Re: Using feeds for time/event data?

["kelliottmccrea" <kellan@protest.net>]

Alright, I can see the argument that someone will often need to know
where an event is happening, so often that you might say its a
fundamental characteristic of an event.

However picking up the Bay Guardian and flipping through a set of
event listings much like I would find anywhere in the world the
events have venue names, but certainly not detailed geographic
information.  The metadata is assumed to be known.

I think any more exact information would need to be in a separate
location module.

Also location is often going to inherited from the feed itself.  If I
have a feed of events happening at my bar, then the location is
implied.

> > - Event name

item title

> > - Start time
> > - End time

two new fields.  as laid out in the rss1.0 event module proposal.

these should probably be in the W3CDTF reccomended by Dublin Core, as
anyone working with RSS1.0 already has tools for parsing this.

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

> > - Host (organization)

????

> > - Venue

see above

> > - Notes

item description

> > - URL Link

item link, and/or item about

> What's the expected format of each?  Are the expected to be test or 
> will you support something like RDF?

I would rather not use URLs, but use simple text descriptor like
Dublin Core.  I think the taxo module has been one of the larger
disappointments as its overly complicated to do anything with.

> Me personally?  I'd like to be able to query a calendar system with 
> not only a date range but with location information. 

But calendar systems are the only thing you want to query for location
information.  So wouldn't it make more sense to have location info
independent?



kellan