Re: [office-metadata] RDF: What can we say?

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On May 16, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Although I would pitch the advantages as far as the document and  
> its content more than the broader Semantic Web vision. People who  
> already know RDF have drunk the cool-aid on that issue and where I  
> think we need to sell our proposal is to doc heads who really want  
> more sophisticated metadata in documents.

I mean less the semantic web stuff than this basic description of the  
model:

<http://www.rdfabout.com/intro/#Triples%20of%20knowledge>

The takehome point WRT to ODF is simply that the contraints of the  
model allow one the flexibility to describe whatever you wish.

A secondary benefit is that after-the-fact it is trivial to merge  
data from different sources (documents and such).

In short, it's designed for extensibility and mergeability of data.

Bruce