Tees Valley System Map — data

The dataset for the RCVDA system map: the public system of the Tees Valley — organisations, boards, roles, places and the relationships between them — as a single coded model. This repo holds the data and its documentation only; the tool that renders and publishes it (the WordPress plugin + build) lives in rcvda/rcvda-system-map.

What's here

Path	What it is
data/system-data.json	The model — the canonical source of truth ({nodes, edges, sources}). Edit here.
docs/schema.md	The node/edge schema.
docs/geography.md	Coded geography (ONS GSS codes), the lenses, and how a lens filters the map.
docs/sources/	Source archive + _manifest.md — provenance for every sourced node.

Model (brief)

~399 nodes / ~578 edges. Each node: id, label, type, group (system domain), tier, org (container), subtype, person, status, source, plus coded geography — area (ONS GSS code or grouping slug), area_label, ceremonial, external, constituency. Each edge: source, target, label, kind (governance / officer / political / commissioning / funding / membership / delivery), weight. Full detail in docs/schema.md and docs/geography.md.

How it's used

The rcvda-system-map plugin loads this file live via the jsDelivr CDN (https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/rcvda/tees-valley-system-map@main/data/system-data.json) and falls back to a copy bundled inside the plugin. So editing here and pushing updates the site — no plugin reinstall for data-only changes.

Update loop

# edit data/system-data.json
git add -A && git commit -m "Update model: <what changed>" && git push

The site picks up the change once the CDN cache expires (~12h on main), or immediately if the tool is pinned to a release tag you bump. If you keep both repos checked out side by side, the tool's build/build.sh reads this repo directly to refresh its bundled fallback.

Provenance & licence

Compiled by RCVDA from public sources — see docs/sources/ and each node's source. The underlying facts are public information (council democratic-services sites, published board pages, ONS, etc.). Licence: to confirm — intended for open reuse; RCVDA to set the exact terms (e.g. CC-BY-4.0 or Open Government Licence v3.0) and add a LICENSE file before external distribution.