@mailwoman/corpus 9.4.0 → 10.1.0

package/lib/tools/source-register/build.ts

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+/**
+ * @copyright Sister Software
+ * @license AGPL-3.0
+ * @author Teffen Ellis, et al.
+ *
+ * Derive the committed address-source register from a research pass's two CSVs.
+ *
+ * The second input is mostly not input: the eight global discovery lookups repeat once per jurisdiction and are dropped, because they name a lookup rather than a national source.
+ */
+
+import { pathExists, readLocalJSONFile } from "@mailwoman/core/fs/readers"
+import { writeLocalFile } from "@mailwoman/core/fs/writers"
+import { prettyJSON, stringifyJSON } from "@mailwoman/core/json"
+import type { PathBuilderLike } from "path-ts"
+import { TextSpliterator } from "spliterator"
+
+import { readCSVRecords } from "#recipes/scaffold"
+import {
+	applyLicenseDecisions,
+	auditAddressSourceRegister,
+	registerContentDigest,
+	BackboneState,
+	JurisdictionResearchState,
+	LicenseReviewState,
+	ResearchPass,
+	SourceGeometry,
+	SourceStatus,
+	UNRESOLVED_FIELDS,
+	type AddressSourceRecord,
+	type AddressSourceRegister,
+	type ElectedLicense,
+	type JurisdictionRecord,
+	type LicenseDecision,
+	type RefusedLicense,
+	type RegisterSector,
+	type UncheckedLicense,
+} from "#source-register"
+import { AddressRole } from "#types"
+
+/**
+ * The `origin` value the research pass gives its eight repeated discovery lookups.
+ * Every row carrying it is dropped.
+ */
+const DISCOVERY_RAIL_ORIGIN = "global_research_rail"
+
+/**
+ * Joins the two parts of the per-sector counter's key.
+ *
+ * A solidus separates the fields because a NUL cannot survive a format pass.
+ * The solidus is safe because an ISO 3166-1 code has two letters and a sector is kebab-case.
+ * Neither field can contain a solidus.
+ */
+const KEY_SEPARATOR = "/"
+
+const BACKBONE_STATE_BY_LETTER: Readonly<Record<string, BackboneState>> = {
+	A: BackboneState.Verified,
+	"A~": BackboneState.VerifiedPartial,
+	B: BackboneState.Restricted,
+	C: BackboneState.Unverified,
+	D: BackboneState.Exceptional,
+}
+
+const RESEARCH_STATE_BY_NAME: Readonly<Record<string, JurisdictionResearchState>> = {
+	SEEDED: JurisdictionResearchState.Seeded,
+	EXCEPTION: JurisdictionResearchState.Exception,
+	RAILS_ONLY: JurisdictionResearchState.Unexamined,
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every `AddressRole` by its wire value, derived from the enum so a role added to
+ * `AddressRole` is readable here without a second edit.
+ * A CSV value outside this role set fails the build.
+ */
+const ADDRESS_ROLE_BY_NAME: Readonly<Record<string, AddressRole>> = Object.fromEntries(
+	Object.values(AddressRole).map((role) => [role, role])
+)
+
+const SOURCE_STATUS_BY_NAME: Readonly<Record<string, SourceStatus>> = {
+	VERIFIED_AUTHORITY: SourceStatus.VerifiedAuthority,
+	RETAINED_ORIGINAL: SourceStatus.RetainedOriginal,
+	VERIFIED_CORPUS: SourceStatus.VerifiedCorpus,
+	VERIFIED_CORPUS_STALE: SourceStatus.VerifiedCorpusStale,
+}
+
+const RESEARCH_PASS_BY_ORIGIN: Readonly<Record<string, ResearchPass>> = {
+	"2026-09-18_web_research": ResearchPass.WebResearch,
+	original_memo: ResearchPass.OriginalMemo,
+	"2026-09-30_rights_review": ResearchPass.RightsReview,
+	"2026-10-01_rights_review": ResearchPass.RightsReview,
+	"2026-10-02_rights_review": ResearchPass.RightsReview,
+	"2026-10-03_decoder_exposure": ResearchPass.DecoderExposureSurvey,
+}
+
+const GEOMETRY_BY_NAME: Readonly<Record<string, SourceGeometry>> = {
+	Y: SourceGeometry.Present,
+	N: SourceGeometry.Absent,
+	Partial: SourceGeometry.Partial,
+	varies: SourceGeometry.Unresolved,
+	"": SourceGeometry.Unresolved,
+}
+
+/**
+ * The research pass writes a source's propositions as one string.
+ *
+ * The table is closed, because a spelling it does not include is a vocabulary the
+ * register has not agreed to rather than a row to guess at.
+ */
+const ASSERTS_BY_ROLE: Readonly<Record<string, readonly AddressSourceRecord["asserts"][number][]>> = {
+	"IDENTITY + OBSERVATION": ["identity", "observation"],
+	OBSERVATION: ["observation"],
+}
+
+/**
+ * The access labels the research pass recorded, each with the id prefix
+ * and note a decision derived from it records.
+ *
+ * A decision is scoped to one publisher in one jurisdiction by {@link scopedLicenseID},
+ * so an election cannot reach past the grant it was made about.
+ * Every decision is `unchecked`, because the pass recorded what a register costs
+ * to reach and never opened anybody's terms.
+ */
+const LICENSE_DECISIONS: ReadonlyArray<readonly [statement: string, licenseID: string, note: string]> = [
+	[
+		"CHECK NATIONAL / DATASET TERMS",
+		"unchecked-national-terms",
+		"The research pass recorded the register and did not open its terms.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Free",
+		"unchecked-access-free",
+		"An access label from the original memo: the download costs nothing. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	["Free-reg", "unchecked-access-free-registration", "An access label: free after registration. It states no grant."],
+	[
+		"Free/varied",
+		"unchecked-access-free-varied",
+		"An access label: free in part, varying by dataset. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Free/restricted",
+		"unchecked-access-free-or-restricted",
+		"An access label: free in part, restricted in part. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Free/Free-reg",
+		"unchecked-access-free-or-registration",
+		"An access label: free, or free after registration. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Free/Licensed",
+		"unchecked-access-free-or-licensed",
+		"An access label: free in part, licensed in part. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Free-reg/Licensed",
+		"unchecked-access-registration-or-licensed",
+		"An access label: free after registration, or licensed. It states no grant.",
+	],
+	["Restricted", "unchecked-access-restricted", "An access label: access is restricted. It states no grant."],
+	["Varied", "unchecked-access-varied", "An access label: varying by dataset. It states no grant."],
+	[
+		"Licensed",
+		"unchecked-access-licensed",
+		"An access label: a license is sold or granted on application. It states no terms.",
+	],
+	[
+		"Licensed/query",
+		"unchecked-access-licensed-or-query",
+		"An access label: licensed, or answerable per query. It states no terms.",
+	],
+]
+
+/**
+ * Rewrites for complete notes that use retired vocabulary.
+ * Each entry records the replacement note.
+ *
+ * Each rewrite must fire at least once, so a pair left behind after the upstream
+ * text changes fails the build.
+ */
+const RETIRED_NOTE_REWRITES: ReadonlyArray<readonly [from: string, to: string]> = [
+	[
+		"Official CC BY dataset, but portal states only ~4% geographic coverage; not national LABEL.",
+		"Official CC BY dataset, but portal states only ~4% geographic coverage; not a national address backbone.",
+	],
+	[
+		"High-value taxpayer address observations; no verified national open premise LABEL.",
+		"High-value taxpayer address observations; no verified national open premise address backbone.",
+	],
+	[
+		"2026 system is new; validate operational bulk access before corpus promotion.",
+		"The national system is new; validate operational bulk access before corpus promotion.",
+	],
+]
+
+/**
+ * Rewrites for words removed from the repository's vocabulary.
+ *
+ * Each entry gives the plain synonym used when the research pass emitted that word.
+ *
+ * The substitution runs over every string this build emits, because `repo-health`'s
+ * `bannedVocabulary` counter reads every tracked text file and a committed JSON artifact is one.
+ */
+const RETIRED_WORD_REWRITES: ReadonlyArray<readonly [pattern: RegExp, to: string]> = [
+	[/\bGated\b/g, "Restricted"],
+	[/\bgated\b/g, "restricted"],
+	[/-gated\b/g, "-restricted"],
+]
+
+/**
+ * What the build produced, for a caller that wants to print it rather than re-read the file.
+ */
+export interface SourceRegisterBuildResult {
+	outPath: string
+	jurisdictions: number
+	sources: number
+	licenses: number
+	/**
+	 * Rows dropped because their source identifies a global discovery lookup rather than a national source.
+	 */
+	discoveryRailRowsDropped: number
+	researchStates: Readonly<Record<JurisdictionResearchState, number>>
+	statuses: Readonly<Record<SourceStatus, number>>
+}
+
+export interface BuildSourceRegisterOptions {
+	/**
+	 * The 250-row jurisdiction inventory CSV.
+	 */
+	inventoryPath: PathBuilderLike
+	/**
+	 * The functional-authority CSV, discovery lookups included.
+	 *
+	 * This build drops them.
+	 */
+	sourcesPath: PathBuilderLike
+	outPath: PathBuilderLike
+	/**
+	 * License decisions somebody made by reading a publisher's terms, applied over the
+	 * `unchecked` defaults this build derives from the research pass's access labels.
+	 *
+	 * An input rather than an edit of the output, because the register is generated
+	 * and {@linkcode buildSourceRegister} rewrites it whole.
+	 * A path that does not exist is read as no decisions recorded.
+	 */
+	decisionsPath?: PathBuilderLike
+	/**
+	 * Source fields a review resolved, applied over the rows this build derives from the research CSV.
+	 *
+	 * An input rather than an edit of the output, for the same reason as {@linkcode
+	 * BuildSourceRegisterOptions.decisionsPath}: this build rewrites the register whole.
+	 * A path that does not exist is read as no resolutions recorded.
+	 */
+	resolutionsPath?: PathBuilderLike
+	version: string
+	/**
+	 * ISO 8601 calendar date the research pass was taken, `yyyy-MM-DD`.
+	 */
+	authoredAt: string
+	/**
+	 * The research document the pass was written against, recorded in the register's provenance.
+	 */
+	sourceVersion?: string
+}
+
+function required(value: string | undefined, field: string, row: number): string {
+	const trimmed = (value ?? "").trim()
+
+	if (!trimmed) throw new Error(`row ${row}: ${field} is empty, and the register has nowhere to put an unnamed value`)
+
+	return trimmed
+}
+
+function mapped<T>(table: Readonly<Record<string, T>>, key: string, field: string, row: number): T {
+	const value = table[key]
+
+	if (value === undefined) {
+		throw new Error(`row ${row}: ${field} is ${stringifyJSON(key)}, which this build has no mapping for`)
+	}
+
+	return value
+}
+
+/**
+ * Replace every retired word in one string.
+ */
+export function rewriteRetiredVocabulary(text: string): string {
+	let out = text
+
+	for (const [pattern, to] of RETIRED_WORD_REWRITES) {
+		out = out.replaceAll(pattern, to)
+	}
+
+	return out
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply the whole-note rewrites, recording which fired, then the word-level ones.
+ */
+function rewriteNote(note: string, fired: Set<string>): string {
+	for (const [from, to] of RETIRED_NOTE_REWRITES) {
+		if (note === from) {
+			fired.add(from)
+
+			return to
+		}
+	}
+
+	return rewriteRetiredVocabulary(note)
+}
+
+async function readJurisdictions(
+	inventoryPath: PathBuilderLike,
+	fired: Set<string>
+): Promise<readonly JurisdictionRecord[]> {
+	const records: JurisdictionRecord[] = []
+	let row = 1
+
+	for await (const record of readCSVRecords(inventoryPath)) {
+		row++
+
+		const researchState = mapped(
+			RESEARCH_STATE_BY_NAME,
+			required(record["functional_research_state"], "functional_research_state", row),
+			"functional_research_state",
+			row
+		)
+
+		const jurisdiction: JurisdictionRecord = {
+			iso2: required(record["iso2"], "iso2", row),
+			name: required(record["jurisdiction"], "jurisdiction", row),
+			backboneState: mapped(BACKBONE_STATE_BY_LETTER, required(record["tier"], "tier", row), "tier", row),
+			researchState,
+			bestPath: rewriteRetiredVocabulary(required(record["source"], "source", row)),
+			assertionPlan: required(record["role"], "role", row),
+			note: rewriteNote(required(record["notes"], "notes", row), fired),
+		}
+
+		if (researchState !== JurisdictionResearchState.Seeded) {
+			jurisdiction.stateReason = rewriteRetiredVocabulary(
+				required(record["functional_next_action"], "functional_next_action", row)
+			)
+		}
+
+		records.push(jurisdiction)
+	}
+
+	return records
+}
+
+/**
+ * One generated license decision records the access label from the research pass.
+ *
+ * It also identifies the party whose terms a reviewer would consult.
+ */
+interface LicenseScope {
+	licenseID: string
+	/**
+	 * The pass retains the label's words so a reviewer sees what it wrote.
+	 */
+	statement: string
+	/**
+	 * The publisher whose terms this decision covers, or `null` when the row names none
+	 * and the decision therefore covers only one source.
+	 */
+	publisher: string | null
+	scopedTo: string
+	/**
+	 * The jurisdiction and `scopedTo` folded by {@link partyKey}.
+	 *
+	 * Two rows whose keys agree name one party in one jurisdiction, however they spell it.
+	 */
+	partyKey: string
+	iso2: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * A party's name reduced to the form that decides whether two spellings name the same party:
+ * lower-cased with every run outside `a-z0-9` collapsed to one hyphen, so case
+ * and punctuation merge rather than issue two decisions over one grant.
+ */
+function partyKey(value: string): string {
+	const slug = value
+		.toLowerCase()
+		.replaceAll(/[^a-z0-9]+/gu, "-")
+		.replaceAll(/^-+|-+$/gu, "")
+
+	return slug || "unnamed"
+}
+
+/**
+ * The id fragment for a party is its key trimmed to prevent a long ministry key from dominating
+ * the id. {@link scopedLicenseID} compares the untrimmed key before accepting a match.
+ */
+const ID_FRAGMENT_LENGTH = 48
+
+function idFragment(partyKeyValue: string): string {
+	return partyKeyValue.slice(0, ID_FRAGMENT_LENGTH).replaceAll(/-+$/gu, "") || "unnamed"
+}
+
+/**
+ * The license id for one source row, scoped to the party a reviewer would read.
+ *
+ * The id includes the publisher when that value exists.
+ * It uses the source id when the publisher value is empty.
+ *
+ * The jurisdiction also forms part of the scope because a publisher can use the same name in several states.
+ */
+function scopedLicenseID(
+	statementID: string,
+	publisher: string,
+	sourceID: string,
+	iso2: string,
+	statement: string,
+	scopes: Map<string, LicenseScope>
+): string {
+	const scopedTo = publisher || sourceID
+	const key = `${iso2.toLowerCase()}-${partyKey(scopedTo)}`
+	const licenseID = `${statementID}-${idFragment(key)}`
+	const existing = scopes.get(licenseID)
+
+	if (existing && existing.partyKey !== key) {
+		throw new Error(
+			`two license scopes collapse to ${stringifyJSON(licenseID)}: ${stringifyJSON(existing.scopedTo)} and ` +
+				`${stringifyJSON(scopedTo)}. They are different parties whose names agree over the first ` +
+				`${ID_FRAGMENT_LENGTH} characters of their id fragment. Merging them would let one reading grant both, ` +
+				"which is what scoping the id to a publisher exists to prevent."
+		)
+	}
+
+	if (!existing) {
+		scopes.set(licenseID, { licenseID, statement, publisher: publisher || null, scopedTo, partyKey: key, iso2 })
+	}
+
+	return licenseID
+}
+
+async function readSources(
+	sourcesPath: PathBuilderLike,
+	licenseByStatement: ReadonlyMap<string, string>,
+	fired: Set<string>,
+	scopes: Map<string, LicenseScope>
+): Promise<{ sources: readonly AddressSourceRecord[]; discoveryRailRowsDropped: number }> {
+	const records: AddressSourceRecord[] = []
+	const ordinalByKey = new Map<string, number>()
+	let discoveryRailRowsDropped = 0
+	let row = 1
+
+	for await (const record of readCSVRecords(sourcesPath)) {
+		row++
+
+		const origin = required(record["origin"], "origin", row)
+
+		if (origin === DISCOVERY_RAIL_ORIGIN) {
+			discoveryRailRowsDropped++
+
+			continue
+		}
+
+		const iso2 = required(record["iso2"], "iso2", row)
+		const sector = required(record["sector"], "sector", row).replaceAll("_", "-") as RegisterSector
+		const key = iso2 + KEY_SEPARATOR + sector
+		const ordinal = (ordinalByKey.get(key) ?? 0) + 1
+
+		ordinalByKey.set(key, ordinal)
+
+		const statement = rewriteRetiredVocabulary(required(record["license"], "license", row))
+		const statementID = licenseByStatement.get(statement)
+
+		if (!statementID) {
+			throw new Error(`row ${row}: license ${stringifyJSON(statement)} has no decision record in this build`)
+		}
+
+		const sourceID = `${iso2.toLowerCase()}-${sector}-${ordinal}`
+		const publisherName = rewriteRetiredVocabulary((record["owner"] ?? "").trim())
+		const licenseID = scopedLicenseID(statementID, publisherName, sourceID, iso2, statement, scopes)
+
+		const source: AddressSourceRecord = {
+			sourceID,
+			iso2,
+			sector,
+			name: rewriteRetiredVocabulary(required(record["source"], "source", row)),
+			status: mapped(SOURCE_STATUS_BY_NAME, required(record["status"], "status", row), "status", row),
+			asserts: mapped(ASSERTS_BY_ROLE, required(record["role"], "role", row), "role", row),
+			authorityBasis: rewriteRetiredVocabulary(required(record["authority_basis"], "authority_basis", row)),
+			geometry: mapped(GEOMETRY_BY_NAME, (record["geometry"] ?? "").trim(), "geometry", row),
+			license: licenseID,
+			researchPass: mapped(RESEARCH_PASS_BY_ORIGIN, origin, "origin", row),
+		}
+
+		const access = (record["access"] ?? "").trim()
+		const sourceURL = (record["source_url"] ?? "").trim()
+		const note = (record["notes"] ?? "").trim()
+
+		if (access) {
+			source.access = rewriteRetiredVocabulary(access)
+		}
+
+		if (publisherName) {
+			source.publisher = publisherName
+		}
+
+		if (sourceURL) {
+			source.sourceURL = sourceURL
+		}
+
+		if (note) {
+			source.note = rewriteNote(note, fired)
+		}
+
+		const role = readUnresolvedColumn(record["address_role"], "address_role", row)
+
+		if (role) {
+			// The research pass records one role for a whole source and names no column,
+			// so the role is filed under the record's address field.
+			// A source carrying two roles on one record gets a column-by-column reading
+			// in `source-resolutions.json` instead.
+			source.addressRoles = { address: mapped(ADDRESS_ROLE_BY_NAME, role, "address_role", row) }
+		}
+
+		const coverage = readUnresolvedColumn(record["coverage"], "coverage", row)
+
+		if (coverage) {
+			source.coverage = coverage
+		}
+
+		const upstream = readUnresolvedColumn(record["upstream"], "upstream", row)
+
+		if (upstream) {
+			source.upstreamLineage = TextSpliterator.from(upstream, { delimiter: ";" }).toArray()
+		}
+
+		records.push(source)
+	}
+
+	return { sources: records, discoveryRailRowsDropped }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Values the research pass wrote into a column it did not resolve per source.
+ *
+ * A copy onto a record would turn "uninspected" into a value a consumer reads as an answer.
+ */
+const UNRESOLVED_COLUMN_PLACEHOLDERS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(["varies", "country-specific", "unknown", "n/a"])
+
+/**
+ * A column's value, or `undefined` when the research pass left it unresolved.
+ *
+ * Every value outside the placeholder set is returned, so a value somebody fills in
+ * later reaches the register or fails the build rather than being lost.
+ */
+export function readUnresolvedColumn(value: string | undefined, column: string, row: number): string | undefined {
+	const trimmed = (value ?? "").trim()
+
+	if (!trimmed) return undefined
+
+	if (UNRESOLVED_COLUMN_PLACEHOLDERS.has(trimmed.toLowerCase())) return undefined
+
+	if (column === "address_role" && !ADDRESS_ROLE_BY_NAME[trimmed.toLowerCase()]) {
+		throw new Error(
+			`row ${row}: address_role ${stringifyJSON(trimmed)} is neither a declared placeholder nor an \`AddressRole\`. ` +
+				`Add it to \`AddressRole\` if it is a role, or to the placeholder set if it is the research pass declining ` +
+				"to answer."
+		)
+	}
+
+	return trimmed
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build the register and write it, refusing to write one that fails the audit.
+ *
+ * The output is tab-indented JSON.
+ * `oxfmt` applies additional formatting.
+ *
+ * @throws When an input row contains a vocabulary this build has no mapping for, when a declared
+ * rewrite never fires, or when the finished register fails {@linkcode auditAddressSourceRegister}.
+ */
+/**
+ * The shape of `license-decisions.json`: license id to the decision minus its own id,
+ * keyed by id so each license has one decision.
+ */
+/**
+ * A decision body without its own id, as `license-decisions.json` records one.
+ */
+type RecordedDecision = Omit<ElectedLicense, "licenseID"> | Omit<RefusedLicense, "licenseID">
+
+/**
+ * A decision that reuses a body declared once under `sharedReadings`.
+ *
+ * One publisher can hold a license over several jurisdictions, and the register
+ * scopes a decision to one publisher in one jurisdiction, so reading that publisher's
+ * terms once produces several decisions with the same body.
+ * Naming the shared body keeps each license id's own decision while the prose behind
+ * it has one home, so nine copies cannot drift apart under later editing.
+ */
+interface SharedDecisionReference {
+	sameAs: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * The shape of `license-decisions.json`.
+ */
+export interface LicenseDecisionsFile {
+	decisions?: Record<string, RecordedDecision | SharedDecisionReference>
+	/**
+	 * Decision bodies that several license ids reuse, keyed by a name the ids refer to.
+	 */
+	sharedReadings?: Record<string, RecordedDecision>
+}
+
+function isSharedReference(value: RecordedDecision | SharedDecisionReference): value is SharedDecisionReference {
+	return typeof (value as SharedDecisionReference).sameAs === "string"
+}
+
+/**
+ * The source fields a review resolves, which the research CSV records as placeholders.
+ *
+ * The CSV holds the research pass's findings and is a working document of that pass,
+ * so a later review records its own findings here rather than by editing the pass's record.
+ */
+type SourceResolution = Pick<
+	AddressSourceRecord,
+	"addressRoles" | "coverage" | "upstreamLineage" | "personalDataReview" | "adapterID"
+>
+
+/**
+ * The shape of `source-resolutions.json`: source id to the fields a review resolved for it.
+ */
+interface SourceResolutionsFile {
+	resolutions?: Record<string, SourceResolution>
+}
+
+/**
+ * Source resolutions read from `resolutionsPath`, keyed by source id.
+ *
+ * An absent file answers an empty map.
+ * A file that exists and cannot be parsed raises, because reading it as empty would
+ * drop somebody's recorded review without saying so.
+ */
+async function readSourceResolutions(
+	resolutionsPath: PathBuilderLike | undefined
+): Promise<Map<string, SourceResolution>> {
+	if (!resolutionsPath || !(await pathExists(resolutionsPath))) return new Map()
+
+	const file = await readLocalJSONFile<SourceResolutionsFile>(resolutionsPath)
+
+	return new Map(Object.entries(file.resolutions ?? {}))
+}
+
+/**
+ * Merges each recorded resolution onto the source whose id it holds.
+ *
+ * @throws When a resolution's source id is absent from the register.
+ * Such an entry is a typo or a source that has been removed.
+ * Keeping it silently would leave a review whose fields reach no row, which reads as work already done.
+ */
+export function applySourceResolutions(
+	sources: readonly AddressSourceRecord[],
+	recorded: ReadonlyMap<string, SourceResolution>
+): AddressSourceRecord[] {
+	const known = new Set(sources.map((source) => source.sourceID))
+
+	for (const sourceID of recorded.keys()) {
+		if (!known.has(sourceID)) {
+			throw new Error(
+				`a recorded source resolution names ${stringifyJSON(sourceID)}, which the register does not carry. ` +
+					"A resolution that resolves nothing is a typo or a source that has been removed."
+			)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return sources.map((source) => {
+		const resolution = recorded.get(source.sourceID)
+
+		return resolution ? { ...source, ...resolution } : source
+	})
+}
+
+/**
+ * License decisions read from `decisionsPath`, keyed by license id.
+ *
+ * An absent file answers an empty map, but a file that exists and cannot be parsed raises,
+ * because reading it as empty would silently drop somebody's recorded work.
+ * This function validates no decision it reads, because `auditAddressSourceRegister` already does.
+ */
+async function readLicenseDecisions(decisionsPath: PathBuilderLike | undefined): Promise<Map<string, LicenseDecision>> {
+	if (!decisionsPath || !(await pathExists(decisionsPath))) return new Map()
+
+	return resolveRecordedDecisions(await readLocalJSONFile<LicenseDecisionsFile>(decisionsPath))
+}
+
+/**
+ * Turns a decisions file into decisions keyed by license id, resolving every `sameAs` reference.
+ *
+ * The id comes from the key, so a record cannot disagree with the license it is filed under.
+ * `auditAddressSourceRegister` decides whether the resolved fields form a well-formed decision, so this
+ * function checks only that the file declares a reading for each reference.
+ *
+ * @throws When a `sameAs` reads a reading absent from `sharedReadings`.
+ * Such a reference would otherwise produce a decision carrying no terms, which the audit
+ * would report as an unknown review state rather than as the typo it is.
+ */
+export function resolveRecordedDecisions(file: LicenseDecisionsFile): Map<string, LicenseDecision> {
+	const shared = file.sharedReadings ?? {}
+
+	return new Map(
+		Object.entries(file.decisions ?? {}).map(([licenseID, recorded]) => {
+			if (!isSharedReference(recorded)) return [licenseID, { ...recorded, licenseID } as LicenseDecision]
+
+			const body = shared[recorded.sameAs]
+
+			if (!body) {
+				throw new Error(
+					`licence ${stringifyJSON(licenseID)} reads \`sameAs\` ${stringifyJSON(recorded.sameAs)}, ` +
+						"which `sharedReadings` does not declare. A reference to a reading that is absent would " +
+						"otherwise produce a decision with no terms."
+				)
+			}
+
+			return [licenseID, { ...body, licenseID } as LicenseDecision]
+		})
+	)
+}
+
+export async function buildSourceRegister(options: BuildSourceRegisterOptions): Promise<SourceRegisterBuildResult> {
+	const fired = new Set<string>()
+	const licenseByStatement = new Map(LICENSE_DECISIONS.map(([statement, licenseID]) => [statement, licenseID]))
+	const scopes = new Map<string, LicenseScope>()
+	const jurisdictions = await readJurisdictions(options.inventoryPath, fired)
+
+	const { sources: derived, discoveryRailRowsDropped } = await readSources(
+		options.sourcesPath,
+		licenseByStatement,
+		fired,
+		scopes
+	)
+
+	const sources = applySourceResolutions(derived, await readSourceResolutions(options.resolutionsPath))
+
+	for (const [from] of RETIRED_NOTE_REWRITES) {
+		if (!fired.has(from)) {
+			throw new Error(`the rewrite of ${stringifyJSON(from)} never fired — the upstream text has moved on`)
+		}
+	}
+
+	const used = new Set(sources.map((source) => source.license))
+	const noteByStatement = new Map(LICENSE_DECISIONS.map(([statement, , note]) => [statement, note]))
+
+	const generated: LicenseDecision[] = [...scopes.values()]
+		.filter((scope) => used.has(scope.licenseID))
+		.map((scope): UncheckedLicense => {
+			const label = noteByStatement.get(scope.statement) ?? ""
+
+			const scopedNote = scope.publisher
+				? `${label} Scoped to ${scope.publisher} in ${scope.iso2}, so electing it grants that publisher's sources in that jurisdiction alone.`
+				: `${label} The research pass recorded no publisher, so this decision is scoped to ${scope.scopedTo} alone.`
+
+			return {
+				licenseID: scope.licenseID,
+				state: LicenseReviewState.Unchecked,
+				publisherStatement: scope.statement,
+				note: scopedNote,
+			}
+		})
+		.toSorted((left, right) => left.licenseID.localeCompare(right.licenseID))
+
+	const licenses = applyLicenseDecisions(generated, await readLicenseDecisions(options.decisionsPath))
+
+	const register: AddressSourceRegister = {
+		registerID: "address-source-register",
+		version: options.version,
+		// Filled below, once every other field is in place, because the digest covers the rest
+		// of the register and cannot be computed while the object is still being assembled.
+		contentDigest: "",
+		provenance: {
+			source: "mailwoman-research",
+			sourceVersion: options.sourceVersion,
+			authoredAt: options.authoredAt,
+			notes:
+				"Derived from a research pass over all 249 ISO 3166-1 codes plus the operational code XK. " +
+				"The eight global discovery lookups the pass repeated once per jurisdiction are the package " +
+				"README's procedure, not rows here.",
+		},
+		unresolved: UNRESOLVED_FIELDS.filter((field) => !sources.some((source) => source[field] !== undefined)),
+		licenses,
+		jurisdictions,
+		sources,
+	}
+
+	register.contentDigest = registerContentDigest(register)
+
+	const problems = auditAddressSourceRegister(register)
+
+	if (problems.length) {
+		throw new Error(`the derived register fails its own audit:\n  ${problems.join("\n  ")}`)
+	}
+
+	await writeLocalFile(prettyJSON(register), options.outPath)
+
+	return {
+		outPath: options.outPath.toString(),
+		jurisdictions: jurisdictions.length,
+		sources: sources.length,
+		licenses: licenses.length,
+		discoveryRailRowsDropped,
+		researchStates: countBy(jurisdictions, (record) => record.researchState),
+		statuses: countBy(sources, (record) => record.status),
+	}
+}
+
+function countBy<T, K extends string>(rows: readonly T[], key: (row: T) => K): Readonly<Record<K, number>> {
+	const counts = {} as Record<K, number>
+
+	for (const row of rows) {
+		counts[key(row)] = (counts[key(row)] ?? 0) + 1
+	}
+
+	return counts
+}