Fwd: [dev-biblio] metadata implementation ideas

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

Interesting question about what to do with the existing element for
citations. I see a few options:

1) deprecate it in ODF and associated implementations (AFAIK, only OOo
supports it) in favor of text:meta-field

2) change it to accept xml:id and behave like text:meta-field.

My hunch is 1 is preferable. Any thoughts?

Bruce
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From: Gannon Dick <xxxx@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [dev-biblio] metadata implementation ideas
To: dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org


So, will the legacy <text:bibliography-mark> tag be preserved or not in
the OpenOffice Writer ?

--- Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:

> The ODF TC has in principle approved enhanced metadata support [1]
> for
> ODF 1.2. This is fantastically cool stuff, and gives ODF:
>
> 1. a simple, flexible, and extensible data model (RDF)
> 2. the ability to use it to describe not just the document, but
> pieces
> within the document (tables, images, etc.), including ...
> 3. a new generic field
>
> WRT to implementing it in OOo, some suggested reading:
>
> <http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05/papers/04-01-04/>
> <http://librdf.org/>
>
> Redland seems to have the characteristics that would be good for OOo:
>
> flexible licensing, builds as C++, can use expat or libxml as the xml
>
> parser, support for contexts (allows named graphs), and it's mature.
>
> There are also mature libraries in Java as well, but I'm assuming
> that'd
> be less ideal given OOo's C++ base.
>
> So upon loading an ODF 1.2 metadata-enhanced file, OOo would just
> load
> each RDF file into an in-memory model as a subgraph, work with the
> data
> as needed using the Redland APIs, and then write it back out on save.
>
> Because of the context support, Redland can track which file to write
>
> which statements to.
>
> So, for example, I imagine citation support would use the new generic
>
> text:meta-field and deal with two subgraphs: one for the field per se
>
> (written to "citations.rdf"), and the other for the bibliographic
> source
> metadata ("bibliography.rdf").
>
> Anyway, just some ideas ...
>
> Bruce
>
> [1]
>
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF-Metadata-Proposal.pdf>
>
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