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Subject: Re: [office-metadata] summarizing recent suggestions
Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - > Hamburg wrote: > >>>> My reply was confusing, sorry. I think what must have in the content is >>>> enough information to efficiently update the field. Having some kind of >>>> type (as suggested by you) and a link to the RDF/XML streams that >>>> contains the real meta data (as suggested by me) should be sufficient. >>>> Having just an id that is referenced from an arbitrary RDF/XML stream >>>> probably isn't. >>> I'm fine with having a type and xml:id. A link to the RDF/XML is too >>> constraining. Remember RDF is extensible and triples can come from >>> multiple >>> files to say that everything is inside one file, it's limiting in my >>> opinion, but I'd compromise as long as it's a *hint* or starting >>> point and >>> not restricted to only one file. >> >> Yes, it is just a hint. The type information could be used figure out >> which plug-in may provide the display string, and the plug-in would >> get the IRI of the RDF-XML stream. It could use it, or it could use >> hard coded file names. And it of cause could use additional streams. >> That's all up to the plug-in. So the IRI of the RDF/XML stream would, >> as you say, just provide a starting point, so that the plug-in does >> not have to search all RDF-XML streams to figure out where the data it >> is interested in is stored. > > I'm not sure the field itself should have any particular (direct) > association to some RDF graph. Giving it a type can then allow that > association (hint) to happen through the metadata manifest, yes? > > Bruce > I agree. If metadata elements in the content get a type and if the RDF-XML streams get a type as well, then this should be sufficient. Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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