This should be of some interest to Dublin Core enthusiasts. If you're
not familiar with RSS, the background article at
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/07/17/syndication/rss.html is worth a read.
RSS is the most widely deployed Web channel format we've yet seen. The
new flavour we're proposing has been designed to play well with related
metadata vocabularies, notably Dublin Core. Think of it as a deployment
strategy for the Warwick Framework. RSS channels provide a "what's
new" view into mainstream Web content. By using the RDF model, we can
merge this metadata with repositories of Dublin Core information about
the same content. The proposal below is back-compatible with the old RSS
0.9 format, while now sharing an information model (RDF) with Dublin
Core. Best of both worlds, or so we hope...
Have fun. Let us know what you think of it,
Dan
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rael Dornfest <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: RSS 1.0 Specification Proposal
Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:17:21 -0400 (EDT)
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RSS 1.0 Specification Proposal
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Abstract
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RSS ("RDF Site Summary") is a lightweight multipurpose
extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is
an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF Specification
and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.
Design Goals
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The modular extension of existing RSS through XML Namespaces and RDF
stressing backward compatibility with RSS 0.9 for ease of adoption
by existing syndicated content producers.
Authors
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Gabe Beged-Dov, JFinity Systems LLC
Dan Brickley, ILRT
Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly & Associates
Ian Davis, Calaba, Ltd.
Leigh Dodds, xmlhack
Jonathan Eisenzopf, Whirlwind Interactive
David Galbraith, Moreover.com
R.V. Guha, guha.com
Eric Miller, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Eric van der Vlist, Dyomedea
The proposal has been published online at:
http://purl.org/rss/1.0/
Interested parties are invited to join a working group on the
newly-created RSS-DEV mailing list ([log in to unmask]) at:
http://www.egroups.com/group/rss-dev
Regards,
Rael
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