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Subject: citations, fields and metadata
Apropos of the metadata discussion, I had an action item to determine what to do with the already approved citation field. <http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/XML-bibliography-proposal.pdf> My conclusion is that we drop it in favor of the generic new text:meta-field. Explanation is below, in a response I sent to one of the OOo dev lists. Clearly we will need to discuss this as part of the broader metadata discussion. Bruce Begin forwarded message: > Date: June 8, 2007 7:38:01 AM EDT > To: dev@sw.openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [sw-discussion] Word fields > > Hi Mathias, > > On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> I thought that's what we have already agreed upon, > > Just wanted to be sure, since things have evolved since our previous > discussions :-) > > I also wanted to make clear that text:meta-field can solve some of > these interoperability problems. > >> moreover my impression was that besides the general meta-field stuff >> there will be >> an explicit support for citations. > > It depends what you mean by "explicit support for citations." If you > mean in code, then sure. > > If, OTOH, you are talking about the ODF citation field Daniel > Vogelheim and I designed, then no. > > In talking about this with the metadata subcommittee, we have come to > the conclusion this is not a good idea. The text:meta-field is > sufficient to implement robust citation support, and introducing > another field for that means it is less likely to be supported in > different ODF implementations. > > This is already a problem with the existing bibliographic support, > where AFAIK, only OOo supports it. KOffice apparently just throws out > the fields IIRC. > > With text:meta-field, we have a very high likelihood of it being > widely implemented, at least for display. > > As for the potential issue of a lack of standard approach to doing > citations, we have discussed the idea for the TC to issue informative > notes of sorts that demonstrate best practice for a given use case. > So, for example, we would issue one for citations. If it needed to be > folded into the ODF spec proper later, that could happen too. That > gives the flexibility of the generic field and metadata support, but > also guidelines for smooth interoperability. > > This is my current understanding. The TC will be discussing the > metadata proposal starting on Monday, and I have told them we will > discuss the citation use case as a part of that discussion. So we'll > resolve it for sure then. > > Bruce
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