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A Simple Metadata Dictionary

Metadata Object Examples

These are some basic designs for metadata objects. Think of these as starting points; you may want to add more properties. This doesn’t conform to any particular metadata standard but draws ideas from them all. It’s also not exhaustive and you need to design this around your own business model and its logic.

People

This object would be created as a master node to describe each person. They might have role objects attached. Joins to media would take place through a reference back to this object from the media objects.

Table C-1 Person object properties

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Places

Location related data could be ...

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