---
pretty_name: ECHR Guide Case Catalog
language:
- en
tags:
- legal
- echr
- hudoc
- entity-linking
- dataset-creation
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Dataset Card for ECHR Guide Case Catalog

## Dataset Summary

This dataset links citation strings found in ECHR guide materials to canonical HUDOC case records and guide-level appearances.

It is derived from the cleaned citation-diff layer and a HUDOC enrichment pass. The goal is to move from raw citation strings to normalized case entities with stable identifiers, document types, importance levels, and guide appearance metadata.

## Dataset Structure

Main files:

- `cases_catalog.csv`: main case catalog table
- `cases_catalog.json`: JSON export of the same catalog
- `case_guides.csv`: guide-level case associations
- `case_appearances.csv`: finer-grained appearance-level mapping
- `audit/cases_catalog_hudoc_report.json`: matching statistics and audit counts
- `audit/cases_catalog_hudoc_unmatched.csv`: unresolved citation rows

## Dataset Statistics

- catalog rows: `7846`
- matched rows: `7763`
- unmatched rows: `83`
- guide-link rows in `case_guides.csv`: `12310`
- appearance rows in `case_appearances.csv`: `61646`

## Intended Use

This dataset is intended for:

- canonical case linking
- joining guide citations to HUDOC metadata
- filtering or ranking guide changes by case importance or document type
- serving as an intermediate layer between citation diffs and body-context localization

## Provenance

Derived from:

- `lexgenie/echr-guide-citation-diffs`
- the cleaned citation-diff outputs in `lexgenie/echr-guide-citation-diffs-cleaned`
- HUDOC enrichment and matching

This dataset should be treated as a normalized entity layer rather than as a raw citation-diff release.