Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18



On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:52 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> I have been thinking of allowimg all metadata to be registered with an 
> optional hardcoded dublin core type(1) so we could use maybe 
> "dc.creator" that would search all metadata registered against that type.
> 
> You would not be able to get/set the value of any of the dc types 
> obviously as they would potentially point to more than one metadata.
> 
> Would that satisfy you Ross?

Why not allow all metadata types to specify that they specialise an
existing metadata type, which obviously will bubble up to File.Creator
being a specialisation of dc.Title?

Dublin Core is a very useful core set of metadata but restricting the
parenting would be limiting.

Ross
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