Hey all, Andreas Sewe and I have published a new draft of the feed rank draft. This is a major update that greatly simplifies the specification.
As a refresher, Feed Rank aims to provide a standardized extension for associating numeric rankings with entries. Such ranks can be used for a broad variety of purposes. Standardizing such a mechanism eliminates the need for vendors to go off and invent their own elements that serve identical purposes (e.g. Gdata has a rating element, Digg has a rating element, etc). Example, <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:re="http://purl.org/atompub/rank/1.0"> ... <entry> <id>http://example.com/movies/starwars</id> <title>Star Wars</title> <re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#all" scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity">123</re:rank> <re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#scifi" scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity">53</re:rank> ... </entry> <entry> <id>http://example.com/movies/citylights</id> <title>Charlie Chaplin: City Lights</title> <re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#all" scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity">5734</re:rank> <re:rank domain="http://example.com/genres#comedy" scheme="http://example.com/ratings#popularity">27</re:rank> ... </entry> </feed> - James