Re: [tsc-devel] Metadata in TSC assets

Luiji Maryo | Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:02:56 UTC

It's time for another one of Luiji's Random Sporadic Drop-ins!

Information about metadata with OGG files is surprisingly
inconsistent. However, normalizing metadata would be a great idea! I'd
be willing to write up a Ruby script to verify metadata in the assets
as part of a consistency check if you would like. Something like:

$ ./check-asset-metadata
data/here/there/however.format: dc:relation should be
"http://www.secretchronicles.de" but was not set
data/there/like/this.another: ALBUM should be "The Secret Chronicles
of Dr. M" but was "Sample"
2 error detected.
$ exit

(It'll even have colorized output. :P)

I imagine we'd want to have the metadata on PNG files, too, yes? You
use XMP metadata in an iTXt chunk for that. If we do that, though, we
have to check and see if optipng will mess it up.

-Luiji

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Chris Jacobsen <…9@y…> wrote:
> I think including the origin of assets is a great idea.  I found it useful
> to include the URL of websites from which I found sound effects.
> In some cases, we may not be able to find a URL, but including what we do
> know about the origin is a good idea.  Also, keep in mind that URL's may
> eventually go bad.
>
> I'm a bit hesitant with the idea of getting the origin into every Inkscape
> file, as it sounds a bit tedious.  This would let the artists set it
> themselves really easily, though many of them will probably forget anyways.
> Also, I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for this info within music files
> -- I think it might be more consistent just to use text files for both
> images and sound/music files.
>
> It would make sense to make this change in the current repository before we
> start the new codebase.
>
> -datahead
>