Religion & Belief Institutions

Findings

Catalogue-native findings must describe the information grouped by each layer. This legacy version does not declare them separately.

Questions & artifacts

Questions, artifact requirements and serial naming rules are required by Vercy vNext; they remain unassigned in this reference version.

Dimension & namespace

• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): a congregation's legal and administrative body is an organization; this model holds the community and practice semantics on top of that reference
• REFERENCE `world.person` (H1): affiliation subjects and role holders are natural persons; affiliation is among the most protected personal facts
• REFERENCE `world.buildingAndFacility` (U): sacred sites resolve to places and structures of the built environment
• REFERENCE `world.socialNorm` (D9): customs and observances entwined with religious practice are cross-linked to the norm and custom model
• imports: CIDOC CRM (ALIGN): heritage documentation semantics for texts, rites and sites
• imports: SKOS (REFERENCE): confession and tradition taxonomies as concept schemes

Canon, patches & standards

• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): a congregation's legal and administrative body is an organization; this model holds the community and practice semantics on top of that reference
• REFERENCE `world.person` (H1): affiliation subjects and role holders are natural persons; affiliation is among the most protected personal facts
• REFERENCE `world.buildingAndFacility` (U): sacred sites resolve to places and structures of the built environment
• REFERENCE `world.socialNorm` (D9): customs and observances entwined with religious practice are cross-linked to the norm and custom model
• imports: CIDOC CRM (ALIGN): heritage documentation semantics for texts, rites and sites
• imports: SKOS (REFERENCE): confession and tradition taxonomies as concept schemes

Artifact formats & serial data

Format-independent core. Concrete artifact formats and naming prefixes are not declared in this legacy version.

Policies & accepted processes

• `communityDirectoryAccess`: publication of a congregation's public listing, granted by the community itself
• `affiliationDisclosureConsent`: per-person consent governing any visibility of affiliation data, grounded in S1
• `heritageResearchAccess`: scholarly access to doctrine, texts and site documentation granted by the tradition's custodians

Read / add / edit / delete

CRUD procedures and interface bindings are not declared in this legacy version.

Ownership, roles & access

The communities themselves steward their confession, congregation and practice data, with strong subject-protection defaults throughout. Personal affiliation belongs to the person and is visible only under that person's own grant; all access flows through the catalogue's S1/S2 ownership and access models and is audited via S4.

Objects

• `confession`: a religion, denomination or school of belief; key attributes: name, lineage position, doctrinal summary, classification codes
• `doctrineText`: a creed or canonical text described as a heritage artifact; key attributes: title, tradition, language, documentation reference
• `congregation`: a local community of a confession; key attributes: name, confession reference, organization reference, locality
• `ministryRole`: a service role within a congregation; key attributes: role type, ordination requirements, holder reference
• `rite`: a defined ritual or service form; key attributes: name, confession, occasion, participants pattern
• `observanceDay`: a recurring holy day or observance; key attributes: name, calendar rule, confession, obligation character
• `sacredSite`: a place of worship or veneration; key attributes: name, site reference, consecration status, custodian reference
• `affiliation`: a person's declared tie to a confession or congregation; key attributes: declaration date, visibility setting, standing

Relationships

• `confession` -> branchOf -> `confession` (n..1): denominational lineage within a tradition
• `congregation` -> professes -> `confession` (n..1): each congregation belongs to a confession
• `congregation` -> gathersAt -> `sacredSite` (n..m): communities use one or more sites for worship
• `rite` -> observedBy -> `congregation` (n..m): which communities practice which rites
• `observanceDay` -> definedBy -> `confession` (n..1): observances belong to a tradition's calendar
• `affiliation` -> declares -> `person` (n..1): the affiliation subject is a natural person in H1, and the record stays under that person's control
• `ministryRole` -> heldBy -> `person` (n..0..1): a role may be vacant or held by one person at a time

Events

• `congregationFounded`: a community was established under a confession
• `congregationDissolved`: a community ceased to exist or merged
• `siteConsecrated`: a site was dedicated for worship by its tradition
• `observanceHeld`: a calendar observance took place in a community
• `riteCelebrated`: a rite was performed on a recordable occasion
• `affiliationDeclared`: a person declared an affiliation, at a visibility they chose
• `affiliationWithdrawn`: a person withdrew a previously declared affiliation

Projections

• `publicCongregationDirectory`: congregations, sites and service times; omits membership and affiliation entirely
• `observanceCalendarView`: holy days and observance dates per confession; omits community-internal scheduling
• `heritageCatalogue`: doctrine texts, lineage and sites as documented heritage; omits all living-person data