Jonah Crawford will discuss Metadata in Zope/Plone and Beyond:

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Metadata is a key component of Zope and Plone's object machinery. Of  
course all sorts of metadata standards have arisen over the years to  
facilitate applications - and with apple's kmd nothing is new under  
the sun. However it is kinda nice to be able able to grab the  
properties of a file without actually opening that file. Apply this  
and other goodies like kernal notification,  an extensible plugin  
framework or adding tags to files and suddenly you have a filesystem  
that's not only fast at storing data but capable of presenting it in  
such a fashion that it plays nicely with your applications. I'm not  
just cheerleading for apple here. There are a number of interesting  
BSD and *nix projects to this effect that you can learn more about at  
http://groups.google.com/group/cumulus-byte-lab
. In my brief talk I  
will just highlight some ideas, share a little code and see who has  
some feedback.

Hope to see you there,

Jonah

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For more info see:

http://zpugdc.org/meetings/mtg29/event_view
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I will present as a continuation of the last talk as well, given time.

Topic: Total DOMmin' Nation, and appplications as a new templating 
paradigm.


On Oct 6, 2005, at 1:29 AM, Alex Clark wrote:
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