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.