Besides content formats such as office file formats (Word, Powerpoint, …), PDF, TXT and HTML documents, the Kairntech software offers another important input format: This Json format has the advantages that the user can combine the text content with rich metadata.
Users can get a sample for an appropriately formatted json file when assessing the web interface: On top of the page when you are inside a project, the see three “three horizontal bars” menu: Clicking it gives you access to the “Import documents” menu item that among other formats also allows to specify one or several json files.
Since there are arbitrary many different ways a json file may look like, the import window allows you to download a sample json file that you can study to prepare your own content accordingly. Let’s take a look at this json content.
[
{
"title": "Naomi Scott",
"metadata": {
"set": "Biography",
"activity": [
"Actress",
"Soundtrack"
]
},
"text": "Naomi Scott is a multi-talented actor, singer and songwriter. She can next be seen starring as \"Jasmine\" in Disney's live-action remake of \"Aladdin,\" alongside Will Smith, directed by Guy Ritchie. Disney will release the film in May 2019.\nNaomi was born in London
...From the little sample above we see a number of properties of a Kairntech json import file:
- the json document is a list (starting with “[“) of documents
- each document should have a title and a text element
- a metadata element can have arbitrary key – value pairs that specify this document’s metadata
If you want to import file formats such as Word, PDF, … and you need to accompany them with your preferred metadata, the recommendation is to prepare the content in the json format above.