Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Henry Story
+1 to all too. On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Eric Scheid wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:47:57 +1000 From: Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Atom Syntax atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go? +1 to all

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James Holderness
Tim Bray wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: - Attribute Value: subscribe I'm puzzled by this one. I thought that if you wanted to subscribe to a feed then, well, you would subscribe to a feed. I must have missed the discussion. Could someone provide a

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Tim Bray
On Oct 21, 2005, at 7:38 AM, James Holderness wrote: The idea being that if you were to come across an archived Atom document (however that might happen), the presence of this link would, (a) let you know that it was an archive document and thus shouldn't be subscribed to, and (b) provide

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-21 17:05]: It was thought that the 'self' link in an archive would point to the archive document itself, which meant a different relationship was needed for the purpose of locating the URI which is the one that contains the most recent updates/entries.

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-21 17:05]: It was thought that the 'self' link in an archive would point to the archive document itself, which meant a different relationship was needed for the purpose of locating the URI which is the one that contains the most

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Thomas Broyer wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: - Attribute Value: previous - Description: A URI that refers to the immediately preceding document in a series of documents. This definition doesn't prevent someone from using this link relation for linking within a series of

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 22/10/05 1:33 AM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, rel=self is going to be implemented by most everything that groks Atom 1.0 in order to support one-click subscription, if applicable, right? Whereas this new relationship might not find such wide-spread support. I believe

Re: draft-snell-atompub-feed-license-03.txt

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
All, Just wanted to clue y'all in on this conversation. The Atom extension drafts listed below entered an Unofficial last call state about three weeks ago. As of today I'm declaring these stable and will not be making any further changes on them unless a) significant bugs/problems are

Unofficial Last Call - draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-03.txt

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
As of today I am issuing an unofficial last call on the Feed Rank extension http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-03.txt This extension introduces a numeric ranking mechanism for Atom entries that can be used to order entries according to relative significance.

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Broyer
James M Snell a écrit : Thomas Broyer wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: - Attribute Value: previous - Description: A URI that refers to the immediately preceding document in a series of documents. This definition doesn't prevent someone from using this link relation for linking within a

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Thomas Broyer wrote: How would you use these link relations for feed state reconstruction (that is, automatic handling by the Atom processor, without user action –except probably the please reconstruct this feed's state action) if you can't know what's pointed at? How would you navigate

Unofficial Last Call - draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread-04.txt

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
All, At some point over the next couple of days, a slightly modified version of the comments extension draft [1] will be published. The moment it publishes will kick off a two week Unofficial Last Call period for the spec. The spec has been stable of the past two months with no major

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Broyer
James M Snell wrote : Thomas Broyer wrote: How would you use these link relations for feed state reconstruction (that is, automatic handling by the Atom processor, without user action –except probably the please reconstruct this feed's state action) if you can't know what's pointed at?

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Thomas Broyer wrote: James M Snell wrote : Thomas Broyer wrote: So you are OK with these feeds: Yes, they all look good to me. You didn't answer my last question: How do you expect a newsreader to *automatically* download this week's 50 entries without downloading last week's

Application for addition to Atom Registry of Link Relations

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
The following is an application for a link relation value, as specified in the Atom Syndication Format. https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi?command=id_detailfilename=draft-ietf-atompub-format

Sponsored Links and other link extensions

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Ok, now that a number of the other extensions I've been working on are moving along, it's time to turn my attention to a couple of other ideas I've been stewing on. One of which is link[rel=sponsored] to indicate sponsored links / advertisements within feeds. link rel=sponsored

Re: Application for addition to Atom Registry of Link Relations

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Antone Roundy wrote: The following two bits seem incompatible with each other: o atom:entry, atom:feed and atom:source elements MUST NOT contain more than one 'license' link relation with the same combination of type and hreflang attribute values. Note the caveat, with

Profile links

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Another subject that has come up in recent discussions is an extension that can be used to specify the purpose of a feed. For example, is the feed an archive, is it a podcast, is it used for discovering web services or publishing blog content, etc. The approach that I have in mind is to

Re: What is this entry about?

2005-10-21 Thread Bill de hÓra
James M Snell wrote: Ok, so thus far: we can indicate resources that are related to the given entry; we can indicate that an entry is a reply to another entry; we can specify categories to which the entry belongs; but there is currently no way of indicating the *subject* of the entry. The

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Broyer
James Holderness wrote: Thomas Broyer wrote: You didn't answer my last question: How do you expect a newsreader to *automatically* download this week's 50 entries without downloading last week's entries instead? (and show you links/buttons for you to ask download and display of

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Broyer
Thomas Broyer wrote: However, an incremental feed could take advantage of differentiating between paging and archive linking: if linking to archives uses an atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]archives] (or call it history if you prefer) to point at an incremental feed where each entry describes an

Re: What is this entry about?

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Bill de hÓra wrote: The link approach doesn't seem to be less ambiguous than dc:subject. For lessened ambiguity you might want to use published subject indicators a la topic maps. It is less ambiguous in that a URI is less ambiguous that some arbitrary text string. Further, the link

Re: What is this entry about?

2005-10-21 Thread Bill de hÓra
James M Snell wrote: Bill de hÓra wrote: The link approach doesn't seem to be less ambiguous than dc:subject. For lessened ambiguity you might want to use published subject indicators a la topic maps. It is less ambiguous in that a URI is less ambiguous that some arbitrary text

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Nottingham
That's what I was trying to do here: - Description: A URI that refers to a feed document containing a set of the most recent entries in the feed. This URI is intended to be subscribed to to keep abreast of recent changes in the feed. When different from the URI of the document where it

Re: Profile links

2005-10-21 Thread Bill de hÓra
James M Snell wrote: Another subject that has come up in recent discussions is an extension that can be used to specify the purpose of a feed. For example, is the feed an archive, is it a podcast, is it used for discovering web services or publishing blog content, etc. The approach that

Re: Application for addition to Atom Registry of Link Relations

2005-10-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 22/10/05 4:48 AM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the caveat, with the same combination of type and hreflang attribute values. The idea is to prevent a single license from being appearing more than once. Multiple license link relations MAY be used to indicate that the

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Tim Bray
On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: - Description: A URI that refers to a feed document containing a set of the most recent entries in the feed. This URI is intended to be subscribed to to keep abreast of recent changes in the feed. When different from the URI of the

Re: Profile links

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
Bill de hÓra wrote: I think you're proposing to enable a kind of Atom microformat - if you see profile ?x check for ?a ?b and ?c. Sorting it out on consumer sounds flaky ('sounds', not 'is'), but this also might be very cool. I wonder why you need a link to do this instead of foo:profile tag.

Re: What is this entry about?

2005-10-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-21 21:25]: Ok, so thus far: we can indicate resources that are related to the given entry; we can indicate that an entry is a reply to another entry; we can specify categories to which the entry belongs; but there is currently no way of indicating

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Nottingham
So, an aggregator comes across a feed in the woods. It sees it has previous and maybe next link relations. The point that (I think) Thomas is making is that the people who leave that feed document in the woods had better be comfortable with the aggregator following the links and

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Nottingham
How about: - Description: A URI that refers to a feed document containing a set of the most recent entries in the feed. This URI is intended to be subscribed to to keep abreast of recent changes in the feed; when different from the URI of the document where it occurs, it indicates

Re: What is this entry about?

2005-10-21 Thread Antone Roundy
On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:47 PM, James M Snell wrote: Err, are you forgetting atom:category? Doesn’t that satisfy all your wants *and* more? It has a URI, a term and a human-readable label. Regards, I dunno, that's why I was asking ;-) atom:category works well for categorizing entries, but does

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread James Holderness
Thomas Broyer wrote: As I already explained, paging is orthogonal to the incremental nature of a feed. An incremental feed will be chunked as explained in Mark's current Feed History draft (just use an atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]previous] instead of the fh:prev extension element) and a

Re: New Link Relations -- Ready to go?

2005-10-21 Thread Antone Roundy
On Oct 21, 2005, at 7:19 PM, James Holderness wrote: What's the difference between a search feed and a non-incremental feed? Aren't search feeds one facet of non-incremental feeds? Not necessarily, no. A search feed could quite easily be implemented as an incremental feed. This is the most

Re: Profile links

2005-10-21 Thread James Holderness
I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, but if this could be used as a hint to the aggregator on how best to process/display the feed then I think it's a great idea. For example, knowing that a feed was a collection of images (e.g. a Flickr feed) would enable the aggregator to

Re: Profile links

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
James Holderness wrote: I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, but if this could be used as a hint to the aggregator on how best to process/display the feed then I think it's a great idea. Yes, that's exactly what it's for. For example, knowing that a feed was a collection of

Re: Sponsored Links and other link extensions

2005-10-21 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: Ok, now that a number of the other extensions I've been working on are moving along, it's time to turn my attention to a couple of other ideas I've been stewing on. One of which is link[rel=sponsored] to indicate sponsored links / advertisements within feeds. Not sure

Re: Sponsored Links and other link extensions

2005-10-21 Thread James M Snell
James Holderness wrote: James M Snell wrote: Ok, now that a number of the other extensions I've been working on are moving along, it's time to turn my attention to a couple of other ideas I've been stewing on. One of which is link[rel=sponsored] to indicate sponsored links /