* Danny Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-09 14:38+0100] > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:42:23 -0500, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tim Bray wrote: > > > 2. We are close to RSS2 feature-compatibility, we either adopt > > > image & enclosure or make a conscious decision not to. > > There are other bits of RSS2 that should be seriously considered -- > > even if they aren't widely used. For instance, the RSS2 <rating> element > > which contains a PICS[1] statement. As far as I know, virtually noone uses > > the <rating> tag in RSS2.0. Nonetheless, it would probably be wise to > > support such a thing in Atom. As blogging goes "mainstream," we should be > > able to show that mechanisms at least exist to do what PICS is attempting to > > do... > > The PICS material itself seems very dusty, but ratings came up on the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and the following links were dropped in: > > http://www.icra.org/vocabulary/ > http://www.icra.org/projects/quatro/ > > The fact that the issue was raised on a list related to Yahoo's media > search services does suggest that something like this will be needed > in the not-too-distant future.
Yeah, that's one of the projects I mentioned (and which currently pays for me, via ERCIM, W3C's European host, btw). I have to review some new drafts RSN. The basic idea is to finish the technical migration of PICS stuff to the RDF world, and apply it to quality ratings etc rather than just filtering. I'll try to get a feed set up for the project so folks here can keep an eye on us... cheers, Dan
