OpenDocument Format 1.2 will feature a new, RDF-based metadata model.
Metadata is simply data about data. RDF-based metadata leverages all the work done for the Semantic Web in ODF applications and documents.
The enhancement of ODF metadata with the RDF model will:
Support for RDF-based metadata is expected in OpenOffice 3.0!
This lightning round provides an overview of the RDF-based metadata model.
Svante Schubert works for Sun Microsystems since 1999. He is co-lead of the ‘OpenOffice.org XML project’, member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC and the co-editor of the Metadata Model specification of the OpenDocument Format 1.2.