Re: Re: mod_enclosures proposal

> We will work on RDF definition for RSS 1.0.
> I will send updated proposal shortly. Please let
> me know if there is anything else needs to be
> clarified/corrected.

Good!

> We are trying to engage interested parties here to
> make this into community effort.

What, and break with RSS version tradition?  Blasphemy!  (heh)

> There are some comments on this proposal at
> 'audvidsyn' mailing list, but apparently people there are most
> interested in of audio/video-specific metadata.

Well, don't sell Lucas short his interest is based on a/v applications but
he's not unfamiliar or unsympathetic to other forms.

> We are
> trying to avoid making enclosure syntax specific to audio/video:
> why can't it be used in future for example to distribute software
> updates or any other data?

Well, there are other RDF issues to consider that sort of already cover a
lot of this.  Collections of things, references to other things and the like
are core principles of RDF.  What exists are opportunities to annotate what
KINDS of things they are.  This is not always a trivial task.

> Besides we do not feel that we are
> capable to include about all possible audio/video presentation
> information in scope of this proposal. So we just allow people to
> include such presentation information in any format (SMIL, playlist,
> etc.) as one of enclosures, and reference others, pointing to actual
> audio/video data from it (like it is done for MMS).

I'd also point out that Atom is likewise attempting to address some of these
ideas.  I don't think any one form is going to be 'better' than another and
I think most folks are now starting to share that perspective.  If use of
one form over another helps us move forward toward an eventual unified form
then I'd choose that instead of the endless wait for utopia.

-Bill Kearney



 
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