[odf-discuss] Metadata issues in ODF

[Matthew Cruickshank]

Soren Roug wrote:
> I apologize for not talking about OOXML in this mail...
>
> I've been writing a script that can convert the 20,000 Gutenberg texts 
> (www.gutenberg.org) to ODT, and I've discovered that ODF is not quite 
> adequate for simple *published* texts. First problem is that there is 
> no Publisher metadata field in meta.xml. The second more significant 
> problem is that there is no metadata field for the copyright information.

I read somewhere that the idea in ODF 1.2 was to use more Dublin Core 
metadata, and that the 'rights' field would then be included with a 
reference to the creative commons licence URL.

Can't find the reference to that now though, natch.


.Matthew Cruickshank
http://holloway.co.nz/