Editorial standards

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

Repertorium publishes four works that rest on four different kinds of evidence. Treating them as one would flatter the weakest and insult the strongest. This page says which is which.

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 — opinions come from the Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library) and from supremecourt.gov. Edicts of government carry no copyright (17 U.S.C. §105; Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org). The texts are the public’s; the parsing, the apparatus and the anchor scheme are ours.
• John 1:1 — Scripture in public-domain translations, named in the app. Cross-references derive from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; entity and thematic links are computed from public reference data.
• arQ-iv — every record opens its primary source, cited and linked to the institution that holds it. Records are shown verbatim, not paraphrased.
• Index Naturae — species records rest on the documented extinction record; each edition names the record it files.

What counts as a claim

The four works make claims of different strength, and we do not use one word for all of them.

• A citation is a court’s own act. When Gloss shows that two passages rest on the same authority, the Court said so; we located it.
• A cross-reference is an editorial tradition. When John 1:1 links two verses, it is reproducing a judgement made by editors, or computing a shared person, place or theme. It is an invitation to read, not a doctrinal ruling.
• A geolocation is an inference. Placing a photograph or a dispatch on the ground involves judgement about what a source describes, and it can be wrong in ways the source itself cannot settle.

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 — complete for the Supreme Court Term it names, plus the named works in its library. It is not a complete corpus of American law.
• John 1:1 — a complete Bible text in each translation it ships, with a connection graph that is extensive but never exhaustive.
• Index Naturae — an edition is a bounded, numbered run: fifty per record for Collection I. When a run is gone it is not reprinted.
• 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 made against the authority and noted where the work shows its sources. In Gloss, a citation anchor carries its own quoted words, so correcting a typo does not break a link anyone has already shared.

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.

If active development on a work stopped, what remains is what is already published: released app versions keep working on devices that hold them, and published web pages keep their addresses for as long as the domain is renewed. Planned Formal preservation — deposited exports, a permanent archival host, a successor arrangement — does not exist today, and we will not describe it as though it does. It is an open decision, recorded as one.

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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