TextRefs Registry

Hand-authored seed registry data for TextRefs. This repository is included as a git submodule at data/ in textrefs/textrefs.org.

Registry data is released under CC0-1.0.

Layout

works/{key}.yaml      # One file per Work
systems/{key}.yaml    # One file per CitationSystem
refs/                 # CanonicalReference records
mappings/             # MappingAssertion records
aliases.json          # URL-alias mapping

Only hand-authored YAML / JSON lives here. The compiled registry (NDJSON + Frictionless datapackage.json) is derived at build time by the compiler in textrefs/textrefs.org. Published dumps are long-term archived in the TextRefs Zenodo community and receive citable DOIs.

See the authoring guide for the YAML format and the versioning policy for the release process.

Versioning

• Tagged releases use calendar-style SemVer: vYYYY.MM.N (e.g. v2026.06.0, .1 for re-cuts).
• dev is the working branch; main advances only on release.
• The data-package version inside datapackage.json follows SemVer-without-v.

Data boundaries

Registry records describe citation identity, mappings, aliases, and resolver targets. They do not contain full text, critical apparatus, protected translations, or application code.