- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:29:03 +0200
- To: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Reto Bachmann-Gmür" <reto.bachmann@trialox.org>, "carmen r" <_@whats-your.name>, "semantic-web at W3C" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Eric Miller" <em@zepheira.com>
fyi, Metalink (http://metalinker.org) is a spec for file sharing systems. A doc in its XML format points to locations of a given file, potentially across various protocols - http, ftp, bittorrent etc. If you have a look at "Who's using it?", you'll see it's pretty widely used both by publishers & consumers. For an example, see: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-i386.metalink (that only refers to one instance of the file, but you should get the idea) If you check the source of http://metalinker.org you'll see it's GRDDL-enabled - well, kind-of, I got distracted before getting everything running smoothly (the XSLT should be pretty close, but the W3C GRDDL service throws a peculiar error). I reckon it might offer a potential route to offering fallback sources for schemas etc. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com ~ http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/this_weeks_semantic_web/
Received on Friday, 17 October 2008 18:29:41 UTC