Re: Syndicating other kinds of content with RSS

[peteb@aliaron.com]

--- In syndication@y..., Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> 
> I believe the mapping for an event is rather clear:
> 
> <item rdf:about="http://aaronsw.com/calendar/1211";>
>   <title>Meeting with Joe Bloggs</title>
>   <link>http://aaronsw.com/calendar/1211</link>
>   <dc:date>2001-3-14T19:20+01:00</dc:date>
> </item>
> 
> The mapping for the lunch menu is a little more difficult, but I 
think
> description might be a better fit.
Of course there is a great deal of other state that goes with an 
event: whether and how it is repeating, whether an alarm should be 
sounded, what type of alarm, urgency, whether the event has been 
completed ( i.e a specialization of an event as a task ), an event 
acl,...
For interesting application domains the mapping I mentioned doesn't 
seem trivally obvious yet it is quite important that over time there 
is convergance on as few solutions as possible.
Pete