[office] Meta Data Requirments Sub Committee

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

please find below a revised draft charter for the metadata sub committee.

I've changed the following:
- "meta data" is now spelled "metadata"
- The "scope of work" paragraph now states "The use case and requirement 
documents shall be approved by the TC before the SC proceeds with the next 
specification stages."
- The last sentence of "scope of work" does not refer to office applications 
for editing and longer. It now reads:"The proposed enhancements further must 
not conflict with the processing model of OpenDocument documents for office 
applications.".

Two other concerns that were mentioned but that I did not include into this 
version of the charter are:

1. To combine the use cases and the requirements into one document: The 
separation of the use cases and the requirements allows the TC to sort out 
certain use cases before the SC spends time on gathering the requirments for 
these use cases. For this reason, I have left them separate for now, but we 
of course may combine them if we think this is more apropriate.
2. To replace "metadata ontology" with "metadata vocabulary": In my opinion, 
the term "metadata vocabulary" could be misunderstood as "(generic) XML 
vocabulary for meta data", that is, something like RDF-XML.  This seems not 
to be the case for the term "metadata ontology".


Michael


OpenDocument Metadata Sub Committee (MDSC) Draft Charter
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Statement of purpose
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1. To gather use cases for the application of metadata in OpenDocument
documents and OpenDocument aware applications.
2. To classify the use cases.
3. To derive metadata related requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument from the use case classes.
4. To propose metadata related enhancements for OpenDocument for
consideration by the Opendocument TC which address these requirements.

Deliverables
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1. A list of metadata use cases for OpenDocument documents and OpenDocument
enabled applications, together with a classification of the use cases.
2. A list of metadata related requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument, which will be prioritized by the OpenDocument TC.
3. Proposals for OpenDocument enhancements which address the requirements
identified in deliverable 2.

Scope of work
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The subcommittee's work is to collect use cases where metadata is passed or
stored along with OpenDocument documents, to classify them as described
above, and to derive a set of requirements for future versions of
OpenDocument from these classes. The subcommittee's work further is to
prepare proposal for OpenDocument enhancements which address these 
requirements. The use case and requirement documents shall be approved by the 
TC before the SC proceeds with the next specification stages.

The proposed enhancements must provide general solutions for the application
of metadata in OpenDocument documents and OpenDocument aware applications in
general. That is, they have to be neutral to specific metadata ontologies.
The proposed enhancements further must not conflict with the processing model 
of OpenDocument documents for office applications.

Manner and schedule of work
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The work of the subcommittee will be primarily through conference
calls and a mail list set up by OASIS for subcommittee work, or other IT
tools provided by OASIS for TC work. Access by the public will be throughan
openly available mail list archive.

Conference calls will be scheduled on a regular basis as agreed by the sub
committee after its formation.so