Yahoo, in the context of their video search service, have just proposed an RSS 2.0 module "Media RSS" [1,2] through which publishers (anyone) could point to media resources, with a little metadata, and have it picked up by their engine. They're not using RDF (yet!), but in the same way RSS 2.0 can have a very direct mapping through RDF/XML with RSS 1.0, so potentially could Yahoo's extension. Spec is at [2], only a handful of elements & attributes are defined. If anyone around these parts has a few spare cycles to look at this (Suzan Foster has already sketched some possible RSS/RDF instances [4]), and maybe try and encourage the Yahoo folks to be RDF-friendly, there's potentially a lot of interesting data available. They do seem to be welcoming community input. I'm guessing the best approach would be to present this (as Suzan in effect has) as a new RDF vocabulary, but it would be interesting and potentially useful to see which of the elements and attributes are already covered in existing vocabs. Related links below, [5] is the mailing list (only 56 messages to date!). Cheers, Danny. [1] http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss.html [2] http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/ [3] http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000060.html [4] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/message/35 [5] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/ -- http://dannyayers.comReceived on Tuesday, 21 December 2004 09:58:15 UTC
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