[Ldsoss] Call for Open Meta Standard

[Richard K Miller]

On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Jesse Stay wrote:

> I can't think of a better name to call this, so I am naming it an
> "open meta standard".  The idea is this: we should be able to markup
> documents, such as scripture readers like MarkMyScriptures, save the
> markup, highlights, and notes in an open format, and then apply that
> markup into other documents with the same content.  So with
> scriptures, it would be cool to be able to take my markup from
> MarkMyScriptures on my PDA and apply it to scriptures.lds.org, for
> example.  The possibilities for such a format are endless - I'm
> curious as to what ideas the group may have on this, and if there is
> something already out there I should be promoting to get other
> application developers to adopt.  Please see my blog post today for
> more details (sorry for the blog spam - just easier to post details in
> one place and discuss here than post twice):
>
> http://www.jessestay.com/articles/2007/06/18/call-for-open-meta- 
> standard/
>
> Let me know your thoughts, and how we could promote this and get
> something like this going!
>
> Jesse

I think this is a great idea, Jesse.