Demanding more human-oriented PDF metadata!

I am trying to write a plugin for PDF reader where an user, most likely a scholar, can select some text and have a bibliography automatically made ready by the plugin. It saves lots of time for scholars and university students doing research projects. To do that, a PDF file needs to store information about the author, the publisher, publish date information. I checked out PDF standard metadata, and they don't have what I need. What come the closest is creator, producer, but they are the programs that generate the PDF, not the publisher. I want to say that in the case where academic writers choose to publish their writing in PDF, can't they embed publisher, author, and so on information into the PDF file? To me, doing so makes lots of sense, as more and more academic articles are published in PDF format, and the PDF format should catch up with that!

You have two choices.
1) You can use custom Acrobat-centric metadata which centers around the use of the key/values pairs in the /Info dictionary.
2) Use the more modern XML-based metadata system called XMP which is referenced from the /Metadata key in the /Catalog dictionary.
Leonard

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