4. HURIDOCS STANDARD FORMATS FOR MONITORING HUMAN RIGHTS EVENTS CONTENTS OF THIS CHAPTER     INTRODUCTION FIELDS FIELD TAGS THE FORMATS 4.1 INTRODUCTION The HURIDOCS Standard Formats for Monitoring Human Rights Events (Events Standard Formats - ESF) make up an integrated, standardised, adaptable tool that covers the various aspects of documentation of human rights events introduced in the previous chapters. There are separate formats representing the core entities (event and person), the links between entities, and additional information which is attached to any of these. Entity formats are for recording information about the main entities. There are two types of entity formats:  Event Format - for recording information on events  Person Format - for recording information on persons (individuals or groups), usually acting in one or more roles such as victim, perpetrator, source of information, intervening party Link formats establish a relationship between two entities. There are six types of link formats:  Act Format - for recording information on the acts committed against victims  Involvement Format - for recording information on the involvement of perpetrators in specific acts  Chain of Events Format - for recording information on the relationships of events  Information Format - for recording information on the data provided by sources  Intervention Format - for recording information on acts of intervention  Biographic Details Format - for recording information on relationships among and updates about persons (in the latter case it is an attachment format) 28