{
  "release_id": "v4-2026-10-11",
  "version": 4,
  "date": "2026-10-11",
  "author": "Florin-Stefan Morar",
  "project": "CROSS: Cross-Cultural Cartography, ERC Starting Grant proposal, 2027 call",
  "url": "https://morarfs.github.io/CROSS/releases/v4-2026-10-11/",
  "root_url": "https://morarfs.github.io/CROSS/",
  "counting_unit": "One identified surviving map in a specified manuscript, edition or state. Multiple sheets constituting one map count once. Families add no items without separately assessed records.",
  "inclusion_rule": "Ca. 1500–1800, with at least one supported translation operation between mapping traditions. Baseline maps, unsupported witnesses and European compilations as whole works are excluded.",
  "findings": [
    "Florin-Stefan Morar compiled this census of 107 cross-cultural maps. Each record identifies one surviving witness, its holding, qualifying translation operation, sources and evidence grade.",
    "Complete images are openly available for 98 entries, including in scholarly reproductions. Two entries have partial coverage, and exact-witness image coverage is not established for seven. This supports corpus selection and hypothesis formation. Targeted collections research will address difficult readings and material questions. Complete coverage does not guarantee sufficient resolution for every inscription or the survival of every original sheet."
  ],
  "evidence_statement": "The 107 records comprise 73 documented operations, 29 derivations from identified sources and five inferred relationships. These grades concern the qualifying relationship, not complete COMPASS coding.",
  "map_count": 107,
  "evidence_grades": {
    "documented": 73,
    "derived": 29,
    "inferred": 5
  },
  "regional_counts": {
    "East Asia": 39,
    "West Asian/Mediterranean": 21,
    "Americas": 33,
    "South/Southeast Asia": 7,
    "Pacific": 2,
    "Africa": 5
  },
  "image_coverage": {
    "East Asia": {
      "Yes": 36,
      "Partial": 1,
      "Not established": 2
    },
    "West Asian/Mediterranean": {
      "Yes": 17,
      "Not established": 4
    },
    "Americas": {
      "Yes": 33
    },
    "South/Southeast Asia": {
      "Partial": 1,
      "Yes": 6
    },
    "Pacific": {
      "Yes": 2
    },
    "Africa": {
      "Yes": 4,
      "Not established": 1
    }
  },
  "census_sha256": "d12428579c8fca808bd6169778170caefc2d6b6bcc213bf5c9b7d9f0a2155f92",
  "publication_gate": "ready_with_stated_qualifications",
  "changes_from_v1": [
    "COMPASS codes menu with definitions, decision rules and census examples for every code.",
    "The China worked example of version 1 is withdrawn until its readings have been verified by specialists; COMPASS is shown through the codes menu, with census examples for every code.",
    "Image credits and reuse statements standardised; an image-use note added.",
    "Source for EA-021 replaced by the primary witness; one non-scholarly link removed from AM-040.",
    "Evidence grade label \"scholarly inference\" renamed \"inferred\"; citation typography corrected.",
    "Wording aligned with the project description (intensive corpus of at least 70 map families; regional zones).",
    "Findings name two further examples (OI-017, EA-043); EA-021 now rests on Hayashi’s preface.",
    "AM-040 image source: Archives de la Nouvelle-France, item 40051."
  ],
  "version_note": "Version 4 removes the introductory paragraph on the directions of cartographic translation at the author’s request. The 107 census records, image-coverage totals, COMPASS illustrations and Hondius review register are unchanged from version 3.",
  "human_review_summary": {
    "reviewed_observations": 52,
    "confirmed": 41,
    "corrected": 7,
    "unresolved": 4,
    "accepted": 48
  },
  "changes_from_v3": [
    "Removed the introductory paragraph giving examples of translation into Europe, out of Europe and between other traditions. Census records and reviewed observations are unchanged."
  ]
}