drove
Let an agent explain droves and drove roads, relay their history and function in livestock trade and transhumance, identify regional forms and protected examples, and distinguish droves from ordinary roads and trails.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a drove is.
Definition
Definition and function.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a drove road, and how was it used? definition
- Is the route a drove or another kind of road or trail? boundary
Forms
Regional forms.
Forms
Forms.
- How do British drove roads, Spanish canadas and other forms differ? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
History History.
Droving
Droving and trade.
Droving
Droving.
- How did droving and transhumance work, and who were the drovers? provenance
- Which entry fits transhumance? action
Decline
Decline.
Decline
Decline.
- Why did droving decline with railways and enclosure? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Today Status and use today.
Law
Legal protection.
Law
Law.
- How are droves protected as rights of way and heritage routes? provenance
- Which entry fits right of way? action
Use
Recreation and ecology.
Use
Use.
- How are droves used for walking and as ecological corridors? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Study Study.
Landscape
Landscape history.
Landscape
Landscape.
- How do landscape historians identify and study droves? provenance
- Which entry fits landscape history? action
Mapping
Mapping.
Mapping
Mapping.
- How are drove networks mapped and inventoried? provenance
- Which entry fits historic route mapping? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- vereda, Cañada real
What it is Filled
A road or track used historically for driving livestock on foot over long distances to markets and pastures, such as the drove roads of Britain, the canadas reales of Spain and the veredas of Spain and Latin America, often wide, grassy and unfenced, with resting places and inns; droves are relics of transhumance and cattle trade, survive as rights of way, footpaths and protected routes, and are studied in landscape history.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain droves and drove roads, relay their history and function in livestock trade and transhumance, identify regional forms and protected examples, and distinguish droves from ordinary roads and trails.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Livestock movement
- Wide and unfenced
- Transhumance link
- Protected rights of way
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Encourage blocking, ploughing or building over droves protected as rights of way or heritage.
- Present disputed access as settled.
- Advise driving vehicles on droves where it is forbidden.
- Confuse droves with other tracks in access advice.
Only with a human decision
- Changing access to a drove or its legal status.
May
- Describe historic drove roads and their place in livestock trade, with sources.
- Report public access rights on droves from official records.
- Distinguish droves from other tracks and lanes.
Moral aspects Filled
- Droves are shared heritage and public access routes.
- Access disputes affect landowners and walkers alike.
Who is affected
- Walkers and riders
- Landowners
- Herders using traditional routes
Owners Filled
Steward
The landowner, with public authorities for rights of way and protected routes.
Master systems
- Rights of way records
- Heritage registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11638045 - registry parent class
- Q628179 - registry parent class
related
- farm road - in registry terms
- trail - in registry terms
- transhumance - and livestock trade
- right of way - in many countries
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.drove
- Wikidata: Q1168568 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168568)
Direct properties required Filled
- canada real width: about 75 m - by Spanish law
- Spanish livestock routes: about 125000 km - protected network
Recognition required Filled
- Route for driving livestock
- Drove roads, canadas reales, veredas
- Ordinary roads carry vehicles; trails may have other origins
- A wide grassy track between hedges or walls, or an unfenced route across open country.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the function and history
- identify regional forms
- relay legal status and protection
- distinguish from other routes
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Encroachment and loss
- Confusing droves with other tracks
- Disputes over access
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Spanish law on livestock routes of 1995
- Rights of way law in Britain
- Heritage and landscape protection
Context of use required Filled
- Historically, moving livestock on foot; now heritage routes and paths.
- British drove roads
- Spanish canadas reales, cordeles and veredas
- veredas in Latin America
- transhumance routes in the Alps, Balkans and elsewhere
- stock routes in Australia
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1168568: drove - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Drovers' road - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should canada real be a separate entry?
- How should route inventories be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming Spanish forms; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1168568/spec.json