Re: [office-metadata] clarifying fields and metadata

[Elias Torres <eliast@us.ibm.com>]

Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM wrote on 03/13/2007 09:36:15 AM:

>
>
> >>>> But we're missing something which is really a sort of hybrid
> >>>> situation: in content metadata which may be field-like. From one of
> >>>> our (medical) use cases:
> >>>>     <meta:label
> >>>>         meta:about="http://ex.net/contacts/1";
> >>>>         meta:property="http://medical.org/patient";
> >>>>         meta:resource="http://ex.net/contacts/2";>Jane
Doe</meta:label>
> >>>> This would generate a triple of course:
> >>>>         <http://ex.net/contacts/1> <http://medical.org/patient>
> >>>> <http://ex.net/contacts/2> .
> >>>> So my question is really how we define #2 formally in ODF?
> To me it seems as we are trying to add two RDF statements in one
> text:meta-label (= the new attribute name is fine for me).
>
> I assume that "Jane Doe" is the patient, who is described as
> "http://ex.net/contacts/2";.
> Why not say the following:
>
>     <text:meta-label
>         meta:about="http://ex.net/contacts/2";
>         meta:property="ex:salutation">Dear Jane Doe</text:meta-label>
>
> and moving the triple
> <http://ex.net/contacts/1> <http://medical.org/patient>
> <http://ex.net/contacts/2> .
> into RDF/XML?

I like this. Question: and we need text:meta-label because of the read-only
nature? If so, why not use text:field?

-Elias

>
> IMHO by giving the label a RDF predicate describing the label the need
> of the meta:resource is no longer given and the usage of less attributes
> makes it easier for the user.
>
> Svante