On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Jakob Lechner wrote:
As far as I understand you, what you want is to embed metadata in one
specific document. This is not the case with smarttags. A keyword X in
any document will be handled in the same way.
But what *is* a "keyword" in this context?
In your original email you wrote:
2. If the user clicks with the left mouse button holding the ctrl key
on the underlined word a dropdown menu is opened where the user
can select one of the predefined actions provided from the smarttag
library that matched this word.
To me, you are using natural language processing to tag a term with
some structured information that says "this is not just dumb text, it
means X, process like so ..."
The keyword then is just one kind of content anchor.
Content tagging is in fact one of the metadata use cases. I can't say
I've thought in detail about how this would work, but I could imagine
it being quite similar.
Like, saying you have a span of "word." In my thinking on this so far,
you might be able to attach a URI ID to it either directly, or
indirectly thorough styles; maybe something like this in the first
case:
<text:span meta:resource="http://ex.net/terms/1";
text:class="tag">word</text:span>
So you have an a globally unique ID attach to the text. If you want,
you can include additional information in the file wrapper about that
term which might well include information that can be used for
processing.
In the more structured case (like citations) you use that association
to actually generic rendered content.
In the citation case, we need to allow tools to grab a data
representation in
order to process the output for display.
I don't quite follow you. Who creates data representations and where
will it be displayed?
"Who" is typically an application; could be OOo, or could be an
external database. Display is inline.
Here's what Microsoft's new citation tag GUI looks like:
<http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/images/cites/word-citation-
context.jpg>
<http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/images/cites/word-edit-
citation.jpg>
So citation is the field that contains an ID, the tag stuff provides
the UI, and the source is then used to general the on-screen display.
I think what I'm talking about here is maybe a more general issue than
your word example, but is otherwise quite similar.
Bruce
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