You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
This document describes the structure of the JSON files that hold the metadata for the demonstrations.
The metadata JSON file for a given demo should be stored in the same folder as the Python demo file. It should have exactly the same name, except ending with .metadata.json instead of .py.
Example
Below is given an example of a complete metadata file for a demonstration.
The table below gives details about the fields in the metadata JSON file for version 0.1.4.
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
title
Yes
string
The title of this demo.
authors
Yes
array of object
An array of the authors of this demo. This array must contain at least one item. See below for the object structure.
dateOfPublication
Yes
datetime
The date on which this demo was first published, in the form YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+00:00.
dateOfLastModification
Yes
datetime
The date on which this demo was last modified, in the form YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+00:00.
categories
Yes
array of string
An array of the categories that this demo is in. The currently-available categories are: Getting Started, Optimization, QML, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Computing, and Community.
tags
Yes, but can be an empty array
array of string
An array of the tags that this demo has.
previewImages
Yes
array of object
An array of the different images that can be used as previews for this demo - e.g., thumbnails, social media cards (perhaps of different aspect ratios). See below for the object structure.
seoDescription
Yes
string
A description of the demo suitable for SEO purposes. Ideally this should be less than 150 characters, but this is not a strict limit. It should be a full, grammatically-correct sentence ending in a full stop.
doi
Yes, but can be an empty string
string
The DOI for this demo.
references
Yes
array of object
An array of the references used for this demo. See below for object structure.
basedOnPapers
Yes, but can be an empty array
array of string
An array of the DOIs for the papers this demo is based on.
referencedByPapers
Yes, but can be an empty array
array of string
An array of the DOIs of any papers that reference this demo.
relatedContent
Yes, but can be an empty array
array of object
An array of objects describing the content related to this demo. See below for the object structure.
hardware
No. Can be an empty array.
array of object
An array of objects representing third-party vendors who can run the demo on their hardware. See below for the object structure.
Author Object Properties
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
username
No
string
The username of the author's PennyLane profile. Either this field or name must be provided.
name
No
string
The full name of the author. Either this field of username must be provided.
Preview Image Object Properties
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
type
Yes
string
What type of preview image this is. At the moment, the only value this can take is thumbnail, which refers to the image used on the QML part of pennylane.ai when browsing through lists of demos.
uri
Yes
string
The URI of this image, whether it be something hosted locally or on another site.
Reference Object Properties
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
id
Yes
string
An id for this reference used for citing it within the demo.
type
Yes
string
The type of this reference. Can be one of: article, book, phdthesis, preprint, webpage
title
Yes
string
The title of the paper or book being referenced.
authors
Yes
string
The authors of the paper or book being referenced, as a single string. Names should be comma-separated, and the Oxford comma should be used when there are 3 or more names, and before 'et al.'.
year
Yes
string
The year in which the paper or book was published.
month
No
string
The month in which the paper or book was published.
journal
No
string
The journal that the paper was published in. (Not relevant for books.)
publisher
No
string
The publisher of the book. (Not relevant for papers.)
doi
No
string
The DOI of the paper. (Not the DOI URL - just the DOI.)
url
No
string
The URL of the paper or webpage.
pages
No
string
The specific pages of a journal or book being referenced, as a mixed list of individual pages and page ranges - i.e., 57, 61-63, 67, 102-104.
volume
No
string
The volume of the journal or the multi-volume book.
number
No
string
The number of the journal.
Related Content Object Properties
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
type
Yes
string
The type of content that this relation refers to. So far, can only be demonstration, but this will be expanded in future.
id
Yes
string
The id of the content that this relation refers to. For demos, it's the file name of the demo without the extension - i.e., tutorial_haar_measure.
weight
Yes
number
A number between -1.0 and 1.0 indicating both how closely related these two pieces of content are, and which one it is preferable to encounter first. A value of 1.0 indicates that these two pieces of content are very closely related, and this one should be read first, and the linked one second. A value of -1.0 indicates again that these two pieces of content are very closely related, but that the linked one should be read first. A value of 0.0 indicates that these two pieces of content have nothing to do with each other.
Hardware Object Properties
Name
Is Required
Value Type
Description
id
Yes
enum
The ID of the hardware vendor
link
Yes
string
Link to run the demo on the vendor's hardware
logo
Yes
string
The URI of the vendor's logo image, whether it be something hosted locally or on another site.
The best way to ensure that your metadata file is consistent with the spec outlined here is to validate it. Install and run check-jsonschema against the version of the spec defined above: