Re: Searching for Authors

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com> wrote:

>>> We plan to have custom searches on NewsIsFree, but needs some further time
>>> to code it (end of march).  A custom search will therefore also act as an
>>> own channel. (e.g. a newsfeed, containing everything which matches the
>>> keywords "hunter" AND "thompson")
>> well, this (when it is coded ;-) will only return articles which has those
>> terms in the news title or description. We currently don't handle author
>> information (nor do we have plans to in the immediate future).
> 
> I'm not sure how this should be properly handled but getting at more
> metadata would increase the value of the feed. I think we've got several
> options.
> - Increase the complexity of RSS to include more metadata on individual
> items.

RSS 1.0 supports Dublin Core in the item allowing the use of author,
contributor, etc. 

http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

Just for reference. I don't know if anyone actually provides searches on the
data, though.

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