ARXO ATLAScanonical corpus

Navigation / metadata declared by the author

Catalogue facets

Four axes along which the acts of the corpus fall into groups. The values are taken from the [metadata] section of the package manifest — the one input of the index where the claim is made by an author, not by a computation.

Whose law is this 68 values

The jurisdiction from the package metadata. Historical polities are named by their own names rather than reduced to modern states: the Golden Horde is not Russia, Gortyn is not Greece. The value “none” is not a gap but a kind of norm: an oath, a doctrine and a custom have no sovereign.

Kind of instrument 66 values

What the act is by form: a statute, a code, a treaty, a custom, a doctrine, an oath, a proclamation. This is the axis on which the gallery differs from the dependency catalogue: there everything was a “package”.

Legal status 14 values

Whether the act is in force today, whether it became a historical monument, whether it was superseded, whether it only ever existed as a draft. The status is declared by the author of the package, and derivable metadata fields are checked against the declarations of the source by separate gates.

Fidelity to the source 6 values

What exactly is pinned under the hash: official bytes, a pinned unofficial copy, an authored exposition, a reconstruction from diverging witnesses, or the admission that no text survived. This is the state of preservation of the exhibit, and it is declared, not implied.

Outside the facets

102 packages landed in no facet: they carry none of the four metadata fields. They are named here one by one, because facet navigation that silently shows part of the corpus as the whole would look exhaustive.