[KevinH]

All ....

I would like to pick your brain for how a compact but useful metadata editor graphical user interface should look for epub3 metadata.

As epub3 metadata allows multiple titles (one main plus others), multiple authors while specifying author order, and creator and contributor specifiers, file-as, roles, etc, it requires that each metadata entry have its own "id" attribute and that "refines" to that "id" can be done as well as "refines" on "refines", "refines" on manifest ids (used for "SMIL") and even more complex things.

So I am trying to think about a good way to allow the user to specify a current metadata item, and then open a gui window that would allow the logical refinements for that item. Meanwhile it has to support creating metadata items from scratch while keep track of all of the "ids" in the content.opf to prevent duplication and then allow the refinements to be made.

Frankly, I am horrible at gui design so I am looking for help, guidance, mock-ups etc of what a nice epub3 metadata gui editor should look like to be simple and effective.

So if anyone has any ideas of jpeg mock-ups or anything like that, I would love for people to post their ideas in this thread. If anyone is interested the QtCreator and QtDesigner software can be used to help mock-up a viable layout.

Thanks!

KevinH