Epoxy's Archive Format
There are two priorities: archives should be easy to create, and remain useful far into the future. A distant third goal is discoverability on this site.
The scheme to meet this is a tar
archive
with two files and two directories.
./
├── README.txt
├── metadata.json
├── climbing-guide/
└── supplement/
The README.txt
file
This is written with a climbing developer in mind. There's a range of things that can be useful to touch on.
- context for the guide (where it came from or how it was found)
- quirks in formatting or content
This is an archive of a rock climbing guide.
NOTE: page 6 of the guide is missing
The photos were found as images on a blog post[1] from 2007
(see supplement/screenshot.png).
The blog post was found in a comment[2] on MountainProject.
[1]: https://illusiondweller.blogspot.com/2007/02/professor-keith-brueckners-1987-mt.html
[2]: https://www.mountainproject.com/area/105791148/mount-woodson#Comment-121020484
The metadata.json
file
This is used to build the index. You can build your own with this generator.
{
"title": "Mt. Woodson Bouldering",
"attribution": "Keith A. Brueckner",
"published": "1987-10",
"boundary": {
"north": 33.01118263970351,
"south": 33.00240130782529,
"east": -116.95916175842285,
"west": -116.97572708129881,
},
}
The climbing-guide/
directory
00_cover.jpg 01_intro.jpg 02_map-1.jpg 03_map-2.jpg 04_page-1.jpg 05_page-2.jpg 06_page-3.jpg 07_page-4.jpg 08_page-5.jpg 09_page-7.jpg 10_page-8.jpg 11_page-9.jpg
The supplement/
directory
Anything can go in here that isn't immediately useful, or original to the guide.
screenshot.png