The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a standard syntax for specifying an item of lifeotype information, wherein the syntax includes at least one markup language tag, the tag specifying a type of information included in the lifeotype information. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an item of lifeotype information, associating at least one tag with the item of lifeotype information, and documenting the lifeotype information, association and the at least one tag in a standard syntax. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an item of lifeotype information, defining standard fields to be populated in connection with the item of lifeotype information, populating the standard fields, and aggregating the standard fields and lifeotype information across at least two items of lifeotype information.