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Subject: Associating Metadata with Content
Bruce, In your proposal you do note this in one of the more difficult issues. ;-) My impresssion from prior discussions was that metadata was going to be held in a separate file (a good thing I think). It maybe that I am being mislead by the examples but it looks like you are suggesting that metadata be embedded in content nodes. Yes? I think that is problematic for a couple of reasons: 1. It leads to duplication of metadata for content. For example, assume that I want to associate some set of metadata with the string "hobgoblin" in the text. One option would be to mark every instance of the term in the document and to associate metadata with it by embedding it in the structural markup around that string. But, that means that I am going to have to do that for every occurrence of that string. And should anyone later in the process want to add metadata to that term, they have to update every instance as well. Seems to be better to allow a single location for that metadata and for it to point in some fashion to all the content to which it applies. Saves space (a point that is made in another standard about such mechanisms) and is easier to update. I haven't reached the substantive material on metadata in that standard (yet) but note what looks like a typo on page 440 of the primer. The parts of metadata are supposed to be Core, Extended and Custom. But 7.2.5 is Variant Types. According to the text not part of metadata but appears as such in this version. Not an issue we will settle today, need to schedule pointing/associating/etc. metadata for a day on its own I expect, but I wanted to make sure about what I was reading. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- 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!
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