Re:Taxonomy Is Hard
by PaulHoule on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:54AM
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If you really want to organize files basic on semantics you might generate file names based on, say, a SHA-3 hash but keep looking the attributes of the files in a database.
The trouble with that though is that people have different perspectives on documents.
The librarian in me wants to ingest a document and never modify it, such that content addressable storage is what I want. I want to attach metadata in an external database.
There's another culture though where people edit documents, most notable in Adobe's tools which will try to save a JPEG even if all you did was print it! Adobe developed
The trouble with that though is that people have different perspectives on documents.
The librarian in me wants to ingest a document and never modify it, such that content addressable storage is what I want. I want to attach metadata in an external database.
There's another culture though where people edit documents, most notable in Adobe's tools which will try to save a JPEG even if all you did was print it! Adobe developed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
which embeds metadata in the files which fits that point of view.