RE: [syndication] Aggregating and displaying feeds

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Hi Mark,

You might want to take a gander at Jame Tauber's RedFoot, a persistent RDF
data store implemented completely in Python.

http://redfoot.sourceforge.net/

Rael

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net]
: Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:05 AM
: To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
: Subject: Re: [syndication] Aggregating and displaying feeds
:
:
: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:32:11AM -0500,
: dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil wrote:
: >
: > Question: in your database, how would you store RSS data? That
: would be a
: > new task to me, and I'd like to know what the "accepted best
: practice" is.
: > Sounds like you are storing individual items as unique records
: tied to title
: > and url as primary keys? Assuming you have a separate table
: (also keyed off
: > title and url) that holds the "meta" information on the feed, such as
: > author, date, etc? And why not just key off the url, since it has to be
: > unique?
:
: I recently looked at doing this by using persistent RDF storage;
: there are tools which allow you to convert RSS0.9x into 1.0, and then
: it's just a matter of sucking the RDF in, and then accessing the
: triples as needed. Should be easy.
:
: Unfortunately, there aren't too many RDF persistence mechanisms that
: perform well yet. I played with 4RDF and dbms, but it didn't work
: very well. RDFdb looks neat, but doesn't have a Python (my poison of
: choice) interface. If you use Perl, this might be an interesting
: avenue to pursue.
:
: Cheers,
:
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