Library
Papers, standards and data
Everything the register has published, free to download and free to quote. The corpus and the data files are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the text of the Standard is not, because there is one register and the Standard must not fork.
Documents
Appropriate records
The federal record of historic property is a record of fabric, not of method — and the restriction is administrative rather than statutory. Traces where the narrowing is made.
Position paper, 5pp
The method half of preservation
Ninety-three years of federally mandated documentation that records the fabric and never the making.
Position paper, 7pp
The Transmission Standard, v0.9
135 clauses governing what is recorded, by whom, on what terms, and what the register may never do.
Standard, 34pp
Standard v0.9 — redline against v0.8
Tracked changes with margin comments, for readers following the drafting.
Redline, 34pp
What the register records
The four layers with their exact field lists, and what each one asserts.
Reference, 8pp
Conformance trial prospectus
Terms for the first twelve pairs, written to be forwarded.
Prospectus, 4pp
Stonemasonry prior-art digest
36 elicitation questions drawn from federal and pre-1931 sources, the five gaps no published source covers, and the protocol for testing whether the digest is worth anything.
Working paper, 8pp
IP working paper
Every class of right the register touches, and four defects found and closed in the Standard.
Working paper, 10pp
Adoption kit
How an institution deposits lineage records in bulk, with schema and validator.
Format, 6pp
Succession Zero field kit
The forms used in the room, for the five acts of a transmission.
Forms, 17pp
Data and code
The Trade Register
65 terms with identifiers, variant labels and the occupation-code crosswalk.
JSON
Trade Register schema
What a conforming Trade Register file must contain.
JSON Schema
Trade Register validator
Checks identifier uniqueness, label collisions, variant chains and unreasoned nulls.
Python, no dependencies
Source register, stonemasonry
Every publication consulted, its standing, whether it carries method, and its copyright flag.
CSV, 34 rows
Adoption schema
The bulk lineage entry format.
JSON Schema
Adoption validator
Checks a submission before it is sent.
Python, no dependencies
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