VER 1.0 — The Visual Embedding Recordstable

§10 Record Serialization

A Record is a UTF-8 JSON document conforming to the companion schema ver-record.schema.json (JSON Schema 2020-12). A complete valid example ships as example-record.json. Abridged shape:

json

{
  "ver_version": "1.0",
  "cpnp_version": "1.0",
  "record_id": "a3f1c2e4-9b7d-4e21-8c55-2f6a0d9b3e71",
  "created_at": "2026-08-21T14:02:11Z",
  "conformance_level": "L3",
  "identity": {
    "content_hash": { "alg": "sha-256", "value": "…" },
    "pixel_hash":   { "alg": "sha-256", "value": "…", "width": 4032, "height": 3024 },
    "perceptual": [ { "alg": "pdq/1.0", "value": "…" } ]
  },
  "image": { "format": "jpeg", "width": 4032, "height": 3024,
             "animated": false, "alpha_present": false, "hdr_present": false },
  "spaces": [ { "space_id": "org.verstandard.space.openclip-vit-l14-datacomp-xl/1.0",
               "kind": "visual", "model": { "weights_sha256": "…" },
               "dim": 768, "dtype": "fp32", "normalization": "l2",
               "metric": "cosine", "preprocessing": { "resize": "shortest_side_224",
               "interpolation": "bicubic", "antialias": true, "crop": "center_224" },
               "reference": { "set_uri": "…", "tolerance_cosine": 0.999 } } ],
  "embeddings": [
    { "role": "canonical_visual",
      "space_id": "org.verstandard.space.openclip-vit-l14-datacomp-xl/1.0",
      "vector_ref": { "uri": "…", "sha256": "…", "byte_length": 3072 } },
    { "role": "contextual", "space_id": "org.verstandard.space.minilm-l6-v2/1.0",
      "source": { "class": "alt_text", "text_sha256": "…", "lang": "en" },
      "vector_ref": { "uri": "…", "sha256": "…", "byte_length": 1536 } }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "raw": [ … ],
    "availability": { "exif": "stripped_suspected", "xmp": "absent",
                      "iptc": "absent", "icc": "present", "c2pa": "absent" },
    "normalized": { … }, "conflicts": [ … ], "redactions": [ … ]
  },
  "provenance": { "acquisition": { … }, "chain": [ … ],
                  "c2pa": { "status": "missing" } }
}