The Modern Palimpsest

The following is a brief summary of a talk I gave recently at the Ingenta Publisher Forum on the 28th November. The slides are available as a Powerpoint presentation. In the presentation I tried to highlight some of the possibilities that could become available if academic publishers begin to share more metadata about the content … Continue reading The Modern Palimpsest →

OpenDocument and XMP

This is the second part of my look at XMP. This time I'm focusing on the potential for using XMP as the metadata format for OpenDocument (ODF). This is part of a broader discussion to help define the future direction for the ODF metadata format, one proposal on the table is to use RDF, via … Continue reading OpenDocument and XMP →

Looking at XMP

I've been taking a look at XMP as I've been considering different ways to "enrich" content. Embedding metadata is one option and XMP aims to fulfill the role of a metadata format suitable for embedding in a diverse range of media formats. It's also under discussion as way to embed metadata in the OpenDocument format. … Continue reading Looking at XMP →