Re: [office-metadata] Binding proposal

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - 
Hamburg wrote:

> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>> The only problem areas we have identified are situations where users 
>>> either a) do a copy and then edit those files independently, adding 
>>> metadata statements to each of those changed sections, and b) 
>>> creates a "new" document that is not really new, but based on an 
>>> existing document.
>> Question: what do you do with current document metadata in case b? 
>> Leave it to the user to edit it?
>> I guess I imagine two simple fields. The first is for the "document 
>> id" and is a UUID. It is non-editable by default, but has a "create 
>> new" button the user may choose. Upon clicking button, user gets a 
>> prompt "are you sure you want to do this ...?"
>
> What do you mean with "simple fields"? Text fields that appear in the 
> document? Or something within the UI of the application.

The latter; in the "metadata" UI for the document.

> Let's assume you are a user that does not know anything about 
> metadata, and you open a document to edit it, and you get this 
> question because the document contains bibliographic data. How do you 
> answer that question?

I think any user is familiar with the notion of an id. So it would mean 
language that would put it in those terms. Imagine they click the 
"create new" button for the UUID and they see a dialog like:

"This identifier uniquely identifies this document. You should only 
create a new one if this is essentially a new document."

... or something like that.

Bruce