As with any project, there are always users that want a particular feature that either doesn’t exist or the feature exists but doesn’t meet their needs.
In the deployment of the Adobe Contribute Publishing system at my current job this was the case. The library staff desired a way to insert Dublin Core Metadata Initiative tags into their documents.
The Adobe Contribute client already gives the user the ability to insert keyword and description metatags, but this was not sufficient for their needs.
Turns out that the Contribute client is extensible through the same sort of command files that you can build to create custom commands and behaviors for Dreamweaver. After reading through the relevant sections of the Macromedia manual Extending Dreamweaver MX (publication number ZDW60M200) that I had gotten with my Studio MX purchase some time ago, I began to develop a custom plugin to do what the library staff wanted.
The result is my Dublin Core Metadata Plugin.
To-Do
- Change it so that the values are stored separately with regards to content and format.
- Add drop-down menus for the selection of the scheme (a.k.a. format).
- Add mechanism for multiple authors and contributors.
- Add mechanism for handling date.modified tags.
- Build a Windows Installer
- Test the installer on Mac OS X 10.5.
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