The purpose of this list is to select the level of reliability of persons and sources of information.

This list has been developed by HURIDOCS. It is based on a list included in the previous edition of the URIDOCS Standard Formats (1). The original codes from this list are included in the column 1st ed. Code.

This is a short list with one level, as described in Rule No. 1 in the Introduction.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for:

field 953 Reliability as Source in the Person format

field 954 Reliability as Intervening Party in the Person format, and

field 2553 Reliability of Information in the Information format.

CODE
 TERM
 1ST ED. CODE
 
01
 Highly reliable 01
02 Likely reliable 02
03 Unsure 03
04 Likely unreliable 04
05 Highly unreliable 05

99 Unknown  

(1) Dueck, Judith, et al. HURIDOCS Standard Formats: A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations. Oslo: HURIDOCS, 1993. 142.