Citemap.json, created by https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-pofahl/ is an open format you publish at the root of your website, like yoursite.com/citemap.json. It gives AI systems a structured, authoritative declaration of who you are, what you do, what you want to be cited for, and what you don't. 

Think of it the same way you think about a sitemap.xml: sitemaps get you indexed by search engines, citemaps get you cited by AI.

The spec is at citemaps.org. It's CC BY 4.0, so free to implement, fork, extend, build tools on. Version 2.0 covers 21 modules and 430+ fields for every major entity type on the web: businesses, researchers, healthcare providers, nonprofits, artists, and more.

A few things this page is for:

Questions about implementing the spec
Feedback on field definitions and module coverage
Sharing what you've built on top of the standard
Discussion on how AI systems are (or aren't) using structured entity data

A generator and validator live at citemaps.ai if you want to generate a file without writing JSON by hand. The commercial tools are built on the open spec, same as how sitemaps.xml has always worked.

The standard is early and community input is genuinely useful right now.

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