Re: [syndication] Syndication Formats

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 mayte@journalist.com wrote:

> I'm interested in what are the most extended or acceptable formats in
> which informative content providers offer their content to
> syndicators or aggregators.

There are several formats, including NITF (for news articles), XMLNews
(also for news articles and news-related metadata), RSS (for
resource/site/news summaries), OCS (a directory format designed to help
categorize RSS-style headlines/news summaries [sort of]), and ICE (for
more sophisitcated content and data syndication).  I have a list of
references to information about these different systems at the top of:

http://www.java.utoronto.ca/news/references.html

There is software around that can handle/process all these variants,
some commercial, many open-source.

> Also I would like to know something about syndication of e-commerce 
> solutions or applications.

Can't help you there -- I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Ian
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