[office] Meta Data Requirments Sub Committee

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

please find below a revised draft charter for the meta data sub committee.

Michael


OpenDocument Meta Data Sub Committee (MDSC) Draft Charter
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Statement of purpose
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1. To gather use cases for the application of meta data in OpenDocument
documents and OpenDocument aware applications.
2. To classify the use cases.
3. To derive meta data related requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument from the use case classes.
4. To propose meta data related enhancements for OpenDocument for
consideration by the Opendocument TC which address these requirements.

Deliverables
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1. A list of meta data use cases for OpenDocument documents and OpenDocument
enabled applications, together with a classification of the use cases.
2. A list of meta data related requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument, which will be prioritized by the OpenDocument TC.
3. Proposals for OpenDocument enhancements which address the requirements
identified in deliverable 2.

Scope of work
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The subcommittee's work is to collect use cases where meta data is passedor
stored along with OpenDocument documents, to classify them as described
above, and to derive a set of requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument from these classes. The subcommittee's work further is to
prepare proposal for OpenDocument enhancements which address these requirements.

The proposed enhancements must provide general solutions for the application
of meta data in OpenDocument documents and OpenDocument aware applications in
general. That is, they have to be neutral to specific meta data ontologies.
The proposed enhancements further must consider office applications as the
main editing tool for OpenDocument documents, which means, they must not
conflict with the processing model of OpenDocument documents for office
applications.

Manner and schedule of work
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The work of the subcommittee will be primarily through conference
calls and a mail list set up by OASIS for subcommittee work, or other IT
tools provided by OASIS for TC work. Access by the public will be throughan
openly available mail list archive.

Conference calls will be scheduled on a regular basis as agreed by the sub
committee after its formation.so