Data Dictionary
Document Metadata
Every Federal Register document tracked by the Federal Register Watcher has one metadata record. It combines the information published by the Federal Register, details from Regulations.gov, and the enriched fields (keywords, summaries, sections and citations) generated by Numantic Legal Intelligence. This is the information shown on the Document Lookup page.
uuid | Text | Unique database identifier. | Federal Register |
agencies | Text | The agencies associated with the document. | Federal Register |
body_html_url | Text | URL linking to the HTML version of the document body. | Federal Register |
dates | Text | A description of associated dates. | Federal Register |
disposition_notes | Text | Document disposition notes. | Federal Register |
document_number | Text | A unique Federal Register identifier for the document. | Federal Register |
full_text_xml_url | Text | URL linking to the XML version of the document's full text. | Federal Register |
html_url | Text | URL to the HTML version of the document. | Federal Register |
json_url | Text | URL to the JSON version of the document. | Federal Register |
mods_url | Text | URL to the XML version of document modifiers. | Federal Register |
page_length | Text | Length of the document in pages. | Federal Register |
pdf_url | Text | URL to the PDF version of the document. | Federal Register |
public_inspection_pdf_url | Text | URL to the public inspection PDF version of the document. | Federal Register |
publication_date | Text | The date the document was published in the Federal Register (YYYY-MM-DD). | Federal Register |
raw_text_url | Text | URL to the plain text version. | Federal Register |
title | Text | The document's title. | Federal Register |
toc_doc | Text | Table of contents document information. | Federal Register |
toc_subject | Text | Table of contents subject information. | Federal Register |
type | Text | The document type. | Federal Register |
volume | Text | The document volume number. | Federal Register |
content_keywords | Text | AI-generated keywords from the document (JSON array format). | NLI enriched |
category_keyword | Text | The AI-labeled category keyword associated with the document. | NLI enriched |
date_json | Text | The date associated with the JSON file containing the document. | NLI enriched |
update_time | Text | The update time for this record in the Federal Register document metadata table. | NLI enriched |
ss_kw_cnt | Text | Count of the suggested search keywords found in the document text; Used to score and rank documents. | NLI enriched |
fr_sections | Text | A list of Federal Register sections associated with the document. | NLI enriched |
abstract | Text | An abstract from document publishers available for selected documents. | Federal Register |
topics | Text | A list of topics assigned by document publishers for selected documents. | Federal Register |
sug_srch_params | Text | A list of Federal Register suggested searches that will return this document. | NLI enriched |
sug_srch_params_cnt | Text | Count of the Federal Register suggested searches that will return this document. | NLI enriched |
doc_txt_char_count | Text | Count of the characters in the document text. | NLI enriched |
summary_post | Text | A short social media summary post of the document's text (JSON object format with title and body). | NLI enriched |
agency_abbrevs | Text | Agency name abbreviations in the same order as names in agencies (JSON array format). | NLI enriched |
summary_blog | Text | A blog-like summary of the document's text. | NLI enriched |
citations | Text | Federal document citations extracted from the document. | NLI enriched |
rdg_comment_url | Text | URL to submit comments on this document via Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_comments_close_on | Text | The deadline for public comments at Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_dates | Text | A text description or list of key document dates at Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_support_docs_count | Text | Number of supplementary document materials at Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_support_docs | Text | Additional refereneces for this document at Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_comments_url | Text | URL to retrieve public comments submitted for this document at Regulations.gov. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_docket_id | Text | The Regulations.gov overall agency folder (docket) id for this document. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_document_id | Text | The Regulations.gov identifier for this document within its system. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_reg_id_number | Text | The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) tracking a rulemaking action. | Regulations.gov |
rdg_checked_at | Text | Time of last Regulations.gov update for this document. | Regulations.gov |
page_views_cnt_info | Text | The count of document page views at the number of days after publication. | Federal Register |
comments_cnt_info | Text | The count of document comments at the number of days after publication. | Federal Register |
FedDocMetaData). Developers can find the full schema in the Developer Portal.Last modified on