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

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

On Jan 2, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Bernd Schuster wrote:

>> I think you ask the right questions. If we he wants it to be live 
>> metadata, then its right there, in the content.
> Both scenarios are possible:
> 1) content is tagged with meta data and changes during several editing 
> sessions before it is "finalized" (and therefore must several times be 
> updated whereever it is stored (content side or meta data side). I 
> hope this is what you call "live metadata".

I just mean user-editable within content. "Finalized" or not -- 
"stored" somewhere other than the file or not -- is, as you say below, 
an "engineering question" (not our worry).

> 2) content is frozen and tagged afterwards with meta data for example 
> during archiving.
>> But I could also imagine him using a field to display the data pulled 
>> in from the package instead.
> That's right. From my point of view this is rather an engineering 
> question than a conceptual one.

Yes.

Bruce