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  "profile": "tabular-data-package",
  "name": "clarke-cemeteries-royston",
  "title": "Cemeteries of Clarke County records",
  "description": "Every grave, burial and named marker in Don and Mary Royston’s Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005), from 77 burial places outside Green Hill, one row per record as the book prints it.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "created": "2026-10-16",
  "homepage": "https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-cemeteries-royston",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia",
      "path": "https://ourclarke.com/cemeteries/"
    }
  ],
  "citation": "Our Clarke. \"Cemeteries of Clarke County records.\" Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-16. Compiled by Don and Mary Royston (2005). https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-cemeteries-royston. License: CC BY 4.0.",
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      "path": "clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.csv",
      "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
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      "mediatype": "text/csv",
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        "lineTerminator": "\n",
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          {
            "name": "record_id",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Stable Our Clarke identifier for the record, the anchor of its card on /cemeteries/. Does not change between versions."
          },
          {
            "name": "burial_place",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The burial place heading as the book prints it."
          },
          {
            "name": "burial_place_id",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Stable Our Clarke identifier for the burial place."
          },
          {
            "name": "book_part",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The part of the book the record is in: Crampton inscriptions (from the Clarke County Historical Association's Proceedings), Royston surveys 2004, or Church register lists."
          },
          {
            "name": "subsection",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The subsection heading the record sits under, as printed, where the book has one."
          },
          {
            "name": "record_kind",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "grave, burial (from a register or list), marker (a stone with no name read), mention, lot owner, monument or plaque."
          },
          {
            "name": "name",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The name as printed. Empty when the book prints none or the scan garbled it (see withheld_fields)."
          },
          {
            "name": "birth_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Birth date text exactly as printed."
          },
          {
            "name": "death_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Death date text exactly as printed. \"no date\" is the book's own wording for a stone cut before a death; it says nothing about whether the person has since died."
          },
          {
            "name": "burial_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Burial date text exactly as printed, mostly from church registers."
          },
          {
            "name": "year",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Year read from death_date, or from burial_date when there is no death date. Empty when neither could be read. Never corrected."
          },
          {
            "name": "age",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Age as printed."
          },
          {
            "name": "lot",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Lot or row as printed."
          },
          {
            "name": "notes",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The book's notes for a table row, verbatim. Relationship abbreviations (w/, s/, d/) are the book's; no relationship is derived from them."
          },
          {
            "name": "entry",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The whole entry as printed, for records the book prints as a line or paragraph rather than a table row."
          },
          {
            "name": "burial_place_as_printed",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A burial place the record itself names, as printed (register lists name one per burial)."
          },
          {
            "name": "status",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Status as printed in a register list."
          },
          {
            "name": "plaque",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The plaque or memorial the name is on, as printed."
          },
          {
            "name": "inscription",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Inscription lines as printed, separated by \" / \"."
          },
          {
            "name": "sources_cited",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The sources the book cites for the record, separated by semicolons."
          },
          {
            "name": "military_note",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "yes when the record's notes name a war, a unit, a rank or a branch. A reading of the notes, not a service record."
          },
          {
            "name": "withheld_fields",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Space-separated fields not given because the scan garbled them. Look them up on the book page."
          },
          {
            "name": "book_page",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Page of Royston (2005) the record is printed on."
          },
          {
            "name": "record_url",
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri",
            "description": "The record's card on /cemeteries/."
          },
          {
            "name": "same_name_and_death_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Space-separated links to a death-register entry, Green Hill Cemetery record or veterans roll row with the same name and a death date agreeing to the day or month. A link is a match on the record, not a proof of identity."
          }
        ]
      }
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