First, sorry for the rank inelegance in my turn of phrase ("practical
approach"). I didn't mean to be rude.
My idea is to develop a system by which activity reports can be
compiled (and automated) with either a group's collaborative document
or a group's documents without detailed access to the content. The
meta data from a single ODF document can be exported to a document
viewable in a web browser and multiple documents viewed as an RSS Feed.
I don't see any reason to build these capabilities into an Office
Suite (nor into ODF).
A generic mechanism to increase the number of fields available would be
very welcome. Likewise, the ability to draw meta data from anywhere in
the document would be a huge advantage in Evidence Based Medicine and
its derivatives (e.g. Evidence Based Librarianship etc.).
You do start to lose me just a little bit when you talk about a generic
API for meta data. For reasons outlined here ...
http://www.geocities.com/gannon_dick/TheBigPicture.pdf (case sensitive)
I believe that a meta data API needs a required core of elements. When
all is said and done, and at least where meta data is concerned, the
appearance of information is not information. Re-formats/rewrites
don't do harm, but they don't do much good either. My fear is that a
generic API would fail to put proper emphasis on key
(independent/isolated/monatomic) elements. Is there a way to
prioritize RDF elements or are they all peers ? If I had my druthers,
one would not be able to save a document without getting a nag pop-up
about missing meta data, but that is probably way to draconian for
common consumption.
--Gannon
--- Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Gannon Dick wrote:
>
> > I have a slightly different, but I think more practical, approach
> to
> > Meta Data in ODF documents.
>
> OK, I managed to access the documents, but I really don't understand
> what you're advocating. Metadata in ODF 1.2 will almost certainly use
> a
> generic RDF model (perhaps a subset of it), and be available to
> describe virtually anything in the document. It will be practical,
> flexible, and powerful, and will open the door to a generic metadata
> API in ODF applications.
>
> Bruce
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