> See I knew my vague hand-waving wouldn't fool the bright boys > at the BBC for a second. :) > Ok, here's a few ideas triggered by a quick glance through > the modules chapter of Ben Hammersley's RSS and Atom book. > > * using mod_annotation to point to a "have your say" page on a topic > relating to a news story. --- Hand waving tends to get my attention but nothing more :)
Yeah good idea, could be difficult to code as most discussions tend to happen after the story has been published but the benefits would be great for our audience and backstage developers. I'm sure there will be a way to tally up the correct have your say page with the correct story soon. > * using mod_audio to add metadata to feeds that point to MP3 files. --- I do prefer this to the enclosure element but I wonder how many parsers support audio module? This always seems to be the problem. We could put everything and anything we like in our feeds and make it so semantic rich but realistically would most rss readers know what to do with it? In our experience some don't even know what to do with the element dc:language! > * using mod_company to add details about the companies discussed in > a business story. --- Good idea again, never really considered this one. It would be great to have some application/service which looks over the RSS feed or before and generates this when it sees the word. A bit like the wikipedia proxy [1]. But it could be > * lots of good stuff in mod_dublincore and mod_DCTerms. You can never have too much Dublin Core data in a feed! --- Indeed and we will add more when we find it useful for our end audience. > * using mod_event to add date and time information to an item that is date-based. --- Once again, some kind of event proxy for RSS would be ideal. Maybe I should write some kind of rss pre-processor/aggregator using cocoon for backstage :) > * using mod_taxonomy to add classification information to an > item (for example, a pointer to a category at dmoz.org). --- Yeah this certainly something we could do something with. At the moment we have a dc:type which contains a rough idea of category but there's lots of room for improvement in this area. Maybe just switching to taxonomy [2] would be a good move? Its certainly complex however. I was also thinking the streaming module [3] would be useful and would fit what we do well. Plus I think Open search [4] or search module [5] could be really good for the BBC. But in the short term, module link [6] might be a better replacement for dc:relation which we use for the same purpose. [1] - http://wikiproxy.whitelabel.org/ [2] - http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy [3] - http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/streaming/ [4] - http://opensearch.a9.com/ [5] - http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/search/ [6] - http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/ Ian - cubicgarden.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
