dat.json

The WIP specification for the dat.json meta format.

{
  "title": "My paper library",
  "author": "Julian Gruber <[email protected]>",
  "url": "dat://c75ffb161a9965e47323ba9b76aa11f649504b0d2d5d062dcb3438d5aeadc187"
}

Specification

Add a dat.json with any of those keys - all are optional - to the root of a dat archive to help tooling work with your archive more nicely:

.title

A short but descriptive human friendly title.

.description

A one- or two-line description of the archive.

.url

Url of the Dat archive. This will usually be the dat:// then the archive key.

.author

The archive's author - the packager, not necessarily the data's author as well. Can be either an object with any of those keys:

{
  "name": "Julian Gruber",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "web": "https://juliangruber.com"
}

or a string with at least the name and any of the segments email and web:

"NAME <EMAIL> (WEB)"

like for example:

• "Julian Gruber"
• "Julian Gruber <[email protected]>"
• "Julian Gruber (https://juliangruber.com/)"
• "Julian Gruber <[email protected]> (https://juliangruber.com/)"

Support

• Dat-Desktop will use .title to display a nice archive name instead of just its key