[Zope-CMF] Dublin Core

Ricardo Newbery newbery@dvgroup.com
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:29:54 -0700


Exactly what I need!  I'm finding that I'm doing a lot of subclassing 
just to define new metadata fields and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Ricardo Newbery
newbery@dvgroup.com


>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:25:03 -0400
>From: Shane Hathaway <shane@digicool.com>
>To: zope-cmf@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope-CMF] Dublin Core
>
>I'd like to suggest an alternate implementation of metadata in the CMF.
>Let's look at the intended purposes of metadata in CMF:
>
>- To make objects searchable.
>
>- To provide navigation between related objects.  (Neighborhoods :-)
>
>- To provide attribution.
>
>(There may be more.)
>
>According to one premise of Dublin Core (thanks Tim Lynch!), people's
>requirements for metadata differ wildly.  Dublin Core just provides a
>common subset.  So that means that CMF should provide an easy way to
>extend the metadata.
>
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