An open, persistent, machine-readable registry for canonical text references — Bekker lines, Stephanus pages, CTS URNs, and the other identifiers humanists already use to cite a passage.

TextRefs is being set up as a Zürich-based non-profit association (Verein in formation).

Status: pre-1.0, bootstrap phase.

• An open registry of canonical text references (JSON-LD, with CC0 data dumps).
• Open standards and JSON-LD shapes for citing and mapping references.
• Curated mappings between canonical references and external identifiers (CTS URNs, Wikidata, DOIs, ARKs, Perseus, …).

We are not a full-text database, a publisher, or a replacement for Perseus / TLG / PHI / DTS / CTS / library catalogues.

• Site: https://textrefs.org
• Standard: https://textrefs.org/standard/
• API: https://textrefs.org/api/
• Association (mission, statutes, governance): https://textrefs.org/association/
• POSI self-assessment: https://textrefs.org/association/posi/
• Zenodo community (archived dumps & DOIs): https://zenodo.org/communities/textrefs/

• textrefs.org — Astro/Starlight site, standard text, JSON-LD shapes, API.
• registry — hand-authored YAML source for the registry data (CC0).
• .github — this repo: org profile and default community health files.

See CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, and SECURITY.

Content of this repository is licensed under CC BY 4.0.