Re: Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X
Re: Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X
- Subject: Re: Proposal for metadata interoperability on OS X
- From: "Hamish Allan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:43:04 +0100
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Tom Andersen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I think that
> the way to go about this is to talk this back and forth here for a bit, then
> have someone go and write some code to implement the guidelines and turn
> them into a nice cocoa api. For instance, one thing that I run into with
> tags is that some programs/users enter (say 6) tags as a comma delimited
> string, and this gets stored as a single string in an array of length one.
> It's not impossible to catch this sort of thing and deal with it, but if it
> were all in one open sourced class, it would be a lot easier and more
> consistent.
>
> Suggested Fields
> ---------------
> Tags
It's worth noting that there is already something of a de facto tag
structure in SpotMeta
(http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/spotmeta_org.html).
SpotMeta hasn't been updated for Leopard (the COM swizzling stuff has
stopped working) but it's under the GPL.
Hamish
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