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# Exporting Metadata
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This is important for [p2p sharing](p2p-sharing.md) and possibly backing up your library metadata. Metadata includes everything the user curated in regards to their library:
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- rating
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- tags
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- names
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- authors
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- ...
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One needs to define a format for exporting this metadata. I can think of the following requirements:
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- readable by computer (to import and share with p2p)
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- being able to only export a part for p2p
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- a complete set of metadata might be too large
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It will probably boil down to `xml` or `json`. I would choose `json` since that is easier to write and parse with Node.js.
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Maybe the [JSON:API](https://jsonapi.org/) schema lends itself to the p2p application. For backing up locally it seems to be overkill. The local metadata backup might as well be just the database file.
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