[Zope-CMF] 'portal_metadata' tool in CVS

[Tres Seaver]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, marc lindahl wrote:

> >  (note
> > as well that only the Subject metadata is "multi-valued" by
> > default).
> 
> Another thing that could/should be checked... though I don't
> see that option exposed in the portal_metadata tool, it seems
> to be hard coded when everything is set up, though it could
> easily be added.

Adding UI to configure the "ElementSpec" objects is one of the
TODO's I identified in the initial announcment.
 
> Still, I think there's alot to be said to enforcing a strict
> core for this, to make things eventually easily searchable
> web-wide.  For example, I was looking around for a definitive
> list of languages, and found bits and pieces, but not an
> official-looking list -- if there is one, it would be good to
> have that included in the default DublinCore, since it's
> supposedly a standard, and would facilitate (external)
> searches... no?

  http://dublincore.org/documents/dces says:

    Name:        Language
    Identifier:  Language
    Definition:  A language of the intellectual content of the
                 resource.
    Comment:     Recommended best practice for the values of the
                 Language element is defined by RFC 1766
                 [RFC1766] which includes a two-letter Language
                 Code (taken from the ISO 639 standard [ISO639]),
                 followed optionally, by a two-letter Country
                 Code (taken from the ISO 3166 standard
                 [ISO3166]).  For example, 'en' for English, 'fr'
                 for French, or 'en-uk' for English used in the
                 United Kingdom.

The CMF *won't* encode these by default, but will leave it up to
the site owner to configure them ("mechanism, not policy" is a
mantra I learned early :)

Tres.
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