Archival Lore Codes

In order to simplify searching and referencing works of lore made by members of Red, a coding system was introduced. Each work of lore is given one of these codes. Works of lore within the red museum and this wiki should always have their code noted nearby.

It is the current Minister for Cultures duty to curate the museum (ie include everything that can be found) and to solve issues with the allotment of Archival Lore Codes, should they arrise.

## Explanantion

The code is made up of 7 parts, each labeled below:

xx xxx xxxxxxxx Dxx Mxx Yxx xx

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[1]

Type code, such as written, art etc, encoded as two letters from the Roman alphabet.

See “Type Codes” below.

[2]

Subject code, such as religion-history, military-operations etc, encoded as a 3 digit number, with the first digit indicating the main topic (e.g. religion) and the second 2 indicating the secondary topic (e.g. history).

See “Subject Codes” below.

[3]

Author’s reddit username, e.g. PrismicManiac, exactly as shown in reddit. Where there are multiple contributors, all will be included, separated by a ‘ ‘ (space).

[4]

Day of publishing/sharing in #red-ropes or another source, such as 03, 14 and 28, encoded as a 2 digit number between 01 and 31.

[5]

Month of publishing/sharing in #red-ropes or another source, such as 03, 09 and 12, encoded as a 2 digit number between 01 and 12.

[6]

Year of publishing/sharing in #red-ropes or another source, such as 09 (as in 2009), 18 (as in 2018) and 24 (as in 2024), encoded as a 2 digit number between 00 and 99.

[7]

Multiple Identifier, such as 01 and 14, encoded as a 2 digit number between 00 and 99.

Incremented for every work of lore published with the same type, topic, author and publishing date. When this is the only work of lore published with the same type, topic, author and publishing date, this will be 00.

## Subject Codes

These are used to indicate what subject/topic the piece of lore relates to. The following lists indicate the meaning of each code. In some cases, this may not be the most recent version, in which case, please check here: Google Doc

0xx - Military

x00 - Operations

x01 - People

1xx - Religion and Myth

x00 - Mythical/Supernatural Beings

x01 - Scripture and (the name for stuff people do for religion, like praying, lighting candles, priest stuff etc)

x02 - Symbolism and Beliefs

x03 - Phenomena

2xx - Government

x00 - History

x01 - Diplomacy

x02 - People

3xx - Technology

4xx - Society

x00 - Organisations and Businesses

x01 - Peoples / Races

5xx - Geography / Flora and Fauna

x00 - Animal Species

x01 - Plant Species

~~7xx - Not Currently Allotted~~

~~8xx - Not Currently Allotted~~

9xx - Other

x00 - General / Overall Descriptions

x01 - General Timelines / Histories

x02 - General Keywords

## Type Codes

These are used to indicate what media the piece of lore was created in. The following lists indicates the meaning of each code. In some cases, this may not be the most recent version, in which case, please check here: Google Doc

WL - Written Letter

WS - Written Story

WP - Written Poem

WR - Written Report

WD - Written Description

WI - Written Idea

AD - Digital Art

AL - Line Art

TB - Table

## Examples

[AD 100 Leapingdeer D05 M11 Y18 00] Digital Art, Religion-History, Leapingdeer, 05/11/18

[WL 000 Tetsu44 D03 M11 Y18 00] Written Letter, Military-Operations, Tetsu44, 04/11/18