{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "description": "AnimalMind observable canine body-language annotation schema",
  "principle": "Annotate observable signals; do not infer emotions or medical diagnoses from pose alone.",
  "heads": {
    "posture": ["standing", "sitting", "lying", "crouching", "unknown"],
    "head": ["raised", "neutral", "lowered", "unknown"],
    "ears": ["forward", "neutral", "backward", "asymmetric", "unknown"],
    "tail": ["high", "neutral", "low", "tucked", "unknown"],
    "movement": ["still", "walking", "running", "shaking", "unknown"]
  },
  "metadata": [
    "sample_id",
    "animal_id",
    "species",
    "source",
    "source_license",
    "annotator",
    "annotation_confidence",
    "notes"
  ],
  "quality_rules": [
    "Use unknown when the relevant body part is occluded or ambiguous.",
    "Do not copy a label from breed identity.",
    "Do not use the same animal in both train and validation splits when animal_id is known.",
    "Keep source attribution for every sample."
  ]
}