- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:08:57 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-calendar@w3.org
It's great to see so much traffic on this list suddenly. Just a few thoughts. Dan just brought the RSS event module to my attention. I would love to have a schema which can be used or part-used in RSS. The mechanisms for syndication of calendar data would already be there because of the many tools which are available for RSS 1.0. Similarly, I think some of my demos show that you can do a lot by having calendar data described in RDF, even if most events don't use the entire schema. But...we should not ignore the huge amount of effort and thought that's gone into iCalendar and Skical. And simply describing iCalendar or SkiCal in XML would not be an interesting exercise, since iCalendar and SkiCal RFCs already provide a file format for events data. RDF allows you to combine arbitrary data whether about events, people, documents and so on. This is worth doing. I did a presentation last week with Greg Fitzpatrick of SkiCal, where he provided a summary of calendaring in the IETF Calsch working group, and I tried to explain what we could do with RDF calendar data. For example, when you're going to a conference, you want to know who is speaking where and when. You want to know what they're going to present - title, description; who they are - name, affiliation; but also how about - where they worked before that; what working groups and commitees they've been on; what else they've attended recently; what they look like; who they've collaborated with. This information is out there already, and much of the events data is in an iCalendar or vCalendar format. My aim is to enable this information to be combined, and use the existing formats as robust, well-thought-out structures which can be reflected into RDF. cheers Libby
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