Studied jurisdiction derives from source fields or explicit title and abstract study context, never affiliation. Documentary derivation is traced and does not qualify legal effects. Languages are resolved only from concordant publication metadata. A resolved external citation identifies a work in retained metadata without asserting current accessibility.
Documentary records retain their identifiers and provenance. A canonical legal identity can group several manifestations; a chapter remains a component of its parent instrument and is not an autonomous legal instrument. Record counts and legal-work counts are separate. Non-binding resolutions have an adoption status separate from binding legal force. Provision-level status is separate from whole-instrument status. Human decisions awaiting official-source verification are explicitly identified.
Version 1.1: each populated critical field has a matching documentary assertion or is explicitly separated as unresolved provenance. Missing titles remain unrecorded; titles are never invented. Version and procedural chains preserve unknown fields; current force is never inferred from a date. Official source identity verification is separate from full-text review and legal qualification.
Three separate levels
Documentary discovery, human relevance and UGLC legal qualification are separate. Discovery, citation export or a reported date alone never establishes verified legal authority. Critical scholarship, adverse judgments and repealed regimes remain within documentary scope.
Methodology versions
- UGLC
- 1.0-existing-content
- discovery
- 2.0
- coverage
- 2.0
- reference
- 1.1.2
- documentary_subject
- explicit-text-v1
- citation_resolution
- offline-evidence-v2-source-tombstones
This version published: 2026-11-10
Reference version1.0 changes: field provenance, retained disagreements, citation exports, read-only API, research dossiers and private correction log. Existing UGLC methodology and validations remain unchanged.
Authority hierarchy
- Official issuing authority
- Official gazette
- Official court, parliamentary or government database
- Authoritative institutional repository
- Recognized legal database
- Scholarly secondary source
- Discovery aggregator
Link roles are documented; an institutional address does not verify a text or its legal effect. Conflicting assertions are retained.
Interoperability
CSL-JSON · JSON-LD / Schema.org · Dublin Core · ECLI · ELI · CELEX · DOI · ORCID · ROR · ISBN · ISSN · Handle · HAL · ARK · OCLC · URN.
LegalDocML / Akoma Ntoso mapping is prepared for identifiers and documentary roles; XML conformance is not claimed. Official identifiers are not replaced by supplementary DUDA identifiers.
OASIS LegalDocML · Schema.org · CSL-JSON
Recommended infrastructure citation: UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library · Research infrastructure and methodologies · https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/research-infrastructure/?page=methodology · ledger-20261110-170826Z-d2e16aa8
Snapshot publication date: 2026-11-10T17:08:37.701755+00:00 · Last complete documentary verification:unestablished. This page does not confer legal verification.