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vr.tr.bank-possession · thing-bank-possession

Let an agent handle reserve banks by type, operator, access, donation and safety, and route people needing food or medical help to services.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.ECO
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Type Which bank.

Kind

Blood, seed, food.

Kind

Bank type.

  1. Which kind of reserve bank is meant? definition
  2. Who operates it? provenance

Stock

Levels.

Stock

Stock levels.

  1. What are current stock levels, according to the operator? measurement
  2. Is there an appeal for donations? provenance
Help Getting help.

Food

Food banks.

Food

Food bank access.

  1. How can someone get help from a food bank here? action
  2. Is a referral needed? provenance

Medical

Transfusions.

Medical

Medical needs.

  1. Is someone in urgent medical need? boundary
  2. Which emergency service should be contacted? action
Donation Giving.

Eligibility

Donors.

Eligibility

Donor eligibility.

  1. What are the general donor eligibility rules, from the official service? provenance
  2. How can someone check their own eligibility? action

Volunteer

Helping.

Volunteer

Volunteering.

  1. How can people volunteer or donate items? action
  2. What is most needed? provenance
Safety Standards.

Storage

Conditions.

Storage

Storage.

  1. What storage conditions are required? measurement
  2. How is expiry managed? definition

Regulation

Oversight.

Regulation

Oversight.

  1. Which regulator oversees the bank? provenance
  2. When was it last inspected? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
noun.possession
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.ECO
Facets: substance
social
Facets: origin
conceptual
Facets: agency
inert
Facets: mobility
not-applicable
Facets: scale
not-applicable
Facets: affordances
observable
Other names and narrower kinds
blood bank, eye bank, food bank, soil bank

What it is Filled

A supply or stock held in reserve for future use, especially in emergencies, such as a blood bank, eye bank, seed bank, food bank or soil bank.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle reserve banks by type, operator, access, donation and safety, and route people needing food or medical help to services.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Stock held in reserve
  • Managed for later need
  • Often depends on donations
  • Regulated where health is involved

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Advise releasing or using material whose screening, labelling or cold chain cannot be confirmed.
  • Help anyone buy or sell human blood, tissue or organs where the law forbids it.
  • Disclose who donated to or drew from a bank, including food bank users.
  • Promise supply during an emergency that the bank has not confirmed.

Only with a human decision

  • Any release of human blood or tissue for use in a person.
  • Decisions on who receives scarce stock during a shortage.

May

  • Report a bank's stock levels, intake rules and opening hours from its own information.
  • Help a donor or a person in need find the right bank and its official process.
  • Flag an item that is out of date, mislabelled or stored outside its stated conditions.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Unscreened or mishandled human material transmits serious infection.
  • People using food banks are in acute need and must not be exposed or shamed.

Who is affected

  • Recipients of blood, tissue or food
  • Donors
  • Staff and volunteers

Owners Filled

Steward

The operator of the bank, under the national health or food safety authority.

Master systems

  • National blood and tissue establishment registers
  • Seed bank accession records

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • oewn-13389225-n - registry parent class

related

  • reserve supply - category
  • blood bank and seed bank - kinds
  • donation - input
  • bank (financial institution) - another sense

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.bank-possession
  • Open English WordNet: oewn-13389491-n

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Blood, eye, tissue, seed and food banks
  • Operated by health services or charities
  • Financial banks are a different sense
  • Storage facilities such as refrigerated units, vaults or warehouses.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • find a blood or food bank
  • check donor eligibility in general terms
  • understand storage and safety rules
  • donate or volunteer

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Contaminated blood or tissue
  • Food safety failures
  • Stockouts in emergencies

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • EU Blood Directive 2002/98/EC
  • Tissue and cell directives
  • Food safety law for food banks

Context of use required Filled

  • Keeping resources available for later or emergency use.
  • blood banks
  • eye and tissue banks
  • seed banks
  • food banks
  • soil banks

Sources Filled

  1. Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13389491-n - sense and gloss of the concept
  2. Wiktionary: bank - word senses and usage

Open questions

  • Should each bank type be a separate entry?
  • How should services be localised?
  • How should the financial sense be split off?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-bank-possession/spec.json