Re: Commit: metadata

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 22:53:39 EDT

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     --- Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com> wrote: > At 10:22
    AM 5/14/02 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > >Here is the list of metadata props that I've
    > settled on. Others can be
    > >added if/when needed.
    > >
    > >AbiWord (* indicates also present in MSWord)
    > >
    > >Author * (this document's author, eg: "Dom
    > Lachowicz")
    > >Subject * (this document's subject, eg: "AbiWord
    > and Bonobo
    > >Development")
    > >Title * (this document's title, eg: "How To
    > Build A Bonobo Control
    > >from AbiWord")
    > >Summary * (this document's summary, eg: "Dom goes
    > through, step by step,
    > >and shows you how to create a Bonobo wrapper of
    > AbiWord")
    > >Orginization (this document's orgnization, eg:
    > "Appligent" or
    > >"AbiSource, Inc."
    > >Keywords * (this document's searchable keywords,
    > eg: "Bonobo Control
    > >Embeddable AbiWord HowTo")
    > >Comments * (this document's comments, eg: "Useful
    > for beginners and
    > >advanced programmers alike")
    > >Role (this document's role in a set of documents,
    > eg: "Intro: 1 of 3")
    > >
    > >Others can be added (#pages, #chars, #lines,
    > #paragraphs, etc...).
    > >MSWord does these, but they are only approximates
    > gathered basically at
    > >some random point in time, not necessarily on
    > saving.
    > >
    > >I'll start working on a nice dialog for this,
    > including custom metadata
    > >properties. I'll get property importing from MSWord
    > working first,
    > >though.
    >
    > Sweet!
    >
    > It'll be great to be able to capture and display
    > *all* the junk that MSWord
    > stores. I'm not likely to ever use the feature, but
    > some people do, and
    > it'll sure impress the reviewers. ;-)

    Can the user define new fields? I have a vague
    feeling MS Word can do this but can't test. I'm
    not sure if this is what Dom meant by "Others can be
    added". Not really sure how useful it would be but
    would probably help for importing documents with
    fields Abi doesn't specifically have.

    Andrew Dunbar.

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