RenaiApp/workspace/ideas/exporting-metadata.md

Exporting Metadata

This is important for p2p sharing and possibly backing up your library metadata. Metadata includes everything the user curated in regards to their library:

• rating
• tags
• names
• authors
• ...

One needs to define a format for exporting this metadata. I can think of the following requirements:

• readable by computer (to import and share with p2p)
• being able to only export a part for p2p
  • a complete set of metadata might be too large

It will probably boil down to xml or json. I would choose json since that is easier to write and parse with Node.js.

Maybe the JSON:API 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.