{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.hundred","code":"thing-q313354","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q313354/","name":"hundred","alternateNames":["cantref","commote","hundred in Sweden","Harde","hundred of South Australia","hundred of New South Wales"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.PLC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A hundred is a historical administrative division of land, once used in England and other countries as a subdivision of a county or shire for justice, taxation and local administration; the registry aliases name equivalents such as the Welsh cantref and commote, the Scandinavian harde and the hundreds of Sweden and of parts of Australia. Its origin and exact role varied, and in most places the hundred is now obsolete as a unit of government.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the historical hundred, relay its role and regional equivalents from history sources, describe the equivalents its aliases name, and distinguish the hundred from the modern county and from the number one hundred.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["County subdivision","Justice and taxation role","Regional equivalents","Mostly obsolete"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What a hundred is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is a hundred as a land division, and how does it differ from a county and the number one hundred?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about a historical or current unit?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"equivalents","name":"Equivalents","description":"Equivalents.","findings":[{"id":"equivalents-finding","name":"Equivalents","description":"Equivalents.","questions":[{"text":"What are the cantref, commote and harde?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific equivalent?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"role","name":"Role","description":"Role.","layers":[{"id":"administration","name":"Administration","description":"Administration.","findings":[{"id":"administration-finding","name":"Administration","description":"Administration.","questions":[{"text":"What administrative role did the hundred serve?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"justice","name":"Justice","description":"Justice.","findings":[{"id":"justice-finding","name":"Justice","description":"Justice.","questions":[{"text":"How did hundreds function in local justice?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History.","layers":[{"id":"origins","name":"Origins","description":"Origins.","findings":[{"id":"origins-finding","name":"Origins","description":"Origins.","questions":[{"text":"Where and when did the hundred originate?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"decline","name":"Decline","description":"Decline.","findings":[{"id":"decline-finding","name":"Decline","description":"Decline.","questions":[{"text":"How did the hundred fall out of use?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the obsolete status clear?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Context.","layers":[{"id":"regions","name":"Regions","description":"Regional forms.","findings":[{"id":"regions-finding","name":"Regions","description":"Regions.","questions":[{"text":"How did hundreds and their equivalents vary by region?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"county","name":"County","description":"The county.","findings":[{"id":"county-finding","name":"County","description":"County.","questions":[{"text":"How did the hundred relate to the county or shire?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits county?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe hundreds as historical divisions, naming the country and period.","Use historical records of hundreds for genealogy or local history."],"mustNot":["Treat the hundred as a current administrative unit where it is not.","Confuse the division with the number one hundred.","Assume one country's hundred worked the same as another's.","Invent boundaries not supported by historical sources."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing reconstructed historical boundaries as authoritative."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Historical divisions are part of local identity and heritage.","Genealogical records using hundreds involve people's family histories."],"affectedParties":["Historians","Genealogists","Local communities"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody: a historical division; 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