Re: [office-metadata] Metadata text fields

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:


> 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).

That's not quite my point. My point is it's not anybody's business to  
constrain how a user enters a literal of this sort. If it's a  
literal, then its up to the user.

I think the use cases you're imagining here (including option of pop- 
up GUIs and such) are more about resources, frankly, than literals.  
This is why I'm trying to separate them a bit in this discussion.

>>>> ... 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:
>>
>> <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?

The display string there, I am saying, is not per se our problem. As  
Elias and I mentioned, it might be that we have a convention that  
says to use the rdf:value propety by default, or whatever. As I have  
it above, I am assuming a user might be supplying the display string,  
just as they would when adding a hyperlink to a document.

Bruce