Re: [syndication] State of unique IDs on newsfeed items?

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

So it sounds like you want something that acts as an identifier and a
locator. Sounds like a job for a URI, possibly two if you need to
scope the URI within a particular feed.

I think this was the motivation (in part) for using RDF for RSS 1.0.
Or am I misreading your goals?

Cheers,



On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:21:34PM -0000, Bill Kearney wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's the current state of putting unique IDs on newsfeed items?  
> Has there been a consensus on this or any works started?
> 
> It would be great to have a unique ID on each item coming out of a 
> newsfeed.  The feed formats don't really support this (yet) but bear 
> with me.
> 
> Great for several reasons.  One being it would allow anyone 
> forwarding an item to perhaps retain the original ID.   If the feed 
> is going to include a unique ID, it would be very helpful to have 
> that number be used in retrieving the item at a later time.  Again, 
> there's no standard on this but ISTM that it's worth discussing.
> 
> And if a feed had a way to get back to the orignal item, how about 
> being able to extract that item in an XML form?  This could go a long 
> way toward expanding meta-data use.  While a feed might on show the 
> HTML text, the ID pointing back to the original XML data might allow 
> some really cool ways to traverse from the original item to similar 
> items or (my favorite) categories.
> 
> How about it?
> 
> It seems there's a tremendous number of feeds being generated by a 
> relatively small number of toolkits.  The www.syndic8.com feed list 
> is showing a number of new and revealing things about them (and some 
> errors).  
> 
> Perhaps now is a good time to have a discussion on taking feeds to 
> another level?
> 
> -Bill Kearney
> 
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