Fwd: OpenDocument Metadata Proposal

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

fyi ...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dan Brickley <xxx>
> Date: June 11, 2007 9:49:23 AM EDT
> To: Bruce D'Arcus <xxx>
> Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: Re: OpenDocument Metadata Proposal
>
> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> I'm on the OASIS OpenDocument Metadata Subocmmittee, where we've just  
>> wrapped up work on our proposal for enhanced metadata support in the  
>> file format:
>> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF- 
>> Metadata-Proposal.pdf> A quick summary is that we've adopted RDF as  
>> the model for metadata, which can be:
>> 1. embedded as RDF/XML in the file package to describe either the  
>> document, or embedded content.
>> 2. used in an RDFa-like syntax to tag content as triples (where the  
>> content is the literal object)
>> 3. hooked up to a new generic field (text:meta-field)
>> We're actually starting the review with the TC today, but if you have  
>> comments, you'll (unfortunately, I think for IP reasons) need to  
>> subscribe to this list and send there:
>> <office-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org>
>
> Thanks for the update! I had hoped to get more directly involved  
> myself, but life intervened. Some questions: do you have any sample  
> packages available? it's a kind of .zip archive, right? An example  
> with multiple RDF/XML files/graphs would be ideal. Does the RDFa-like  
> syntax have an XSLT parser yet, suitable for GRDDL? Worth trying to  
> recruit someone here to write it? (nice sized student project?).
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>