Re: RDF Update Feeds

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.


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Received on Friday, 20 November 2009 15:52:08 UTC