What is the name of this designation?

The JSON website uses very clear notations to describe the JSON syntax:

http://www.json.org/object.gif
(source: json.org )

What is the name of this record? Is it just a graphical representation of the BPF or does it have its own name?

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These are called Syntax Charts (or Railway Charts)

"is a way of representing context-free grammar. They are a graphical alternative to the Backsu-Naur form or EBNF"

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they are called "railroad charts"

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