Call for more use cases

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

I sent the announcement below for posting by the ODF Alliance.

For those of you with contacts with large corporations or foreign 
governments in particular, advising them of the call would also be a 
good idea.

The more participation we get in the metadata effort, the broader the 
call with be for support when it gets in the standard (in ODF 1.2).

I think we have covered most of the ground but it would not hurt to have 
duplicate use cases that reflect local concerns, even if they could be 
subsumed into a larger use case.

It gives people and their organizations a sense of participation and 
ownership, as opposed to standards that are developed by small cabals 
that decide what is or is not important.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

PS: BTW, for those of you who know OASIS types with influence over the 
website, aliases for URLs are not that difficult as I recall from 
administering Apache many years ago and would provide easy to use and 
remember URIs for our documents. I assume there is some wat to push the 
alias out to the client instead of the actual URI so that bookmarking, 
etc., is always done using the alias.

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The Metadata SC has just posted a draft of metadata use cases at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-metadata/download.php/19226/Metadata_UseCases14July2006.pdf 


Metadata will be at the heart of semantically rich documents, adapting 
ODF based applications to legal, medical and other specialized domains, 
integration with other office formats. Now is the time to influence how 
use cases that support your members needs and subsequently the 
requirements for metadata in ODF.

Some of the use cases already under development address Asymmetric 
metadata (same document but different metadata, such as in contract 
negotiations), supporting enhanced searching, ontology validation, 
Sematic Web 'ready' documents and workflow. What about your use cases 
and requirements?

To submit additional use cases or requirements:

1. Join the Metadata SC and contribute your time and expertise to this 
effort (preferred), 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office-metadata, 
or

2. Post your use case to the TC comment list: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=office

For further information, contact Patrick Durusau, patrick@durusau.net, 
Chair, OpenDocument - Metadata.

PS: We would like to wrap the use cases up in 2 to 3 weeks so we can 
start working on requirements in fairly short order. 2007, the target 
date for ODF 1.2 is not that far away.


-- 
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!