Hi, [Responding just on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess Jeremias follows all these forums, and can summarize in the end...]
On Nov 19, 2007 11:26 AM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every one of these projects has its own means to represent metadata in > memory. Wouldn't it make sense to have a common approach? +1 > Sanselan and Tika have both chosen a very simple approach but is it > versatile enough for the future? While the simple Map<String, String[]> in > Tika allows for multiple authors, for example, it doesn't support > language alternatives for things such as dc:title or dc:description. IMHO it would be good to have a more flexible metadata model in Tika. Better yet if it's a standard used across multiple projects. Best if we don't need to implement it in Tika. :-) > My questions: > - Any interest in converging on a unified model/approach? Certainly. > - If yes, where shall we develop this? As part of Tika (although it's > still in incubation)? As a seperate project (maybe as Apache Commons > subproject)? If more than XML Graphics uses this, XML Graphics is > probably not the right home. > - Is Adobe's XMP toolkit interesting for adoption (!=incubation)? Is > the JempBox or XML Graphics Commons approach more interesting? If there already exists acceptably licensed good code outside the ASF, then I would prefer using that instead of reinventing the wheel within the foundation. BR, Jukka Zitting
