Regulation & citation library

A regulation is not a PDF.
It is a hierarchy of obligations.

You cannot map a control to a document. You map it to a clause. So a regulation in Amzaa is decomposed the way its drafters wrote it: articles as parents, numbered paragraphs and lettered points as the leaves underneath, each one a record a control can actually attach to.

Structure first, then text

The hierarchy is what makes a crosswalk possible.

Each citation carries its own reference, its level, and its place under its parent. That structure is what lets one control satisfy a clause in one framework and a clause in another, and what lets you see the clause that nothing in your estate answers.

A citation with a reference and no text is still useful: it is a place for a mapping to land. A citation with invented text is a liability that outlives whoever added it.

What a citation carries
Referencethe drafter's own numbering
Levelarticle, paragraph, point
Ancestorits place in the hierarchy
Sourcewhere the text came from
Where the corpus comes from

The shape of the source decides what we can honestly hold.

Open publication

Where a regulator publishes the full text openly, we hold the structure and the text, taken verbatim from the official page.

Copyrighted standards

Where a standards body sells its text, we hold the clause numbers and section titles only. Those are facts. The text is not ours to reproduce.

Never from memory

No citation text is ever generated. If it was not read from the source, the field is empty and stays empty until someone reads it.

The law we enforce on ourselves

Provenance is the whole value of a citation library.

Verbatim, or blank
There is no third option. An approximate quotation of a regulation is worse than no quotation, because it reads as authoritative.
Attribution on every row
Each citation records which source it came from, so a disagreement about wording is settled by opening the source.
Change is a record
When a regulator republishes, the difference becomes a record connected to everything mapped to that clause.
One fabricated row costs everything
If a single citation is invented, every other one becomes a claim rather than a fact. So the answer is a blank field.
Verbatim from the source,
or honestly empty.
Design partner programme

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