Editorial standards

What we claim, on what evidence, and how to correct us.

The works draw on different kinds of evidence. Repertorium is responsible for naming their sources, explaining what has been added, and stating what is available. These standards make those choices open to inspection.

Sources and attribution

Every work draws on material we did not write, and says so at the point of use. Where a source is in the public domain we say why it is; where an institution digitised it, that institution is named.

• Gloss — court opinions and published historical texts identify their source, edition and, where applicable, translation. Opinion sources include the Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library) and supremecourt.gov. Editorial notes and reading aids are distinguished from the author’s text.
• John 1:1 — Scripture in public-domain translations, named in the app. The translation supplies the words. Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and computed links supply routes between passages.
• arQ-iv — records cite and link to their sources and the institutions that hold them. Quoted material is distinguished from editorial description, interpretation and location notes.
• Index Naturae — species cards cite natural history, extinction, conservation and recovery evidence. A conservation claim identifies the species or population concerned and the date of its source or assessment; a recovery story is not a claim that the animal is secure.

What you can inspect

A source record, an editorial interpretation and an artistic representation do different jobs. The distinction matters when deciding what each supports.

• The source record. arQ-iv’s private pilot includes a view of Freedman’s Village held by the Library of Congress. Its catalogue identifies a wood engraving published in Harper’s Weekly in 1864. The original record lets you inspect the image, its medium and its date.
• The editorial interpretation. In Gloss, an opinion or historical text belongs to a named edition; our notes and connections are additions to it. In John 1:1, the selected translation and the cross-reference between verses have distinct sources. A map location in arQ-iv likewise involves judgement about what a record describes. Each interpretation needs support beyond the existence of a source link.
• The artistic representation. Index Naturae’s paintings and embroidered designs interpret animals and bring species together across places and periods. For the California condor’s recovery and continuing threats, open the sourced species card. Its links lead to the wildlife agencies behind those claims; the portrait itself supplies no conservation evidence.

Where a work cannot support a claim, it should show less rather than assert more. Uncertainty is published as uncertainty — a date given as circa stays circa.

Editions and completeness

“Complete” here always means complete within a stated boundary, never universal coverage.

• Gloss — coverage is bounded by the court terms, works and editions named in its library. It is not a complete corpus of law or historical writing.
• John 1:1 — ten translations across seven languages, including the Chinese Union Version in Traditional Chinese. Each ships a complete Bible text, with a connection graph that is extensive but never exhaustive.
• Index Naturae — 48 hat designs across three series, pairing adult and young portraits of 24 species. Published species records, illustrative hat mockups and objects approved for production are separate stages. The register accepts interest without payment. Final production and edition terms remain to be settled.
• arQ-iv — bounded by the pilot ground and the corpora ingested so far.

Corrections

Write to info@repertorium.group with the work, the passage or record, and what is wrong. Corrections to a source text are checked against the cited edition or record and noted where the work shows its sources. Changes to source text and changes to editorial interpretation are distinguished.

We do not operate a formal service-level commitment on corrections; a small publisher that promised one would be inventing it. What we commit to is that a correction reaches a person who can act on it.

Availability and what survives

The catalogue states each work’s availability plainly, and those labels are checked against the actual destination rather than against our intentions.

Continued access depends on more than publication. Installed apps depend on compatible devices and operating systems, and some originals require a network connection. Web pages depend on hosting as well as domain renewal; external sources can move or disappear.

There is no formal archival deposit, permanent preservation host or successor arrangement today. If development stops, we cannot promise that every work or source link will remain usable. Preservation remains an open decision.

Independence

Repertorium endorses its works; it does not make them share an interface, an account, or a business model. Each project keeps its own privacy posture and its own access commitments, and those live on the project’s own site.

Who is responsible

Repertorium LLC, a limited liability company registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the publisher of record for every work in the catalogue. It is a small independent publisher, not an institution, and it does not claim institutional backing, academic affiliation, or advisory board.

Correspondence of every kind — corrections, permissions, questions of record — reaches info@repertorium.group.

On the dates

Years are written with five digits — 02026 — after the Long Now convention: a reminder that the record these works draw on is older than the decade that built them. It is a house style, not a code. Wherever a date tells you when something is actually available, it is written plainly instead.

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