Dosyas

Dosyas is a fictional open-source platform and data standard designed to manage digital files and their metadata across different storage systems and applications. The name is intended to evoke file stewardship and interoperability, drawing on the Turkish word for file as a linguistic cue while remaining a neutral project label.

The core purpose of Dosyas is to provide a consistent metadata schema, a storage-agnostic API, and a modular plugin system that enables organizations to index, search, and manage large collections of digital assets. It defines a core data model with fields such as id, title, type, size, created and modified dates, owner, and access permissions, while allowing extensions through namespaces for domain-specific metadata. The platform emphasizes interoperability by supporting linked data practices and common preservation and metadata standards.

Architecture and components are designed to be modular. Key elements include a metadata registry, an indexer for search, storage adapters that abstract local file systems, cloud storage, and content-addressable storage, and a policy engine for access control and governance. Dosyas also provides APIs for programmatic access, batch processing, and integration with content management systems, digital libraries, and data repositories. Security considerations feature encryption at rest, audit logging, versioning, and role-based or attribute-based access controls.

Typical use cases include digital libraries, research data repositories, media asset management, and enterprise document management, where consistent metadata and cross-system search improve discoverability and preservation. The project is described as community-driven and license-friendly, but as a fictional concept, it remains an illustrative example of how a unified file-management standard might function.

See also: file metadata, JSON-LD, RDF, Dublin Core, PREMIS, content-addressable storage.