Re: [office-metadata] Metadata text fields

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

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:
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> ...
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>>>> This plug-in has furthermore the responsibility to keep the literal 
>>>> consistent with further metadata in the document (e.g. RDF/XML).
>>>
>>> This is where the confusion keeps coming in. There's no need to be 
>>> "consistent" here because the in-content text *is* the literal. 
>>> There's nothing to be consistent with.
>> Unfortunately there is no guarantee that the RDF statement - where 
>> the literal is part as the RDF object - is unique in-content only.
>> Aside of an usage in RDF/XML, there might be even the same in-content 
>> RDF statement a couple of times in the document. I would 
>> optimistically assume that if you change one, you change them all.
>
> I see what you mean now.
>
> Here's the thing: we cannot worry about this.
>
> Consider this example:
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> <span about="urn:uuid:2387832787283" property="ex:tag">foo</span>
> <span about="urn:uuid:2387832787283" property="ex:tag">bar</span>
>
> Are these "inconsistent"? Answer: only if we assume there can be only 
> one ex:tag property for a resource.
>
> So in essence, the answer is no, they aren't: they are two separate 
> statements.
>
> ...

Exactly, it depends on the vocabulary being used. Therefore the only 
one, who the grammar knows and might keep consistency correctly is the 
RDF application (plug-in).
>
>>> ... have one new field whose job it is to display information about 
>>> *resources*.
>>>
>>> I want to say in my document that Patrick is the author, but I have 
>>> Patrick vCard record already in RDF/XML in the package, so I do 
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> <meta:field
>>>     meta:about="urn:uuid:8134713815475740574" <!-- document URI -->
>>>     meta:property="dc:creator"
>>>     meta:resource="http://ex.net/people#patrick";>Patrick 
>>> Durusau</mta:field>
>> Can you give me the RDF triples you are telling here and do you refer 
>> to the RDF/XML spec when you talk about a resource? Any link?
>> Would not be one triple sufficient for the beginning?
>
> Triple is:
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> <urn:uuid:813471381547574057> dc:creator <http://ex.net/people#patrick> .
>
Thanks. Isn't there a further RDF statement about the relation of the 
string 'Patrick Durusau' and some of the RDF IRIs?

Regards,
Svante