Hacker News with Generative AI: Metadata

Git Trailers (alchemists.io)
Git trailers are a powerful source of metadata as parsed by the Git Interpret Trailers command. Even better, trailers can be applied to commits and tags as documented here:

Git, Version Control, Metadata

6 points by thunderbong 37 days ago | 0 comments

MetaBrainz Foundation – music, art, and book metadata (metabrainz.org)

Music, Metadata, Art, Books

5 points by andrei-akopian 45 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Frontmatter Format: A micro-format for YAML metadata on any file (github.com/jlevy)
Simple, readable metadata attached to files can be useful in numerous situations, such as recording title, author, source, copyright, or the provenance of a file.

Metadata, File Management, YAML, Open Source, GitHub

8 points by zalzal 85 days ago | 1 comments

Python Inline Script Metadata (python.org)
This specification defines a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts.

Python, Programming, Metadata, Scripting

7 points by BerislavLopac 95 days ago | 2 comments

MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia (musicbrainz.org)
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.

Music, Open Source, Databases, Metadata

444 points by mmh0000 109 days ago | 103 comments

Dublin Core, what is it good for? (thisdaysportion.com)

Dublin Core, Metadata, Standards, Web Development, Information Science

100 points by MrVandemar 138 days ago | 32 comments

Gravitino: A Powerful Open Data Catalog for Geo-Distributed Metadata Lakes (github.com/apache)

Open Source, Data Management, Metadata, Data Catalogs, Geo-distributed

11 points by Innovify 164 days ago | 0 comments

Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022) (social.coop)