Re: [office-metadata] Our discussion on the Wiki example

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

Hi Bernd,

On Dec 28, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Bernd Schuster wrote:

> From my point of you, there are no objections to write:
>
> <text:p xml:id="myBook">
> My favorite books is from Tolkien! It's ISBM is <text:span 
> xml:id="isbn">8th</text:span> it has <text:span 
> xml:id="pages">1154</text:span> pages
> </text:p>
>
> ... and in the RDF/XML:
>
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="content.xml#myBook">
>  <ex:author rdf:resource="http://ex.net/people/Tolkien"/>
>  <ex:isbn rdf:resource="content.xml#isbn"/>
>  <ex:pages rdf:resource="content.xml#pages"/>
> </rdf:Description>
>
> where the "words" '8th' and '1154' are  tagged  with an individuell 
> xml:id  and being referenced  as objects inside the above rdf 
> statements.

Yes, the objections are:

1) it is not a standard way to model RDF, and would in fact violate 
many ontologies. In short, we would force every literal to be a 
resource.

2) it forces additional processing, and the metadata is now dependent 
on the (ODF) content

Bruce