Re: [office-metadata] RDF datatypes

[John Madden <john.madden@mac.com>]

Elias,

The other thing, btw, that I hadn't grasped until recently, is the  
power of the metadata manifest idea. I like many things about it, but  
above all I like the way it allows us to get some of the power of  
Named Graphs by packaging multiple RDF files in a single document  
package.

So one related issue apropos inline content is: will the inline  
content all be extracted into one and only one RDF file? In other  
words, will inline markup have the limitation that all assertions  
that are inlined can only be associated with a single Named Graph  
equivalent? I would suspect that this is the case.

If that is the case, then it's really important for users of  
documents that might get markup from multiple sources (material from  
multiple metadata authors, marginal comments, speculative comments,  
etc.) to realize that they might tie themselves into a straightjacket  
by choosing to inline all their metadata.

I say this as a person who stronglly supports the use of inline  
metadata for some purposes, but also one who is starting to recognize  
its limitations.

John