RSS 1.0 Modules: Annotation

Authors

Niel Bornstein, The Monkeyfist Collective
Edd Dumbill, Useful Information Company
Kendall Clark, The Monkeyfist Collective
Ken MacLeod, The Monkeyfist Collective

Version

DRAFT 1.1 2000-08-18

Status

Proposed

Rights

Copyright © 2000 by the Authors.

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the RSS 1.0 Specification Proposal and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of the specification for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.

This copyright applies to the RSS 1.0 Specification Proposal and accompanying documentation and does not extend to the RSS format itself.

Description

Provides support for resources that annotate, follow-up to, or reference other resources. Examples would include annotation system such as crit, Usenet, and most web-based discussion groups. The module can be used in combination with other modules (e.g. Dublin Core) to provide additional information about resources.

Namespace Declarations

xmlns:annotate="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/annotate/"

Model

<item> Elements:

<annotate:reference> ( rdf:resource )

Example

<?xml version="1.0"?> 

<rdf:RDF 
  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:annotate="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/annotate/"
  xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
> 

  <channel rdf:about="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/">
    <title>Monkeyfist Discussion Group</title>
    <link>http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/</link>
    <description>
      Monkeyfist is a Prosthetic Monkey production and contains the 
      deranged rantings of geeks, freaks and academic snobs.
    </description>
  </channel>

  <item rdf:about="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/1" position="1">
    <inchannel rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/"/>
    <title>Hello, World!</title>
    <link>http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/1</link>
    <dc:creator>Niel Bornstein (mailto:niel@bornstein.atlanta.ga.us)</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2000-08-17T08:22:13-05:00</dc:date>
  </item>
  
  <item rdf:about="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/2" position="2">
    <inchannel rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/"/>
    <title>Re: Hello, World!</title>
    <link>http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/2</link>
    <annotate:reference rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/1"/>
    <dc:creator>Edd Dumbill (mailto:)</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2000-08-17T13:25:42Z</dc:date>
  </item>

  <item rdf:about="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/3" position="3">
    <inchannel rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/"/>
    <title>RSS 1.0 is cool</title>
    <link>http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/3</link>
    <annotate:reference rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/2"/>
    <dc:creator>Kendall Clark (mailto:kclark@ntlug.org)</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2000-08-17T07:29:03-06:00</dc:date>
  </item>

  <item rdf:about="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/4" position="4">
    <inchannel rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/"/>
    <title>Re: Re: Hello, World!</title>
    <link>http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/2</link>
    <annotate:reference rdf:resource="http://www.monkeyfist.com/discuss/2"/>
    <dc:creator>Niel Bornstein (mailto:niel@bornstein.atlanta.ga.us)</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2000-08-17T08:38:03-05:00</dc:date>
  </item>

</rdf:RDF>