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Adaption of ODF 1.2 metadata proposal (Revision 2)

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Submitted By Mr. Svante Schubert on 2009-01-08 6:20 am UTC

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Fom my feedback of the W3C Semantic Web Interest group here the adaption of the ODF 1.2 metadata proposal (enabled change tracking in the ODF text document).

NOTE: I decided to adapt the previous approved proposal as it was not added yet to the specification.


The changes relate to the following parts:

Adaption of W3C RDFa standard
Previously RDFa was not a W3C Recommendation and could not be reused in our spec, now we are able to adapt the official standard.
[see http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Change_Proposal_for_ODF_1.2_Metadata_-_Adaption_of_W3C_RDFa_standard ]


Usage of W3C GRDDL standard
Meant for non ODF applications to extract the RDF graph from our content.xml, styles.xml and meta.xml streams via a referenced XSL stylesheet.
Similar adapted by XHTML files using RDFa standard. The location of the XSL stylesheet is resolved via the URL of the root namespace (ie. XHTML use case) or via a GRDDL attribute in the root element (i.e. ODF use case as namespace is an URN and no URL).
Therefore the only effort for ODF applications is a new root element attribute, the effect enormous.
(After proposal acceptance I would create the XSL stylesheets and place it on an OASIS server).
[see http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Change_Proposal_for_ODF_1.2_Metadata_-_Usage_of_W3C_GRDDL_standard ]


Adaption of RDF mapping to relative URLs
Currently in the new RDF mapping file (manifest.rdf) an arbitrary URN is being invented for every ODF element described in the RDF graph. But this creates troublesome URL alias. Instead the standard will require that a resource (ODF element) will be mapped directly to its relative URL.
[see http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Change_Proposal_for_ODF_1.2_Metadata_-_Adaption_of_RDF_mapping_to_relative_URLs ]

Regards,
Svante