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congress

vr.tr.congress · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain congresses as assemblies and their kinds, identify specific congresses with sources, support organising and attending congresses, and separate the legislative sense.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain congresses as assemblies and their kinds, identify specific congresses with sources, support organising and attending congresses, and separate the legislative sense.

A formal assembly of delegates or members convened to deliberate and decide, including party conferences and congresses, scientific and professional congresses, trade and business congresses, international congresses of organisations and historical congresses of states, producing resolutions, elections and statements; the term also names legislatures such as the United States Congress, a separate sense.

What it is for: Formal deliberative assemblies.

It can be explain kinds of congress; identify specific congresses; support organising and attending; separate the legislative sense.

Distinguishing features

Convened assembly

Delegates or members

Decisions and resolutions

Periodic

What it looks like

Not physical as such; gatherings with sessions, delegates and resolutions.

How it is recognised

Formal assembly convened to deliberate

Party, scientific, professional or international

A legislature called Congress is a standing institution

Related models

is a kind of - category

assembly

is a kind of - category

meeting

is related to - organisations holding congresses

association

is related to - scientific congress participants

researcher

In practice

Families and kinds

party congresses and conferences

scientific and professional congresses

trade and business congresses

congresses of international organisations

historical congresses of states

Standards and regulation

Organisational statutes and rules of procedure

Event safety and accessibility rules

Electoral rules for party congresses

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing senses of congress

Partisan presentation of political congresses

Predatory scientific congresses

Also called

party conferenceBizBarcelonaAll-Union meeting of Young PioneersIUFRO World Congressscientific congressconsensus statementWorld Congresses on Art DecoInternational Congress on Law and Mental Healthwriters conferenceeucharistic congressAll-Ukrainian Congress of SovietsCongreso Católico EspañolCongress of People's Deputies of Russiaresearch congressWiki IndabaSAT CongressRussian Archeological CongressFrench-speaking WikiConventionBahá'í World CongressFirst Universal Races CongressSlavic CongressWorld Cancer CongressCongreso de Carteros de AméricaCongress of the French Communist Partyregional conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionUnited States presidential nominating conventionNational Congress of the KuomintangFrench Socialist Party congressuniversité d'étéConference of Representatives of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union1884 Democratic National Conventionbrokered conventionCongress of the Workers' Party of KoreaNational Congress of the People's PartyFederal Congress of the PSOEregional eucharistic congressNational Eucharistic CongressInternational Eucharistic CongressLibertarian National Convention

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.congress

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a congress is.

Concepts.

Kinds

Kinds of congress.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. What kinds of congresses exist, and how do party, scientific, professional and international congresses differ? definition
  2. Is an assembly or a legislature called Congress meant? boundary

Specific

A specific congress.

Specific

Specific congress.

  1. What is this congress, who convenes it, and what did it decide, according to sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits it? action
Take part Attending and organising.

Practice.

Attend

Attending a congress.

Attend

Attending.

  1. How can someone attend or present at this congress, and how are predatory congresses recognised? provenance
  2. What are typical formats such as plenaries, sessions and consensus statements? definition

Organise

Organising a congress.

Organise

Organising.

  1. How is a congress organised, from programme and venue to accessibility and safety? action
  2. Which rules of procedure apply? provenance
Politics Political congresses.

Attribution.

Party

Party congresses.

Party

Party congresses.

  1. How do party congresses work in different political systems, and what do they decide, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Historical

Historical congresses.

Historical

Historical.

  1. What were historical congresses of states and movements, and what were their outcomes, according to historians? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific historical congress? action
Learn Science and teaching.

Context.

Science

Scientific congresses.

Science

Science.

  1. What role do scientific congresses play in research communication, and how are proceedings and consensus statements published? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific society? action

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can deliberative assemblies be taught in civics and organisational studies? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each congress be a separate entry?
  • How should proceedings be linked?
  • How should the legislative sense be split?
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