RE: Atom and GRDDL - a reference from Ruby

> Might be good to mention this when someone approaches the Atom WG with
> GRDDL:
> 
> http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg11947.html

Well spotted Harry! While I wouldn't call Sam an advocate of RDF, he's
very open minded and pragmatic, willing to see potential benefits
wherever they might lie - one of the reasons he's highly respected.

Incidentally, I was quite heavily involved in discussions near Sam's
post. When it became clear that Atom as RDF/XML wasn't going to happen,
I and a few other folks pressed hard for extensibility points in the
format that would fit well with RDF - with moderate success (if I
remember correctly there was a reference to RSS 1.0 extensibility in the
charter which made all the difference). What went into the spec is
slightly more usefully constrained than the 'anything goes/no-one knows'
extensibility of namespaced XML in general.

Ironically the first Atom extended-with-data application that appeared
was O'Reilly's CodeZoo, which didn't use the built-in extensibility axes
at all, instead has RDF/XML (DOAP) as payload (pretty cool - Atom
effectively providing graph versioning). Hey ho.

Cheers,
Danny.
 
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