grave
Let an agent explain graves and their forms and cultural practices with attribution, support finding and visiting graves respectfully, describe burial law and cemetery management, and support heritage and genealogical research.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What graves are.
Forms
Forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What forms do graves and memorials take, from earth graves to mausoleums, shrines and cenotaphs? definition
- Which entry fits a specific form? action
Practices
Cultural and religious practices.
Practices
Practices.
- How do cultures and religions treat graves in burial, mourning and visiting practices, in their own terms? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful and attributed? boundary
Visit Finding and visiting.
Find
Finding a grave.
Find
Finding.
- How can a grave be located through cemetery records, war graves registers and genealogical databases? action
- Is privacy or family consent a concern? boundary
Visit
Visiting.
Visit
Visiting.
- What etiquette and rules apply when visiting graves and cemeteries? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific cemetery? action
Manage Law and management.
Law
Burial law.
Law
Law.
- How do burial law and cemetery rules govern graves, tenure, headstones and reuse? provenance
- Is legal advice needed from a professional? boundary
Heritage
Heritage.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How are historic graves and war graves protected and maintained? provenance
- Which entry fits heritage protection? action
Learn History and memory.
History
History of graves.
History
History.
- How have graves and memorial forms changed across history and archaeology? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Memory
Memorials and memory.
Memory
Memory.
- How do memorials to victims of historical events function, and what debates surround contested memorials, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- mortuarium, qubba, cenotaph, Astana, Cenotaphs for 228 Incident of Taiwan, Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained memorial, ship burial, cardiotaph, table tomb, hypogeum, polyandrion, tumulus above cremated remains
What it is Filled
A location where one dead person or a limited number of people are buried, from simple earth graves and marked plots in cemeteries to tombs, mausoleums and domed shrines containing burials, including war graves maintained by commissions; graves are sites of mourning, ritual and heritage, and are governed by burial law, cemetery rules and heritage protection.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain graves and their forms and cultural practices with attribution, support finding and visiting graves respectfully, describe burial law and cemetery management, and support heritage and genealogical research.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A grave contains a burial.
- Markers and inscriptions may identify a grave.
- Graves have ritual significance.
- Graves may have heritage value.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Disturb, open or alter a grave without lawful authority and the consent required by law.
- Publish personal details of recently buried people or their families taken from graves without care for privacy.
- Present a contested memorial or war grave from one side's view only.
- Use images of graves in ways that mock the dead or the bereaved.
Only with a human decision
- Any exhumation, relocation or removal of a grave or memorial.
- Clearing or reusing graves whose lease or care has lapsed.
May
- Record the location, inscription and condition of a grave from public cemetery records or visible markers.
- Help relatives find a grave and the rules for visiting or maintaining it.
- Report damage, subsidence or vandalism to the cemetery authority.
Moral aspects Filled
- Graves hold the dead and the grief of the living; they demand respect across all faiths and none.
- Memorials to victims of war and atrocity carry contested histories that can wound communities.
Who is affected
- The bereaved and descendants
- Faith communities
- Communities tied to war graves and memorials
Owners Filled
Steward
The cemetery authority or the holder of the burial right; war graves are kept by commissions.
Master systems
- Cemetery and burial registers
- War graves registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q2065736 - registry parent class
- Q5003624 - registry parent class
- Q56054752 - registry parent class
- Q6023295 - registry parent class
related
- memorial - category
- cultural property - category
- crematorium - alternative to burial
- wayside cross - another commemorative marker
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.grave
- Wikidata: Q173387 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173387)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- A grave is a burial location, which may be marked or unmarked.
- A headstone, tomb or other marker may identify a grave, but appearance alone does not establish that a burial is present.
- A cemetery is a site holding many graves, while a cenotaph or purely commemorative monument does not itself contain a burial.
- Marked plots, headstones, tombs and memorials.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain forms and practices
- support finding and visiting graves
- describe law and management
- support research
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Disrespect or vandalism
- Contested memorials
- Privacy in genealogical research
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Burial and cemetery law
- War graves commission standards
- Heritage protection for historic graves
Context of use required Filled
- Burial and memorial sites.
- earth graves and marked plots
- tombs and mausoleums
- domed shrines and religious tombs
- cenotaphs and empty memorials
- war graves and memorials to victims
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q173387: grave - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Grave - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should war graves be a separate entry?
- How should cemetery registers be linked?
- How should contested memorials be presented?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q173387/spec.json