{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.position-act","code":"thing-position-act","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/position-act/","name":"position","alternateNames":["post","berth","office","place","situation","academicianship","accountantship","admiralty","ambassadorship","apostleship","apprenticeship","associateship"],"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":"A uniquely identifiable post on an organization's establishment, defined by duties, authorities, and a reporting relationship, and typically occupied by at most one incumbent at a time (or left vacant).","purpose":"Enable an AI agent 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