This page serves to link to various checklists regarding documenting data for distribution and for citing data, catalogs and other resources for the use of the Solar Physics community. * [http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/catalogs/ Checklist for Creators of Event & Feature Catalogs] * [MinimumInformation Minimum Information for Solar Observations] Checklists currently planned: * Checklist for Serving Solar Physics Data (see [WebserverSetup Webserver Setup] for now) * Checklist for authors (to make sure they've given sufficient attribution to the data & tools used) * Checklist for peer reviewers (for the same stuff) Other Related Reading: * [http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/fits_headers/fits_checklist.txt Checklist for Solar Physics FITS Headers] (precursor to the minimum information document) * Recommendations for FITS headers ([http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/spd2012/2012_SPD_FITS_headers.pdf poster at 2012 SPD meeting].) * Recommendations for Data & Software Citation in Solar Physics ([http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/spd2012/2012_SPD_citation.pdf poster at 2012 SPD meeting]) * [http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/docs/AGU2011/fits_examples_labeled_5page.pdf Labeled examples of good things in FITS headers] (a supplement to a [http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/docs/AGU2011/AGU_2011_fits_headers.pdf 2011 AGU poster on the review of metadata])