TheoFonsAt the sources of the faith

Work in progress

The corpus's negative image: what is left to connect. Documents to ingest, citations to recognize, references to fix — recomputed on every build.

Unrecognized citations 1,780

The parser's recall, not its precision: apparatus notes that produce NO recognized reference. A citation no recognizer catches — Augustine in prose, an ancient council — never becomes an edge and appears in no other count. Heuristic detection: this is an ESTIMATE, not an exact measure.

19,780notes in total
1,780with no recognized reference 9% of the total

Recurring sources detected

Ranked by how many notes mention them — the corpus-acquisition queue. Adding one recognizer (or the source corpus) closes a whole cluster at once. Click to see those notes.

Approximate figures (heuristic detection, each edition counted separately): the order of magnitude is solid, the exact count is not.

Unbound references 4,091 references

Processing stage 2: the reference is recognized, but could not be bound to a corpus document. The count is in references. Two cases resolve by ingesting the document — “on vatican.va” and “off vatican.va” (one document being cited by several references, there are far fewer documents to ingest than references); “broken reference” is the exception — the target (a verse, a §, a page) does not exist, there is nothing to bind, it is to fix.

Documents emitting the most unbound references

DocumentOn vatican.vaOff vatican.vaTotal
Exposition of the Christian Faith—
On the Duties of the Clergy
General Directory for Catechesis
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Lumen Gentium
Dilexit Nos
Orientalium Ecclesiarum—
Verbum Domini
Instrumentum laboris — L'Amazonie
Mystici Corporis Christi

Documents to ingest 2,7178,582 ⇢

Recognized references pointing at a document absent from the corpus: the text exists and would be ingestable, but is not yet ingested. Ranked by how many documents cite them (not by references): what an ingestion closes is the graph's connectivity — a text cited twenty times by one document connects less than a text cited eight times by eight.

  1. 1L'Osservatore Romano (periodical)237 · 55 · 249
  2. 2Roman Missal108 · 42 · 128
  3. 3Insegnamenti (papal teachings, LEV)104 · 41 · 104
  4. 4La Documentation catholique (French periodical)364 · 25 · 626
  5. 5Code of Canon Law (1917)75 · 21 · 90
  6. 6Liturgy of the Hours23 · 21 · 24
  7. 7Jerome (Father and Doctor)45 · 19 · 48
  8. 8Leo the Great (Father and Doctor)31 · 18 · 29
  9. 9Roman Ritual and Roman Pontifical39 · 16 · 40
  10. 10PL 33, 61-1094 — Augustinus, Epistolae17 · 13 · 14

+ 2707 more documents further down the long tail

Acta Apostolicae Sedis concordance →

Acta volumes still to be surveyed 238

The corpus cites the Acta by page, almost never by paragraph. Surveying a volume's facsimile yields the page ↔ § correspondence, and that many references move from the whole document to the passage actually meant. Only genuinely recoverable references are counted: neither whole-work citations, which aim at no passage, nor those already carrying a §, nor texts absent from the corpus, where there would be nothing to point at.

TextVolumePagesCited byCiting
EPRAAS 43 (1951)497–527273
RECAAS 18 (1926)65–82256
MYCAAS 35 (1943)193–247207
DRAAS 29 (1937)65–130196
FDAAS 49 (1957)225–246193
SPOAAS 31 (1939)419–463196
PRPAAS 51 (1959)835–864151
LGAAS 57 (1965)15–4574
OTAAS 58 (1966)713–71371
PUEAAS 71 (1979)187–19673
DVAAS 58 (1966)817–81862
MNAAS 42 (1950)657–68662

238 recoverable references across 38 texts