as i mentioned in earlier e-mail, we've been working on an initial
description of metadata elements for Linux Documents of all sorts derived
from Dublin Core elements with an XML DTD and a prototype entry template
that produces XML for use in a variety of database applications.
http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/projects.html
we in this case are: Miles Efron, Kendall Clark, Jane Greenberg, Matt
Knuppel, Ishmael Olea, Paul Jones and Victor Ruiz (sorry if i left anyone
out).
The idea is that the metadata conform to known standards, be somewhat
independent of the documents (like say card catalogue records), be simple
enough to be filled out by the authors (like the LSMs), be easily shared,
and enhance searching and retrival of relevant documents. in theory,
someone could do a template based search (sorta like
http://metalab.unc.edu/linsearch/ ) and find a How-to on modems in Polish,
or all the documents written by Victor, or even all video sources of eric
raymond talks which may not even be on-line.
please let us know what you think.
thanks,
P
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