Rob Page wrote:
With the advent of the Zope Catalog an intersting derivative idea might be to allow Zope to cough up RDF descriptions of definable (i.e., /Zope/Marketing/*, /Zope/US/Sales*, etc.) portions of the object space. I know that InfoSeek's Ultraseek and Netscape's Compass servers will gather RDF (to use a Harvest word). This lets the local server add most of the value and the spider's can come along for a relatively low-impact RDF snarfing visit.
Ah yes, and if Zope has the ability to pull in and parse RDF from other sites, you would have a standards based mechanism for sharing/syndicating content among Zope sites (Clobber Vignettes iSyndicate). I would love to be able to 'subscribe' my sites to subsections of www.dmoz.org (for example), add my own value-added content, and then allow other sites to 'subscribe' to my value-added version. As an example, much of the information in the Zope section of the ODP (http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Application/Zope/) is currently duplicated in sections of the zope.org site. It ought to be possible to set one up as being authoritative, and allow the other to update itself periodically from the first (yes I realize that this requires cooperation from both sites). Anyway, that's my blue-sky thought for the day... Michael Bernstein.