On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:52 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an > optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe > "dc.creator" that would search all metadata registered against that type. > > You would not be able to get/set the value of any of the dc types > obviously as they would potentially point to more than one metadata. > > Would that satisfy you Ross?
Why not allow all metadata types to specify that they specialise an
existing metadata type, which obviously will bubble up to File.Creator
being a specialisation of dc.Title?
Dublin Core is a very useful core set of metadata but restricting the
parenting would be limiting.
Ross
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