Re: [syndication] seeAlso

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> * Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> [2003-07-23 08:00+0100]
> > One of the powerful ideas in FOAF is the widespread use of rdfs:seeAlso
> >
> > Could this be usefully applied in RSS?
>
> It can be used in any RDF-based format whenever you've mentioned
> something and want to reference more (typically machine-processable, RDF)
> info about it elsewhere in the Web.

[snip]

> The main impact I expect seeAlso to have on RSS isn't, despite all this,
> inline in the RSS markup. Rather I think we'll see it emerge as a
> discovery mechanism.

That's what I was expecting. Not to use it so much for linking to 
additional metadata about a particular item or channel, but to link to 
more channels. In other words,
- links to alternate representations of the same content
- links to (lists of) channels I know about
- links to (lists of) channels I like

A key question here is who/what would use this and what would they do 
with it?

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