Cut back on verbiage in sect 3,4 rbitrary data
authorGraham Klyne
Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:27:14 +0000
changeset 4681 d269fcdfc9fd
parent 4680 aba651f6da5e
child 4682 35ee2d7209ea
Cut back on verbiage in sect 3,4 rbitrary data
paq/prov-aq.html
--- a/paq/prov-aq.html	Thu Nov 08 22:24:15 2012 +0000
+++ b/paq/prov-aq.html	Thu Nov 08 22:27:14 2012 +0000
@@ -501,20 +501,8 @@
           For formats which have provision for including metadata within the file (e.g. JPEG images, PDF documents, etc.), use the format-specific metadata to include a <a class="internalDFN">target-URI</a>, <a class="internalDFN">provenance-URI</a> and/or <a class="internalDFN">service-URI</a>. Format-specific metadata provision might also be used to include <a class="internalDFN">provenance information</a> directly in the resource.
         </p>
         <p>
-          Use a generic packaging format that can combine an arbitrary data file with a separate metadata file in a known format, such as RDF.  At this time, it is not clear what format that should be, but some possible candidates are:</p>
-          <ul>
-            <li>MIME multipart/related [[RFC2387]]: both email and HTTP are based on MIME or MIME-derivatives, so this has the advantage of working well with the network transfer mechanisms discussed in the motivating scenarios considered.
-            </li>
-            <li>
-              Composite object-packaging work from the digital library community, of which there are several (e.g., <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/">ORE</a>, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/">METS</a>, <a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/mpeg21-didl.html">MPEG-21 DIDL</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/BagIt">BagIt</a>) to name a handful.
-            </li>
-            <li>
-              Packaging formats along the lines of those used for shipping Java web applications (basically, a ZIP file with a manifest and some imposed structure)
-            </li>
-            <li>
-              Ongoing work in the research community (e.g. <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21587/">Why Linked Data is Not Enough for Scientists</a>, <a href="http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-overview.html">ePub</a>, etc.) to encapsulate data, code, annotations and metadata into a common exchangeable format.
-            </li>
-          </ul>
+          Use a generic packaging format that can combine an arbitrary data file with a separate metadata file in a known format such as RDF.
+        </p>
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