{
  "$comment": "FaunaCore v0.1 — example record. Open specification, unfinished by design. Tell us where it is wrong: asishkumar@voxfauna.org",
  "schema_version": "faunacore-0.1",
  "observation_id": "obs_01J8XQ4M2K7YB3ZC9F0RTNAV5E",
  "created_at": "2026-07-13T06:42:11Z",

  "contributor": {
    "id": "usr_0f3a91",
    "role": "owner",
    "experience_years_with_species": 14,
    "reputation_score": 0.87
  },

  "subject": {
    "id": "anm_9a2c74",
    "taxon": {
      "scientific_name": "Canis familiaris",
      "gbif_taxon_key": 5219243,
      "common_name": "Domestic dog"
    },
    "breed_or_morph": "Border Collie",
    "sex": "female",
    "age_months": 48,
    "life_stage": "adult",
    "captive_status": "domestic",
    "known_individual": true
  },

  "capture": {
    "device": "iPhone 15 / built-in mic",
    "sample_rate_hz": 48000,
    "bit_depth": 16,
    "channels": 1,
    "ring_buffer_prefix_ms": 30000,
    "$comment_ring_buffer": "The 30 s BEFORE the button was pressed. The animal signals, then the human reacts. Any app that starts recording on tap has already missed the event.",
    "location": {
      "lat": -33.865,
      "lon": 151.209,
      "precision_m": 1000,
      "obscured": false
    },
    "environment": {
      "setting": "indoor_home",
      "weather": "clear",
      "ambient_noise_level": "low",
      "time_of_day": "morning"
    }
  },

  "media": [
    {
      "asset_id": "med_4b81c2",
      "type": "audio",
      "uri": "s3://voxfauna-corpus/2026/07/13/med_4b81c2.flac",
      "duration_ms": 61240,
      "checksum_sha256": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
      "license": "CC-BY-NC-4.0"
    }
  ],

  "segments": [
    {
      "segment_id": "seg_77de10",
      "asset_id": "med_4b81c2",
      "start_ms": 29840,
      "end_ms": 31120,
      "freq_low_hz": 300,
      "freq_high_hz": 2200,
      "annotations": [
        {
          "annotator_id": "usr_0f3a91",
          "annotator_type": "human",
          "signal_type": "bark.alert",
          "intensity": 3,
          "confidence": 0.8,
          "notes": "Two sharp barks, head oriented to front door"
        },
        {
          "annotator_id": "model:naturelm-audio-v1",
          "annotator_type": "model",
          "signal_type": "bark.alert",
          "confidence": 0.71,
          "embedding_ref": "emb_perch2_0_1a4f",
          "model_version": "perch-2.0"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],

  "antecedent": {
    "$comment": "A — what triggered it.",
    "trigger_type": "external_stimulus",
    "description_free": "Delivery van pulled into the driveway",
    "coded_terms": ["stimulus.vehicle_approach", "stimulus.stranger_present"],
    "human_present": true,
    "conspecifics_present": 0,
    "seconds_before_signal": 4
  },

  "signal_summary": {
    "$comment": "B — the signal, and the body that produced it.",
    "primary_modality": "vocal",
    "co_occurring_body_language": [
      "posture.tail_high_stiff",
      "posture.ears_forward",
      "posture.weight_forward"
    ]
  },

  "consequence": {
    "$comment": "C — what the animal did next. This is the field that turns a recording into evidence about function.",
    "animal_next_action": "ran_to_door_and_continued",
    "coded_terms": ["action.approach_stimulus", "action.repeat_signal"],
    "human_response_given": "owner_looked_out_window",
    "did_it_resolve": true,
    "seconds_to_resolution": 22
  },

  "interpretation": {
    "proposed_meaning": "Someone is here / come and look",
    "meaning_category": "alert.notify_group",
    "contributor_certainty": "high",
    "basis": "repeated_observation",
    "times_contributor_has_seen_this": "many"
  },

  "verification": {
    "status": "pending",
    "independent_agreements": 0,
    "independent_disagreements": 0,
    "inter_rater_alpha": null
  },

  "consent_and_ethics": {
    "animal_welfare_attestation": true,
    "provocation_used": false,
    "$comment_provocation": "Required field. Anything other than false is rejected at ingest. A data platform must never create an incentive to distress an animal.",
    "human_voices_present": true,
    "human_audio_consent": true,
    "indigenous_knowledge_flag": false,
    "release_license": "CC-BY-NC-4.0"
  },

  "ethogram_version": "canis-familiaris-0.1"
}