Rich,
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> > What was interesting to me about "role" was not so much its
> specifics
> > (I"m really not sure whether we could use it), so much as that its
> > design reflects consideration of both accessibility and semantic web
> > integration, which is now the subject of two of our subcommittees.
> >
> Interesting. I would like to know more about what your are planning
> for semantic web integration.
I think you can get a sense from this post of mine:
<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200602/msg00017.html>
> > Those of working on metadata had realized that we'll need one or
> more
> > attributes that link content or styles to metadata descriptions, so
> > hence my interest. But the attributes that are a part of RDF/A are
> > probably closer to what we'd need.
> >
> OK. What is the timeline you are looking for in ODF?
We talked about this on Monday. It sounded like a consensus was
emerging that we might consider doing two releases; a first for
accessibility this year, and a second early next year that covered
formulas and metadata. That sounded good to me.
> > ODF already has what I was asking for, which is some way to indicate
> > what in print-oriented formats like ODF are rendered as footnotes or
> > endnotes.
>
> I see so you would be interested in marking these as such through the
> use of role.
This was Steven's suggestion.
Bruce
