Re: [syndication] Using feeds for time/event data?

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <a0fq8t+ocj2@eGroups.com>, wkearney99
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>Has anyone given consideration to using RSS or feeds for the 
>distribution of event data?  It would be interesting to be able to 
>find events from feeds.  It would be even more interesting to find 
>events based on time AND geographic data.

In the last few weeks, I've written an event tracking module somewhat
similar to the Yahoogroups calendar. I'd already considered creating a
feed with it for sharing among a group of communities. There is a
problem here that an Event needs quite a bit more atomic data associated
with it than just title, link, description. I could just invent tag
extensions and leave the summary in the RSS tags. That way it would
still be useful to RSS readers but provide a syndication route to people
who understood the extensions. 

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