seed characters support the determination as Cicer arietinum?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative pulse or Cicer species remains plausible, and what additional examination would resolve it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivated-lineage", "name": "Cultivated lineage", "description": "Connect seed appearance and supplier identity to a documented cultivar or accession.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultivar-and-seed-type-evidence", "name": "Cultivar and seed type evidence", "description": "Keep observed seed type separate from verified genetic or accession identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supplier, accession or multiplication record supports the cultivar identity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cultivar-and-seed-type-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does observed seed size, shape and coat appearance support the declared desi, kabuli or other type?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cultivar-and-seed-type-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Does variation represent expected cultivar variation, mixed material or unresolved identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cultivar-and-seed-type-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-and-reproduction", "name": "Establishment and reproduction", "description": "Track the transition from chickpea seed to established plant and seed-bearing adult.", "rationale": "Emergence, flowering and filled pods provide distinct evidence of reproductive progress.", "layers": [ { "id": "seed-to-established-plant", "name": "Seed to established plant", "description": "Relate seed performance to observed emergence and early survival.", "findings": [ { "id": "germination-and-emergence-gap", "name": "Germination and emergence gap", "description": "Compare tested seed potential with establishment under recorded sowing conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportion of the seed sample produced normal seedlings under the recorded germination test?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "germination-and-emergence-gap-q01" }, { "text": "How many sown seeds emerged and survived, at what sowing depth and elapsed time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "germination-and-emergence-gap-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence would justify resowing rather than waiting or investigating establishment failure?", "kind": "action", "id": "germination-and-emergence-gap-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flower-to-filled-seed", "name": "Flower to filled seed", "description": "Record overlapping reproductive stages and successful seed formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-progress-and-loss", "name": "Reproductive progress and loss", "description": "Distinguish flowers, retained pods, empty pods and filled seeds in dated observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which flowering, pod-setting and seed-filling stages coexist on the observed plants?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-progress-and-loss-q01" }, { "text": "What fraction of tagged flowers or pods produced filled seeds over the observation interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-progress-and-loss-q02" }, { "text": "Which cultivar-specific observations establish maturity for the intended harvest?", "kind": "action", "id": "reproductive-progress-and-loss-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-symbiosis-and-growing-response", "name": "Root symbiosis and growing response", "description": "Record root function, nodulation and stage-specific responses to the growing environment.", "rationale": "Chickpea assessment needs explicit attention to root symbiosis and environmental stress; drought, heat and salinity are documented production constraints. [ICRISAT](https://cegsb.icrisat.org/improving-chickpea-adaptation-to-environmental-challenges-in-australia-and-india/)", "layers": [ { "id": "nodulation-and-inoculation", "name": "Nodulation and inoculation", "description": "Connect root observations with the history and assessed effectiveness of symbiosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "nodulation-evidence", "name": "Nodulation evidence", "description": "Record nodule observations and keep inferred nitrogen supply distinguishable from measured evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inoculant identity, application date and handling record are linked to this chickpea material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nodulation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What nodule abundance, distribution and internal appearance were observed using what root sampling method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "nodulation-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What further evidence is needed before attributing poor growth to ineffective nitrogen fixation?", "kind": "action", "id": "nodulation-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stage-specific-environmental-response", "name": "Stage-specific environmental response", "description": "Relate measured exposure to plant response without assigning universal cultivar limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "stress-exposure-and-response", "name": "Stress exposure and response", "description": "Associate water, temperature and salinity observations with dated developmental and condition records.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root-zone water status, drainage, temperature or salinity exposure coincided with the observed growth or reproductive change?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stress-exposure-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which local trial or cultivar record supports the proposed tolerance limits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stress-exposure-and-response-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence supports changing water management or taking protective action at the current developmental stage?", "kind": "action", "id": "stress-exposure-and-response-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "chickpea-health-and-damage", "name": "Chickpea health and damage", "description": "Separate observed injury from supported causal diagnoses and intervention decisions.", "rationale": "Ascochyta blight and Fusarium wilt warrant explicit diagnostic attention in chickpea, while resistance claims need their supporting context. [ICRISAT](https://cegsb.icrisat.org/improving-chickpea-adaptation-to-environmental-challenges-in-australia-and-india/)", "layers": [ { "id": "disease-evidence", "name": "Disease evidence", "description": "Capture lesion, wilt and root symptoms with diagnostic provenance.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-versus-confirmed-cause", "name": "Symptoms versus confirmed cause", "description": "Record suspected Ascochyta blight, Fusarium wilt or other causes without equating symptoms with confirmation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show lesions, wilting or root deterioration, and how widespread and severe are these observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptoms-versus-confirmed-cause-q01" }, { "text": "Which sample, test and diagnostic report support the suspected cause?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "symptoms-versus-confirmed-cause-q02" }, { "text": "What unresolved alternative cause prevents a treatment or seed-retention decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptoms-versus-confirmed-cause-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-injury-and-intervention", "name": "Feeding injury and intervention", "description": "Assess visible damage to growing tips, pods and seeds alongside evidence of the damaging organism.", "findings": [ { "id": "pod-and-seed-damage-assessment", "name": "Pod and seed damage assessment", "description": "Quantify reproductive damage and link any intervention to identified causes and applicable guidance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What fraction of sampled pods or seeds is damaged, and what organisms or feeding traces were observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pod-and-seed-damage-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally supported threshold and current crop stage justify intervention or continued monitoring?", "kind": "action", "id": "pod-and-seed-damage-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "What follow-up observation would show whether the intervention protected subsequent pod or seed development?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pod-and-seed-damage-assessment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-fitness-and-material-routing", "name": "Seed fitness and material routing", "description": "Determine what harvested or retained chickpea material is fit for, preserving biological and treatment evidence.", "rationale": "Seed maturity, propagation fitness and suitability for a downstream use are separate judgements.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-and-seed-condition", "name": "Harvest and seed condition", "description": "Assess harvest readiness and the condition of the resulting intact seed.", "findings": [ { "id": "maturity-moisture-and-integrity", "name": "Maturity, moisture and integrity", "description": "Record the seed observations required before harvesting, drying or transferring material into storage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pod and seed observations support readiness for green-seed harvest or mature dry-seed harvest?", "kind": "definition", "id": "maturity-moisture-and-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "What are the sampled seed moisture, size distribution and proportions of immature, cracked or visibly deteriorated seeds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "maturity-moisture-and-integrity-q02" }, { "text": "Which intended storage conditions and supported moisture criterion justify transfer or further drying?", "kind": "action", "id": "maturity-moisture-and-integrity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-use-handoff", "name": "Propagation and use handoff", "description": "Preserve identity and condition evidence when material changes purpose or enters another model.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-use-eligibility", "name": "Intended-use eligibility", "description": "Distinguish evidence supporting sowing from evidence required by food, feed or processing workflows.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do identity, germination, health and treatment records support retaining these seeds for sowing?", "kind": "action", "id": "intended-use-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "What coating, chemical treatment, heating or handling history constrains the proposed downstream use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-use-eligibility-q02" }, { "text": "At which processing step should a linked food, feed or material model take ownership while retaining chickpea provenance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-use-eligibility-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which botanical key and validated tests best distinguish Cicer arietinum from closely related Cicer species when only seeds or immature plants are available?", "Which cultivar-specific phenology scales and local exposure thresholds should govern flowering, pod retention and maturity assessments?", "Which nodulation assessment methods reliably support action decisions across the intended soils and inoculation practices?", "Which regional diagnostic protocols, resistance records and intervention thresholds should support Ascochyta blight, Fusarium wilt and pod-damage decisions?", "Which seed-testing and storage criteria apply to each intended use, and does an existing Vercy world model already own any part of the proposed plant-to-seed boundary?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 29 } }, "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 119 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 cicer arietinum from another, and a cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 cicer arietinum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum, 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 cicer arietinum 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 } } } }