On 22 Jan 2004 21:01:18 -0800,
tr******@yahoo.com (trek) wrote:
I am trying to locate a standard (commonly accepted) XML schema for
managing documents.
There isn't one (yes, this is rather a poor situation).
What you should do depends very much on your market and your target
audience. If you're managing "documents", then you'll find it useful
to look at DocBook.
If you're managing metadata about documents, then you might want to
use either PRISM or Dublin Core, depending on who is going to be
reading this. DC isn't a standard on its own, so it'll also need some
other questions about how to represent and transport it to be
answered.
For rich-media "documents", you might find MPEG-7 worth a look.
If you're dealing with academic refererences and citations, then
things are extemely vague. There just isn't a good and widely agreed
standard here. Chances are that XML isn't adequate anyway and you get
pushed into RDF & ontologies. You might find looking at EndNote
useful though.
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