Re: Commit: metadata

From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 11:09:14 EDT

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Commit: Re: Commit: metadata"

    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. ;-)

    Paul



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