establishment
Enable an AI agent to recognise an establishment as premises equipped for a business, governmental, educational or residential purpose, assess its usability, and identify permitted actions.
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6 bundles · 11 layers · 18 findings · 31 questions
Premises identity and extent Establishes which physical premises constitute this establishment and how they relate to buildings, parcels and neighbouring occupancies.
Physical identification
Connects the establishment's name and address to identifiable physical premises.
Premises anchor
Record the location and identifying evidence that connect the registry entry to an equipped physical establishment.
- Which address, mapped location, entrance or site identifier locates the physical establishment? definition
- What observation or record connects that location to this establishment rather than only to its operator's registered address? provenance
Included and shared spaces
Separates included premises from neighbouring premises and facilities used jointly.
Establishment perimeter
Record included buildings, floors, rooms and ancillary areas, together with exclusions and shared-use arrangements.
- Which buildings, suites, rooms, yards or ancillary structures are included, and which adjoining spaces are excluded? boundary
- Which entrances, corridors, parking areas or service rooms are shared, and what evidence defines the establishment's rights to use them? provenance
Use and equipped arrangement Describes the purposes supported by the premises and the equipment and spatial arrangements that support them.
Intended and actual use
Distinguishes what the establishment is arranged to support from what currently occurs there.
Use profile
Record intended and observed uses by space, including combinations of residential and non-residential activity.
- What business, governmental, educational or residential purposes are these premises equipped to support? definition
- What evidence establishes current actual use, including unused areas or activities differing from the intended purpose? provenance
Spaces and equipment for use
Connects the recorded purposes to the facilities needed to carry them out.
Enabling facilities
Record the spaces, installed equipment and available furnishings that materially enable each use, without requiring a complete asset inventory.
- Which spaces and equipment are necessary for each recorded use, and where are they located? definition
- Which enabling facilities belong to these premises, which are supplied by occupants, and which are shared or externally provided? boundary
- What must be added, removed or rearranged before the establishment can support a proposed different use? action
Occupation and premises control Identifies who occupies and controls particular spaces and how people may enter and move through them.
Occupants and responsibilities
Associates occupied areas and premises decisions with the relevant parties.
Space-level responsibility
Record who occupies, operates, maintains and controls each relevant part of the establishment.
- Who currently occupies or operates each part of the establishment, and which areas are vacant? definition
- Which agreement or other evidence assigns responsibility for repairs, shared facilities and permission to alter the premises? provenance
Entry and internal access
Describes usable entrances, internal routes and conditions of admission.
Permitted access routes
Record how visitors, occupants and service personnel can reach the appropriate spaces under current access conditions.
- Which entrances and routes serve visitors, residents, staff and deliveries, and what physical barriers affect their use? boundary
- What hours, credentials, appointments, consent or escort are required for a proposed visit or service task? action
Occupation and operation readiness Assesses whether the establishment's spaces and supporting services are usable for specified purposes at a stated time.
Space condition and capacity
Connects observed premises conditions and occupancy limits to intended activities.
Usable space and limits
Record usable areas, defects and supported occupancy, distinguishing observations from assessments and formal limits.
- How much space is usable for each recorded activity, and which defects or unavailable areas reduce that amount? measurement
- What evidence supports the recorded occupancy or activity capacity, and is it an estimate, an assessment or an authorised limit? provenance
- Which affected spaces or activities require restriction pending repair, inspection or further assessment? action
Essential services and dependencies
Identifies services and shared facilities whose availability conditions use of the premises.
Service-dependent readiness
Record the availability of required utilities, sanitation, circulation and other supporting facilities, including dependencies outside the establishment.
- Which utilities and supporting facilities are necessary for each intended use, and which depend on shared building systems or external providers? boundary
- What is the latest evidenced availability of each necessary service, including degraded operation and any verified alternative provision? measurement
Permitted use and premises change Records evidenced constraints on occupation and alteration and tracks changes that affect the establishment's use or continuity.
Permissions and conditions
Links proposed activities and premises work to applicable, evidenced authorisations and restrictions.
Use and work authorisation
Record the scope, issuer, effective period and conditions of relevant permissions, without assuming that every establishment requires the same approvals.
- Which current documents or authoritative records establish the permitted uses, occupancy conditions and restrictions for these specific premises? provenance
- For a proposed occupation, repair, installation or change of use, which permissions are evidenced and which remain unresolved? action
Closure, conversion and continuity
Distinguishes temporary inactivity and partial change from removal or replacement of the equipped establishment.
Premises transition
Record changes to use, equipment, occupied extent and operator, while explicitly identifying unresolved identity decisions.
- What evidence distinguishes temporary closure, partial closure, conversion and decommissioning of these premises? provenance
- Which premises and enabling equipment persist through the change, and does the registry provide a rule for retaining the establishment's identity? boundary
- What verified conditions must be met before the affected spaces can reopen or support their proposed new use? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Kinds and varieties
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Identifiers and schemes
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of establishment this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- noun.artifact
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Tags
- artifactstructure
- Facets: substance
- material
- Facets: origin
- manufactured
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- fixed
- Facets: scale
- built
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- agora, public square, barbershop, bazaar, bazar, betting shop, bodega, bookshop, bookstore, bookstall, booth, borstal
What it is Filled
An establishment is a single physical location - together with the buildings, plant, and equipment at that site - at which a public, private, educational, or residential activity is carried on as a going concern.
In scope
- The physical extent of the premises and the buildings, spaces and equipment treated as part of the establishment
- The purposes the premises are equipped to support and their current actual use
- The relationship between the premises and their owners, operators, occupants and shared facilities
- The readiness of spaces, equipment and essential services for the intended use
- Conditions governing entry, occupation, maintenance, alteration and change of use
Out of scope
- The legal identity, governance and finances of the organisation operating the establishment
- Detailed architectural, structural and component models of individual buildings
- Cadastral ownership and conveyancing records for land parcels
- Detailed procedures and outputs of the business, governmental or educational activities conducted there
- Personal histories and household relationships of residents
- The upstream infrastructure networks supplying utilities and transport access
Why it exists Filled
Enable an AI agent to recognise an establishment as premises equipped for a business, governmental, educational or residential purpose, assess its usability, and identify permitted actions.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Identify physical premises: a registered organisation or postal address alone does not establish the presence of an establishment.
- Identify how the premises are equipped for a business, governmental, educational or residential use; a building description alone does not establish that arrangement.
- Check whether the establishment occupies an entire building, part of one or several buildings; establishment boundaries must not be inferred from the building count.
- Separate continuity of the physical establishment from continuity of its operator; an operator change does not by itself demonstrate that the premises became a different establishment.
- Distinguish a temporarily inactive equipped establishment from premises whose equipment and use have been removed; closure status alone does not settle that distinction.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Enter or inspect an establishment without the operator's permission or lawful authority.
- Record or publish images of people working or living at the site without consent.
- Disable fire, security or safety systems at the site.
- Report an establishment as open, closed or licensed without checking current records.
Only with a human decision
- Closing a site, restricting access or evacuating people.
May
- Record an establishment's address, activity and operator from official registers.
- Monitor site systems and report faults for the operator who authorized it.
Moral aspects Filled
- Establishments are workplaces and sometimes homes; surveillance there affects workers and residents.
- Wrong public information about a site can hurt its business or mislead people who rely on it.
Who is affected
- Workers
- Residents and visitors
- Operators
Owners Filled
Steward
The operator who carries on the activity there; the owner holds the property.
Master systems
- Business and establishment registers
- Land registry or cadastre
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-04348764-n - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.establishment
- Open English WordNet: oewn-03302664-n
Direct properties required Filled
- Premises configuration: Whole building; part of building; multiple buildings; mixed configuration; unresolved
- Use profile: Business; governmental; educational; residential; mixed; unresolved, with specific activities recorded
- Included floor area: Square metres, with measurement basis and treatment of shared space
- Premises responsibility: Links to owners, operators, occupiers and maintainers, specifying the spaces and responsibilities covered
- Occupancy condition: Occupied; partly occupied; vacant; unknown, with observation time and affected spaces
- Use readiness: Ready; ready with restrictions; not ready; not assessed, for a specified use and date
- Essential service availability: Available; degraded; unavailable; unverified, for each service required by the recorded use
- Supported occupancy: Persons, beds, workstations or another use-specific unit, with source, limiting condition and distinction between assessed capacity and authorised limit
- Entry conditions: Public; appointment; credential; invitation; restricted; closed; unknown, by entrance, space and time
Recognition required Filled
- A site with buildings and equipment where a named activity is carried on, often with signs or a registered address.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Locate the establishment and identify the entrance and spaces appropriate to a proposed visit.
- Assess whether particular premises can support a specified activity or occupancy under recorded conditions.
- Identify the responsible party and permissions required for entry, inspection, repair or alteration.
- Plan maintenance or service restoration around occupied areas and shared facilities.
- Evaluate a proposed change of use or equipment arrangement and identify unresolved prerequisites.
- Record partial closure, reopening or decommissioning with the affected spaces and supporting evidence.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Fires, structural failures or plant accidents can endanger people on and near the site.
- Unsecured sites can be entered by unauthorized people.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- The International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities issued by the United Nations classifies economic activities and defines the establishment as a statistical unit for relevant premises.
- The International Standard Classification of Education issued by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics applies to the classification of education programmes provided at educational establishments.
Context of use required Filled
- An establishment provides a physical site and equipment for ongoing business, public service, educational or residential activity.
- It is identified in site management, planning, inspections and statistical records to connect activities with particular premises.
Sources Filled
- International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 - Defines the establishment as a statistical and operational unit: an enterprise, or part of an enterprise, situated in a single location and in which a single (or predominant) productive activity is carried out, including the premises and equipment at that site.
- Business Dynamics Statistics: Establishment concepts - US Census/BLS operational definition: a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed, distinct from the legal enterprise.
- 29 CFR 1910.2 - Definitions (Occupational Safety and Health Standards) - US OSHA legal definition of establishment as a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed, used to assign workplace duties and inspections.
- WordNet 3.1 - establishment (noun, synset of physical structure/premises) - Lexical sense matching the registry gloss: a public or private structure (business, governmental, or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence.
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-03302664-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: establishment - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Does an existing Vercy world model already own this physical concept, requiring the registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate model?
- What registry rule determines whether a campus, a multi-tenant building or several separately occupied suites constitute one establishment or several?
- How broadly does the registry intend residential establishment to extend, particularly for individual dwellings within shared buildings?
- What minimum relationship between premises, purpose and equipment distinguishes an establishment from a vacant building, and can temporary equipped premises qualify?
- Which changes in location, occupied extent, use, equipment or operator preserve establishment identity, and which require a new registry identity?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-establishment/spec.json