Note-Taking and Metadata: Acrobat and RDF
I recently installed Adobe’s new Creative Suite, and started playing with Acrobat Pro. Among other things, I was quite intrigued to find exportable (presumably Applescriptable) RDF metadata! Here’s an excerpt from an example:
<rdf:Description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
rdf:about="uuid:239e512c-4b5e-11d8-905d-000a959f0e52">
<dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
<dc:title>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang="en">Democracy and Political Activism</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</dc:title>
<dc:creator>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li>Jane Doe</rdf:li>
</rdf:Seq>
</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li>democracy</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>public sphere</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>United States</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</dc:subject>
</rdf:Description>
OK, so I can highlight and annotate PDF-based documents directly. I can now also embed useful (and open) metadata. Any clever ideas on how to tie it together with citation and bibliographic management?
update: So it seems Adobe has a customization API for metadata entry. Anyone out there with experience writing these? I just want to take the standard DC metadata and extend it a bit as outlined in previous posts.
