Re: [office-metadata] citation

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

Svante,

Svante Schubert wrote:

> Would it be an option for you that we gather more experience with your 
> citation metadata implementation first, before the vocabulary is carved 
> out of stone by us now?
> I personally think, it might be a a better idea that we gather more 
> experience with your metadata implementation and embrace the citation 
> metadata vocabulary later in ODF 1.3.
> For instance, the W3C does it this way, waiting for implementations 
> until the 'Candidate Recommendation' becomes a final 'Recommendation'.
> 
> The nice thing about using metadata for citation, your implementation 
> would be already in ODF 1.2 a valid approach and would be 
> interchangeable with later OOo versions.
> The only difference it would become in ODF 1.3 a full ODF feature, when 
> it is more matured, so we would still have the change to add and tweak 
> features?

In principle, I'm fine with that. The only caveats are:

a) I think it's a good idea to include the generic classes and 
properties I was suggesting, so that we can just extend those.

b) that we find a way (as I've said before) to issue more informal 
documentation of implementation of different use cases between releases 
of ODF proper.

We got contacted by the Creative Commons CTO a couple of weeks ago about 
possibilities of some collaboration, for example, and that seems a 
perfect candidate for what I'm talking about. Likewise with citations.

Bruce