On Sunday 25 November 2007, you wrote: > I find it interesting that the two articles you cite concerning XMP > are both from 2005 - a lifetime ago in the computer industry. XMP > itself, as well the Adobe XMP Toolkits have advanced significantly in > that time frame and has been adopted as the standard metadata format > for various other international standards including PDF/A.
Unless there is an other source for the specification ([1]), the latest public release of XMP date from 2005, so I guess the points raised by those articles are yet to be solved ;) > However, you are correct that at this time, Adobe is still the > "maintainer" of the XMP specification. We've been in talks with a > variety of standards bodies concerning trying to make it "fully > open", but it's difficult to find one that has expertise in both > metadata and XML, so that it would thrive there and not "die on the > vine". We're open for any suggestions - especially from those that > would participate in a open standardization process. I agree with Hubert, W3C seems to be a good candidat, they have both expertise in metadata and XML. And they also have a good relation with both open source communauty and corporations. > We are working on actual schemas for all of the standard "namespaces" > that are documented and in common use today, and will be including > them with the next update to the documentation and toolkits. I > believe this also address the RDF update issue, but I'll need to > double check that. Can we expect some improvement on the DublinCore schema ? > As above, we're always open for feedback on our technologies! And we are grateful for that ! [1] http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xmp/sdk/XMPspecification.pdf -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
