{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.celebration","code":"thing-celebration","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/celebration/","name":"celebration","alternateNames":["agon","festivity","merrymaking","conviviality","jollification","jinks","high jinks","hijinks","high jinx","revel","revelry","bust"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"noun.act","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"activity","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"Celebration, in the sense of any joyous diversion, is an activity or occasion of festive enjoyment that need not commemorate an event or achievement.","purpose":"Help an agent recognise a celebration, assess whether it supports the intended joyous diversion, and decide how to arrange, adapt or conclude it.","scope":{"in":["Recognition of an activity as joyous diversion and evidence supporting that interpretation","Occasions, achievements or other focal subjects when a celebration has them","Participants' intended and experienced enjoyment, including mixed or changing responses","Festive activities, expressive forms and their arrangement over time","Participation choices, accessibility and effects on people sharing the setting"],"out":["The achievement, anniversary or other occurrence being celebrated","Ritual and ceremonial obligations beyond their contribution to joyous diversion","Entertainment works, food, gifts and venues as independently modelled things","Joy as an emotion outside a celebratory activity","Enduring cultural traditions and institutions that prescribe celebrations"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Check for joyous diversion in the activity itself; merely naming an event a celebration leaves its fit with the registry definition unresolved.","An occasion can explain a celebration but is not required by 'any joyous diversion'; spontaneous revelry remains a candidate.","Commemoration, tribute or ceremony qualifies only insofar as it includes joyous diversion; remembrance or formal recognition alone does not establish that.","A person's joyful mood alone does not identify an ACT instance; record what activity constitutes the diversion.","Entertainment and recreation may overlap with celebration under this broad definition; do not invent an exclusive boundary or require collective participation."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"celebration-identity","name":"Celebration identity","description":"Establishes what activity counts as the celebration and why it fits joyous diversion.","layers":[{"id":"joyous-diversion","name":"Joyous diversion","description":"Examines the activity and the evidence for its joyful, diverting character.","findings":[{"id":"basis-for-celebration","name":"Basis for celebration","description":"Record the candidate activity, who calls it a celebration and the basis for that interpretation; a label alone does not settle its experienced character.","questions":[{"text":"What activity constitutes the joyous diversion in this instance?","id":"basis-for-celebration-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Whose account or observation supports calling it joyous, and when was that evidence obtained?","id":"basis-for-celebration-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"If joy was intended but not experienced, should this remain an attempted celebration or qualify as a celebration under the registry definition?","id":"basis-for-celebration-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"focus-and-overlap","name":"Focus and overlap","description":"Separates the celebration from its possible occasion and records overlap with neighbouring activities.","findings":[{"id":"occasion-and-activity-boundary","name":"Occasion and activity boundary","description":"Record any celebratory focus separately from the diversion itself, and locate celebratory portions within mixed ceremonies or recreational activities.","questions":[{"text":"Is anything specifically being celebrated, or is the diversion spontaneous and without a stated focus?","id":"occasion-and-activity-boundary-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which portions involve joyous diversion, and which are solemn remembrance, formal recognition or other adjacent activities?","id":"occasion-and-activity-boundary-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"participants-and-enjoyment","name":"Participants and enjoyment","description":"Captures who participates, how freely they participate and how they experience the diversion.","layers":[{"id":"participation-choices","name":"Participation choices","description":"Records ways of joining or declining specific celebratory activities.","findings":[{"id":"willing-participation","name":"Willing participation","description":"Distinguish invitation, attendance and willingness to perform particular festive acts; being present does not imply agreement to each act.","questions":[{"text":"Who wants to participate, observe, participate remotely or decline?","id":"willing-participation-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Can someone decline a toast, dance, gift exchange or other activity without losing access to the rest of the celebration?","id":"willing-participation-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"experienced-joy","name":"Experienced joy","description":"Tracks reported enjoyment and variation across people and moments.","findings":[{"id":"uneven-and-changing-enjoyment","name":"Uneven and changing enjoyment","description":"Record enjoyment with its reporter and time, retaining mixed responses and uncertainty rather than assigning a single mood to everyone.","questions":[{"text":"What have participants reported about enjoyment, discomfort or mixed feelings, and whose experience remains unknown?","id":"uneven-and-changing-enjoyment-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What change would participants welcome if the diversion becomes tiring, uncomfortable or unwelcome?","id":"uneven-and-changing-enjoyment-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"festive-expression-and-flow","name":"Festive expression and flow","description":"Describes how the celebration takes form and develops from opening to ending.","layers":[{"id":"expressive-forms","name":"Expressive forms","description":"Connects chosen activities and symbols to participants' meanings and preferences.","findings":[{"id":"meaningful-festive-acts","name":"Meaningful festive acts","description":"Record which acts participants regard as festive and any meanings attached to them; music, food, gifts or ceremonial gestures are possibilities rather than requirements.","questions":[{"text":"Which activities would make this diversion enjoyable for these participants?","id":"meaningful-festive-acts-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Who explains the meaning or expected use of a toast, song, decoration or other celebratory expression?","id":"meaningful-festive-acts-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"pacing-and-ending","name":"Pacing and ending","description":"Records the celebration's progression, optional focal moments and conditions for changing course.","findings":[{"id":"celebratory-sequence","name":"Celebratory sequence","description":"Identify how the diversion starts, whether it has a focal moment and how it can pause or end, without requiring a formal programme.","questions":[{"text":"What marks the beginning and ending of this celebration, and is any focal moment planned?","id":"celebratory-sequence-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What signs or participant requests should prompt a break, a different activity or an earlier ending?","id":"celebratory-sequence-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"conditions-for-celebration","name":"Conditions for celebration","description":"Identifies practical conditions that enable the chosen diversion and its coexistence with other uses of the setting.","layers":[{"id":"access-to-diversion","name":"Access to diversion","description":"Examines whether intended participants can access the actual sources of enjoyment.","findings":[{"id":"accessible-festive-options","name":"Accessible festive options","description":"Connect participation needs to specific festive activities, including alternatives where the main form excludes someone.","questions":[{"text":"Which sensory, mobility, communication, dietary or remote-access needs affect participation in the chosen activities?","id":"accessible-festive-options-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What alternative preserves the intended enjoyment for someone unable or unwilling to join the main activity?","id":"accessible-festive-options-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"shared-setting","name":"Shared setting","description":"Records how celebratory activity affects nearby people and other uses of its physical or digital setting.","findings":[{"id":"festivity-and-surroundings","name":"Festivity and surroundings","description":"Identify effects of the actual festive forms, such as amplified music, crowding or repeated digital notifications, and the agreed conditions for continuing them.","questions":[{"text":"Who outside the celebration is affected by its sound, movement, occupancy or digital activity?","id":"festivity-and-surroundings-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What setting-specific limits or agreements govern these activities, and where are they recorded?","id":"festivity-and-surroundings-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How can the celebration be adjusted if its effects interfere with others' use of the setting?","id":"festivity-and-surroundings-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"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.","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.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","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.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","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.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","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.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of celebration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Help plan a celebration the organizer has asked for, including timing and accessibility.","Remind people of an occasion they asked to be reminded of."],"mustNot":["Publish photographs or details of someone's celebration without their consent.","Serve alcohol to minors or press drink on people who have declined.","Plan an event that ignores noise, crowd safety or permit requirements.","Mock or exclude people for how they mark, or do not mark, an occasion."],"requiresHuman":["Inviting people or sharing guest details.","Booking spending on someone's behalf."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Celebrations can exclude people who cannot afford or access them.","People grieving or unwell may find festivity painful rather than welcome."],"affectedParties":["Guests","Neighbours","People who cannot take part"]},"owners":{"steward":"The host or organizer; venue operators and local authorities answer for public events.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"oewn-00427931-n","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.celebration","Open English WordNet: oewn-00428985-n"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Registry fit: supported | disputed | unclear","Celebratory focus: Linked occasion, person, achievement or other subject; none stated; unknown","Participation form: solitary | shared in person | shared remotely | hybrid","Experienced enjoyment: Per participant or reporting group: enjoyable | mixed | unenjoyable | unreported, with time and evidence","Participation choice: Per activity and participant: opted in | declined | undecided | pressured | unknown","Festive activity: Open set, such as dancing, play, music-making, feasting, toasting or other locally identified diversion","Celebration phase: proposed | preparing | underway | paused | concluded | cancelled","Duration: Minutes or hours, planned or observed; unknown when unbounded"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Gatherings with food, music, decoration or ritual marking the occasion."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Assess whether a described activity fits joyous diversion and record uncertain or competing interpretations.","Connect a celebration to its focal subject when one exists.","Propose festive activities using participants' expressed preferences and available conditions.","Offer ways to join, decline, take a break or participate differently.","Adapt the activity when enjoyment, energy or willingness changes.","Conclude the celebration and record whose experience supports the outcome assessment."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Crowd crushes, fire and alcohol harm at poorly run events.","Noise and disruption for neighbours."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["ISO 20121, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, provides event sustainability management system requirements applicable to organized celebrations."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Celebration occurs in private gatherings, community festivities and organized entertainment where people share festive enjoyment.","It provides recreation and social connection through activities such as music, dancing, games or shared meals without requiring a commemorative occasion."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-00428985-n","url":"https://en-word.net/id/oewn-00428985-n","note":"sense and gloss of the concept"},{"title":"Wiktionary: celebration","url":"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celebration","note":"word senses and usage"}],"openQuestions":["Does the registry intend 'any joyous diversion' to include every enjoyable recreational episode, or is a narrower distinction from recreation documented elsewhere?","Does intended but unrealised joy qualify an activity as a celebration, or should it be represented only as an attempted celebration?","How should registry fit be assessed when the same activity brings joy to some participants and distress or indifference to others?","What evidence is sufficient to identify joyous diversion without inferring internal feelings from attendance, smiling or other ambiguous behaviour?","How should a continuous festive gathering be divided into celebration instances when its activities, participants or focal subjects change?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-celebration/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-celebration/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T08:29:40Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T12:16:27+00:00: completeness 1.00; 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