[tsc-devel] Metadata in TSC assets

Marvin Gülker | Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:01:10 UTC

Hi everyone,

TSC already contains a lot of original art that is not found elsewhere.
While our current license does permit reuse of most assets, I would
like to mark their origin in the TSC project.

SVG files contain metadata in form of the Dublin Core tags. They should
be used to indicate they're from the TSC project, e.g. like so:

    <dc:source>The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.</dc:source>
    <dc:relation>http://www.secretchronicles.de</dc:relation>

Inkscape allows you to easily set this metadata via the document
settings dialogue.

The OGG music container format also supports metadata. For these, I
think it would be good if the music files were marked to belong to the
"album" "The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.", and if possible, include the
link to http://www.secretchronicles.de.

I also think that the license information should be included into the
metadata of assets, but as we currently have the .settings and .txt
files for this, please don't start editing the licensing information
into the metadata now. We'll first have to determine if this is
possible for all formats we use.

Any artist of course is free to add the name of the work and his name
as author to the metadata of any asset. This information will not be
removed.

Does everyone think that normalising the metadata is a good idea?

Valete,
Marvin

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