Re: [syndication] Re: Using feeds for time/event data?

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <a13l3a+em1i@eGroups.com>, kelliottmccrea
<kellan@protest.net> writes
>--- In syndication@y..., Julian Bond <julian_bond@v...> wrote:
>
>> There is a problem here that an Event needs quite a bit more atomic
>> data associated with it than just title, link, description. I could 
>> just invent tag extensions and leave the summary in the RSS tags. 
>
>Are you thinking of extensions beyond start and end datetimes?
>
>I would be interested to hear what people think is the minimum feature
>set for defining an event feed.

I based the design on the yahoogroups calendar and ended up with 
- Event name
- Start time
- End time
- Host (organization)
- Venue
- Notes
- URL Link

As the minimum I could get away with. This could be coded up as 
title = Host
link = URL
description = everything else.
But you lose quite a bit of potential function in the process.

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