Re: OpenDocument Metadata Proposal

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 
> I'm on the OASIS OpenDocument Metadata Subocmmittee, where we've just 
> wrapped up work on our proposal for enhanced metadata support in the 
> file format:
> 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF-Metadata-Proposal.pdf> 
> 
> 
> A quick summary is that we've adopted RDF as the model for metadata, 
> which can be:
> 
> 1. embedded as RDF/XML in the file package to describe either the 
> document, or embedded content.
> 2. used in an RDFa-like syntax to tag content as triples (where the 
> content is the literal object)
> 3. hooked up to a new generic field (text:meta-field)
> 
> We're actually starting the review with the TC today, but if you have 
> comments, you'll (unfortunately, I think for IP reasons) need to 
> subscribe to this list and send there:
> 
> <office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org>

Thanks for the update! I had hoped to get more directly involved myself, 
but life intervened. Some questions: do you have any sample packages 
available? it's a kind of .zip archive, right? An example with multiple 
RDF/XML files/graphs would be ideal. Does the RDFa-like syntax have an 
XSLT parser yet, suitable for GRDDL? Worth trying to recruit someone 
here to write it? (nice sized student project?).

cheers,

Dan

Received on Monday, 11 June 2007 13:51:16 UTC