Update dataset card and reproducibility metadata for v0.3.1

Correct size metadata, release paths, methodology limits, pinned dependencies, citation and changelog.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.3.1 — 2026-08-14
+
+- Corrected machine-readable date typing for empirical model studies in the unified catalog.
+- Expanded deterministic semantic QA to all 26 tables and separated semantic acceptance from file-hash integrity.
+- Added six typed observation rows for five previously narrative-only quantitative claims, including separate FCC penalty rows.
+- Added explicit preparedness-context actor and technology rows without treating them as deployments or incidents.
+- Corrected stale complete-result notes, Moldova second-round ballot-designating entities, and an undocumented actor-attribution literal.
+- Corrected Hugging Face size metadata and release-artifact paths; clarified the scope of observations, source manifests, and warnings.
+- Added pinned Parquet and validation dependencies and a documented single-coder protocol with future double-coding requirements.
+- Documented the absence of archived source snapshots and pinpoint locators rather than presenting blank provenance fields as verified preservation.
+
 ## 0.3.0 — 2026-08-12
 
 - Reframed the release as an evidence index rather than a globally comprehensive incident dataset.

CITATION.cff

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ title: "AI, Elections and Agency Transfer Evidence Index"
 type: dataset
 authors:
   - name: "Apol"
-version: 0.3.0
-date-released: 2026-08-12
+version: 0.3.1
+date-released: 2026-08-14
 license: CC-BY-4.0
 keywords:
   - elections

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -7,19 +7,20 @@ This dataset accepts evidence corrections, source replacements, and proposed cas
 - Prefer an authoritative primary record plus independent corroboration.
 - Quote only the smallest passage necessary to locate the evidence; do not redistribute copyrighted articles or harmful media.
 - Separate creator, sponsor, distributor, platform, beneficiary, attributed state actor, and responding institution.
-- Report the denominator for every scale figure. Accounts, calls, completed calls, views, followers, impressions, recipients, and unique voters are not interchangeable.
+- Report the denominator for every scale figure and add an `observations` row when the quantity is decision-relevant and suitable for comparison. Accounts, calls, completed calls, views, followers, impressions, recipients, and unique voters are not interchangeable.
 - Do not infer belief, turnout, votes, seats, or a result from reach alone.
 - Include counterevidence, denials, acquittals, reversed orders, and unresolved attribution.
 
 ## Promotion from `candidates`
 
-A candidate can enter the included corpus only after it has a stable `case_id`, one explicit `record_type`, claim-level coding, normalized evidence links, actor and technology provenance (including explicit unknowns), a case–election relation, typed observations for every reported quantity, an agency-transfer pathway, and an explicit statement of the maximum conclusion warranted by the evidence. Boundary and null cases may remain in `candidates` or enter a labelled comparison layer when their main value is comparison rather than demonstrated harm.
+A candidate can enter the included corpus only after it has a stable `case_id`, one explicit `record_type`, claim-level coding, normalized evidence links, actor and technology provenance (including explicit unknowns or non-deployment context), a case–election relation, typed observations for decision-relevant comparable quantities, an agency-transfer pathway, and an explicit statement of the maximum conclusion warranted by the evidence. Boundary and null cases may remain in `candidates` or enter a labelled comparison layer when their main value is comparison rather than demonstrated harm.
 
 ## Local validation
 
 ```bash
 node scripts/build-data.mjs
 node scripts/audit-v03.mjs > data/audit-v03.json
+cp data/audit-v03.json data/audit.json
 node scripts/validate-data.mjs
 ```
 

README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ language:
   - es
 pretty_name: AI, Elections and Agency Transfer Evidence Index
 size_categories:
-  - n<1K
+  - 1K<n<10K
 tags:
   - elections
   - political-disinformation
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ configs:
 
 # AI, Elections and Agency Transfer Evidence Index
 
-Version `0.3.0` is an auditable research corpus about AI-enabled election influence, political synthetic media, algorithmic distribution, coordinated networks, and the transfer of informational or representational control. The research cutoff is **12 August 2026**.
+Version `0.3.1` is an auditable research corpus about AI-enabled election influence, political synthetic media, algorithmic distribution, coordinated networks, and the transfer of informational or representational control. The research cutoff is **12 August 2026**.
 
-The package is comprehensive within its declared evidence files. It is **not** a census of all elections, a global prevalence sample, or a causal estimate of votes changed.
+The package is internally complete for the records and tables it declares. It is **not** a comprehensive catalogue of elections, a global prevalence sample, or a causal estimate of votes changed.
 
 ## Start here
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The package is comprehensive within its declared evidence files. It is **not** a
 4. `claims.csv` and `claim_evidence.csv` — the evidentiary basis for factual use.
 5. `official_election_metrics.csv` and `official_results.csv` — electoral context only.
 
-The Excel workbook in `workbook/` follows this same order. The detail tables remain available for auditing and reproducibility.
+On Hugging Face, the Excel workbook and ZIP are in `release/`. Inside the ZIP, the workbook is also available under `workbook/`. Detail tables remain available for auditing and reproducibility.
 
 ## Release at a glance
 
@@ -92,18 +92,19 @@ The Excel workbook in `workbook/` follows this same order. The detail tables rem
 | Claim-coded records | 10 | 2 election-wide cases, 2 observed networks, 3 bounded incidents, 1 campaign set, and 2 preparedness files |
 | Incident-count eligible | 8 | Excludes both preparedness files; still requires filtering by `record_type` |
 | Atomic claims | 96 | Occurrence, attribution, mechanism, reach, effects, response, counterevidence, and agency transfer are separate |
-| Sources | 70 | Primary records, official decisions, peer-reviewed research, technical reports, and independent reporting |
+| Claim-evidence sources | 70 | Primary records, official decisions, peer-reviewed research, technical reports, and independent reporting |
+| Official data sources | 31 | Electoral files and legal/administrative records kept in a separate manifest |
 | Screening leads | 47 | Comparative research queue; not included incidents until claim-coded |
 | Empirical model studies | 7 | Audits and experiments; never incident counts |
 | Agency-transfer pathways | 10 | One structured assessment per claim-coded record |
-| Typed observations | 18 | Metrics retain unit, denominator, time window, uniqueness, method, and causal status |
+| Typed observations | 24 | Selected decision-relevant metrics retain unit, denominator, time window, uniqueness, method, and causal status |
 | Official contests/bundles | 11 | Completed, scheduled, and conditional election contexts |
 | Official long-form metrics | 58 | Includes Moldovan protocol fields and legal numerator definitions |
 | Official result rows | 68 | Full national fields for Romania and Moldova; New Hampshire remains explicitly partial |
 
-Automated QA reports **0 blocking errors** and **6 explicit warnings**. Every warning concerns a regional frame without a systematic negative/null search; this prevents unsupported prevalence claims.
+Automated QA reports **0 blocking errors** and **6 explicit warnings**. Every warning concerns a regional frame without a systematic negative/null search; the warnings flag that prevalence inference is unsupported.
 
-## Why v0.3 is methodologically different
+## Why v0.3.x is methodologically different
 
 ### Comparable units
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ The central analytic sequence is:
 
 ### Typed quantitative evidence
 
-`observations.csv` does not collapse accounts, posts, views, followers, calls, questions, users, voters, or votes. Every quantity states its denominator, measurement window, uniqueness status, method, source, and whether it is descriptive or causal.
+`observations.csv` does not collapse accounts, posts, views, followers, calls, questions, users, voters, or votes. It normalizes selected decision-relevant quantities with denominator, window, uniqueness, method, source, and causal status. Numeric text can still appear only in claims when it is not suitable for comparison; absence from `observations` is not evidence that no number exists elsewhere.
 
 ### Capability evidence is separate from deployment
 
@@ -190,6 +191,14 @@ Pipe-delimited fields remain only for backward compatibility or compact display.
 
 `coder_confidence_in_label` is confidence in the coding decision, not a probability that the claim is true. Use `claim_status`, `evidence_strength`, counterevidence, and the underlying source relationship.
 
+This release has one primary coder and no reported intercoder-reliability estimate. See `docs/methodology.md`; the numeric confidence field is legacy self-assessment metadata, not a calibrated scientific score.
+
+## Source preservation and locators
+
+The release retains public source URLs but does not redistribute source snapshots. Consequently, `archive_url`, `content_hash`, official-source `content_sha256`, `content_bytes`, and `source_schema_version` remain blank unless the exact referenced object was captured and verified. A blank is an explicit preservation gap, not proof that the public record is unavailable.
+
+Likewise, a blank `claim_evidence.locator` means the relationship is documented at page or document level; it must not be read as paragraph-level pinpoint verification. Researchers needing quote-level reproducibility should capture a lawful snapshot, record its hash, and add a stable page, paragraph, timestamp, table, or cell locator in a future release.
+
 ## Suitable and unsuitable uses
 
 Suitable uses include comparative case research, evidence tracing, institutional-response analysis, model-capability comparison, official-context reconciliation, and hypothesis generation.
@@ -208,9 +217,12 @@ Do not use this release as:
 ```bash
 node scripts/build-data.mjs
 node scripts/audit-v03.mjs > data/audit-v03.json
+cp data/audit-v03.json data/audit.json
 node scripts/validate-data.mjs
+npm ci
+node scripts/build-parquet.mjs
 ```
 
-`data/stats.json` records input and output SHA-256 hashes. `data/audit-v03.json` is deterministic and exits non-zero only for blocking errors. `data/schema.json` preserves column order and `data/datapackage.json` adds machine-readable types and relations.
+`data/stats.json` records input and output SHA-256 hashes. `data/audit-v03.json` is deterministic, covers all 26 tables, and exits non-zero only for blocking errors. `data/schema.json` preserves column order and `data/datapackage.json` adds machine-readable types and relations. `package-lock.json` pins Parquet generation; `requirements-validation.txt` pins optional independent Frictionless validation.
 
 The dataset license covers the original coding and synthesis. Source materials remain subject to the terms of their publishers and issuing institutions. Cite both this dataset and the original sources for substantive claims.

package-lock.json

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package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "name": "agency-transfer-election-cases",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module",
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=20"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "build:data": "node scripts/build-data.mjs",
+    "audit": "node scripts/audit-v03.mjs",
+    "validate": "node scripts/validate-data.mjs",
+    "build:parquet": "node scripts/build-parquet.mjs"
+  },
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+  }
+}

requirements-validation.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
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