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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

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