This is a list of URN:LEX jurisdiction codes, as used in Multilingual Zotero (MLZ) and the MLZ extended CSL schema for the formatting of citations.
The content here is a single JSON object. The top-level keys of the object are single country or institution codes. Country codes are drawn from ISO-316, per the URL:LEX proposal document. Institution codes are set as domain names, as permitted by URN:LEX. The specific domain names chosen are arbitrary, and may differ from the choices made by other projects. [1]
Each key maps to a child object containing one mandatory key name
to a string value, and optional keys federal and subunit. When
either or both of these optional keys are present, they must be
accompanied by a sibling nickname key to a string value.
The federal and subunit keys each map to an object with
keys children and name. The name key is a string
label describing the children (typically an empty string or
"federal"). A children key maps to an object containing
jurisdiction keys, each mapping in turn to an object with a name
key to a string value, as at the top level of the overall object.
Jurisdiction keys must be unique across the entire object. Child
descriptions can be generated from the name and nickname values
with addressing something like this:
parent = obj[key]["nickname"]
name = obj[key]["federal"]["children"][subkey]["name"]
type = obj[key]["federal"]["name"]
"%s, %s (%s)" % (name,parent,type)(Deployed code obviously needs to recurse across the object, so the actual code will look rather different.)
Others are welcome to use this schema in other projects. I would only ask that, unless you abandon the scheme of organization entirely, you push amendments back into the source here via a GitHub pull request. It's not written anywhere that this needs to be the master mapping, but it will save time all around if we treat this as our watering hole for the present.
Enjoy!
Frank Bennett, Nagoya
[1] I'm not particularly happy with this situation, so if you know of a central repository of these things that offers standard codes for international organizations, by all means put a note and pointer in the project tracker.
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To the extent possible under law,
Frank Bennett
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
MLZ Jurisdictions List.
This work is published from:
Japan.