Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

Philip Van Hoof <spam-+mS4aLmNmLKG5XvV6lv2jw public gmane org> writes:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata
> > from a second file? For example, if tracker indexes testfile.odt, I want
> > it to automatically read metadata about testfile.odt from
> > testfile.odt.xml (or some other suitable format).
>
> The format for this is called XMP. You can store a so-called sidekick
> XMP file next to the file. Tracker will pick those up when done
> correctly.

Ah, that sounds fantastic! I like that approach much better. I guess
that creating XMP fill will also be even easier than polling tracker
until it has indexed a new file and then inserting the metadata into
tracker. And it also solves my concerns about the metadata accidentally
vanishing.

There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Does the XMP
file have to have a special file name, or is the name of the described
file part of the XMP data itself? Googling for "xmp tracker" or "xmp
metatracker" was just as fruitless as searching for "xmp" on the tracker
wiki, so I'm a bit at a loss here...



Best,

   -Nikolaus

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