Re: [office-metadata] Linking in a vocabulary

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Patrick Durusau wrote:
>> <text:p>Text from the Bible....more text<text:span
>> m:about="urn:joseph-son-of-jacob" 
>> m:property="foaf:name">Joseph</text:span>
>> more ...</text:p>
>>
> Yes, but note that requires marking *every* string "Joseph" with the 
> <text:span> element.
More precisely it would use m:span instead of text:span.

I really like the idea of using some RDF dictionary with patterns to 
match strings in the content with RDF URIs. This would help the Office 
user a lot, when he has an usability plug-in to add metadata to his ODF 
document semi automatically (for instance in search and replace kind of 
way), hopefully with a check from the user, as mistakes can be done).
Such a usability tool would modify the document conforming to our 
proposal by attaching metadata using m:span with m:about and m:property 
to the matched document strings.

In addition this relation between an RDF dictionary and the ODF document 
can be stated in RDF/XML or by non-specified RDF statements in the 
metadata manifest.
When it would be used more often, we could even standardize the RDF 
statement expressing the additional relation to an RDF dictionary in a 
later version of our proposal.

Svante