{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.national-anthem","code":"thing-q23691","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q23691/","name":"national anthem","alternateNames":["national song"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.MED"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A national anthem is a musical work officially adopted or conventionally recognized as a ceremonial expression of a nation's identity, whether performed instrumentally or with words.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a national anthem, establish whose national symbol it is and which version applies, and assess appropriate performance, reproduction and reuse.","scope":{"in":["Association between a musical work and the nation it represents","Official, customary, disputed and former national-anthem 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national-anthem status.","Its national-anthem role is distinguished from a royal, presidential, military or regional anthem role, while allowing one work to hold multiple roles.","The anthem remains distinguishable from a particular arrangement, translation, recording or performance of it.","Recognition is associated with a particular nation and period, allowing former, competing or jointly recognised anthems.","An instrumental anthem can qualify without lyrics; a lyrical version must be checked separately for recognition."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"national-symbol-identity","name":"National symbol identity","description":"Establishes what makes the work a national anthem and whose nationhood it represents.","layers":[{"id":"represented-nation","name":"Represented nation","description":"Identifies the collective represented and separates it from institutions claiming authority over the anthem.","findings":[{"id":"national-association","name":"National 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what is its stated scope?","id":"designation-evidence-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"recognition-history","name":"Recognition history","description":"Separates changes in anthem status from changes in the work or its permitted versions.","findings":[{"id":"status-transitions","name":"Status transitions","description":"Record dated adoption, withdrawal, restoration, coexistence and disputes as distinct status events.","questions":[{"text":"When did each recognition status take effect, and which dates remain uncertain?","id":"status-transitions-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Did a transition replace the anthem work, revise its recognised expression or change only the recognising authority?","id":"status-transitions-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which concurrent or competing recognition claims must remain visible?","id":"status-transitions-q03","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"music-lyrics-and-expressions","name":"Music, lyrics and expressions","description":"Identifies the anthem work and the musical and textual expressions associated with its national role.","layers":[{"id":"work-and-contribution-identity","name":"Work and contribution identity","description":"Separates the anthem's identity from the origins and attribution of its music and words.","findings":[{"id":"musical-and-textual-origins","name":"Musical and textual origins","description":"Record the provenance of melody and lyrics, including antecedent works and uncertain attribution.","questions":[{"text":"Which musical and textual works constitute the anthem, and did either exist before its national designation?","id":"musical-and-textual-origins-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What evidence supports the composer, lyricist, translator and arranger attributions?","id":"musical-and-textual-origins-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"recognised-version-boundaries","name":"Recognised version boundaries","description":"Distinguishes recognised settings and texts from optional, historical and unofficial variants.","findings":[{"id":"canonical-and-alternative-expressions","name":"Canonical and alternative expressions","description":"Record recognised scores, language versions, verses and arrangements with their specific standing.","questions":[{"text":"Which scores, lyrics, languages and verse sequences are recognised, and by whom?","id":"canonical-and-alternative-expressions-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which differences are permitted expressions of this anthem, and which require treatment as a derivative or separate work?","id":"canonical-and-alternative-expressions-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Where lyrics are absent or unofficial, what should an agent select for a requested vocal performance?","id":"canonical-and-alternative-expressions-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"ceremonial-performance","name":"Ceremonial performance","description":"Connects anthem selection and rendition to a specific occasion and applicable 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official.","questions":[{"text":"What anthem-specific rules, if any, apply to the proposed adaptation, advertisement, publication or public performance?","id":"adaptation-and-public-use-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does this use require permission, attribution, a prescribed version or review before it proceeds?","id":"adaptation-and-public-use-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"How should an unofficial adaptation or recording be labelled to avoid implying official endorsement?","id":"adaptation-and-public-use-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 national anthem 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 national anthem this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of national anthem this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and 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