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  • 1.  [office] Meta Data Requirments Sub Committee

    Posted 03-06-2006 12:58
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    Subject: [office] Meta Data Requirments Sub Committee


    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
    =========================================================
    
    Statement of purpose
    --------------------
    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
    ------------
    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
    -------------
    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
    ---------------------------
    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
    


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