Re: [office-metadata] URGENT: Finding a common proposal..

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Please ignore this mail, it is dublicate. I resent it after 2,5 hours 
and removed the URGENT..
I try to be more patient in the future.

Sorry for the spam..

Svante

Svante Schubert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As Bruce stated earlier, we have little time left for our first draft, 
> so all of the group should please participate in the following 
> discussion:
>
> To be able to get faster to a common proposal, Elias and I suggest to 
> list possible designs aspects, bringing up the low level requirements 
> behind the design and see what requirements are more important.
>
> Why doing this? For me RDFa seems to be worked out well for XHTML, now 
> I am asking myself if and what advantages we exactly gather when 
> adapting to our compound format. Meaning: what additional requirements 
> can we fulfill with a separated design and how far shall meta data be 
> split.
>
> Low-level Requirements:
>   * Flexible solution
>         o Easy (ex)change of meta data
>   * Consistency
>         o Avoid redundant data
>         o Possible to validate metadata used in content
>   * Standard based
>         o RDF compatible
>   * Generic solution
>         o Full coverage of use case categories:
>               * Metadata contains/reference additional data
>               * Metadata specifies a unique content
>               * Metadata specifies a class of content
>               * multiple metadata related to content
>
> Agreed Design Decisions:
>   * RDF compatible (is this agreed, any protest?)
>
> Uncertain Design Decisions:
>   * No redundancy by referencing content used as meta data (no
>      repetition of data from the content in the meta data)
>   * Content.xml should contain all text (content) to be viewed
>   * As much meta data as possible (apart of the metadata being shown) 
> should be stored in a package aside
>
> It would help a lot, if we would enlarge and redefine this list by 
> discussion.
>
> Kind regards,
> Svante