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英文原文：Reference
英文原文：Where the records come from
英文原文：Which publishers CityScroll reads, how current their records are, and what falls outside what it can show you.
英文原文：Everything here was published by someone else
英文原文：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.
英文原文：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.
英文原文：How often the sources change
英文原文：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.
| 英文原文：How it refreshes | 英文原文：What that means for what you read | 来源 |
|---|---|---|
| 英文原文：As things happen | 英文原文：The publisher updates this as records are filed, so what you see follows the city closely. | 18 |
| 英文原文：On the publisher's schedule | 英文原文：The publisher releases on a cycle — daily, monthly, yearly. Between releases, the newest thing the city did may not be here yet. | 36 |
| 英文原文：Checked by a person | 英文原文：There is no machine feed, so a person re-checks the publisher's page. These carry the date they were checked. | 4 |
| 英文原文：A closed set | 英文原文：The publisher has stopped adding to this. It is complete for the period it covers and will not grow. | 4 |
| 英文原文：A pointer to another source | 英文原文：This names where the records live rather than carrying them, so the official page is the thing to read. | 1 |
英文原文：For each source’s use and refresh requirements, see the source ledger.
英文原文：What coverage means
英文原文：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.
| 英文原文：The case | 英文原文：What it means for what you see |
|---|---|
| 英文原文：The source is complete but narrow | 英文原文：The City Record covers what the city publishes in The City Record. Things the city does elsewhere are not in it |
| 英文原文：The source is read but not joined | 英文原文：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 |
| 英文原文：The source is closed | 英文原文：The publisher has stopped adding to it. It stays because it is the record of its period |
| 英文原文：The source is paused | 英文原文：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 |
英文原文：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.
英文原文：What is not covered
- 英文原文：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.
- 英文原文：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.
- 英文原文：Anything private. Records about identifiable individuals — exam scores, applicant details — are not published by the city as open data and are not here.
英文原文：When a source is having a bad day
英文原文：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.
英文原文：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.