A key requirement for us is that we need to store technical metadata about the file at the file level. We also want to bring back that data via views. Similar to here.
Currently, we are using the file_entity module to store this data at the file level. However, there are some concerns about using that module. We want to explore alternative approaches to storing and retrieving file level metadata in Drupal.
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A key requirement for us is that we need to store technical metadata about the file at the file level. We also want to bring back that data via views. Similar to here.
Currently, we are using the file_entity module to store this data at the file level. However, there are some concerns about using that module. We want to explore alternative approaches to storing and retrieving file level metadata in Drupal.
Evaluate the following Drupal core patch and see what type of functions it provides. https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2983456
Evaluate existing modules to see if their approaches can work the above noted use case.
https://www.drupal.org/project/file_mdm https://git.drupalcode.org/project/pdf_metadata
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