- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:25 -0500
- To: public-lod@w3.org
At the Library of Congress we've been experimenting with using an Atom feed to alert subscribers to new resources available at id.loc.gov [1]. The approach is similar to what Niklas' is doing, although we kind of independently arrived at this approach (which was nice to discover). Creates, updates and deletes happen on a weekly basis, so it's important for us to let interested parties know what has changed. We ended up using Atom Tombstones [2] for representing the deletes. And Atom Feed Paging and Archiving (RFC 5005) [3] to allow clients to drill backwards through time. I just noticed Link Relations for Simple Version Navigation [4] get announced on an Atom related discussion list, which looks like it could be useful as well, if you maintain a version history. I'd be interested in any feedback anyone has about using this approach. //Ed [1] http://id.loc.gov/authorities/feed/ [2] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-snell-atompub-tombstones-06.txt [3] http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5005.txt [4] http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-03.txt
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