Re: [office-metadata] Microsoft's Doug Mahugh on custom metadata

["John F. Madden, MD, PhD" <john.madden@duke.edu>]

Apropos XForms, I think a future agenda item for the metadata group  
definitely ought to be a mechanism for generating RDF from XForms.
I've thought about this a bit, and it shouldn't be hard. It could be  
done in a variety of ways.
The output of a standard XForm is typically some concrete xml; we'd  
just need to show how to add an rdf output stream and direct it to a  
metadata file.

This would allow ODF forms to generate their own RDF image on the fly.

Forms instances would be universally web-readable. The earth would move.

Things to think about for the future...

John





On May 21, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:

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> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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>> On May 21, 2007, at 3:42 AM, marbux wrote:
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>>> <http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/05/19/custom-schemas- 
>>> revisited.aspx>
>>
>> Just for comparison for those that might be interested, their  
>> "structured document tags" are somewhat like our text:meta-field,  
>> except that we put the instructions in RDF/XML.
> As the SD tags were used to adapt business data, I believe XForms  
> would be our standard way in doing it. It would be the standardized  
> way to have a data binding to business data (xml data file) in the  
> package and changing the XML data via fields.
> The custom XML parts could be XForms instances, but they as any  
> kind of data can be simply added to ODF when the file is listed in  
> the manifest.
> The custom XML markup could be mapped via xml:id with RDF/XML.
>>
>> Also, we have the common model of course.
> Yes, we are much more flexible.
>
> Svante
>