RE: [RSS-DEV] RSS for Liberal Arts Majors

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

> Some real applications would help too -- good metadata for indicating
> wether a channel or item is:
> - a job (for what firm, in what classification, based on what location
> (and not based on a US address))
> - a press release
> - corporate propaganda about specific topics
> - financial release (for public companies)
> - event
> - etc.

+1

The FOAF vocabulary looks like its going to be the first that will be in
widespread use outside of the RSS core and modules (inc. DC etc), perhaps
partly because it's acting as a catch-all, and already has many of the
features you list. The applications still have a long way to go, but it was
nice to see FOAF in use with NewsMonster.

What would be really useful would be a list of languages that although not
'attached' to RSS would be very appropriate for use with RSS to avoid
duplication of work (e.g. I've got one in progress for project issue
management).
// hmm... actually I'd be happy to compile it if people send me the info...

> When one can look for softare jobs located within 50 miles of victoria
> bc with RSS, that will be a big step.

This can already be expressed in at least one way (there's been discussion
elsewhere about a jobs vocabulary, and there's a few ways of doing
location - e.g. foaf:Geo), so I suppose what's need is the app to
demonstrate it - shouldn't be too difficult, a filter for extracting
job-related data from feeds, a store to accumulate it, a filter to select on
location (or whatever) and a front end to access it.  (I'll put this down
for a use case for JemBlog!).

Cheers,
Danny.