Hi James:
James Howison wrote:
Is there a representation of MODS (the xml) thing as RDF?
No.
And is there a way to do that that also includes Bruce's addition of annotation to MODS records (<http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/2003/11/26/
relax-ng-mods-and-annotation>)
Probably. I've chatted with Alf Eaton about that.
However, there is no ready-made RDF equivalent to MODS. I'd say the closest would be PRISM, but it's handling of names is problematic. Perhaps a combination of that, but substituting FOAF for the representation of agents?
Am cc-ing a few people who know much more about RDF than I, and might have some thoughts.
I'm asking because I've made some progress in my often postponed quest to get metadata inside academic papers
thanks to a hacky combination of the latex commands
\includexmp \includepdf
and bib2xml (to create the xml file to include) I can get MODS xml inside a PDF document.
and then use the perl regex:
m/id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'.*\?>(.*?)<\?xpacket/sg
to pull it back out again.
(Before I broke the install I used to babble about this here: which I babbled on about here <http://freelancepropaganda.com/themp/>. The point is to make managing academic papers like managing MP3, download a PDF, drop it on your citation management software and have the metadata automatically entered for you.)
But since XMP is meant to be RDF it would be better to store it in there as RDF, right? My assumption is that if it is in RDF then the Adobe etc tools can display the metadata (but since I don't have those tools I don't really know!) So how?
Is my thinking at all correct?
My sense is yes. But I also think that more than just Adobe needs to make use of XMP for it to be really useful.
Obviously once this works with old PDFs we should be able to do it with PDFs created within open office :)
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