I would rather that effort is expended in adding
database management features to Xindice than features
specific to content management systems.
I'd like to see Xindice mature as a DBMS before adding
features that are specific to a certain usage model
especially since we are not sure would be the primary
usage model for Xindice.
I'd hate for Xindice to become a Jack of all trades
and master of none.
--- Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2002 11:00, Gianugo Rabellino
> wrote:
> >. . .
> > 1. XML:DB metadata. . . .
> > 2. DB specific metadata.. .
> > 3. User provided metadata. . .
> >. . .
>
> I'm jumping in without much knowledge of XIndice
> internals, but I've
> been thinking about this lately the context of
> CMS/information
> management.
>
> Maybe these thoughts help:
>
> Speaking of metadata, the "resource fork/data fork"
> concept of the
> Mac filesystem comes to mind here:
>
> -Staging/release forks, the same data at several
> stages of completion
> ("release" is published, "staging" for internal use
> only, later
> promoted to "release").
>
> -Various metadata forks as you mentioned, different
> facets of the same
> data
>
> Maybe implementing the concept of "forks" internally
> in an open way
> wouldn't be too hard? I think it would be more
> useful that specifiying
> a fixed number of metadata types.
>
> >. . .
> > This flexible metadata structure IMO asks for an
> XML metadata format.
> > RDF/DC seems to be the most obvious choice. . .
> >...
>
> IMHO the user metadata format should be left open
> for maximum
> flexibility. Or, if this "forks" concept makes
> sense, schemas could be
> assigned to forks based on fork names (i.e.
> "dc-meta-fork" maps to DC
> schema).
>
> --
> -- Bertrand Delacr�taz, www.codeconsult.ch
> -- web technologies consultant - OO, Java, XML, C++
>
>
>
>
>
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