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Clear definitions about properties X metadata

Open lfcnassif opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

To formalize this old idea before taking the plane:

Today we don't have clear definitions about what are properties and what are metadata... I'm thinking about using this semantics:

  • File System Metadata: common metadata extracted from file systems, external to files theirselves: name, size, dates, path...;
  • Internal Metadata: meta information contained or stored in files, like exif data or office properties, they could be easy to extract or may depend on complex parsing to be extracted, but are info from file format specifications;
  • Results: information produced by parsers or other modules/tasks using file content, internal or FS metadata, but enriched with external info or/and that could have passed through simple or complex transformations, but not defined by file format specification: hashes, hash look up results, regex results, processing flags like carved, subitem status, nudity & similarity scores, face encodings, etc...

There will be some borderline cases yet... And some basic info may become more hidden like default hash, category (those would go to Results) and maybe others...

Would it make metadata organization clearer? Any opinions are welcome.

lfcnassif avatar Jun 28 '22 13:06 lfcnassif

I think that some basic info may be shown in a basic tab, even after this change, just to make it easier to find the most commonly used data.

hauck-jvsh avatar Jun 26 '23 20:06 hauck-jvsh