Re: [office-metadata] content tagging requirements and rdf/a

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

On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> For the longest time I struggled with imagining how to practically 
> implement this is ODF applications, and wondered whether it really 
> offered any advantages to storing the metadata separately, but the 
> more I think about, the more I could imagine it.

Just to be clear, I'm saying we should have a requirement that includes 
exploring this further in the proposal stage; not that we commit to 
implementing it in the final proposal.

I could imagine, for example, other ways to do the same thing. I think 
for example that MS has an example where this data is done using fields 
and separate metadata. I imagine the user experience there would be 
something like:

	insert field "contact"
	choose contact item
	select

... and the content is automatically rendered.

A very different mechanism to achieve something quite similar.

But in any case, we do need a requirement to clarify all this.

I'll move the new combined document to the wiki over the weekend.

Bruce