Re: ScriptingNews: The future of RSS

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us> wrote:

> I haven't figured out the gain of having explicit RDF statements
> within each RSS instance, I thought that sort of information could be
> maintained out of band.  Here's hoping someone can clear that up for
> me.

The idea is that RSS documents now double as RDF metadata. It also allows
RSS items to be taken out of a file and be merged/combined/aggregated but
still allow people to keep track of where they were originally from. Does
this make sense? Perhaps you can clarify by stating exactly what is
confusing to you.

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