cmd/create.go      | 2 ++
 internal/scheme.go | 1 +

diff --git a/cmd/create.go b/cmd/create.go
index e7e7d3243d26a02af60b1c59408f5ce38569c3231e277bec95d59425ae01efec..2a57811dd7794d0e8ad991683e656d816511460a97911132ec15528ddc8924c6 100644
--- a/cmd/create.go
+++ b/cmd/create.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ )
 
 func runCreate() {
 	fn := flag.String("fn", "", "Filename")
+	id := flag.String("id", "", "Optional file's identity")
 	add := flag.String("add", "", "Add file to specified .meta4")
 	mtime := flag.String("mtime", "", "Take that file's mtime as a Published date")
 	desc := flag.String("desc", "", "Description")
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	f := meta4ra.File{
 		Name:        path.Base(*fn),
+		Identity:    *id,
 		Description: *desc,
 		Size:        uint64(size),
 		URLs:        urls,
diff --git a/internal/scheme.go b/internal/scheme.go
index 899fe2253d3d51ed9234f470d1dcc2920026ab1a990f595711ce94ec8252abec..ac93e265a70c63e11588c67baedeb3f060c70587cefd33b01d8c31f032b480a7 100644
--- a/internal/scheme.go
+++ b/internal/scheme.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 type File struct {
 	XMLName     xml.Name    `xml:"file"`
 	Name        string      `xml:"name,attr"`
+	Identity    string      `xml:"identity,,omitempty"`
 	Description string      `xml:"description,,omitempty"`
 	Hashes      []Hash      `xml:"hash,,omitempty"`
 	MetaURLs    []MetaURL   `xml:"metaurl,,omitempty"`