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Gallery road

vr.tr.gallery-road · thing-q1320607

Let an agent describe gallery roads by history, construction and surviving or reconstructed examples, with historical sources.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.BLT
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

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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Route Which gallery road.

Name and place

Route.

Route

Name and region.

  1. Which route? provenance
  2. Where? provenance

Period

Dates.

Period

Construction and use.

  1. When was it built and used? provenance
  2. By whom? provenance
Construction How it was built.

Technique

Beams and planks.

Technique

Method.

  1. How was it built? provenance
  2. What materials? provenance

Remains

Surviving traces.

Remains

Features.

  1. What survives? provenance
  2. Where? provenance
History Significance.

Use

Military and trade.

Use

Events.

  1. How was it used? provenance
  2. In which events? provenance

Literature

Mentions.

Mention

Text.

  1. Which texts mention it? provenance
  2. When? provenance
Today Reconstruction and safety.

Reconstruction

Tourist walkways.

Reconstruction

Site, date, and whether location and design rest on surviving beam holes, records or modern interpretation.

  1. Has it been reconstructed? provenance
  2. When? provenance

Safety

Rules.

Safety

Measures.

  1. Which safety measures exist? provenance
  2. Who manages them? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Physical world and living systems
Entry kind
thing
Plane
PHY
Domain
PHY.BLT

What it is Filled

A plank road built along sheer cliffs in the mountains of China (zhandao), with wooden decking on wooden or stone crossbeams anchored in holes cut in the rock face; used since antiquity on routes such as those through the Qinling Mountains, with some sections reconstructed for visitors.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent describe gallery roads by history, construction and surviving or reconstructed examples, with historical sources.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Built into cliffs rather than cut as a road bed; cliff-supported sections were parts of larger routes that also used other road forms.
  • Historic routes such as the Baoxie and Shu roads linked the Guanzhong plain with Sichuan.
  • Some historic sections have been reconstructed; other tourist cliff walks are new builds.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • encourage use of unsafe historic remains

May

  • describe history and sites

Moral aspects Filled

  • heritage
  • visitor safety

Who is affected

  • visitors
  • local communities

Owners Filled

Steward

local authorities and heritage bodies for each route

Master systems

  • heritage registers

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q1497067 - registry parent class

related

  • road - transport route
  • China - country
  • via ferrata - modern climbing route
  • heritage site - protection

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.gallery-road
  • Wikidata: Q1320607 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1320607)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Routes vary; dimensions belong to each road.

Recognition required Filled

  • Planks on beams along a cliff face
  • Rows of square beam holes in rock where roads once ran
  • Narrow wooden walkways fixed to vertical cliffs, supported by beams in rock holes.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • describe construction and history
  • describe notable routes
  • describe modern reconstructions and safety
  • point to heritage information

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Falls
  • Rockfall

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Chinese cultural relics protection law for historic remains
  • Safety rules for tourist walkways

Context of use required Filled

  • Historically, passage through otherwise impassable mountain terrain; today tourism.
  • historic plank roads (such as the Baoxie and Shu roads)
  • modern reconstructed cliff walkways

Sources Filled

  1. Q1320607 - identity of the registry item, labels and sitelinks
  2. ShuDao - Ancient mountain route system, cliff plank paths, military and communication functions, and heritage context.
  3. A Virtual Restoration Approach for Ancient Plank Road Using Mechanical Analysis with Precision 3D Data of Heritage Site - Wooden or stone crossbeams, decking, surviving rock holes and evidence-based structural reconstruction.
  4. Visibility Evaluation of Scenic Spots in Mountain Heritage Parks Based on LiDAR Data: A Case Study of Baoxie Plank Road Heritage Park - Baoxie heritage remains, plank beams and holes, and modern visitor interpretation.
  5. Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics - Legal protection and management framework applicable to historic road remains.

Open questions

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Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

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