On 25 Mar 2008, at 9:38 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>> After I babbled about this for ages, without actually taking action
>>> [1], I got a few calls from publishers interested in doing it,
>>> including Nature.  The stumbling blocks at the time were:
>>>
>>> a) Code to insert the XMP elements into the PDF (although I think
>>> they
>>> could have licensed Adobe's stuff easily enough)
>>
>> That's right, it requires you to have Acrobat Pro. IMHO, that
>> requirement just kills XMP from ever to become useful.
>
> Well, XMP Toolkit provides C++ libraries for creating and retrieving
> embedded metadata and is available under a BSD license.
>

In fact, it provides libraries to ask Acrobat PRO to do that work for  
you. By themselves, these libraries are useless.

Christiaan

> But the more general point remains: there is no widely accepted
> standard for embedding bibliographic metadata.
>
> Best, Mark



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