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holiday
vr.tr.holiday · thing-q1445650
Let an agent handle holidays by date, country, type, legal status and customs, neutrally and respectfully.
Thing Registry Activities and processes ACT.ACT
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
Identity Which holiday.
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.
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.
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.
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
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- counter-celebration, public holiday, 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence, national holiday of Peru, national holiday of the USSR, public holiday in the Empire of Japan, national mourning on the behalf of the 2023 Gaziantep-Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, holiday of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, public holidays in Russia, public holiday in the Czech Republic, public holidays in Slovakia, public holidays in Poland
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle holidays by date, country, type, legal status and customs, neutrally and respectfully.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Designated day or period
- Set by law, religion or custom
- Recurring
- Meanings can be contested
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat one community's holidays as the default and ignore others that people observe.
- Misstate the meaning or customs of a religious or national holiday.
- Schedule mandatory work or obligations over a protected holiday without lawful basis.
- Mock or disparage a holiday that a community holds sacred.
Only with a human decision
- Deciding whether staff must work on a public or religious holiday.
May
- Report holiday dates from official calendars for the stated country or community.
- Plan schedules and services around holidays the user observes.
Moral aspects Filled
- Holidays carry religious, national and family meaning that deserves respect.
- Rest days are worker protections in many places, and erosion of them harms workers.
Who is affected
- People who observe the holiday
- Employees and workers
- Minority communities
Owners Filled
Steward
The authority that declares it: a state for public holidays, a religious community for religious ones.
Master systems
- Official public holiday calendars
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q14795564 - registry parent class
- Q15275719 - registry parent class
related
- recurring event - category
- public holiday law - law
- vacation and festival - related concepts
- calendar system - dates
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.holiday
- Wikidata: Q1445650 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1445650)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Official public holiday lists
- Religious and national holidays
- Vacation as personal leave is a related sense
- Decorations, ceremonies, closures and gatherings on particular dates.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find public holiday dates
- understand workers holiday rights
- learn customs and meanings
- schedule around holidays
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Wrong dates for movable holidays
- Partisan description of contested holidays
- Assuming holidays are universal
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National public holiday laws
- Working time and holiday pay rules
Context of use required Filled
- Celebration, commemoration, rest and shared culture.
- public and bank holidays
- national days
- religious holidays
- commemorative days
- observances without time off
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1445650: holiday - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Holiday - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should holidays by country be separate entries?
- How should movable holiday rules be recorded?
- How should contested holidays be described?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1445650/spec.json