holiday
Let an agent handle holidays by date, country, type, legal status and customs, neutrally and respectfully.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle holidays by date, country, type, legal status and customs, neutrally and respectfully.
A day or period set aside for celebration, commemoration or rest, such as public holidays, national days, religious festivals and anniversaries, often with time off work or school.
What it is for: Celebration, commemoration, rest and shared culture.
It can be find public holiday dates; understand workers holiday rights; learn customs and meanings; schedule around holidays.
Distinguishing features
Designated day or period
Set by law, religion or custom
Recurring
Meanings can be contested
What it looks like
Decorations, ceremonies, closures and gatherings on particular dates.
How it is recognised
Official public holiday lists
Religious and national holidays
Vacation as personal leave is a related sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
is set by - law
is related to - related concepts
is computed from - dates
In practice
Families and kinds
public and bank holidays
national days
religious holidays
commemorative days
observances without time off
Standards and regulation
National public holiday laws
Working time and holiday pay rules
Failure modes and hazards
Wrong dates for movable holidays
Partisan description of contested holidays
Assuming holidays are universal
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Identity Which holiday.
Country and type.
Name
Holiday.
Name
Holiday identity.
- Which holiday, in which country or community? provenance
- What does it mark? provenance
Type
Public or religious.
Type
Type.
- Is it a public, religious or commemorative holiday? definition
- Is it a day off by law? provenance
Dates When.
Dates can move.
Date
This year.
Date
Date.
- When does it fall this year? measurement
- Is it fixed or movable? definition
Substitute days
Weekends.
Substitute
Substitute days.
- Is there a substitute day when it falls on a weekend? provenance
- Under which rule? provenance
Rights Work and pay.
Workers have rights.
Time off
Entitlement.
Time off
Time off.
- Are workers entitled to the day off or extra pay? provenance
- Which contract or law applies? provenance
Services
Closures.
Services
Closures.
- Which services and shops close? provenance
- Where can emergency help be found? action
Meaning Customs.
Meaning matters.
Customs
Traditions.
Customs
Customs.
- How is it traditionally celebrated? provenance
- Is the description respectful? boundary
Contested
Neutrality.
Contested
Contested holidays.
- Is the holiday contested by some groups? boundary
- Are views attributed neutrally? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should holidays by country be separate entries?
- How should movable holiday rules be recorded?
- How should contested holidays be described?