Site & law04 of 06
Contents: every page on this site, grouped by section
All 38 pages in one index. The five sections are the reference; everything below them is about the site itself.
This index exists so the whole site can be seen at once. Each section hub carries the same list for its own pages, but a reader arriving on one page has no way to judge the scale of what surrounds it, and a reference whose extent is invisible is harder to trust than one whose extent is plain.
The order below is the order of the navigation, and it is deliberate rather than alphabetical. Systems stands first because most arrivals come with a question about equipment. Governance follows it because that question almost always becomes a question about responsibility, which is a different subject with different sources. Programmes explains who paid for the equipment and under what conditions, the dossiers record specific attempts in which all three appear together, and the reference layer sits last because it is consulted rather than read.
Every entry is one link away from this page. Nothing is behind pagination, a search box or a menu that has to be opened first, and no page on the site is reachable only from here — the hubs repeat their own lists, so this index is a second route rather than the only one. Its purpose is the extent: how much there is, in what proportion, and where the material about the site itself begins.
How the sections relate to each other
The five sections are not independent. Systems describes what the equipment can and cannot do; Governance describes who answers for using it; Programmes describes who paid for building it; and the Dossiers record specific attempts, which is where the other three meet in one place. Reference sits underneath all of them as the lookup layer.
Pages cross-reference each other where the argument genuinely continues elsewhere rather than as a courtesy. A claim about coverage on one page and the geometry behind it on another are the same claim, and splitting them without a link would leave both incomplete.
Questions about how this reference is arranged
How is this site organised?
In five sections and a short back matter. 5 sections carry the reference itself — systems and sensors, programmes and funding, governance and oversight, the reference layer, and the dossiers on named programmes. The back matter is everything about the site rather than about the subject: what it is, where its material comes from, how to correct it, and the two legal pages. Each section has a hub that introduces it and lists its own pages.
Why is this index not alphabetical?
Because the order carries an argument. Systems comes first because most readers arrive with a question about equipment; governance follows because an equipment question almost always turns into a question about who is answerable for it; programmes explains who paid; and the dossiers are where all three meet in a named case. An alphabetical list would put the glossary above the systems it defines.
Is every page listed here?
Yes — all 38, including the five section hubs, the back matter and the page a reader reaches by mistyping an address. Nothing on the site sits behind pagination, a search box or a menu that has to be opened first, so this list is complete rather than a selection from something larger.
What does a section hub have that this index does not?
Context. A hub states what its section covers, where the boundaries of that coverage are, and which of its pages answers which question, so it is the better starting point for reading. This index is the better starting point for finding: it shows the extent of the whole reference in one screen, which no hub can do for the sections other than its own.