Re: [office-metadata] final updates

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
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>> So, suggest: "Applications that read and write documents should 
>> preserve all metadata files."
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>> Yes, metadata files do represent graphs but that really isn't 
>> essential to the point I think we are trying to make.
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> But then we get back to the question "what does it mean to preserve?"
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> Maybe it's really not important and your wording is fine (?).
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Well, you did not ask about "preserve," only the awkward language. ;-)

Actually I am not sure what we can say beyond "preserve" without 
specifying how a file is processed. In other words, I may simply toss 
the metadata files into a blob and write them back out just as I found 
them. Or, I may load them into my RDF-capable ODF applications and 
serialize them back out.

Moreover, what happens if due to some change in the file that contains 
the metadata? I have an RDF aware ODF based application and I 
deliberately change the metadata. I certainly haven't "preserved" the 
prior metadata.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick


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Patrick Durusau
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Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
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