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Michael Mueller

Hello,
Allow me to briefly introduce myself – I am Michael Müller, a German travel book publisher and author. My titles, published by my eponymous publishing house, enjoy a high reputation in German-speaking countries. For several years now, we have also been developing the travel guide app mmtravel (iOS/Android).
In order to build such an app with e-books, it is necessary to store the texts with semantic information.
To do this, we worked with LibreOffice developer Lásló Németh to make the Resource Description Framework usable in LibreOffice.
For a systematic workflow for print and app production, I am looking for a way to use these RDF-enriched LO files in InDesign for print output, with an equally powerful export function so that authors can use the latest production status for a new edition.
For Scribus, there is a LibreOffice import filter developed by Petr Vaněk. Perhaps there is a former developer who can help us estimate the development effort required?
In the case of InDesign and LibreOffice, the format to be supported would be IDML.

Michael Müller

a.l.e

Hi Michael,

Thank you for considering Scribus!

Currently, Scribus can import both ODT and IDML files.

Export is currently only to PDF, an initial support for EPUB is in the working and should be making some bigger progress before the end of the year.

Now, what is the work that should be done in Scribus for supporting Resource Description Framework?
On what kind of import or export would you want to see improvements?
Do you have any specifications that Lásló Németh wrote for his project in Libre Office?

Have a wonderful evening
a.l.e

Michael Mueller

Hi A.L.e,
sorry for my late answer, first I needed clarefication from other side.

This is the very earla Issue for RDF -
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OfficeDev/RDF_metadata

These are the more recent ones to start working with the feature -

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#Custom_color_metadata_field_shadings

Colored bookmarks for metadata visualization

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5#Colored_bookmarks_for_metadata_visualization

Bookmark visualization
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.5#Bookmark_visualization

Conference presentation

It was not possible to share my LiboCon 2025 slides about our developments, because it was a lightning talk without a dedicated web page,  so now  I've added the slides to my other presentation. Slide 12 contains a visual introduction:

https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/libreoffice-conference-2024/submissions/QEDSF7/resources/ForgottenWord_wk8UsXW.pdf

(see on https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/talk/QEDSF7/)

Michael Müller