Judith,
Have you considered creating and distributing a word macro which
could, for example, generate the required custom properties when the
user saves the document (or clicks a toolbar button)? There could be
a fill-in form which is shown to the user to gather those values
which cannot be evaluated from the document content. On save as HTML,
these custom properties are then converted into META tags. I have
been working with Word 97 to achieve a similar result, feel free to
contact me for more information.
Julie Cargill
Effective Records Management Project
University of Glasgow
On 20 Oct 99 18:01, Judith Pearce wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> The business need for this query is as follows:
>
> We want staff in our organisation to be able to author documents using
> standard desktop tools like Word but we also want to encourage them to
> publish documents on the Intranet or Internet. They could just provide a
> link to the Word document, but we'd like to use Word's capability to save as
> HTML. We'd also like to encourage them to add DC metadata to the HTML
> versions, both for resource discovery purposes and web site management
> purposes.
>
> Serious web publishers in our organisation use an HTML editor and can cut
> and paste the metadata from a metadata generator or clone the metadata from
> another html template. But we shouldn't have to demand this skill level from
> all staff. In fact, even asking them to key in DC.Title in the name field
> in Word will put most of them off.
>
> I'd like to be able to customise the File/Properties/Summary tag in Word to
> mimic a simple DC generator. If I can't do this, I'd like to be able to
> change the default custom properties in Word to DC metadata elements.
> Otherwise, I think it will be back to the web form and metadata repository
> idea. Or perhaps Office 2000 will solve all my problems.
>
> Judith
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