How do you intend to avoid the "competing standards" issue.

[Bitwolfies]

I absolutely love this project, combining all of the best parts of the current comic metadata formats into a proper, opensource, standard. But I have to ask, how do you intend to avoid the issue as easily represented with this xkcd comic Will be easy to convert our older formats to this new one, and will it be easy for devs to integrate it?

[gotson]

That's why we involved the main actors in the comics application scene from the beginning, with people from Mylar, Comic Tagger and Comixed joining the discussions.

We cannot guarantee that everyone will use it, but if it is open enough, documented enough, and easy to use, hopefully people will realize the benefits of using it.

[Bitwolfies]

Perfect. another question, how will us regular users be able to contribute data, and will it be built off of an existing source (comicvine, ect)

[gotson]

It's something that I hinted at in the README:

It might be too early to decide on building an open-source metadata source of truth, but that could be the end goal.

Ideally I would like an open-source source of truth, containing open-data, contributed by users. It could also link to various existing data sources by referencing those external IDs.

[AsHalt]

In my opine, the best way to solve the adoption issue is to have some level of backward compatibility to the relevant tracking sites, and their API if any, as well as other programs.

And have some level of campaigning to the relevant commercial parties to join the efforts as well as grassroot efforts in its implementations such as in tagstudio, file management and tagging program, which is currently on Alpha, and Calibre, a FOSS e-book management program.