Hi everyone,
Thanks to Matt Hurst among others for commenting on the lack of metadata
in thetimewhen.co.uk's RSS feed [1]. We needed a push.
Well we've got it now! Several types of metadata were added to the
feeds yesterday.
We have added user tags as <dc:subject> elements, location tags as
<dcterms:spatial> elements, and the actual date of the entry as
<dcterms:temporal>.
The format of the tags is a little strange to the unititiated --
particularly the <dcterms:temporal> one, which conforms to the latest
version of the dcterms RSS 1.0 module spec ([2]) by saying
<dcterms:temporal>start=1997-07-01; end=1997-07-01;
scheme=W3C-DTF;</dcterms:temporal>
Sorry but you'll have to parse the date out of that.
We're not totally wedded to that format, and there is much debate in the RSS
1.0 / RDF community as to which format is preferred. Even Tim himself
weighed in to the discussion [3]! We'll let you know via Backstage if we change
the format in the future.
dc:date will continue to represent the date that the
entry was created, in keeping with every other use of RSS. The Dublin Core
standard says that dcterms:temporal [4] is the right place to store the date
that the content is *about*.
Enjoy! Now let's see some SIMILE Timeline [5]
implementations :-)
Please let us know what other kinds of feeds you
would like to see on thetimewhen.co.uk, it's still only a trial and not a lot of
work is being done on it, but if you can convince us that you would build some
beautiful things if only you had the right data, I might be able to get
something onto the work slate...
Happy hacking,
Brendan.
[3] http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2006-09-12.html#T17-04-01
[4] http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#temporal
[4] http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#temporal
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Plowright
Sent: 11 August 2006 16:54
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] The Time When - new feeds!
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/memo_40000_new.html
Enjoy. And don’t forget applications for the running backstage job shut on Monday!
Kim Plowright | Snr. Producer, New
Product Development
BBC Interactive Drama and
Entertainment | MC1D6, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ
