Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format

[Mike Warren]

"Jean-Daniel Fekete" <address@hidden> writes:

> If GNE documents are to be transfered from a repository to some
> people's machines, [..]

I'm not sure if this will happen a lot, but certainly some people will
probably want the XML source for documents...

> [..] there should be meta-data inside the documents to specify lots
> of information such as the original author(s), the copyright, the
> original source if one exists, [..]

Agreed.

> [..] and more bibliographic information such as any category this
> document has been classified in (if this makes sense, but it
> sometimes does).

Such information should be inserted by a classifier (if the user
wants) but shouldn't actually exist in the article repository; there
will be one repository (potentially with many mirrors) but many
classifiers.

> If this meta-data is NOT inside the document itself, then no
> copyright can be maintained and it can be stolen.

I don't think you can ``steal'' an idea, but yes, without the
copyright and the pointer to the FDL then someone might (mistakenly)
make the document non-free.

> Indeed, as I try to express for long time, TEI has been designed just for
> this issue, and more.

I fully agree that TEI looks like a great format to use (although I've
only just heard about it from this list).

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