Building a Media Registry with Git and Sawtooth

Metadata about media like music and movies contains many overlapping layers about authorship, ownership, representation, release history, binary assets, and references to related works, etc. Current g …

Metadata about media like music and movies contains many overlapping layers about authorship, ownership, representation, release history, binary assets, and references to related works, etc. Current generation of on-chain data modeling tools are often not flexible enough to reflect the myriad of linkages within metadata schema. Moreover, many of the source data provided by media owners are often incomplete or even incorrect. A decentralized media registry will need to do more than merely encode the metadata on-chain, but also coordinate multi-party workflows between competing entities that holds overlapping data each other’s prized media catalogs. In this presentation, Chris will show how one large record label and music publisher is able to use this technique to correlate a subset of their mutual catalog using this technique of using Git as a Layer 2 application state encoding scheme.