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The podio related metadata, stored in the ` podio_metadata ` ` TTree ` (or
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` RNTupleModel ` ) contains the following general information once per file
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- The version of podio that has been used to write this file
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- The complete datamodel definitions for each datamodel that was encountered
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when writing the file
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- And the following information once per category
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- - The mapping of collection names to collection IDs
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- - The types of all the stored collections
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- - The schema version of all stored collections
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- - Which collections are stored as subset collections
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-
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- Here the ` TTree ` based and ` RNTuple ` based backends differ slightly in the way
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- these data are stored exactly. The ` TTree ` based backend stores the data in a
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- slightly more structured way, taking advantage of ROOTs capabilities to stream
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- out more complex object, e.g. the ` podio::CollectionIDTable ` is streamed as a
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- whole. The ` RNTuple ` based backend on the other hand, destructures the
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- information into separate fields that run in parallel.
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+ And the following information once per category for each collection in that category
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+ - The collection ID
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+ - The collection name
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+ - The collection type
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+ - Whether the collection is a subset collection
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+ - The collection schema version
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+ - The collection storage type (which is different from the collection type and
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+ describes the format in which the data is actually stored rather than how it
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+ can be accessed in memory)
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+ From a technical point of view this information is stored as a
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+ ` std::vector<podio::root_utils::CollectionWriteInfo> ` .
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+ ``` {note}
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+ The exact details of how this information is stored in podio files has changed
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+ several times. The readers provided by podio handle these changes transparently,
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+ but other readers might have to adapt for these changes. **Notable changes
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+ happened before v01-00, and v01-03.**
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+ ```
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## SIO
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