VOS Object Type Definition

metadata

OTD #012; Revision 3.

Group: misc.

A MetaObject which holds metadata for the rest of the object, such as author, creation and modification time, copyright, etc.

Authors

Reed Hedges, (reed @ interreality . org)

Child Objects

 

misc:title [property:property] (optional.)

A title, shorter than the description.

 

misc:description [property:property] (optional.)

A description or abstract, longer than title.

 

misc:author [property:property] (optional.)

Name of the author.

 

misc:author_url [property:property] (optional.)

URL to more information about the author.

 

misc:creation_time [property:property] (optional.)

Time of creation (seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01).

 

misc:modification_time [property:property] (optional.)

Time of last modification (seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, 1970-01-01).

 

misc:copyright [property:property] (optional.)

Copyright information.

 

misc:version [property:property] (optional.)

Version number or identifer.

 

misc:language [property:property] (optional.)

Language of text, if applicable, in the format described by RFC 1766 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt), which is essentially ISO standard 639 with some extensions. Language may also be given as a parameter to a text type identifier in a property typestring.

 

misc:comment [property:property] (optional.)

Any comment.

Messages

this type defines no new messages.

History of this document

Revision 0 (Tue Jan 8 2002):
Created [rh]
Revision 1 (Wed Mar 13 12:51:43 EST 2002):
New DTD [rh]
Revision 2 (Tue Aug 27 01:35:57 EDT 2002):
Removed "metadata:" prefixes. ("misc:" will be used from now on). [rh]
Revision 3 (Thu Dec 26 17:34:40 EST 2002):
Added group prefix to subobjects. Changed type "property" to "property:property". Merry Christmas!