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Metadata
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Data loves metadata. Any time you run Datasette you can optionally include a
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JSON file with metadata about your databases and tables. Datasette will then
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display that information in the web UI.
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Run Datasette like this::
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datasette database1.db database2.db --metadata metadata.json
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Your ``metadata.json`` file can look something like this::
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{
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"title": "Custom title for your index page",
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"description": "Some description text can go here",
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"license": "ODbL",
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"license_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/",
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"source": "Original Data Source",
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"source_url": "http://example.com/"
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}
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The above metadata will be displayed on the index page of your Datasette-powered
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site. The source and license information will also be included in the footer of
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every page served by Datasette.
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Any special HTML characters in ``description`` will be escaped. If you want to
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include HTML in your description, you can use a ``description_html`` property
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instead.
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Per-database and per-table metadata
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-----------------------------------
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Metadata at the top level of the JSON will be shown on the index page and in the
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footer on every page of the site. The license and source is expected to apply to
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all of your data.
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You can also provide metadata at the per-database or per-table level, like this::
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{
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"databases": {
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"database1": {
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"source": "Alternative source",
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"source_url": "http://example.com/",
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"tables": {
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"example_table": {
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"description_html": "Custom <em>table</em> description",
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"license": "CC BY 3.0 US",
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"license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/"
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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Each of the top-level metadata fields can be used at the database and table level.
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Generating a metadata skeleton
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Tracking down the names of all of your databases and tables and formatting them
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as JSON can be a little tedious, so Datasette provides a tool to help you
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generate a "skeleton" JSON file::
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datasette skeleton database1.db database2.db
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This will create a ``metadata.json`` file looking something like this::
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{
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"title": null,
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"description": null,
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"description_html": null,
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"license": null,
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"license_url": null,
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"source": null,
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"source_url": null,
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"databases": {
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"database1": {
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"title": null,
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"description": null,
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"description_html": null,
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"license": null,
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"license_url": null,
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"source": null,
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"source_url": null,
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"queries": {},
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"tables": {
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"example_table": {
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"title": null,
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"description": null,
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"description_html": null,
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"license": null,
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"license_url": null,
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"source": null,
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"source_url": null
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}
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}
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},
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"database2": ...
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}
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}
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You can replace any of the ``null`` values with a JSON string to populate that
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piece of metadata.
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