When you create or update an item in Spotlight, an indexing software called Solr is reponsible for changing and saving the metadata. When a user searches Spotlight for an item or items, Solr retrieves the metadata that accompanies them.
We communicate with Solr using JSON. Here is an example item in Spotlight:
Here is the same record in the Solr administration dashboard:
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