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Site policy

Citing SpiLi, and linking to it

A museum in the making that publishes a documentary corpus must be citable, and a citation is only worth something if the address it carries outlives the site that published it. This page states what we commit to on our addresses, and in what form to cite them.

Our commitment

  1. A published identifier never changes. The entry that answers today at /atlas/ig-cognac.html will still answer there after a redesign, a change of generator or a revision of the corpus.
  2. A withdrawn entry does not become a dead page. Its address keeps answering, and shows the reason for the withdrawal along with the entry that takes over, where there is one.
  3. A withdrawn address is never recycled. An identifier will not designate tomorrow something other than what it designates today : a citation that still resolves but points at the wrong object is worse than a dead link, because nothing flags it.

These three points are not an intention : they are verified at every compilation of the site. An already published address that disappeared from the corpus without a stated withdrawal stops the build, and nothing goes online.

The shape of the addresses

  • https://spili-museum.com/atlas/{identifiant}.html An Atlas entry — category of spirit, terroir or geographical indication.
  • https://spili-museum.com/atlas/visite/{parcours}.html A guided route through the Atlas, from the threshold to the exit.
  • https://spili-museum.com/atlas/visite/{parcours}.html?station=3 A particular stop on that route. It is the address that makes a step of the tour citable in a report or an article.

How to cite

Every entry and every tour carries a « Cite this page » block at the foot, giving the full reference, to be copied as it stands. It takes this form :

  • SpiLi — Museum of spirits and liqueurs, « Eau-de-vie de Cognac », geographical indication registered in the European Union, The Atlas of Spirits, seed entry, before scholarly validation, corpus of 1 August 2026, accessed on [date]. https://spili-museum.com/atlas/ig-cognac.html

The stage of the work appears there deliberately. SpiLi's corpus is under construction and its scholarly board is not yet formed : a reference that concealed that stage would suggest a validation that has not taken place. We would rather be cited for what we are.

What is not guaranteed

The content of an entry changes : that is the nature of a living documentary corpus, and it is why the reference carries the date of the corpus and the date you consulted it. Our commitment is to the address and to the identity of what it designates, not to the immutability of the text.

Addresses outside the Atlas — project pages, Journal articles — follow the same intention without falling under the automatic verification described here.

State of the register

Sealed addresses
105
Pages currently served
105
Last sealing
9 August 2026

Withdrawals

No address has been withdrawn to date. The table of withdrawals will appear here on the day one is : publishing the list of one's own withdrawals is part of the commitment, without which no one can verify it.