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Add Hong Kong courts #6

Open gensitu opened 6 years ago

gensitu commented 6 years ago

Please let me know if anything is wrong.

fbennett commented 6 years ago

Thank you for these contributions (Hong Kong & Macao). There is a delicate question of where these should be placed vis-a-vis the cn jurisdiction, and whether their position within the jurisdiction hierarchy should change post-1997 (HK) and post-1999 (MO).

(Separately, we are working on a platform to replace the GitHub repository, which should provide an easier channel for maintenance, and flexibility to express courts and jurisdictions that subsist for a fixed span of time. Progress announcements will be posted to https://our.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/alumni/tag/jurism/)

gensitu commented 6 years ago

For a user's perspective, putting them under cn wouldn't make a difference as long as hk and mo are shortcuts to their corresponding subdirectories, or else there would be discoverability problems. I don't think anyone in legal research will doubt China's sovereignty over Hongkong and Macau anyway, so it depends whether the directory structure is making a statement on sovereignty or mere jurisdictions. If somebody complains, then we can just rename Hongkong/Macao to Hongkong Special Administrative Region/Macao Special Administrative Region.

fbennett commented 6 years ago

I'm a bit worried that someone may raise objections to the identifier itself (i.e. "hk" as opposed to "cn:hk"). That could be a problem for the data set as a standard for metadata exchange, if someone (or some populous and influential national government) were to insist on and deploy an ID that differs from the LRR. (Re friction, I have past discussions over the Asian Unicode ranges in mind, and re fragmentation, the Balkanization of Marc record formats.)

Would it be agreeable to set the identifiers (derived from the GitHub file hierarchy, at present) as children of "cn", but also put to down a marker that there should be provision for aliases in the data set, to accommodate discoverability issues like this one (as well as disputed territories), when a specification is formalized?

gensitu commented 6 years ago

I don't have any problem with placing HK and Macao under "cn". I note that there's a "te.bie.xing.zheng.qu" directory under "cn" now, which should be deleted so that the HK/Macao directories I've created can go directly under "cn".

Another question before merging - should the family court (a court division) under district court in HK be directly under the district court directory or directly under the hk directory?