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Originally Posted by eBookLuke
Hello Peter,
I wish to improve the metadata handling in W2E, but I still need to understand what is better.
We can get metadata from multiple source:
1) filename: the filename can contain author/title/other infos.
2) native document metadata: many document formats (.ost, rtf, .doc…) can store some metadata. The document title, the creator and other data can be available in such fles.
3) special W2E metadata fields: to better handle the metadata, W2E adds many user fields to the original documents. So, the document can embed some data difficult to fit in the field of naive documents (like original title, first publishing date, isbn and so on)
Now I ask to all:
what must I do when one or more of the data sorce are available? Must I replace 3) with 2) if 2) is present? Or 3) must overwrite 2)?
Other suggestions?
thanks
Luke
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Hi Luke
If it is a new .odt file then there will be no W2E metadata so use what is there. At this point a user may then add additional metadata, and if this document is now saved you could assume that is what the user would want next time.
so use 2 if no 3 but 3 if 2 and 3 present.
I guess the main area of conflict would be over owner/author and so for this 3 must be the right answer but other things like creation date may reflect when the work was written and not when typed into a computer. Certainly would be great to have the W2E metadata stored in the odt for future reference/use
Peter