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August 28 is the anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have a Dream speech in 1963, of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, of the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo, and of the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster.", "what_it_is_for": "A calendar date for scheduling, holidays and anniversaries.", "affordances": [ "compute its weekday in a given year", "check local and international observances", "find sourced historical events", "schedule events" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The twenty-eighth day of August", "Weekday varies by year", "Observances vary by place", "Julian and Gregorian dates differ by 13 days in this era" ], "appearance": "A date on calendars.", "visual_identification": [ "Written 28 August or August 28", "ISO format --08-28", "Observances vary by country and tradition" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "day of year", "typical_range": "240 or 241", "unit": "day", "note": "common year, leap year where different" }, { "quantity": "days remaining", "typical_range": "125", "unit": "days", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "the recurring calendar date", "specific dated days in given years" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is part of", "target": "August", "why": "month" }, { "relation": "follows", "target": "August 27", "why": "date" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "calendar date", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is expressed in", "target": "ISO 8601", "why": "notation" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ISO 8601", "value_or_pattern": "--08-28", "note": "recurring date" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 8601", "National public holiday laws" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Assuming observances are universal", "Unsourced on-this-day events", "Mixing Julian and Gregorian dates" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "date", "name": "Date", "description": "Calendar facts.", "rationale": "Calendar arithmetic.", "layers": [ { "id": "weekday", "name": "Weekday", "description": "Computation.", "findings": [ { "id": "weekday-finding", "name": "Weekday", "description": "Weekday.", "questions": [ { "text": "On which weekday does August 28 fall in this year?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Is it a leap year?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendar", "name": "Calendar", "description": "Julian or Gregorian.", "findings": [ { "id": "calendar-finding", "name": "Calendar", "description": "Calendar system.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the Julian or Gregorian calendar meant?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What is the equivalent date in the other calendar?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observances", "name": "Observances", "description": "Holidays.", "rationale": "Observances vary.", "layers": [ { "id": "holiday", "name": "Holiday", "description": "Public holiday.", "findings": [ { "id": "holiday-finding", "name": "Holiday", "description": "Holiday status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is August 28 a public holiday or observance here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which tradition or law sets it?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution", "name": "Attribution", "description": "Traditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-finding", "name": "Attribution", "description": "Attributed observances.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which countries or communities observe something on this date, according to them?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the observance attributed rather than assumed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Past events.", "rationale": "Events need sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "description": "On this day.", "findings": [ { "id": "events-finding", "name": "Events", "description": "Historical events.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which notable events happened on August 28, according to reliable sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Are dates given in the same calendar?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anniversaries", "name": "Anniversaries", "description": "Recurring.", "findings": [ { "id": "anniversaries-finding", "name": "Anniversaries", "description": "Anniversaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anniversaries fall on this date this year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which are round numbers?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "planning", "name": "Planning", "description": "Scheduling.", "rationale": "Dates drive plans.", "layers": [ { "id": "countdown", "name": "Countdown", "description": "Days until.", "findings": [ { "id": "countdown-finding", "name": "Countdown", "description": "Countdown.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many days until the next August 28?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "From which date?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "work", "name": "Work", "description": "Working day.", "findings": [ { "id": "work-finding", "name": "Work", "description": "Working day.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is it a working day for this organisation?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Do deadlines move?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should dated days be separate entries?", "How should observances be linked?", "How should events be sourced?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a August 28, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle August 28 as a calendar date with weekday computation, observances attributed to their traditions and sourced events.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 217 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a August 28, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 217 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one August 28 from another, and a August 28 from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a August 28 sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a August 28 from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a August 28 passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a August 28 between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a August 28, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a August 28 is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a August 28, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a August 28, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a August 28 is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What August 28 is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of August 28 are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is August 28 operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of August 28 and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of August 28?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as August 28?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a August 28 came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain 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