ItemMetadata.md

Item Metadata (IM)

Especially for cold-starts, or new product introductions, it is important to have Item Metadata (IM). Item Metadata is static information with respect to time, it varies only per fixed "item_id". Examples of metadata are type of item, product group, genre, color, class.

Figure 3 - Example of Item Metadata with sample data records

You are able to define your IM with JSON; this example supports the Figure 3 schema.

{
   "Attributes":[
      {
         "AttributeName":"item_id",
         "AttributeType":"string"
      },
      {
         "AttributeName":"food_category",
         "AttributeType":"string"
      },
      {
         "AttributeName":"food_cuisine",
         "AttributeType":"string"
      }
   ]
}

For a more comprehensive list of considerations, visit the item metadata documentation page.

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