One thing I wanted to add about the use case I described & this effort.
For me the goal is: 1. to come up with an agreed upon way to record
metadata about media files, and 2. to define, even if implicitly, when
a set of media files is appropriately attached to one entry and when each
of those media files should really have it's own entry (i.e., if you are
simply recreating the same elements of the atom entry as children of
atom:link, the media file ought to have its own entry).
As a librarian I have seen these sorts of conversation lead to fascinating
but never-ending philosophizing [0]. I greatly appreciate the Atom
communities' track record of deciding what is the "simplest thing that'll
work" and leaving it at that (plus extensibility, of course).
--peter keane
[0] http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, James M Snell wrote:
The best place to start would be to start collecting as many use cases as
possible from folks who are writing actual code; documenting what kinds of
information need to be in the feeds and why.
- James
James Abley wrote:
On 16/01/2008, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All it would really take are implementors willing to support the
extensions once they were defined and a group of individuals willing to
do the work to define them. I'm willing to help.
- James
I'm wary of making commitments that I can't keep, having recently had
to drop out of one community due to most of my spare hacking time
being taken up with working at the startup that I'm currently with,
but I'd like to take this forward if possible. Any suggestions for
ways to do that?
James
Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
Peter Keane a écrit :
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, James M Snell wrote:
I had been involved in some discussions a while back geared towards
working on a standard set of media extensions derived from the itunes
and yahoo media extensions. Unfortunately, that work never
progressed. Such work would certainly not be unwelcome.
- James
Absolutely. It would be a huge boon for the sort of work we are
trying to do. MIT's OpenCourseWare, ITunes U, etc. are all the rage.
A Media-rich Atom standard would be a no-brainer for that area (and
with FeedSync or a FeedSync-type standard along with it, a very
powerful platform indeed).
Any thoughts on how such a process might be re-booted?
I concur and I'd join such work if it existed.
- Sylvain
