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Religion Institution

vr.wm-civ-002 · wm-civ-002-religion-institution

Describe one enduring religious or belief institution through qualified identity, community authority, practice references and protected stewardship.

World Models Society, people and institutions SOC.CIV.REL

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

7 bundles · 14 layers · 14 findings · 42 questions

Identity and legal context Institution-specific identity and legal context with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Institution identity

Keep community identity independent of name, address, legal vehicle and classification. Record disputed identity without merging records by similarity.

Persistent identity and recognition

Keep community identity independent of name, address, legal vehicle and classification. Record disputed identity without merging records by similarity.

Which enduring institution is this record about, and which authority issued its identifier? identity
What evidence establishes this community record without requiring state registration or a worship building? evidence
Which namesakes or predecessor claims must remain distinct until continuity is evidenced? relationship

Legal standing and representation

Record jurisdiction-specific recognition and representation without making registration, charitable status or legal personality a prerequisite to community existence.

Qualified legal-status references

Record jurisdiction-specific recognition and representation without making registration, charitable status or legal personality a prerequisite to community existence.

Which legal or administrative bodies, if any, represent this institution in each jurisdiction? classification
What instrument supports a representative acting for this community and within what limits? authority
How are missing, refused, suspended or disputed recognition claims recorded separately from ongoing community activity? exception

Tradition and teaching context Institution-specific tradition and teaching context with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Tradition and self-description

Allow multiple, absent or disputed concept links. Preserve self-description alongside attributed outside classifications without making a single-parent lineage mandatory.

Attributed tradition placement

Allow multiple, absent or disputed concept links. Preserve self-description alongside attributed outside classifications without making a single-parent lineage mandatory.

How does the institution describe its tradition or belief orientation in its own terms? classification
Which scheme-specific tradition links are self-described and which are external classifications? relationship
What competing labels or lineage claims remain unresolved without overwriting the original assertions? quality

Texts and teaching references

Link institution-recognized works and editions with language, scope and custodial restrictions. The model does not own text copyright or rule on canon or doctrinal truth.

Attributed doctrinal resources

Link institution-recognized works and editions with language, scope and custodial restrictions. The model does not own text copyright or rule on canon or doctrinal truth.

Which texts or teaching resources does this institution recognize and for what purpose? composition
Who attributes recognition to the institution and to which version or translation does it apply? provenance
Which resource descriptions or excerpts may be shown under documented rights and community restrictions? access

Governance and roles Institution-specific governance and roles with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Institutional governance

Reference adopted governance arrangements without assuming a hierarchy, clergy, trustee board or centralized doctrine. Keep authority disputes visible and time-qualified.

Decision authority and institutional autonomy

Reference adopted governance arrangements without assuming a hierarchy, clergy, trustee board or centralized doctrine. Keep authority disputes visible and time-qualified.

Which body or arrangement is authorized to make each class of institutional decision? authority
What institution-specific evidence records a decision as adopted, contested or superseded? process
What conflict-of-interest or delegation limits apply to the recorded decision authority? constraint

Ministry and service roles

Religious office, employment, legal trusteeship and data access are separate grants. Permit collective roles, vacancies, temporary mandates and competing claims.

Role definition and appointment evidence

Religious office, employment, legal trusteeship and data access are separate grants. Permit collective roles, vacancies, temporary mandates and competing claims.

How is this institution-specific role defined without assuming ordination or one permanent holder? definition
Which evidence supports a holder or collective body occupying the role during the claimed interval? temporal
Which powers are religious, legal or administrative and which access grants need separate evidence? authority

Participation and disclosure Institution-specific participation and disclosure with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Participation and affiliation

Membership, participation, service use and personal belief are distinct. This model permits minimal authorized references, not a population register or inference from indirect behavior.

Restricted relationship assertions

Membership, participation, service use and personal belief are distinct. This model permits minimal authorized references, not a population register or inference from indirect behavior.

What kind of institution-person relationship is explicitly evidenced without inferring personal belief? relationship
How are joining, correction, withdrawal and former relationship status recorded without treating record retention as continuing belief? lifecycle
What lawful purpose and sensitive-data condition justify retaining each participation reference? privacy

Disclosure and subject protection

Default to restricted data. A community administrator cannot consent for each person. Consent is not the only possible legal processing condition; any other basis requires qualified review.

Separate institutional and personal disclosure authority

Default to restricted data. A community administrator cannot consent for each person. Consent is not the only possible legal processing condition; any other basis requires qualified review.

Which fields may this recipient see for the documented purpose at this time? access
What consent or other reviewed basis supports a proposed personal-data disclosure and its limits? privacy
Which linkage, inference or small-group exposure risks require suppression of an otherwise public projection? security

Practices and calendars Institution-specific practices and calendars with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Practices and observance links

Institutional practices reference their own definitions. Planned services and evidenced occurrences remain separate; neither proves attendance, participant belief or civil legal effect.

Practice definition versus occurrence

Institutional practices reference their own definitions. Planned services and evidenced occurrences remain separate; neither proves attendance, participant belief or civil legal effect.

Which practice definitions are associated with this institution and by whose account? composition
Which observance occurrence is evidenced and how is it distinguished from a plan or cancellation? event
Which access, eligibility or civil-effect claims require separate qualified evidence for the observance? constraint

Observance calendars

Retain calendar authority, rule version and local variation separately from timestamps. No automatic conversion or scheduling service is implemented.

Local calendar applicability and uncertainty

Retain calendar authority, rule version and local variation separately from timestamps. No automatic conversion or scheduling service is implemented.

Which calendar and local rule determine the proposed observance date? temporal
How are divergent dates, observational uncertainty and changes to a published schedule represented? exception
What checks prevent a date-only or sunset-based observance from becoming an invented precise timestamp? validation

Sites and resources Institution-specific sites and resources with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Sites and access context

Reference physical or virtual gathering places only when relevant. Institutional use, sacred designation, custody, ownership and public disclosure are different assertions.

Qualified place and facility use

Reference physical or virtual gathering places only when relevant. Institutional use, sacred designation, custody, ownership and public disclosure are different assertions.

Which physical or virtual sites does the institution use, if any, during the relevant period? spatial
What evidence distinguishes site use, custody, legal ownership and sacred designation? ownership
Which location or meeting details are approved for disclosure after exposure and access risks are reviewed? security

Resources and stewardship

Reference funds, property and support activities without owning account ledgers or payments. Record restrictions and responsible roles; a gift does not establish donor belief.

Resource responsibilities and restricted purposes

Reference funds, property and support activities without owning account ledgers or payments. Record restrictions and responsible roles; a gift does not establish donor belief.

Which resource or support-service masters are linked to the institution and for what purpose? composition
Which gift restrictions, stewardship duties or reporting obligations apply under the adopted profile? requirement
How are approved aggregate activity or resource figures defined without exposing individuals or implying faith prevalence? measurement

Safeguards and continuity Institution-specific safeguards and continuity with qualified evidence and externally mastered references.

Safeguarding and accountability

Policy-level references identify accountable roles, independent escalation and review. Confidential case details and investigation execution remain in authorized external systems.

Policy responsibilities and complaint routes

Policy-level references identify accountable roles, independent escalation and review. Confidential case details and investigation execution remain in authorized external systems.

Which safeguarding and complaint policies cover this institution and who reviews their applicability? requirement
What route remains available when a concern involves the institution leadership itself? exception
What limited evidence shows policy review, training or referral without exposing a confidential case? evidence

Continuity and record disposition

Institution closure, legal dissolution, merger, split and local record retirement are distinct. Retain only justified history; corrections and lawful erasure must reach permitted projections.

Change, succession and controlled record retention

Institution closure, legal dissolution, merger, split and local record retirement are distinct. Retain only justified history; corrections and lawful erasure must reach permitted projections.

What evidence distinguishes renaming, inactivity, merger, split and cessation of this institution? lifecycle
Which local records must be retained, corrected, restricted or erased and who executes the approved disposition? retention
Can an authorized export preserve identity, disputed claims and disclosure limits with explicit mapping losses? interoperability

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Society, people and institutions
Entry kind: entity
Navigation path: NAV.SOC.CIV.REL
Domain: SOC.CIV.REL
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: religioninstitutionsoc.civ.rel
Also called: D6

What it is Filled

One self-described organized religious or belief community, congregation, order or institution with persistent identity, whether or not legally registered. The root holds institution-specific assertions and references; it is not a universal tradition taxonomy, a person register, a legal entity master or an observance event.

In scope

Institution identity, self-description, legal-status references and evidenced continuity
Internal governance and religious role assertions, restricted participation links and institutional safeguards
Attributed tradition and text references, practice and calendar links, site use, resource stewardship and authorized projections

Out of scope

Determining theological truth, ranking beliefs or inferring personal religion
Person, legal organization, property, financial account, event and heritage-object master records
Executing religious rites, appointments, admissions, expulsions, legal registrations, payments or safeguarding investigations
Universal doctrine taxonomy, calendar computation, legal compliance certification and mandatory public directory inclusion

Why it exists Filled

Describe one enduring religious or belief institution through qualified identity, community authority, practice references and protected stewardship.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

Unlike WM-ORG-001 Organization: Reference an administrative or legal body where it exists. The institution can persist without registration or through changes of legal vehicle; do not duplicate organization master governance or execution.
Unlike WM-PER-001 Person: People retain external identity. Affiliation and role links are purpose-limited restricted assertions; attendance, family, dress, donations and names must never be used to infer belief.
Unlike WM-BLT-001 Building / Structure and external site master: Use and sacred designation are qualified links, not property title, geometry, building condition or access authorization. A physical place is optional.
Unlike WM-CIV-005 Social Norm: Cross-reference customs with attributed institutional practice. Religious and secular meanings can overlap; neither model owns all customs.
Unlike Tradition concept, text edition and observance event: Concepts, works, editions, calendar definitions and occurrences have separate identities. A denomination may be an institution, a concept or both via distinct linked records.

Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.

What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review

Must not

Personal religion must not be inferred from attendance, donations, language, family, dress, names or location.
Apply deny-by-default field and artifact access with recipient purpose and expiry; log minimum access metadata.
Append qualified corrections with expected revision, authority and evidence; never infer appointment, succession or belief from a local update.
Deny by default at field and artifact level; public institution facts require explicit approved projection, and affiliation remains excluded.

Only with a human decision

Institution consent does not replace person-level authority.
GDPR is a jurisdiction-limited example: review both lawful basis and sensitive-data condition; consent is not a universal sole basis.
Record retirement does not dissolve an institution, withdraw belief or delete external person, organization, case or property masters.

May

Resolve institution identity: Proposed operation, not implemented. Resolve an exact qualified identifier; return ambiguity instead of merging communities by name, location or tradition.
Record institutional assertion: Proposed operation, not implemented. Append an attributed institutional description or legal-status reference with scope and evidence; do not register an institution or determine doctrinal truth.
Link role mandate evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Reference a documented role mandate without appointing a holder, resolving disputes or granting system access.
Record observance reference: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link a plan or evidenced occurrence; do not conduct rites, create attendance records or infer belief or legal effect.
Record continuity claim: Proposed operation, not implemented. Append evidence of rename, split, merger or cessation without automatically merging identity or executing dissolution.
Prepare authorized projection: Proposed operation, not implemented. Build a local recipient-scoped view after authority and exposure checks. Exclude personal affiliation from public directories; refuse loss of mandatory restrictions.

Note: Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.

Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review

An accountable institution data steward and separate privacy and safeguarding roles
Institution consent does not replace person-level authority.
GDPR is a jurisdiction-limited example: review both lawful basis and sensitive-data condition; consent is not a universal sole basis.
Community autonomy does not remove applicable safeguarding or lawful reporting duties; exceptions need competent review and minimum disclosure.
Privacy reviewer
Safeguarding lead
Document statutory or safeguarding disclosure basis, necessity, minimum fields, authorized recipient and independent approval where required; do not treat internal autonomy as a veto on lawful reporting.
Review denied accesses, consent withdrawal effects and export leakage with restricted audit visibility.

Note: Sentences mentioning harm, privacy, consent or similar, collected from the specification.

Owners Filled

Steward

An accountable institution data steward and separate privacy and safeguarding roles

Roles

Institution data steward: Maintain authorized institutional assertions without claiming control over individual belief.
Governance reviewer: Check mandate scope and competing institutional authority claims.
Privacy reviewer: Assess lawful purpose, sensitive-data conditions, disclosure and disposition.
Safeguarding lead: Maintain policy references and competent independent referral routes; case access is separate.
Read-only reviewer: Inspect permitted evidence and report mapping or validation gaps without mutation.

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

WM-ORG-001 - Optional legal or administrative body; generic organization operations remain external.
WM-PER-001 - Restricted person identity reference only; no personal belief inference or copied person master.
WM-BLT-001 - Optional building master; site use and sacred designation confer neither title nor physical access.
WM-CIV-005 - Optional custom reference with institutional meaning; religious and secular customs may overlap.
External event and calendar masters - Definitions and occurrences remain distinct; no calendar engine or event execution is imported.
External resource and safeguarding case masters - Reference limited purpose and stewardship evidence; financial and investigation operations remain external.

aligned

W3C ORG 2014 - Conceptual organization, site, role and change alignment only; executable mappings remain a hold.
SKOS 2009 - Concept-scheme and label mapping only; no universal religion taxonomy.
PROV-O 2013 - Attribution and derivation alignment only; no certification of truth or authority.

neighbor

WM-ORG-001 Organization - Reference an administrative or legal body where it exists. The institution can persist without registration or through changes of legal vehicle; do not duplicate organization master governance or execution.
WM-PER-001 Person - People retain external identity. Affiliation and role links are purpose-limited restricted assertions; attendance, family, dress, donations and names must never be used to infer belief.
WM-BLT-001 Building / Structure and external site master - Use and sacred designation are qualified links, not property title, geometry, building condition or access authorization. A physical place is optional.
WM-CIV-005 Social Norm - Cross-reference customs with attributed institutional practice. Religious and secular meanings can overlap; neither model owns all customs.
Tradition concept, text edition and observance event - Concepts, works, editions, calendar definitions and occurrences have separate identities. A denomination may be an institution, a concept or both via distinct linked records.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Sources Filled

Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities - OSCE ODIHR and Venice Commission
Managing faith charities as trustees - Charity Commission for England and Wales
The Organization Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference - World Wide Web Consortium
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
General Data Protection Regulation - historical EU text - European Union
Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - Internet Engineering Task Force

Open questions

Verify current versions, retrieval evidence, reuse terms and legal applicability for each adopting jurisdiction and profile.
Review the proposed boundary with diverse communities, including unregistered, non-hierarchical, indigenous, digital and transnational institutions, without collecting personal affiliation data.
Develop nested schemas and fixtures for disputed leadership, collective roles, splits, withheld sites, consent withdrawal, legal holds, calendar uncertainty and lossy exports.
Restore independent external review before canonical or publishable-draft promotion.
Current source versions, legal applicability, translations and republication rights need adopting-profile verification.
Nested instance schemas, pinned external bindings, operational mappings and adversarial fixtures remain incomplete.
Community-led review across non-hierarchical, minority, indigenous, digital and transnational institutions is absent.
Independent external review is waived; source HTTP checks are unattempted because of the owner-reported sandbox restriction.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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