Hi all,

I have been wondering whether it is possible to put a bibliography (list 
of references in a journal article, for example) in an XMP packet in a 
PDF document. Having read about efforts to get the references from a 
document by parsing text, I thought it might make sense (and be 
possible) to put a machine-readable version in the document.

I haven't found anyone who had done this (yet), so I started wondering 
why. Is it too obvious to write about? Or is it impossible?

Eventually I'd like to have it automatically created at the same time 
BibTeX creates the 'normal' bibliography for my pdfLaTeX document. And 
if the PDF/A standard allows it, have it in such a way that it complies 
to the long-term archival PDF standard. It appears, however, that 
PDF/A-1 allows the XMP description of the document itself to have only 
one author [1], which makes me doubt the use of PDF/A in general.
If I manage to get it working, could it be a topic of interest for the 
Code4Lib Journal?

Regards,

Ben

[1] 
www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tn0003_metadata_in_pdfa-1_2008-03-182.pdf