Please don't forget to use the source=* tag (Case study!)

Thanks for the detailed discussion kickoff @jeffmeyer ! This has certainly already helped myself immensely.

With this syntax would source:start_date = * be easily confused with start_date:source = * If Im following, the first would then mean “the start date of the source” and the second is the “the source of start_date”. Wording the tags like this makes a ton of sense, and is a helpful visualizer for the concept.

Would this make any sense?

source: = Short name or Title ex) “USGS”
source::name = Full name or extended title ex) “USGS, Elmoro,CO 1892”
source::url = the original link.

Maybe this is too verbose. It could be better to just ask the minimum to be source: = url, which I would be perfectly okay with.

Could source::type =* be a useful optional tag?

types could include;

  • map
  • photograph
  • newspaper
  • drawing?

Again, this could be too verbose.

This is the most helpful bit, and I’m perfectly okay if we ended up settling on this, but I’m also curious what other people think.

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