In my experience, some metadata (such as the date a file was last modified) often does NOT correspond with actual changes in content. For example, if I edit the author listed on the Properties page of a file in Alfresco -- not in the file itself, but in Alfresco -- then the last modified date changes, but the file itself and -- most importantly from the user's POV -- has NOT changed. So a file that was last updated in content a year ago could show a "last modified" date of today, thus totally misleading anyone thinking of downloading it.
That is one reason why I am unconvinced with the idea that USEFUL info like update dates can be automatically presented to users through the Alfresco interface, instead of being manually updated on the wiki. This problem is not unique to Alfresco, of course; it also occurs with the ODFAuthors site and probably all other CMS as well. Some metadata, like file size, is fine. Other metadata, such as Description and Author, depends on accurate information being put into the Properties of the file itself (from which Alfresco extracts it) or that info being amended in Alfresco after the file is uploaded. In my experience, the Properties of the file are frequently not filled in correctly, even when writers, editors, and publishers have been given instructions on what to do. (I am often guilty of this omission myself.) So I don't think this metadata issue is at all compelling as a major reason to use Alfresco, even though it's certainly not an argument against Alfresco. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
