Structured metadata for documents #2770

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opened 2015-04-27 16:52:10 +00:00 by wjt · 2 comments

wjt commented

2015-04-27 16:52:10 +00:00

At present, documents have a title, a description, and (https://code.0x2620.org/0x2620/pandora/issues/2818 aside) a set of entities. It would be useful to have other fields – in particular, a date (which would not be the same as the upload date, or the EXIF date in the case of a photo) – just like is possible for footage.

Perhaps the ontology could be shared, so a document can be tagged with the same years, themes, etc. as footage is.

Somewhat related to https://code.0x2620.org/0x2620/pandora/issues/2597 I suppose. It's true that arbitrary data could go in the description field and (hypothetically) be searched from there but that seems inconsistent with the structured-metadata model of the rest of pan.do/ra.

At present, documents have a title, a description, and (<https://code.0x2620.org/0x2620/pandora/issues/2818> aside) a set of entities. It would be useful to have other fields – in particular, a date (which would not be the same as the upload date, or the EXIF date in the case of a photo) – just like is possible for footage. Perhaps the ontology could be shared, so a document can be tagged with the same years, themes, etc. as footage is. Somewhat related to <https://code.0x2620.org/0x2620/pandora/issues/2597> I suppose. It's true that arbitrary data could go in the description field and (hypothetically) be searched from there but that seems inconsistent with the structured-metadata model of the rest of pan.do/ra.

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wjt commented

2016-07-01 17:14:41 +00:00

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For what it's worth, I worked around this limitation in the instance here by creating a new entity type, "phototags", and representing eg. years as phototags entities named something like "Year: 1958". (Also I made themes into entities, for unrelated reasons.)