{ "model": { "rank": 4753, "code": "thing-q9656", "model_id": "vr.tr.appendix", "name": "appendix", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a vermiform appendix, record its anatomical and observed condition, and identify what further evidence or authorised assessment is needed.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q9656/", "tier": 2, "score": 72, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 72, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.appendix", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q9656", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9656", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:55:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087f3-c54c-7480-8f8e-5e5071c29a05\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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appendix as an anatomical organ attached to the caecum, provisionally using human anatomy as its reference; it distinguishes an appendix in a living body from a removed specimen and does not treat the organ as an organism.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the vermiform appendix and its relationship to the caecum", "Appendiceal base, tip, lumen, wall and supporting attachments", "Individual variation in position, dimensions and tissue appearance", "Documented presence, removal, residual stump and observed abnormalities", "Evidence from imaging, operative observation and specimen examination" ], "out_of_scope": [ "An appendix attached to a document or publication", "The whole organism, its taxonomy and conservation status", "The caecum, colon and gastrointestinal system except at the appendiceal boundary", "Appendicitis and appendiceal neoplasms as independently modelled diseases", "Appendectomy techniques, treatment selection and postoperative care pathways" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An intact vermiform appendix is a narrow, blind-ended extension arising from the caecum; a blind-ended structure elsewhere is insufficient for identification.", "The appendix is distinct from the caecum: record their junction rather than treating the caecal pouch as the organ.", "Identification rests on attachment and anatomical continuity, not an assumed location of the tip.", "An epiploic appendage is a fatty appendage of the colon and does not have the appendix's bowel-wall and luminal organisation.", "A removed appendix or residual appendiceal stump retains a relationship to the original organ but has a different anatomical and observation context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host and anatomical context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host individual and species; in situ organ, removed specimen or residual stump", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assumptions about human anatomy or living tissue from being applied to another species or an 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only when the measured boundary and examination context are explicit." }, { "name": "Luminal appearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Described contents and distension; patency assessed or unassessed; suspected obstruction with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates directly observed contents from an interpretation that the lumen is obstructed." }, { "name": "Wall and surrounding tissue appearance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed wall continuity, thickening, tissue changes and adjacent findings; unknown where unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps findings located in the organ distinct from findings in neighbouring tissues." }, { "name": "Observation provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Examination or specimen identifier, date, modality, observer and limitations", "why_it_matters": "Allows conflicting observations and changes over time to be evaluated." } ], "affordances": [ "Locate and annotate an observed appendix using its caecal attachment and course.", "Record appendiceal dimensions with their measurement boundaries and examination method.", "Compare documented appearances across examinations while preserving uncertainty.", "Link an excised specimen or residual stump to its originating organ and procedure record.", "Flag incomplete visualisation or conflicting interpretations for qualified review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "appendiceal-identity", "name": "Appendiceal identity", "description": "Establish which anatomical structure and representation the record concerns.", "rationale": "The word appendix is ambiguous, and an organ, a specimen and a stump require different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-sense", "name": "Anatomical sense", "description": "Resolve the vermiform-appendix sense and host context.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-and-host", "name": "Organ and host", "description": "Record the host species and evidence that the referent is a vermiform appendix rather 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status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "organ-specimen-or-stump-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "caecal-attachment-and-course", "name": "Caecal attachment and course", "description": "Describe the appendix's junction, trajectory, tip and supporting attachments.", "rationale": "The base and the variable tip position must be recorded separately to support reliable localisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "base-and-tip", "name": "Base and tip", "description": "Anchor the organ at the caecum and trace its observed extent.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-appendiceal-course", "name": "Localised appendiceal course", "description": "Identify the caecal junction, visible course and tip without assuming the whole organ was seen.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the appendiceal base attached to the caecum, and was that junction directly identified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "localised-appendiceal-course-q01" }, { "text": "Which portions of the course and tip were visualised, and where do they lie relative to the caecum and ileum?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-appendiceal-course-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mesoappendix-and-neighbours", "name": "Mesoappendix and neighbours", "description": "Record supporting tissue and spatial relationships relevant to the observed appendix.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachments-and-adjacency", "name": "Attachments and adjacency", "description": "Describe the mesoappendix, observed vascular connections and contact with nearby structures without treating these neighbours as part of the organ.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mesoappendiceal attachment and vascular connections are actually documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attachments-and-adjacency-q01" }, { "text": "Which adjacent structures contact the appendix, and which observed changes lie outside its wall?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attachments-and-adjacency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "appendiceal-wall-and-lumen", "name": "Appendiceal wall and lumen", "description": "Characterise appendiceal dimensions, tissue organisation and luminal appearance.", "rationale": "A useful appendix model must distinguish wall measurements, luminal findings and tissue evidence rather than reducing the organ to a single diameter.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry-and-luminal-contents", "name": "Geometry and luminal contents", "description": "Record what was measured and what was seen within the lumen.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-measurements", "name": "Bounded measurements", "description": "Keep length, outer diameter, wall thickness and luminal observations separate and tied to examination conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dimensions were measured, at which sites and between which anatomical boundaries?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-measurements-q01" }, { "text": "What luminal contents or distension were observed, and what evidence supports any claim of obstruction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-measurements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wall-tissue-and-lymphoid-component", "name": "Wall tissue and lymphoid component", "description": "Describe documented bowel-wall tissue and appendiceal lymphoid tissue at the resolution available.", "findings": [ { "id": "tissue-observation-limits", "name": "Tissue observation limits", "description": "Separate imaging descriptions from histological observations and avoid assigning an individual's functional status from organ identity alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which wall components and lymphoid tissue features were examined, and by what method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tissue-observation-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Does a statement concern directly observed tissue, a general proposed function of the appendix or an untested inference about this individual?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tissue-observation-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-evidence", "name": "Condition and evidence", "description": "Connect observations of the appendix to time, interpretation and appropriate review.", "rationale": "Nonvisualisation, suspected inflammation and confirmed pathology are different evidence states and must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-abnormalities", "name": "Observed abnormalities", "description": "Record local findings while linking disease interpretations to their own records.", "findings": [ { "id": "findings-versus-diagnoses", "name": "Findings versus diagnoses", "description": "Distinguish wall or surrounding-tissue observations from attributed inflammation, perforation or neoplasia.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which abnormalities were directly observed in the appendix, and which were observed only in surrounding tissues?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "findings-versus-diagnoses-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied any diagnostic interpretation, and which examination or pathology result supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "findings-versus-diagnoses-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparison-and-review", "name": "Comparison and review", "description": "Manage incomplete examinations and differences between imaging, surgery and pathology.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-appendiceal-evidence", "name": "Unresolved appendiceal evidence", "description": "Preserve uncertainty and identify the specific evidence or qualified review needed to reconcile records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are differing reports explained by examination date, incomplete visualisation, specimen processing or an unresolved disagreement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "unresolved-appendiceal-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What missing record or qualified review is needed before the agent can update the appendix's documented state?", "kind": "action", "id": "unresolved-appendiceal-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The domain suggests the anatomical sense; this description primarily covers the human vermiform appendix, an organ rather than an organism or taxon.", "The listed kinds are positional variants, not separate organ types; dimensions and position vary among individuals.", "Immune involvement is established, but the proposed reservoir function for beneficial gut microorganisms should be distinguished from conclusively demonstrated function." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Retrocaecal appendix", "Pelvic appendix", "Subcaecal appendix", "Preileal appendix", "Postileal appendix" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica", "value_or_pattern": "Appendix vermiformis", "note": "Latin anatomical name for the vermiform appendix." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Terminologia Anatomica, maintained by the Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology (FIPAT), standardizes anatomical naming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Anatomical structure assessed when investigating suspected appendicitis.", "Removed by appendectomy when clinically indicated.", "Can serve as a conduit in selected reconstructive procedures, including the Mitrofanoff procedure.", "Studied for its intestinal lymphoid tissue and possible role in maintaining beneficial gut microorganisms." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Adult human appendix length", "typical_range": "Approximately 5-10; substantial individual variation occurs", "unit": "cm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Acute appendicitis.", "Perforation with localized abscess or generalized peritonitis.", "Appendiceal neuroendocrine and epithelial neoplasms.", "Some appendiceal mucinous neoplasms can disseminate mucin and tumour cells within the peritoneal cavity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of appendix this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Caecum", "difference": "The caecum is the pouch at the beginning of the large intestine; the appendix is a narrower blind-ended projection arising from it." }, { "name": "Terminal ileum", "difference": "The terminal ileum is the 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existing Vercy anatomical model already own this concept or define boundaries that this draft should reuse?", "Which authoritative anatomical sources and terminology should govern position categories, congenital variants and tissue boundaries?", "Which method-specific measurement conventions should be adopted for in situ imaging and excised specimens?", "How should researched evidence about appendiceal immune and microbiome-related functions be represented without implying that these functions were measured in an individual?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a appendix, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a vermiform appendix, record its anatomical and observed condition, and identify what further evidence or authorised assessment is needed.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 72 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a appendix, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 72 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 appendix from another, and a appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 appendix came from and when it held.", 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"id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a appendix 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 appendix is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a appendix, 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 appendix, 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 appendix 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 } } } }