Re: [syndication] Source ID

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Pino, I added a <source> element in 0.92 [1]  for this purpose. This
discussion has happened before. We use this element in Radio to clearly
indicate where an item originated from.

Re your comment about Unix, that's the canonical example of overforking, but
it was better -- at least (I think) all the Unixes had a common philosophy
of what an OS should be. RSS at one time had a clear philosophy and gained
quite a bit of mass around that. The mass is still there, apparently.

BTW, I got in touch with Linda Burman, the chair of the Prism group, who I
know from Apple days, and asked her not to take sides in the RSS mess.

Dave

[1] http://backend.userland.com/rss092#ltsourcegtSubelementOfLtitemgt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pino Calzo" <pino@calzo.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 2:42 AM
Subject: [syndication] Source ID


> So we have as possible source values:
> - ISBN (what's the registration procedure to get a issn? do
web-publications have an issn?)
> - DUNS (only for companies, but every company has a DUNS-Number -
sometimes even multiple)
> - HTTP URL
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> and the question why i do care :)
> 1.
> There has been the discussion that people want to be able to put quotes
and citations from sources. example: a comment on a wired.com story, where
the story-source itself serves as "source".
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> 2.
> In NewsIsFree i want to be able to show all coresponding news. One
solution we made internally is, that we have a table "Publishers" with
unique publisher IDs(which is just an autonumber). Like this, i know all
sources coming from Wired.com.
> If now eg. times.com would reference a wired.com article i have no way to
know that (because there doesnt exist any overall source id, which uniquely
identifies wired.com as wired.com... sorry for the clumsy writing :) )
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> In my opinion the HTTP URL would be a nice idea - but this should be fixed
in some RSS standard.
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> btw: Dave - i completely agree that there is a huge mess in the RSS
"standardization" and namings. Everyone who doesn't believe it: read the
external view. (from a newsisfree.com standpoint i don't really care,
because we take whatever there is and will come, but it's just not healthy
for the RSS future. Just look to UNIX...)
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> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43444,00.html
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> regards
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> Pino
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