Re: metadata requirements for real-time collaborative editing

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

Rob,

Re: your requirements doc from Wednesday, I was thinking again about 
Florian's question -- "what are the subjects we need to describe?" -- 
and wondering: how that would apply in this use case?

What sort of document objects, in other words, assigning what kinds of 
properties, might be relevant here?

It seems to me the notion that something like the following are viable 
metadata-enhanceable objects ...

	documents
	tables
	images
	citations
	formulas

... is straightforward, as is the notion of storing that metadata in 
separate files. The triples model is all about allowing merging 
statements, so there's no problem here in a collaborative context.

What might be more complicated -- particularly from a GUI perspective 
-- is more micro-metadata. This is where you descend to the level of 
paragraphs and spans.

Bruce