Re: Minutes of Stockholm F2F

Hi David,


2009/6/29 David Singer <singer@apple.com>

>  Hi Felix
>
> at the moment, we see lots of issues with setting, and this is yet another
> one.  Or is your comment more general than just setting?
>


my comment is mostly about the role of the low level API, which is mostly
tricky with setting. Reading Werners answer to my question
"In my understanding the API specification defines the functions for
accessing all our properties, i.e. the input/output parameters and the
expected behaviour. This does not include the specification of how to
parse/write a certain format. All we specify should be format independent."
We will not deal with low level API problems, no matter if related to
getting or setting. The issues you describe about setting are probably
occuring a step before actually trying to set the (new) metadata in a file,
like "what data type should be set if the target format allows for more than
the corresponding ma: property?".

Felix



>
> At 21:43  +0900 29/06/09, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> sorry again for not being able to participate remotely. Reading the minutes
> I am not sure whether you discussed this:
>
> For some formats like XMP we have no open source implementation of
> functionality like setting metadata. That is, we cannot easily incoroporate
> references to (non-open source) implementations as a normative part of our
> API spec. I see various ways out of the problem:
>
> 1) Do not describe the functionality in question (e.g. setting of property
> X) for these formats
> 2) Do not describe low level API access at all, for all formats
> 3) Describe low level API access only for formats which are open, i.e. XML-
> or RDF-based.
>
> Comments?
>
> Felix
>
> 2009/6/26 Bailer, Werner <werner.bailer@joanneum.at>
>
> Dear all,
>
> the minutes of the F2F are at
>
> http://www.w3.org/2009/06/25-mediaann-minutes.html
>
> http://www.w3.org/2009/06/26-mediaann-minutes.html
>
> Best regards,
> Werner
>
>
>
> --
>
> David Singer
> Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
>