Re: [office-metadata] two options

[John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>]

As you know, I also favor #2.

I will post an example of an odf content file derived from a  
physician's office note with rdfa markup on the wiki in the next day  
or two.

John


On Dec 5, 2006, at 1520, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>
> I'd like to see if I can cut through some of the recent confusion  
> and keep us moving towards a solution.
>
> As Elias and I have been talking about this we really have two  
> options to fulfill our requirements and cover our use cases:
>
>
> Option 1: The all-RDF/XML approach
> ==================================
>
> This presumes that all metadata is stored apart from the content  
> file in the package, and refers from those files to document  
> objects in the content.xml file. The sole requirement in the  
> content.xml file is that the object to which one would like to  
> attach metadata is identified with a local or global IRI.
>
> The citation example I have on the wiki [1] is a complex example of  
> this.
>
>
> Option 2: The Hybrid RDFa-inspired and RDF/XML approach
> =======================================================
>
> This would allow a handful of RDFa inspired attributes to be  
> attached to content nodes to give them further semantics, and then  
> use the separate RDF/XML files to augment those sort of semantic  
> anchors.
>
>
> Discussion
> ==========
>
> I favor Option 2 because Option 1 will prove too limited. The only  
> reason it works for my citation example is because I rely on the  
> implicit semantics associated with a hard-coded element:  
> text:bibliography-mark. In essence, this becomes a sort of property  
> of the document. But we cannot rely on these implicit semantics,  
> precisely because we want to enable custom solutions.
>
> Perhaps we can discuss this for the call next week? I suggest we  
> need to make a decision really soon whether we go with Option 1 or  
> 2, or simply bring two proposals to the TC.
>
> Perhaps we can discuss this in the context of one or more different  
> (but still complex) use cases; say the medical one?
>
> Bruce
>
> [1] <http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Metadata_Examples>
>
>