Re: [opendocument-users] OpenOffice as vehicle for industry standards

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Who all is involved in the Technical Committee's discussions of metadata 
enhancements, especially those with expertise in metadata?

I can see that there has been a relatively sudden surge of interest in the 
topic in many developer communities which bring fresh ideas.

I'd also like to be sure we take advantage of the decades of applied 
research that have already gone into metadata methods and usage.  Those 
discussions should at least include someone from that part of the library 
research community.  The Dublin Core was one such project.

So, with apologies to Larry Wall, while we're busy re-inventing the wheel, 
let's make sure it's a better wheel. ;)

-Lars
Lars Nooden (lars@umich.edu)
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:

> This is an interesting topic.  The ODF TC is currently discussing metadata
> enhancements to ODF which may make things like this a lot simpler.  There
> is nothing set in stone at this point, but one idea I've been thinking
> about is whether we can do interesting things by allowing ODF document
> templates to have metadata annotations associated with named styles. These
> metadata annotations then get associated with content that uses these
> styles and that provides a hint to an intelligent editor, or an external
> transformation engine (like XSTL), on how to map the contents of the ODF
> document into some other schema, like LegalXML or whatever.
>
> -Rob
>
> "Mark L. Reynolds" <mark.reynolds@simplifile.com> wrote on 03/03/2006
> 01:05:54 AM:
>
>> I am sitting in a hotel room at a conference where we are discussing
>> xml standards for three instances of transmitting documents over the
>> internet.  One is the MISMO (www.mismo.org) standard for electronic
>> mortgages, another is PRIA (www.pria.us) which describes a standard
>> for documents to be submitted electronically to a county recorder to
>> be recorded and the third (www.legalxml.org) describes a standard
>> for legal documents including electronic submissions to courts.
>> Today there has been discussion about whether documents for these
>> standards should best be xml, xhtml or intelligent pdf.
>> My question is this.  Could OpenDocument fill the role of
>> standardizing the packaging of documents for these purposes
>> (specifically including an image of a document with both data fields
>> and metadata)?  And if it could, should it?
>> Your input will be greatly appreciated.
>> Mark