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'''Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions''' or '''''SAUCE''''', as it is most commonly known, is an open metadata protocol for tagging and describing ASCII text files and other files, most of which generally center around or date back to the era of BBSing. This protocol was invented and developed by the Belgian programmer known by the pseudonym ''Tasmaniac'' of [[ACiD Productions|ACiD]] in [[1994]].

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'''Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions''' or '''''SAUCE''''', as it is most commonly known, is an open [[metadata (computing)|metadata]] protocol for tagging and describing [[ASCII]] text files and other files, most of which generally center aroundon or date back to the era of BBSing[[Bulletin board system|BBS]]ing. ThisSAUCE protocolis wasvery inventedsimilar andin developednature byto the Belgian[[MP3]] programmer[[ID3|ID3 knowntag]] byformat created in 1996 in that it carries metadata such as the pseudonymtitle, ''Tasmaniac''author (artist), organization (group), as well as specific hierarchical datatype information depending on what type of [[ACiDfile Productions|ACiD]]it inis [[1994]]describing.

The SAUCE protocol was invented and developed by the [[Belgium|Belgian]] programmer known by the [[pseudonym]] ''Tasmaniac'' of [[ACiD Productions|ACiD]],<ref name="Reubens_2013_SAUCE"/> who later went on to create the [[XBin]] image format, in 1994, two years before ID3 was established. The first utility created to add SAUCE descriptions to files was named ''SPOON''.

== External link ==

* [http://www.acid.org/info/sauce/sauce.htm SAUCE details and specifications]

==References==

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<ref name="Reubens_2013_SAUCE">{{cite web |title=SAUCE – Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions |author-first=Olivier "Tasmaniac" |author-last=Reubens |publisher=[[ACiD]] |version=0.5 |date=2013-11-12 |orig-year=1994-03-01 |url=http://www.acid.org/info/sauce/sauce.htm |access-date=2019-06-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414035508/http://www.acid.org/info/sauce/sauce.htm |archive-date=2019-04-14}} (NB. Contains SAUCE details and specifications.)</ref>

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