id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/class/CourtRecords
name: court_records_class
title: Court Records Archive Type
prefixes:
  linkml: https://w3id.org/linkml/
  hc: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/
  skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
  wd: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/
  rico: https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#
default_prefix: hc
imports:
- linkml:types
- ./ArchiveOrganizationType
- ../slots/court_types_covered
- ../slots/has_or_had_type
- ../slots/jurisdiction_level
- ../slots/specificity_annotation
- ../slots/has_or_had_score
- ../slots/has_or_had_identifier
- ./WikiDataIdentifier
- ./SpecificityAnnotation
- ./TemplateSpecificityScore
- ./TemplateSpecificityType
- ./TemplateSpecificityTypes
- ../slots/court_types_covered
- ../slots/has_or_had_type
- ../slots/has_or_had_identifier
- ../slots/jurisdiction_level
- ../slots/specificity_annotation
- ../slots/has_or_had_score
- ../slots/court_types_covered
- ../slots/has_or_had_type
- ../slots/has_or_had_identifier
- ../slots/jurisdiction_level
- ../slots/specificity_annotation
- ../slots/has_or_had_score
classes:
  CourtRecords:
    is_a: ArchiveOrganizationType
    class_uri: skos:Concept
    description: "Archive specializing in judicial and court records.\n\n**Wikidata**: Q11906844 (Justizarchiv / court records archive)\n\n**DEFINITION**:\n\nCourt Records archives (Justizarchiv in German) preserve and provide access to \nrecords created by judicial bodies including:\n- Courts of law at all levels (supreme, appellate, district, local)\n- Tribunals and administrative courts\n- Notarial records (where managed by courts)\n- Legal proceedings documentation\n- Court orders, judgments, and decrees\n\n**SCOPE**:\n\nCourt archives differ from general government archives by their focus on:\n- Evidential value (legal proof, precedent)\n- Retention schedules based on legal requirements\n- Access restrictions (privacy, ongoing cases, sealed records)\n- Chain of custody requirements for legal validity\n\n**MULTILINGUAL LABELS**:\n- Justizarchiv (de)\n- archivo judicial (es)\n- archives judiciaires (fr)\n\n**RELATED TYPES**:\n- NotarialArchive (Q8203685) - notarial records specifically\n\
      - PublicArchive (Q27031009) - broader government records\n- LegalRecordSet - rico:RecordSetType for court record collections\n\n**ONTOLOGICAL ALIGNMENT**:\n- **SKOS**: skos:Concept (type classification)\n- **RiC-O**: rico:RecordSet for archival description of court fonds\n- **Wikidata**: Q11906844\n"
    slots:
    - court_types_covered
    - has_or_had_type
    - jurisdiction_level
    - specificity_annotation
    - has_or_had_score
    - has_or_had_identifier
    slot_usage:
      has_or_had_identifier: null
      jurisdiction_level:
        range: string
        examples:
        - value: state
          description: State-level court records
        - value: federal
          description: Federal court system records
      court_types_covered:
        range: string
        multivalued: true
        examples:
        - value:
          - civil
          - criminal
          - commercial
          description: General court archive covering main jurisdictions
      has_or_had_type:
        equals_expression: '["hc:ArchiveOrganizationType"]'
    exact_mappings:
    - wikidata:Q11906844
    close_mappings:
    - rico:RecordSet
    related_mappings:
    - wikidata:Q8203685
    - wikidata:Q27031009
    comments:
    - Court Records archives preserve judicial documentation
    - Subject to legal retention requirements and access restrictions
    - Often managed by Ministry of Justice or court administration
    - Chain of custody essential for legal validity of records
    see_also:
    - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11906844
    - https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#RecordSet
    examples:
    - value:
        has_or_had_identifier: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/type/archive/Q11906844
        has_or_had_type_code: ARCHIVE
        has_or_had_identifier: Q11906844
        has_or_had_label:
        - Court Records Archive@en
        - Justizarchiv@de
        - archivo judicial@es
        - archives judiciaires@fr
        has_or_had_description: Archive preserving judicial and court records
        jurisdiction_level: federal
        court_types_covered:
        - civil
        - criminal
        - administrative
      description: Federal court records archive example
    annotations:
      specificity_score: 0.1
      specificity_rationale: Generic utility class/slot created during migration
      custodian_types: "['*']"
      custodian_types_rationale: Universal utility concept