- Q: Should we expect the author to type in all this metadata?
- A: Partially, but:
- part of the metadata information is present in the tool…
- …but thrown away at output
- e.g., a business chart can be generated by a tool…
- …it “knows” the structure, the classification, etc. of the chart
- …but, usually, this information is lost
- …storing it in metadata is easy!
- “SW-aware” authoring tools will be of a great help
- Ontologies also exist already
- albeit mostly in propriatery formats
- but conversion tools exist!