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making.","findings":[{"id":"making-finding","name":"Making","description":"Making.","questions":[{"text":"How are globes manufactured today and by hand?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits globe making?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"collecting","name":"Collecting","description":"Collecting.","findings":[{"id":"collecting-finding","name":"Collecting","description":"Collecting.","questions":[{"text":"How are antique globes collected and conserved?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits antique map collecting?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe globes, their history and makers from museum and cartographic sources.","Note when a globe's borders and names reflect an earlier date."],"mustNot":["Present an old globe's borders as current.","Confuse a physical globe with a virtual globe or a celestial globe.","Damage or handle historic globes outside the custodians' rules.","Use a globe's depiction to support a disputed territorial claim as fact."],"requiresHuman":["Restoring or conserving a historic globe."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Maps and globes have shown disputed borders that carry political weight.","Historic globes are fragile cultural heritage."],"affectedParties":["Museums and collectors","Students","People in disputed territories"]},"owners":{"steward":"The person or institution that keeps the globe.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1979154","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q4006","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"map","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"model","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"map projection","type":"related","note":"which flattens the sphere"},{"target":"Erdapfel","type":"related","note":"the Behaim globe"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.globe","Wikidata: Q133792 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regulation; cartographic conventions"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Representing the Earth or sky in three dimensions.","terrestrial globes","celestial globes","pocket globes","monumental and giant globes","planetary and lunar globes","virtual globes such as Google Earth and Terravision"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q133792: globe","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133792","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Globe","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should virtual globe and celestial globe be separate primary entries?","How should cartography sources be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases naming kinds and a specific software; should they be split off?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q133792/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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