The third engine
Kinships
The Atlas says where. The Timeline says when. Kinships say of what, with what — what the corpus connects, and on what grounds it says so.
A plate crosses two axes of the corpus. The order of rows and columns is written down and identical from one compilation to the next : the place of an entry means something. No crossing is a dot in a cloud.
- Category × Raw material Raw materials × categories What does a category come from? It is the only plate where every crossing carries a degree of establishment and a source: the others count entries, this one asserts a link. 32 crossings out of 192 · 17 %
- Family × Raw material Raw materials × families Does one material cross the families? A crossing counts the categories concerned, and asserts nothing more. 14 crossings out of 32 · 44 %
- Category × Status of protection Statuses of protection × categories How does the law protect each category? The gaps are the subject here: a category without a geographical indication is not a hole in the corpus, it is a legal fact. 23 crossings out of 168 · 14 %
- Category × Country Countries × categories Where is each category recognised? The plate first shows something the corpus owns up to: it is French before it is global. The few cross-border entries occupy several columns at once — a geographical indication can be protected in four countries without belonging to any. 28 crossings out of 336 · 8 %
- Country × Status of protection Countries × statuses of protection Which legal regime protects what, and where? Outside the Union, a name is almost never a registered geographical indication: the plate makes it legible at a glance, without opening ninety-eight entries. 17 crossings out of 98 · 17 %
- Category × Positional precision Positional precision × categories What do we know of the geography of each category? This plate measures the state of the corpus itself, not its subject. 24 crossings out of 96 · 25 %
What these plates do not yet know
The 32 links between raw materials and categories each carry their degree of establishment : 25 are attested by a text that defines the material — the European spirits regulation, the Mexican standards for tequila and mezcal, the Brazilian decree on cachaça, the the Japanese law and geographical indications for shōchū, product specifications —, 3 are probable, the material appearing in the text without being exclusive, and 4 remain reported, rightly so : the grain base of gin or the rice of soju are practices, not legal definitions, and rule R6 forbids passing one off as the other. The hatching of each crossing states that degree.
The country axis was missing for a long time, and its absence was documented here : the corpus field mixed single values and lists, and « Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany » counted there as one country. The corpus now carries a list per entry — fourteen real countries instead of fourteen labels — and the axis is open. It is the engine's first multi-valued axis : a cross-border geographical indication occupies several columns of its row, because it really is protected in several countries without belonging to any.