Re: [office-metadata] citation

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Svante Schubert wrote:
>
>> Would it be an option for you that we gather more experience with 
>> your citation metadata implementation first, before the vocabulary is 
>> carved out of stone by us now?
>> I personally think, it might be a a better idea that we gather more 
>> experience with your metadata implementation and embrace the citation 
>> metadata vocabulary later in ODF 1.3.
>> For instance, the W3C does it this way, waiting for implementations 
>> until the 'Candidate Recommendation' becomes a final 'Recommendation'.
>>
>> The nice thing about using metadata for citation, your implementation 
>> would be already in ODF 1.2 a valid approach and would be 
>> interchangeable with later OOo versions.
>> The only difference it would become in ODF 1.3 a full ODF feature, 
>> when it is more matured, so we would still have the change to add and 
>> tweak features?
>
> In principle, I'm fine with that. The only caveats are:
>
> a) I think it's a good idea to include the generic classes and 
> properties I was suggesting, so that we can just extend those.
Is it really a caveat as the generic class and properties would only 
describe the existing text:meta-field?
>
> b) that we find a way (as I've said before) to issue more informal 
> documentation of implementation of different use cases between 
> releases of ODF proper.
>
> We got contacted by the Creative Commons CTO a couple of weeks ago 
> about possibilities of some collaboration, for example, and that seems 
> a perfect candidate for what I'm talking about. Likewise with citations.
These seem to be topics worth to be discussed by the metadata SC after 
the ODF 1.2 specification.
I believe there are still challenges for us beyond this ODF release.

Svante