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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSq2FDpK2n66QRUxtqqdbyDuwgbQmUWus <Jimmy@web> | 2014-02-25 09:51:17 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-02-25 09:51:17 +0000 |
| commit | 5262abce37c9310d64d70f75965ea76adaed9196 (patch) | |
| tree | 70811fe84351e7ca7095e76013c823b86de859d8 /doc/design/metadata | |
| parent | 5bc9ae17ec6e354bb12f49d6d9845b27ce9259ec (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/design/metadata/comment_2_03ae28acedbe1fa45c366b30b58fcf48._comment b/doc/design/metadata/comment_2_03ae28acedbe1fa45c366b30b58fcf48._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c222f75d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/metadata/comment_2_03ae28acedbe1fa45c366b30b58fcf48._comment @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSq2FDpK2n66QRUxtqqdbyDuwgbQmUWus" + nickname="Jimmy" + subject="comment 2" + date="2014-02-25T09:51:17Z" + content=""" +Some additional ideas for metadata... + +Instead of having a simplistic scheme like 'field=value' it might be advantageous to consider a scheme like 'attribute=XXX, value=YYY, unit=ZZZ' that way you could do intesting things with the metadata like adding counters to things, and allow for doing interesting queries like give me all 'things' tagged with a unit of \"audio_file\", this assumes one had trawled through an entire annex and then tagged all files based on type with the unix file tool or something like that. + +The above idea is already in use in irods and its a really nice and powerful way to let users add meta-data and to build up more interesting use cases and tools. + +btw, I plan on taking a look at seeing if I can map some of the meta that we have in work into this new git-annex feature to see how well/bad it works. Either way this feature looks cool! +1!!! +"""]] |