On 03/23/2015 01:12 PM, Christian Reiner wrote:
On Monday 23 March 2015 12:19:13 you wrote:
> * how useful meta-tagging would be for most people? Some file formats
> can embed metadata; if you're going to create it, it's nice to embed
> it in the doc, but you'd have to duplicate it in an external DB to
> support other file formats... complicated & a redundant duplication
> of effort.
Not at all. Meta data does not belong in a document. Most formats are unable
to store such data anyway.
I guess where it "belongs" is also a matter of taste... I would also
like to see pretty much everything in a DB, but my point was that for
formats that support it (such as EXIF tags in photos for your example)
it's nice to embed it so if you transport the file, the metadata is not
lost, regardless of method of transport. Have a single interface to
create/maintain it both places would be the practical obstacle. [DigiKam
is fabulous for photo management, via tagging & otherwise, btw....]
Sorry I've not time to ponder the rest of your post, but interesting ideas!
Thanks,
MikeM
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