- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:51:38 -0500
- To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Ed Summers wrote: > 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 > > > In a nutshell, +1 for this approach. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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