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Subject: Fwd: Metadata in DITA
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Some thoughts from Fabrice at Antidot ... Best,
Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) -------- Forwarded Message --------
Hello Kristen, I hope you had a safe trip back.
Following our rapid conversation in Montreal, here
are some notes and personal insights about metadata and DITA.
Real use cases and demands from our clients (even
if names used here for examples are fictional):
- As a user, I am reading the book « Installation
Manual of DITA-CMS version 4.2 » and I want to switch to the
same manual for version 4.3.
- As a user, I am reading the Japanese version
of « DITA-CMSバージョン4.2のインストールマニュアル » and I want to switch to
the English version of the manual.
Simple question: how does Fluid Topics know with
standard DITA that two books (maps) are different variants of
the same « conceptual » manual?
We miss in DITA a conceptual model for describing
how documents relate with each other. The particular case
described above makes me think about FRBR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records).
We can see here that DITA was design with static publication
in mind and that « topics and maps » would not be used
otherwise.
It’s interesting to see that CCMSes like IXIASOFT
have this information (particularly with DRM in their case)
but don’t export this information in maps because nothing
allows to do so. If CCMSes were to export this information,
they would all do it in a specific way, each one using a
personal set of metadata, which is exactly what we don’t want.
I have also an other remark on the subject: Why
does DITA reinvent its own set of metadata and taxonomy
mechanism (namely subject scheme).
It would make more sense to leverage existing
standard vocabularies (such as Dublin Core), and SKOS for
taxonomies.
It’s not a good sign for a standard to show a
« not invented here » syndrome :-)
I hope that the DITA TC will pay attention to this
critical subject and we would be happy to help.
Kind regards,
Fabrice
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