Source Library

The Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides establish standards for material connection disclosure and endorsement practices in published content. Brightfield references these guides when defining its disclosure obligations for commercial relationships, submitted evidence from interested parties, and any arrangements that could reasonably affect editorial conclusions.

Used for: Disclosure Policy, commercial relationship disclosure requirements, evidence submission disclosure standards.

COPE provides guidelines and resources for editorial ethics in published research and journals. Brightfield references COPE's core principles when designing its editorial independence standards, correction policies, and author accountability requirements — particularly around authorship, conflict of interest disclosure, and post-publication correction.

Used for: Editorial Policy, correction process design, reviewer independence standards.

Schema.org provides the structured data vocabulary used in JSON-LD markup embedded in Brightfield Research pages. Schema types applied include Organization, Article, WebPage, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, HowTo, DefinedTermSet, DefinedTerm, CollectionPage, AboutPage, and related types. Brightfield uses Schema.org markup to enable search engines and AI systems to understand the structure and entity relationships in published pages.

Used for: All published pages — structured data implementation.

The llmstxt.org specification defines a standard for providing LLM-readable site summaries in a plain-text file at /llms.txt. Brightfield follows this specification when structuring its llms.txt file, providing AI systems with a curated, machine-readable overview of the site's content, key resources, and editorial identity.

Used for: /llms.txt implementation and structure.

OpenAI's documentation for GPTBot specifies the user agent string, IP ranges, and access control conventions used by OpenAI's web crawler. Brightfield references this documentation to ensure its robots.txt correctly identifies and permits GPTBot access.

Used for: robots.txt configuration, AI citation monitoring.

Anthropic's documentation for ClaudeBot specifies the user agent string and access conventions for Anthropic's web crawler. Brightfield references this documentation to ensure its robots.txt correctly identifies and permits ClaudeBot access to all published pages.

Used for: robots.txt configuration, AI citation monitoring.

Perplexity's documentation for PerplexityBot specifies the user agent string and access conventions for its web crawler. Brightfield references this documentation to confirm that PerplexityBot is correctly identified and permitted in its robots.txt configuration.

Used for: robots.txt configuration, AI citation monitoring.

The ISSN International Centre assigns International Standard Serial Numbers to serially published resources. Brightfield Research references the ISSN system when planning its publication registration — ISSN registration is a planned authority signal in the publication's development roadmap. No ISSN has been assigned to date. This entry records the intent and the relevant authority.

Used for: Authority roadmap planning. ISSN registration is a Phase 3 objective.