RE: Re: RSS 2.0 is it official ?

Hi Bill:

Whoops! Just have to take a little bit of an exception here. :)

RSS 1.0 is not merely "soldiering on" - but IMO (or rather IOO) is becoming
ever more the mainstream - especially within STM publishing (sorry, that's
Science, Technology and Medicine Publishing) - where metadata matters. See
our paper (if you didn't already):

	http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/hammond/12hammond.html

But more importantly look at some of the players who are now fielding RSS
1.0: NPG (Nature), IOP (Institute of Physics), AIP (American Institute of
Pysics), APS (American Physical Society), Ingenta, Extenza, IUCr
(International Union of Crystallography), OUP (Oxford University Press), BMC
(BioMed Central), National Geographic, New Scientist, etc, etc. And it's
growing. Sorry, guys, but metadata _does_ matter. That's why we need RSS
1.0. :~)

Cheers,

Tony


Tony Hammond

New Technology, Nature Publishing Group
4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK 

tel:+44-20-7843-4659
mailto:t.hammond-F/0MNWz/[email protected]


 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kearney [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 03 April 2005 19:20
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [RSS-DEV] Re: RSS 2.0 is it official ?
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> No, the only offical format is version 1.0.  The 2.0 mess was 
> a hack foisted on the market by a developer and is now 
> foundering without support.  Meanwhile 1.0 soldiers on.
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> All readers, at this point, support all versions including 
> the emerging atom format.
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> If you want a semantically intelligent and well-supported 
> format you'd do well to consider 1.0.
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> -Bill Kearney
> Syndic8.com
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> > I will start a RSS on my website. But I'm wondering if v1.0 is the 
> > only official version released ? What about the 2.0 specs 
> released by
> > http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss. Is it credible ? It has just
> > been published on a blog, not on an official channel like W3.
> > 
> > And does all the RSS Reader understand the 2.0 release ?
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