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in a permanent building.", "scope_statement": "This model owns camping as an activity episode in which people establish or use a temporary place intended for overnight living, including its camp arrangements, dependencies, changing conditions and departure obligations.", "in_scope": [ "The intended overnight stay, participants, duration and sequence of camp locations", "Selection, permission and occupation of a temporary camping location", "Sleeping, shelter, food, water, sanitation and waste arrangements at camp", "Camp-specific exposure, resource sufficiency and access to assistance", "Establishing, using, relocating and dismantling the camp" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The campsite property, its infrastructure and its operation as a hospitality service", "The design, manufacture and maintenance history of tents, vehicles and other equipment", "Hiking, climbing, paddling or other activities undertaken from the camp", "Land ownership, protected-area designation and the authoritative rules governing the location", "Clinical assessment and treatment of individual health conditions", "Permanent residential settlement or emergency accommodation as broader activities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An overnight living intention distinguishes a camping episode from a picnic or rest stop, even when the episode is cancelled before anyone sleeps there.", "The activity includes establishing or using camp arrangements; an overnight journey alone does not establish that camping occurred.", "The episode concerns particular occupants and a period of use, whereas a campsite can exist and operate without a camping episode taking place.", "A tent or recreational vehicle is evidence of a possible accommodation arrangement, but its presence alone does not establish camping.", "The location is used as a temporary base for living; whether bivouacking, fixed cabins or emergency shelter qualify remains a classification boundary to resolve." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Episode phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed | preparing | establishing | occupied | relocating | packing | departed | cancelled", "why_it_matters": "Determines which readiness checks, observations and actions are relevant now." }, { "name": "Overnight intention and occupancy", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "overnight intended | overnight completed | ended before overnight | intention unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition without treating cancellation or early departure as proof that no camping activity was attempted." }, { "name": "Stay duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "planned and actual nights, with arrival and departure times", "why_it_matters": "Sets the period over which permissions, supplies and living arrangements must remain adequate." }, { "name": "Camp location sequence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "ordered links to camp locations with intended and actual occupation intervals", "why_it_matters": "Separates a travelling camping episode from any one pitch and supports relocation decisions." }, { "name": "Overnight party", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "participants linked to each occupied night, with relevant support needs and responsibilities", "why_it_matters": "Makes capacity and readiness judgments specific to the people actually staying." }, { "name": "Sleeping arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "tent | hammock | bivouac | vehicle | open-air | other specified | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies which shelter, ground, space and environmental dependencies require assessment." }, { "name": "Occupation permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified | permitted with recorded conditions | prohibited | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents access to a location from being mistaken for permission to camp there." }, { "name": "Overnight readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed | ready for stated conditions | ready with unresolved dependencies | not ready", "why_it_matters": "Expresses a time-bound judgment against the party, equipment and expected conditions." }, { "name": "Usable water reserve", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "litres available, with assessed usability and expected replenishment", "why_it_matters": "Helps compare the camp's usable supply with its planned consumption and departure options." }, { "name": "Departure condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed | obligations outstanding | checked complete | unresolved impact", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes people leaving from completing camp removal and location-specific obligations." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an intended or observed stay as camping, recording unresolved boundary cases.", "Compare candidate camp locations against overnight needs, access and recorded permission conditions.", "Identify missing sleeping capacity, supplies or camp services before occupation.", "Reassess whether to continue, adapt, relocate or end the stay when conditions change.", "Coordinate camp establishment and shared living responsibilities.", "Check departure obligations and record any remaining equipment, waste or impact." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "enwiki-camping", "title": "Camping", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping", "what_it_supports": "Activity definition (overnight stay as the distinguishing test), types by transport and lifestyle, history, public-access regimes in Sweden and Scotland, and the boundary with summer camp and homelessness.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fcds-2-1", "title": "Federal Camping Data Standard, Version 2.1", "url": "https://ridb.recreation.gov/shared/pdf/Federal_Camping_Data_Standard_2.1_12232024.pdf", "what_it_supports": "US interagency definition of camping as staying and sleeping outdoors for one or more nights; campground versus campsite; agency-assigned CAMPGROUND ID.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iso-18513-2021", "title": "ISO 18513:2021 Tourism services - Hotels and other types of tourism accommodation - Vocabulary", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/77685.html", "what_it_supports": "Standard vocabulary distinguishing campsite/caravan park from glamping, holiday camp/village, mountain refuge, and vehicle types (motor home, touring caravan, mobile home).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "iso-dis-18980", "title": "ISO/DIS 18980 Tourism and related services - Camping tourism - Requirements and recommendations for campsite facilities and services", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/85580.html", "what_it_supports": "Draft ISO definition of a campsite as a designated outdoor area with two or more pitches for tents or recreational vehicles.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q832778", "title": "campsite (Q832778)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832778", "what_it_supports": "Identifier for the place used for overnight stay in a tent, caravan or mobile home; OpenStreetMap tag tourism=camp_site; GND 4128452-5.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fr-code-tourisme", "title": "Camping | réglementation de l'activité", "url": "https://bpifrance-creation.fr/activites-reglementees/camping", "what_it_supports": "French Code du tourisme definition of a camping establishment, star classification 1-5 plus aire naturelle, and tourisme versus loisirs pitch destination.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "enwiki-wild-camping", "title": "Wild camping", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_camping", "what_it_supports": "Dispersed camping versus designated sites; USFS/BLM practice and typical 14-day limit; Nordic everyman's-right contrast.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "enwiki-lnt", "title": "Leave No Trace", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_No_Trace", "what_it_supports": "Seven-principle outdoor-ethics standard, including the 61 m / 200 ft water setback and camp-on-durable-surfaces rule.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "camping-episode", "name": "Camping episode", "description": "The overnight intention, occupants and temporal boundaries that make this a particular camping activity.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish the activity from its location or equipment and know whose stay it is assessing.", "layers": [ { "id": "overnight-intent", "name": "Overnight intent", "description": "The intended use of a temporary place for overnight living.", "findings": [ { "id": "camping-basis", "name": "Camping basis", "description": "Record the evidence supporting classification as camping, including ambiguous accommodation arrangements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temporary overnight living arrangement is intended or was actually used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "camping-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this episode from a day visit, accommodation booking or overnight journey?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "camping-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "party-and-stay", "name": "Party and stay", "description": "Who occupies the camp, for how long and across which locations.", "findings": [ { "id": "occupation-plan", "name": "Occupation plan", "description": "Record planned and actual occupants, nights and camp moves without conflating the episode with a single pitch.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who will stay on each night, and what support needs affect the camp arrangements?", "kind": "definition", "id": "occupation-plan-q01" }, { "text": "What are the planned and actual occupation intervals at each camp location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "occupation-plan-q02" }, { "text": "Does a move to another location continue this episode or begin a separately managed stay?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "occupation-plan-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "camp-location-and-permission", "name": "Camp location and permission", "description": "The suitability of the occupied footprint and the basis for using it overnight.", "rationale": "A place may be reachable yet unsuitable or unavailable for the proposed camping arrangement.", "layers": [ { "id": "overnight-footprint", "name": "Overnight footprint", "description": "The actual area used for sleeping and shared camp functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "pitch-fit", "name": "Pitch fit", "description": "Record whether the proposed footprint accommodates the sleeping arrangement, circulation and relevant site conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where will sleeping places and shared camp functions sit, and what usable space is available?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pitch-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What observations support the assessment of ground, drainage, overhead exposure and access?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pitch-fit-q02" }, { "text": "What must be repositioned or changed before this footprint can be occupied?", "kind": "action", "id": "pitch-fit-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overnight-authorisation", "name": "Overnight authorisation", "description": "Permission and restrictions applicable to this party, location and stay.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-conditions", "name": "Permission conditions", "description": "Record the evidence for occupation permission and the conditions that constrain camp use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority, booking, permit or landholder communication establishes whether this party may camp here on these dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What location-specific limits apply to the occupied area, length of stay, vehicles, fires or other proposed camp activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permission-conditions-q02" }, { "text": "Which unmet conditions require verification, a change of plan or departure?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-conditions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "overnight-living-arrangements", "name": "Overnight living arrangements", "description": "The working arrangements that support sleeping and everyday needs during occupation.", "rationale": "Possessing camping equipment does not establish that the party has a usable overnight living arrangement.", "layers": [ { "id": "sleep-and-shelter", "name": "Sleep and shelter", "description": "Assigned sleeping places and their suitability for the party and expected conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "sleeping-readiness", "name": "Sleeping readiness", "description": "Record assembled shelter, sleeping capacity and unresolved dependencies for each occupant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does every overnight occupant have an assigned usable sleeping place and the equipment their arrangement requires?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sleeping-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the suitability of these arrangements for the expected overnight conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sleeping-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "What must be assembled, repaired, replaced or reassigned before sleeping?", "kind": "action", "id": "sleeping-readiness-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-food-and-sanitation", "name": "Water, food and sanitation", "description": "How the camp supplies daily needs and contains the resulting waste.", "findings": [ { "id": "camp-provisioning", "name": "Camp provisioning", "description": "Record usable water, food, preparation arrangements and dependencies on external supplies.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much usable water and food is available relative to the party's stated needs until replenishment or departure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "camp-provisioning-q01" }, { "text": "Which supply, treatment, storage or cooking arrangements are confirmed, and which remain assumptions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "camp-provisioning-q02" } ] }, { "id": "sanitation-and-waste", "name": "Sanitation and waste", "description": "Record the arrangements for toileting, washing, wastewater and solid waste during the stay.", "questions": [ { "text": "What facilities or carried arrangements will the party use for toileting, washing and waste containment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sanitation-and-waste-q01" }, { "text": "What handling and removal actions are required by the applicable site guidance and the facilities actually available?", "kind": "action", "id": "sanitation-and-waste-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "camp-conditions-and-contingencies", "name": "Camp conditions and contingencies", "description": "Changing conditions that affect overnight occupation and the means to respond.", "rationale": "A camp that was usable when established may require adaptation or evacuation before the stay ends.", "layers": [ { "id": "overnight-exposure", "name": "Overnight exposure", "description": "Observed and expected conditions relevant to this camp's particular location and arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "continued-occupation-assessment", "name": "Continued occupation assessment", "description": "Record relevant weather, terrain, water, wildlife or camp-generated hazards and the basis for reassessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed or forecast conditions could make this particular camp unusable during the occupied period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "continued-occupation-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "When were those conditions checked, and which observations, forecasts or notices support the assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continued-occupation-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "What condition changes trigger adaptation, relocation or an end to the stay, and who established those triggers?", "kind": "action", "id": "continued-occupation-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assistance-and-exit", "name": "Assistance and exit", "description": "The party's practical ability to seek help and leave the occupied camp.", "findings": [ { "id": "camp-exit-readiness", "name": "Camp exit readiness", "description": "Record usable exit options, communication arrangements and dependencies that could prevent departure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exit routes and transport options can this party use under the conditions being assessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "camp-exit-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the availability of communication or assistance from this camp?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "camp-exit-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "What must happen if the primary exit route, transport or communication method becomes unavailable?", "kind": "action", "id": "camp-exit-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "camp-operation-and-departure", "name": "Camp operation and departure", "description": "The actions and responsibilities that establish the camp, keep it functioning and close the stay.", "rationale": "An agent needs to identify outstanding camp work and distinguish physical departure from completed closure.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-and-routine", "name": "Establishment and routine", "description": "Readiness tasks and shared responsibilities during occupation.", "findings": [ { "id": "camp-work-status", "name": "Camp work status", "description": "Record who is responsible for essential camp tasks and whether those tasks are complete.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which setup tasks must be completed before this party can occupy the camp overnight?", "kind": "action", "id": "camp-work-status-q01" }, { "text": "Who is responsible for recurring tasks such as checking shelter, replenishing water and managing food or waste?", "kind": "definition", "id": "camp-work-status-q02" }, { "text": "Which incomplete tasks currently limit the camp's usability?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "camp-work-status-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "departure-and-site-condition", "name": "Departure and site condition", "description": "Camp removal, checkout obligations and the condition left behind.", "findings": [ { "id": "camp-closure", "name": "Camp closure", "description": "Record equipment removal, waste handling and any unresolved effects of the occupation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What equipment, waste, temporary alterations or checkout obligations remain before closure?", "kind": "action", "id": "camp-closure-q01" }, { "text": "What observations document the occupied area's condition before setup and after departure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "camp-closure-q02" }, { "text": "Which remaining impacts or obligations need follow-up, and who will handle them?", "kind": "action", "id": "camp-closure-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Car / front-country camping on a designated drive-in pitch", "Backpacking / backcountry camping reached on foot", "Wild or dispersed camping off designated sites", "Caravan, motorhome, and van camping", "Glamping (serviced luxury outdoor stays)", "Canoe, cycle, or other self-propelled touring camping", "Organised youth or Scout group camping", "Winter camping" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q832778", "note": "Item for campsite (the place); camping as activity is modelled as its use, not as this Q-id." }, { "scheme": "OpenStreetMap", "value_or_pattern": "tourism=camp_site", "note": "Tag for a designated camping place, not for the activity itself." }, { "scheme": "GND", "value_or_pattern": "4128452-5", "note": "German National Library subject heading linked from Wikidata Q832778." }, { "scheme": "ISO 18513:2021", "value_or_pattern": "3.2.16 campsite / caravan park / holiday park / touring park", "note": "Controlled term in the tourism-accommodation vocabulary; glamping is 3.2.17." }, { "scheme": "US Federal Camping Data Standard", "value_or_pattern": "CAMPGROUND ID: agency-assigned alphanumeric, max 36 characters", "note": "Facility identifier used by NPS, BLM, USFS, FWS, BOR and USACE in Recreation Information Database records." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 18513:2021 - International Organization for Standardization (tourism accommodation vocabulary, including campsite and glamping).", "ISO/DIS 18980 - International Organization for Standardization (draft requirements for campsite facilities and services).", "Federal Camping Data Standard 2.1 - US Recreation Information Database / interagency (NPS, BLM, USFS, FWS, BOR, USACE).", "Code du tourisme (notably D331-1-1, L332-1, D332-1) and arrêté of 10 April 2019 (Atout France star table) - France; urbanisme rules R443-8 and R462-1 et seq. for larger sites.", "Campingreglementet (bekendtgørelse on camping sites) - Denmark (municipal permit; seasonal use; short-stay capacity rules).", "6 CCR 1010-9 - Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (campground sanitation; primitive through developed classes).", "Leave No Trace Seven Principles - Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics (voluntary outdoor-ethics standard adopted by many land managers).", "Allemansrätten - Sweden (constitutional right of public access, including small-party wild camping with leave-no-trace).", "Scottish Outdoor Access Code under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 - Scotland (wild camping on most unenclosed land, leave-no-trace).", "Regional tourism laws in Spain (e.g. País Vasco tourism law 2016; Andalucía and Aragón outdoor-accommodation rules) - autonomous communities, not a single national camping code." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Overnight pitches on public campgrounds in national, state and forest parks, often booked through agency reservation systems.", "Commercial holiday parks and terrains de camping in Europe, especially France, used as family holiday accommodation in tents, caravans and mobile homes.", "Backcountry overnight stops on long-distance trails, canoe routes and cycle-camping tours.", "Vehicle touring: motorhomes and caravans on serviced pitches, plus dry camping or boondocking without hook-ups.", "Youth-movement practice (Scouting and school outdoor-education trips) used to teach self-reliance and group living.", "Glamping and safari-style stays that sell a campsite setting with hotel-like amenities.", "Combined with hunting, fishing, climbing and festival attendance, where the overnight outdoor stay is secondary to another activity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Overnight stay length", "typical_range": "1-14 on many US public lands (14-day caps are common); commercial holiday trips often 1-7 (UK mean reported around 3.7 nights)", "unit": "night" }, { "quantity": "Setback from lakes and streams (Leave No Trace)", "typical_range": "at least 61", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Campground star class (France and similar EU schemes)", "typical_range": "1-5, plus a separate aire-naturelle class", "unit": "star" }, { "quantity": "Aire naturelle capacity (France)", "typical_range": "up to 25", "unit": "pitch" }, { "quantity": "French urban-planning trigger", "typical_range": "more than 6 units of accommodation or more than 20 campers", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Escaped campfires and stove use causing wildfire, especially in dry seasons and where fires are restricted.", "Hypothermia, heat illness and weather exposure when shelter, clothing or forecast planning fail.", "Food- and waste-attracted wildlife (bears and others) leading to property damage and dangerous encounters.", "Waterborne illness (wilderness-acquired diarrhoea) from untreated surface water and poor sanitation.", "Carbon monoxide poisoning from heaters, generators or stoves used inside tents or recreational vehicles.", "Site degradation: vegetation loss, soil compaction, informal trail and fire-ring proliferation where use is concentrated or unmanaged.", "Legal failure: wild camping, fires or vehicle overnighting outside the local access regime (trespass, fines, confiscation).", "Confusion with non-recreational encampments, which can trigger enforcement against recreational campers or leave genuine homelessness unaddressed." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Sweden and Finland: everyman's right generally allows small-party, leave-no-trace wild camping on private wild land; large groups need landowner permission.", "Scotland: wild camping is lawful on most unenclosed land under the Outdoor Access Code; some parks add byelaws.", "Most of continental Europe (Germany, much of France, Spain, Italy): overnighting is expected on designated campings; wild camping is prohibited or tightly localised.", "France: camping is a classified tourist-accommodation trade (hôtellerie de plein air) with 1-5 stars, tourisme versus loisirs pitches, and aire naturelle as a low-capacity class.", "United States: developed campgrounds in parks versus dispersed camping on much National Forest and BLM land, often with a 14-day stay limit.", "United Kingdom and Australia: 'camping and caravanning' is treated as one holiday sector; 'camp' in North America also names bunkhouse summer camps, which are not this activity.", "Germany: Kampieren outside designated sites is generally unlawful; a single overnight rest in a motorhome on a motorway rest area is widely tolerated under road-traffic rules, not camping law.", "Spain: definition and star or 'lujo/primera/segunda/tercera' classes are set by autonomous communities, not a single national statute." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Day hiking, picnicking, or other day-use outdoor recreation", "difference": "Camping requires sleeping out for at least one night; day use does not." }, { "name": "Summer camp / holiday camp / holiday village", "difference": "Those are typically bunkhouse or chalet stays with dining halls; ISO 18513 treats holiday camp separately from campsite. The name 'camp' is not sufficient." }, { "name": "Homeless encampment or migrant labour camp", "difference": "Same outdoor-sleeping techniques can appear, but camping in this sense is elective recreation or education, not unsheltered residence or workplace housing." }, { "name": "Hotel, motel, or cabin lodging", "difference": "Those are stays in permanent buildings; camping's shelter is temporary or the guest supplies it on a pitch." }, { "name": "Bivouac (French regulated sense)", "difference": "A homologated, short, trek-stage halt away from settlements, not an establishment offering pitches to a tourist clientele." }, { "name": "Backpacking as budget travel", "difference": "Travel-backpacking is cheap lodging of any kind while moving; wilderness backpacking is walking with overnight camping gear. Only the latter is camping." }, { "name": "Overlanding", "difference": "Defined by the vehicle journey across remote country; camping is the overnight method, not the trip type." }, { "name": "Campsite / campground / RV park", "difference": "Those are places (ISO campsite, Wikidata Q832778); camping is the overnight activity that may use them." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of camping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own camping or a sufficiently equivalent activity, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Where should the registry draw camping's boundaries with bivouacking, vehicle dwelling, fixed cabin stays, glamping and emergency sheltering?", "Should successive overnight locations form one camping episode, separate episodes or nested stays, and what task determines that choice?", "Which authoritative sources and participant-specific criteria should support judgments about shelter suitability, supply sufficiency and departure triggers?", "How should camping-specific permission conditions and departure impacts be represented without duplicating land-management, equipment or environmental models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 38 } }, "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 camping, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a camping episode, assess whether its temporary living arrangements are usable and permitted, and identify what must happen before occupation, continued use or departure.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: canoe camping, urban camping, glamping, naturist camping, farm camping, wild camping, hammock camping, day camp, backcountry camping.", "9 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 64 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 camping, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "canoe camping", "urban camping", "glamping", "naturist camping", "farm camping", "wild camping", "hammock camping", "day camp", "backcountry camping" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 64 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one camping from another, and a camping 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 camping, 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 camping, 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 camping 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 camping, 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 camping, 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 camping 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 camping 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 camping, 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 camping, 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 camping 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 camping from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a camping, 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 camping, 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 camping 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 camping 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 camping between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a camping, 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 camping, 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 camping 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 camping, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a camping 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 camping, 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 camping, 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 camping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a camping proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a camping, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a camping and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a camping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a camping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a camping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a camping consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a camping takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a camping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a camping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a camping 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 camping 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 camping 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 camping 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 camping 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 camping?", "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 camping?", "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 camping 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 itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a camping and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a camping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a camping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a camping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a camping is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a camping, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a camping, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a camping is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }