Re: Hello, I am Carmen

[Ian Davis <id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx]

On Saturday, July 03, 1999, 4:20:28 PM, Dave wrote:

> What about the format for the channel list? Anyone want to work on that
> this weekend? I can create an experimental URL for quick 
> additions/revisions. Right now our channel list is just a list of URLs. 
> What additional info should we provide for each channel? This is what OCS 
> is about, correct?

Correct. OCS is currently at version 0.3 and lets you define multiple
channels for a site, with each channel having multiple formats.

The spec is at http://alchemy.openjava.org/ocs/. The current version
lets you specify any of the Dublic Core (http://purl.org/dc) elements
as metadata about the channel provider and individual channel. The
channel formats then have several custom elements to describe
language, format and publishing schedule.

Did any of you see the Windows CE Power article about syndication (I
know Carmen did ;). They produce three different channels: news,
articles and combined, each in three different formats: RSS, HTML and
plaintext. I wrote to the author and suggested that OCS would be ideal
for this and even supplied an example of what it could look like for
them ( http://alchemy.openjava.org/ocs/cepowerdirectory.rdf). I've not
heard back yet.

BTW, when dealing with the HTML and text versions in the CE Power
example I used the MIME types as the format entries. Normally the
format element points to a DTD or Schema for the format, but for
syndication formats that are essentially designed to be pulled
straight into a web page I considered text/html and text/plain to be
adequate. Any thoughts on that?


.id.

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