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reproductive characters; a common name or root photograph alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish cassava from sweet potato using the whole plant: cassava has a woody shrub habit and palmately lobed leaves, whereas sweet potato has a trailing or climbing vine habit.", "Distinguish cassava storage roots from yam tubers using attachment and whole-plant evidence; a detached, peeled underground organ may require traceable provenance.", "Resolve 'yuca' versus 'yucca' explicitly: cassava identification should agree with a broad, lobed-leaved shrub rather than a rosette of rigid, sword-shaped leaves.", "Keep cultivar identity and cyanogenic potential separate: labels such as 'sweet' or 'bitter' do not establish the suitability of a particular tissue or lot for consumption." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified | provisionally identified | verified; evidence and identifier", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether cassava-specific 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establishment and harvest assessment without assuming a universal harvest age." }, { "name": "Establishment condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unplanted | planted without observed emergence | emerged | established | failed", "why_it_matters": "Supports inspection, replacement and stand-management decisions." }, { "name": "Storage-root development", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "root count per sampled plant, fresh mass in kg per plant, dimensions in cm; sampling method", "why_it_matters": "Grounds harvest decisions in observed development and intended use." }, { "name": "Health observations", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "symptoms, affected organs, incidence percentage, severity method and diagnostic confidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes observed damage from an unconfirmed disease or pest diagnosis." }, { "name": "Time since harvest", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hours from harvest, with timestamp confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports deterioration assessment together with injury and storage history." }, { "name": "Root deterioration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "vascular discoloration, softening, rot, odour and wound observations; extent and inspection method", "why_it_matters": "Supports routing or rejection without equating an acceptable appearance with food safety." }, { "name": "Cyanogenic potential", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mg HCN equivalents/kg with tissue, fresh or dry mass basis, analyte definition, method, sampling date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents unlike measurements or cultivar labels from being treated as equivalent evidence." }, { "name": "Intended use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "propagation | food-processing input | feed-processing input | industrial input | research | undecided", "why_it_matters": "Determines which acceptance evidence and downstream controls are required." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a specimen and qualify uncertain species or cultivar claims.", "Trace and assess stem cuttings before allocating them for propagation.", "Inspect crop establishment, storage-root development and health to support field actions.", "Select and document a harvest based on sampled development and destination requirements.", "Segregate and route harvested material according to injury, deterioration and handling history.", "Request tissue-specific testing and withhold use clearance when cyanogenic-risk or processing evidence is insufficient." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cassava-identity-and-material", "name": "Cassava identity and material", "description": "Establish what cassava material is being assessed and how confidently it is identified.", "rationale": "A standing shrub, a stem cutting and a detached storage root provide different identification evidence and permit different actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "botanical-identification", "name": "Botanical identification", "description": "Separate verified cassava identity from common-name attribution or visual resemblance.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-evidence", "name": "Species evidence", "description": "Record the observed diagnostic characters and the basis for assigning Manihot esculenta.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaf, stem, root or reproductive characters support identification as Manihot esculenta?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What identification key, expert determination or traceable source supports the identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultivar-and-assessment-unit", "name": "Cultivar and assessment unit", "description": "Define the plant or lot being assessed and qualify cultivar claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-boundary-and-lineage", "name": "Material boundary and lineage", "description": "Record whether evidence applies to a plant, cutting lot, root lot or leaf lot and whether that unit contains mixed origins.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this assessment cover one plant or a lot of cuttings, roots or leaves, and what makes that unit sufficiently uniform?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-boundary-and-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "Which source records support the cultivar or local-name attribution, and could the unit contain multiple cultivars?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-boundary-and-lineage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "vegetative-propagation-and-establishment", "name": "Vegetative propagation and establishment", "description": "Assess cassava stem material and its transition into an established crop.", "rationale": "Stem-cutting provenance, condition and establishment outcomes directly affect whether material can support a viable planting.", "layers": [ { "id": "stem-cutting-readiness", "name": "Stem-cutting readiness", "description": "Assess the identity, physical condition and health evidence of material intended for planting.", "findings": [ { "id": "cutting-suitability", "name": "Cutting suitability", "description": "Record stem dimensions, nodes, bud condition, damage and source-plant health evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the cutting's length, diameter, node count and observed bud, moisture and damage conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cutting-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What source-plant inspections or tests support accepting this cutting lot for propagation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cutting-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-establishment", "name": "Field establishment", "description": "Connect planting circumstances to emergence and survival observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishment-outcome", "name": "Establishment outcome", "description": "Record planting date and method alongside emergence, survival and gaps.", "questions": [ { "text": "What proportions of planted cuttings have emerged and survived at each inspection, using which denominator?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "establishment-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Do observed failures justify further diagnosis or replacement under the local planting plan?", "kind": "action", "id": "establishment-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crop-development-and-health", "name": "Crop development and health", "description": "Assess storage-root development and distinguish crop stress observations from supported diagnoses.", "rationale": "Cassava harvest and propagation decisions require evidence about below-ground development as well as the condition of leaves and stems.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-root-development", "name": "Storage-root development", "description": "Measure root development in the context of cultivar, crop age and destination.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence", "name": "Harvest readiness evidence", "description": "Use representative root observations rather than calendar age alone to assess harvest readiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What root count, fresh mass, size distribution and relevant quality measurements were obtained from a documented sample?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Do those observations meet the intended recipient's requirements, or should harvest be deferred or resampled?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "symptoms-and-diagnostic-confidence", "name": "Symptoms and diagnostic confidence", "description": "Keep foliar, stem and root symptoms distinct from their possible causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "health-and-propagation-implications", "name": "Health and propagation implications", "description": "Record symptom distribution, diagnostic evidence and implications for retaining stems as planting material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are mosaic or chlorotic leaves, distortion, dieback, root necrosis or other symptoms present, and how widespread are they?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "health-and-propagation-implications-q01" }, { "text": "What diagnostic evidence is needed before assigning a cause or accepting affected plants as a source of cuttings?", "kind": "action", "id": "health-and-propagation-implications-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "harvest-and-root-deterioration", "name": "Harvest and root deterioration", "description": "Track harvested cassava roots from removal through condition assessment and routing.", "rationale": "Elapsed time, injury and handling conditions are necessary to judge harvested roots whose condition can change after removal.", "layers": [ { "id": "harvest-integrity", "name": "Harvest integrity", "description": "Connect root lots to their harvest event and physical damage.", "findings": [ { "id": "harvest-history-and-injury", "name": "Harvest history and injury", "description": "Record harvest timing, field origin, root breakage and subsequent handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "When and from which plants or field unit were these roots harvested, and when were they inspected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "harvest-history-and-injury-q01" }, { "text": "What fraction of sampled roots is cut, broken, bruised or otherwise damaged, and how was damage assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "harvest-history-and-injury-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "postharvest-condition", "name": "Postharvest condition", "description": "Assess internal and external deterioration without assuming its cause from appearance alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "deterioration-and-routing", "name": "Deterioration and routing", "description": "Record discoloration and decay observations together with the evidence supporting a destination decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "What vascular discoloration, softening, rot or odour is observed in a representative sample, and under what storage history?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "deterioration-and-routing-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented acceptance criteria justify processing, further inspection, segregation or rejection of this lot?", "kind": "action", "id": "deterioration-and-routing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cyanogenic-potential-and-use", "name": "Cyanogenic potential and use", "description": "Represent tissue-specific cyanogenic evidence and the conditions governing transfer to an intended use.", "rationale": "Species identity, cultivar names and acceptable appearance cannot by themselves establish whether cassava material is suitable for food or feed use.", "layers": [ { "id": "tissue-specific-risk-evidence", "name": "Tissue-specific risk evidence", "description": "Keep root, peel and leaf evidence separate and make analytical results interpretable.", "findings": [ { "id": "cyanogenic-measurement-context", "name": "Cyanogenic measurement context", "description": "Record the sampled tissue, lot coverage, analytical method and reporting basis for any cyanogenic measurement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tissue and lot were sampled, and how does the sample represent the material being assessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cyanogenic-measurement-context-q01" }, { "text": "What was measured, by which method, in which units and mass basis, and with what uncertainty or detection limit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cyanogenic-measurement-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-qualification-and-handoff", "name": "Use qualification and handoff", "description": "Link intended use to required processing and verification evidence held by neighbouring models.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-use-evidence-gate", "name": "Intended-use evidence gate", "description": "Record whether material may enter a specified downstream process and identify unresolved conditions before consumption or feeding.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this material intended for planting, food processing, feed processing or industrial use, and which receiving specification applies?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-use-evidence-gate-q01" }, { "text": "What processing and 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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 cassava from another, and a cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava 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 cassava and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 cassava is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cassava, 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 cassava, 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 cassava 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 } } } }