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

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

I wrote:

> Those metadata properties (in your example the authors' family names, 
> and the year of publication, plus a year disambiguation suffix that 
> can only be known by processing the entire in-document list of 
> citation references; it's not intrinsic to the bibliographic metadata) 
> are only really relevant to one kind of presentation style.

Actually, real-world citation formatting is even more complex than the 
above. For example, styles typically have (often specific) substitution 
rules. E.g. what happens if there's no author (substitute title, unless 
it's an article in a periodical, in which case you substitute the 
periodical title, etc.)?

To go back to the model, a citation field can be modeled liked:

_:xyz
	cite:reference [ dc:source <urn:isbn:34983498> ; cite:pages "23" ] .

The source metadata then gets drawn from the book resource description:

<urn:isbn:34983498> a b:Book ;
	dc:title "Some Book" ;
	dc:date "2006" .

This is more-or-less equivalent to in BibTeX 
\cite[23]{urn:isbn:34983498}.

Bruce