Hi everyone, I've spend the last couple hours trying to wrap my brain around the W3C's RDF spec. I actually just finished reading Tim Berners-Lee's new book which mentions RDF. Anyway, I'm wondering what, if any, relevance this has for Zope. Is there anyone who would be willing to offer some comments? My own thinking began as I considered how to display news headlines from different sites on my Zope site. After doing some reading I learned that RDF seems to provide some mechanism for making that easier. I really don't understand it yet, but it seems like some important work. I'd love to hear more about it from someone more familiar with RDF, XML, and related Python tools than I. -Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson@chem.umn.edu | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:45AM -0500, Tim Wilson wrote:
After doing some reading I learned that RDF seems to provide some mechanism for making that easier. I really don't understand it yet, but it seems like some important work. I'd love to hear more about it from someone more familiar with RDF, XML, and related Python tools than I.
The predominant way sites syndicate their headlines is via the RSS format, which is related to RDF. See <http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html> for the documentation on this. I'm currently working on a Zope product to enable creation of RSS files. The next step after that is to enable inward syndication of these from other sites or sources, where I expect the XMLDocument product will prove very useful. I would distribute my product (it's ZClass-based) except I keep running into difficulties with the Distribution tab -- my new product never appears the in "Available Object" list when imported into another Zope. If someone could help me with that, I'd be very grateful! I can provide a zexp for it (see <http://www.zope.org/Members/edmundd/SiteSummary>) but I don't think that includes the external method I used in the product, which you'll have to acquire from me separately. regards Edd -- Edd Dumbill ------/ a new media consultant, writer & technologist /-- | Publishing Editor, xmlhack.com <http://xmlhack.com> | Director, Useful Information Company <http://usefulinc.com> : Internet Director, Pharmalicensing <http://pharmalicensing.com> : UK voice/msg: +44 702-093-6870 UK fax: +44 870-164-0230
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Edd Dumbill wrote:
I'm currently working on a Zope product to enable creation of RSS files. The next step after that is to enable inward syndication of these from other sites or sources, where I expect the XMLDocument product will prove very useful.
What do you mean by "inward syndication"? I would love to have some product that would allow a Zope site to display RSS-based news. Is that what you're talking about? What are the copyright issues here? I would assume that Reuters, for example, has some sort of financial arrangement with Netscape. One would assume that they wouldn't been too keen on having their news displayed on just anyone's page. -Tim -- Timothy Wilson | "The faster you | Check out: Henry Sibley H.S. | go, the shorter | http://slashdot.org/ W. St. Paul, MN, USA | you are." | http://linux.com/ wilson@chem.umn.edu | -Einstein | http://www.mn-linux.org/
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