Re: RDF Update Feeds

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

is this not the same as (or vi similar to) the court approach outlined
here: http://code.google.com/p/court/ by Niklas

Received on Friday, 20 November 2009 16:06:40 UTC