Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 08:50 -0400 schrieb Bruce D'Arcus: > [...] > > Can you give me some specific use case examples that might benefit > from such a generic structured metadata field? Citations is one. I > could imagine contacts would be another, where you link to a contact > record.
Let's say we have an OOo document with embedded metadata that can be altered inline. A possible use case would be an external application that could access the OOo document and read the embedded metadata and use it for some other task (store it in a database). Maybe you want to write a report in a firm. You have a document that includes fields like "author", "subject", "date", "importance", "short description", etc. Then this report could be automatically processed and the field values could be fed into a some sort of report db. I will try to implement some sort of prototype to show what is possible. I'd like to start with the front-end for fields that includes GUI adaption and data structures for managing fields that are inserted into the document. The back-end, i.e. the actual data source and the interface between front-end and back-end could be done in a separate step. I'd be glad for any proposals or hints about things that I should take care of. Regards -- Jakob Lechner Research & Development Fabalabs Software GmbH Honauerstraße 4 A-4020 Linz Tel.: [+43] (70) 60 61 62 Fax: [+43] (70) 60 61 62-609 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.fabalabs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
