{"id":474,"date":"2020-01-29T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T18:12:14","slug":"meta-json","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/meta-json\/","title":{"rendered":".meta-json"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my “projects” was to be able to store all my data and be able to add information to it. I gave it some crazy name<\/a>, and let it sit and pickle away in my mind until it matured.<\/p>\n

In comes .meta-json<\/span>. With every file that would be stored (such as file_name.ext) , there would exist a separate file stored alongside that original file that would have the additional extension of .meta-json.<\/p>\n

.meta-json is meant to be a common, easily indexable and searchable format that gives files a raison d’\u00eatre<\/span>. the format is rooted in json<\/a> with specifics that helps to define the metadata of the file.<\/p>\n

The proposed format comes down to:<\/p>\n

{\n   'author': 'unknown',\n   'type': 'image',\n   'title': '',\n   'description': {\n      'en': 'something'\n   },\n   'date': '',\n   'source': '',\n   'location': '',\n   'people': [''],\n   'checksum' {\n      'sha256': 'xxxx'\n   },\n   'mimetype': '',\n   'creation-date': '',\n   'filesize': ''\n}<\/pre>\n
This format pretty much breaks down to key\/value pairs. Every key can either have a string or an array\/object as a value, depending on the name of the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Key<\/th>\nValue Types<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
author<\/td>\nstring|array<\/td>\nA list of people who participated in creating this file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
type<\/td>\nstring<\/td>\nA generic name for what the file is (image, video, archive, document, etc)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
title<\/td>\nstring|object<\/td>\nA visible summary of what this items is.
\nAs an object, the key:value is localization:summary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
description<\/td>\nstring|object<\/td>\nA full description of the item. This can be akin to “a picture is worth 1000 words”, but for any kind of media.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
date<\/td>\nstring<\/td>\nA parseable date\/time identifying when the item “happens”, not typically the same as the creation or modification dates, but it very well could match.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
source<\/td>\nstring<\/td>\nHow this item was acquired. Typically images are either via Camera or Scanner, Audio would be via Radio, Microphone, Telephone, etc. Documents could be OCR.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
location<\/td>\nstring|object<\/td>\nA parseable location where the item “exists”. As a string it could be a general location such as “around the corner from Joes Diner” or an intersection. If placed as an object, this identifies specificity as it could be “gps”: “”, “address”: “”, etc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
people<\/td>\narray<\/td>\nWhom is depicted. Comes down to names or Identifiers of whom is presented in the items is called, such as “person 1”, “person 2”, or “Mick Jagger”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Additional fields can be defined and exist, but a majority of the data should be present in the metadata for each file to complete it.<\/p>\n
This is the initial spec of the .meta-json format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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