On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 10:48, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote: > > My question still holds. Should values be unstructured or should we > have structured types (dates, datetimes, numbers, URIs, etc)? > Unstructured data wouldn't be much more useful than people just sticking these in the file as plain text. :P All the usual standards for dates/numbers/URIs should be followed. As I said before, a list of common keys/values should be a thing. Anyone could write any freeform keys/values, but a list of commonly used & supported key/values should be maintained, this should include whatever format the values follow. It should be freeform such that I could come along and decide I want to use a new key and nothing should break, clients will ignore it if they don't recognise it. Metadata is not just for the machines, e.g an `author` key would be mainly for people interested in who wrote something.
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