Re: [GNUnet-developers] Music insertion

[Christian Grothoff]

The problem is that GNUnet cannot allow users to just update meta-data (since 
that would allow bad people to put in bogus meta data and since the 
encryption does not allow peers to identify "old" metadata). This completely 
rules out any wiki-style meta-data management (and clearly existing wikis do 
have this problem with accountability for the provided content). 

What would be possible is to add additional meta-data for a given file.  But 
this is clearly already possible, just select the file and re-run 
insert/index.  

Oh, and you do not want to do the adding of meta-data after the insertion 
itself because then the content would have to be first published with empty 
meta-data, which would linger around in the system and just waste resources.

Christian

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 05:02 pm, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> To provide metadata a user has to insert content or download it.
> A typical usecase of inserting data is inserting a lot at once.
> This means that an interface of inserting one song is hard to use.
> And also that users maybe don't want to insert metadata at all because
> it would be that much work.
>
> So, if we'd put entries of the inserted content to the same place with
> completed downloads.
>
> This would allow the user to first insert a lot of content and then go
> add meta information from the (completed) downloads tab. This would also
> teach the user to know the meta data insertion proces because it would
> be the same for inserted content and downloads.
>
> Made easy, it might even lead to a wiki style community of people
> helping in indexing files.