On 4/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 16 avr. 07 à 18:05, Jesse Ross a écrit : > > > Yeah -- File Type should be on the same level as, say, Creation > > Date: metadata that is intrinsic to the Document itself. So, as far > > as metadata, we have: > > > > Intrinsic/Automatic > > - Type (I think we can take a cue from the Spotlight screenshot > > and use basically those types: http://images.macrumors.com/article/ > > 2007/04/12/Spotlight.jpg ) > > - UTI (like type, but less human-readable) > > Both are only a single metadata. Each UTI has an associated human- > readable description in the same way it has an array of associated > extensions… this is visible in Apple spec. > Behind the scene, you have an UTI db, you just query the db to know > the various fields bound to a particular UTI.
I would say it is probably the easiest way to support metadata on the file system instead of our own database. We just need to wait a file system to support it while we are busy on other stuff. :) Yen-Ju > > > - Creator > > What do you mean by Creator? The application which 'owns' the > document (most of time by creating it) or something different. > If you mean the first case, it's probably better to call it Default > Editor/Viewer (or simply Editor/Viewer). The user should be able to > modify it. > This won't be stored in term of metadatas strictly speaking, but like > UTI description this would be stored in a specific db which relates > each UTI to an Editor and a Viewer. > > > - Creation Date > > - Last Modification Date > > - Last Accessed/Opened Date > > - File size > > - Other users/devices sharing this Document > > Not sure to understand. Mostly because you put users and devices > together. > > > - Projects this Document exists within > > > > User-specified > > - Tags > > - Important (per Gmail's 'star') > > > > Intrinsic/Automatic and User-specified > > - Other objects/documents this is related to (per Brian's > > 'Related' section here: http://brian.muhumuza.googlepages.com/ > > working_with_objects.html ) > > > > > > Am I missing any other ones? > > - Comment/Description > - URL > - Owner (this is related to the next one) > - Permissions > - Version/Revision > - Number of elements (in a folder or a project… may be also valid for > a document if you consider all its components) > - Persons/Contacts related to this element > > File size and Number of elements are not pure metadatas since they > can be recomputed at any time for an object. > > All document-type specific metadatas like Authors, Copyright, > Summary, Languages, Company and more for a text document. EXIF and > IPTC for pictures. Ditto with sounds, videos. > > We should probably make some metadatas like Authors, Copyright > available for any elements. > > Cheers, > Quentin. > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
