Re: [office-metadata] question for Elias on rdf:type/odf:type

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

Hi Bruce,

public holiday here in Germany so I make it short. ;-)

I just did a grep on the IRC log, but odf:type is not mentioned. I am 
quite sure the change was done even prior the dcterms:hasTo change by 
agreement of Elias.
Even wrote yesterday a mail to Elias if we could come back to rdf:type 
and I am happy that we all agree on this now, although I am of course 
worried that we have no IRC log / proof on the agreement of the prior 
change.

Be sure, that whenever one of the editors come up with a proposed change 
we would discuss it in the meeting before the change and make the 
decision public to the group.
I am sorry, if there has been a misunderstanding.

Now I am excited up the result of the group's hard work, let's keep the 
good work up and bring it to an excellent end.
Svante

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> The suggestion was made by Bruce that we should ask you if rdf:type 
>> would be more appropriate than developing types on our own.
>
> Just to agree with Elias on the process issue here though ...
>
> I saw odf:type only by accident yesterday because we were discussing 
> an example that used it. I had never before heard any discussion of 
> this (though missed a meeting or two of course).
>
> I then asked "why is that there?", to which Svante explained the 
> reason. I then asked "did Elias approve this?" Answer: yes.
>
> That kind of thing should not happen. We should not by default be 
> putting things in the proposal that we've not first agreed on.
>
> For larger context, I think this happened in the context of earlier 
> discussions about preferring to define our own properties in some 
> cases (in the manifest). But the rdf namespaced properties are, from 
> my understanding, rather special. I wasn't sure of the technical 
> explanation of how and why, which is why I urged checking with Elias.
>
> There's one other example of this:
>
>> The <odf:Element> element can be bound to a metadata file by the 
>> odf:belongsTo property attribute. The odf:belongsTo property 
>> attribute value is the IRI of a named RDF graph.
>
> Elias raised a flag on the list about odf:belongsTo. We need to 
> resolve that too; should be define this property, and if so, how?
>
> Bruce

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