Source anglaise : Back to the guide
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Source anglaise : Reference
Source anglaise : Where the records come from
Source anglaise : Which publishers CityScroll reads, how current their records are, and what falls outside what it can show you.
Source anglaise : Everything here was published by someone else
Source anglaise : CityScroll holds no records of its own. Every record on it was published by a New York City agency, a state body, or another official publisher, and every record keeps a link back to that published copy. CityScroll is independent of city government and speaks for no agency.
Source anglaise : The largest single source is The City Record, the city's own daily publication of official notices, which is also released as open data. Alongside it sit the city's contract, budget, payroll, buildings, planning, civil-service and property datasets, and a few state publishers.
Source anglaise : How often the sources change
Source anglaise : Some publishers release as things happen, and some release on a cycle. That difference is the commonest reason something the city has already done has not reached this site yet, so it is worth knowing which kind of source you are reading.
| Source anglaise : How it refreshes | Source anglaise : What that means for what you read | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Source anglaise : As things happen | Source anglaise : The publisher updates this as records are filed, so what you see follows the city closely. | 18 |
| Source anglaise : On the publisher's schedule | Source anglaise : The publisher releases on a cycle — daily, monthly, yearly. Between releases, the newest thing the city did may not be here yet. | 36 |
| Source anglaise : Checked by a person | Source anglaise : There is no machine feed, so a person re-checks the publisher's page. These carry the date they were checked. | 4 |
| Source anglaise : A closed set | Source anglaise : The publisher has stopped adding to this. It is complete for the period it covers and will not grow. | 4 |
| Source anglaise : A pointer to another source | Source anglaise : This names where the records live rather than carrying them, so the official page is the thing to read. | 1 |
Source anglaise : For each source’s use and refresh requirements, see the source ledger.
Source anglaise : What coverage means
Source anglaise : Coverage is not one number, and CityScroll does not offer one. It varies by source, and there are four different ways a source can be working perfectly and still not answer your question.
| Source anglaise : The case | Source anglaise : What it means for what you see |
|---|---|
| Source anglaise : The source is complete but narrow | Source anglaise : The City Record covers what the city publishes in The City Record. Things the city does elsewhere are not in it |
| Source anglaise : The source is read but not joined | Source anglaise : The record is here and the record that would connect it to what you are reading is not, so the connection is absent although both ends exist |
| Source anglaise : The source is closed | Source anglaise : The publisher has stopped adding to it. It stays because it is the record of its period |
| Source anglaise : The source is paused | Source anglaise : It is not currently being read. It stays listed rather than quietly disappearing, so a stopped feed cannot be mistaken for a subject with nothing in it |
Source anglaise : For how much is here and what period it spans, the stats page is the place. For the endpoints, feeds and upstream datasets, the API page is.
Source anglaise : What is not covered
- Source anglaise : Anything the city has not published. Where a decision was made and no public record of it was released, you will not find it here. That absence tells you about publication and nothing about the decision.
- Source anglaise : Anything published in a form that cannot be joined. A document released only as a scan, or with no identifier tying it to anything else, may be published and still unreachable from a record you are reading.
- Source anglaise : Anything private. Records about identifiable individuals — exam scores, applicant details — are not published by the city as open data and are not here.
Source anglaise : When a source is having a bad day
Source anglaise : A source that could not be reached is a different thing from a source with nothing to say, and the site keeps them apart. A page that could not load its records says so, and retrying or opening the official source is the way through. Reading a temporary failure as an absence of records is the mistake this distinction exists to prevent.
Source anglaise : The same goes the other way. A record set that is genuinely empty says it is empty, rather than showing an error and leaving you to guess.