{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.mission-station","code":"thing-q1564373","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1564373/","name":"mission station","alternateNames":["visit","Spanish missions in Trinidad","Visit","Sanpai","imperial visit","vesit","White House visits by championship teams","travels and stays","royal tour","pastoral visit","hospital visit","Nikkō Shasan"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A mission station is a fixed site or building complex established as a local base for Christian missionary activity, often combining accommodation, worship and community services.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a mission station as a physical base for Christian missionary activity, assess its present condition and use, and identify actions consistent with its authority, community relationships and historical context.","scope":{"in":["The station's physical location, extent and relationship to surrounding settlements","Buildings and spaces supporting worship, missionary residence, instruction and locally documented services","Evidence linking the physical site to sustained missionary activity","Current occupation, operational condition and accessibility","Physical traces of establishment, expansion, closure and subsequent reuse","Site-specific land relationships, community access and culturally sensitive areas"],"out":["The missionary organisation as an institution","Religious doctrine and missionary strategy","Individual missionaries, residents or community members as persons","The surrounding settlement beyond the station's evidenced boundary","Schools, clinics or congregations as independently governed institutions","Spaceflight mission facilities, military mission posts and temporary expedition camps"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Evidence identifies the place as a base for sustained Christian missionary activity; a religious name alone is insufficient.","The place supported missionary presence or recurring operations, distinguishing it from a building used only for congregational worship.","An identifiable site or compound can be distinguished from the sponsoring mission organisation and its wider territory.","Educational, medical or residential functions qualify as station components only where their physical and operational relationship to the mission base is established.","A former station retains an evidenced Christian mission-site identity even when missionary activity has ceased; present religious use is not required."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"mission-site-identity","name":"Mission-site identity","description":"Establishes why this physical place is identified as a mission station and which period that identification concerns.","layers":[{"id":"basis-of-identification","name":"Basis of identification","description":"Tests the connection between the site and sustained missionary operations.","findings":[{"id":"evidenced-mission-base","name":"Evidenced mission base","description":"Record the evidence supporting classification as a physical missionary base, including contrary or ambiguous evidence.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence identifies this place as a base for sustained religious missionary activity?","id":"evidenced-mission-base-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What distinguishes this site from a church, a temporary preaching stop or the headquarters of a mission organisation?","id":"evidenced-mission-base-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"names-and-operating-periods","name":"Names and operating periods","description":"Connects historical and community names to dated periods of mission use.","findings":[{"id":"dated-site-identity","name":"Dated site identity","description":"Record names, 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facilities, cultivated areas or outstations.","questions":[{"text":"What mapped extent can be established for the station during each relevant period?","id":"station-extent-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which nearby residences, fields or satellite facilities belonged to the station, and which were separate places?","id":"station-extent-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"mission-functional-arrangement","name":"Mission functional arrangement","description":"Identifies the spaces used for missionary work and how their functions changed.","findings":[{"id":"documented-station-facilities","name":"Documented station facilities","description":"Record the actual combination of worship, accommodation and associated services, distinguishing original functions from later adaptations.","questions":[{"text":"Which spaces supported worship, missionary accommodation, teaching or other documented station activities?","id":"documented-station-facilities-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What evidence establishes each facility's mission-period function and its relationship to the station?","id":"documented-station-facilities-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"occupation-and-community-relations","name":"Occupation and community relations","description":"Records how the station was staffed, inhabited and accessed, and whose authority governs it.","layers":[{"id":"staffing-and-residence","name":"Staffing and residence","description":"Distinguishes a resident mission base from a periodically served outstation and records present occupation.","findings":[{"id":"presence-and-use-pattern","name":"Presence and use pattern","description":"Record missionary presence and other residential or service uses by period without inferring occupation from surviving buildings.","questions":[{"text":"Was the station continuously staffed, seasonally occupied or served through visits from another mission base?","id":"presence-and-use-pattern-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Who currently occupies or uses the former mission spaces, and for what activities?","id":"presence-and-use-pattern-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"land-rights-and-entry","name":"Land rights and entry","description":"Identifies site-specific rights, access practices and disputed authority.","findings":[{"id":"authority-and-community-access","name":"Authority and community access","description":"Record ownership, customary relationships and practical control separately, including disagreements affecting proposed actions.","questions":[{"text":"Which parties hold recorded ownership, customary rights, occupancy or responsibility for granting access to the station?","id":"authority-and-community-access-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Whose permission or consultation is required for a visit, survey or alteration of the mission compound?","id":"authority-and-community-access-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"mission-fabric-and-site-transition","name":"Mission fabric and site transition","description":"Connects surviving mission-period material to current use, sensitive histories and decisions about physical change.","layers":[{"id":"surviving-mission-landscape","name":"Surviving mission landscape","description":"Identifies material evidence and culturally sensitive features within the station.","findings":[{"id":"fabric-and-sensitive-areas","name":"Fabric and sensitive areas","description":"Record surviving mission-period buildings and landscape features, including burial or sacred areas where evidenced, with condition and interpretation kept distinct.","questions":[{"text":"Which mission-period structures, routes, gardens or archaeological traces survive, and what is their recorded condition?","id":"fabric-and-sensitive-areas-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which areas have burial, sacred or other community-defined significance, and what evidence or testimony supports that designation?","id":"fabric-and-sensitive-areas-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"closure-reuse-and-intervention","name":"Closure, reuse and intervention","description":"Assesses how present uses and proposed works affect the station's surviving evidence and recognised significance.","findings":[{"id":"site-transition-decisions","name":"Site transition decisions","description":"Record changes following mission use and identify constraints on intervention arising from current occupation, heritage status and community relationships.","questions":[{"text":"Which changes of use or alterations have affected the legibility of the former mission station?","id":"site-transition-decisions-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What inspection, consultation or authorisation is needed before repairing, adapting or removing mission-period fabric?","id":"site-transition-decisions-q02","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 mission station 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 mission station 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 mission station 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 mission station 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 mission station 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 mission station this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe a mission station's history, buildings and services from reliable sources.","Record its location and condition for heritage or community bodies."],"mustNot":["Present a mission's history from the missionaries' view alone, ignoring local people.","Disclose records of baptisms, schools or patients that identify people without consent.","Remove objects or archives from a station without the owners' and community's agreement.","Use a mission's services to pressure people to convert."],"requiresHuman":["Decisions about returning objects, remains or archives to communities."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Mission stations brought schools and health care but also took part in colonial rule and cultural suppression.","Some ran residential schools where children suffered abuse."],"affectedParties":["Local and Indigenous communities","Former pupils and their families","Church members"]},"owners":{"steward":"The mission society, church or current owner of the site; heritage bodies for protected stations.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Heritage registers for protected sites","Mission society archives"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q24398318","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.mission-station","Wikidata: Q1564373 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1564373)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Mission-site identification: documented | provisional | disputed","Station footprint: Mapped boundary and area in square metres or hectares, with date and uncertainty","Mission affiliation: Founding, administering and succeeding religious bodies, each with applicable dates","Missionary occupation pattern: resident base | periodically staffed outstation | mixed | historical pattern unknown","Mission-related facility composition: Documented combination of worship, residence, instruction, healthcare, hospitality, production and other site-specific functions","Present site use: active mission | mixed use | adapted use | unoccupied | archaeological remains | unknown","Land and access authority: Recorded owner, occupier, customary rights holders and access decision-makers; contested or unknown where applicable","Survival of mission-period fabric: Recorded separately for each mission-period building, landscape feature and archaeological area"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["A church 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asbestos.","Remote stations can be cut off from help in emergencies.","Archives held on site can be lost to fire, damp or neglect."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["The International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, issued by the United Nations Statistics Division, classifies activities of religious organizations under class 9491, which can cover the religious activities conducted at a mission station."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["A mission station serves as a fixed local base for Christian missionary activity, including worship, religious instruction and accommodation.","Some stations also provide education, health care or other community services, while former stations may function as heritage sites or have different present uses."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q1564373: mission station","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1564373","note":"identity and sense of the 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