SYndication Project References Page

NITF - News Industry Text Format
A complex XML language designed for full-fledged news distribution organizations. Very complex to implement in full, but it covers a large data model that maps onto the complex use cases of a news syndicate such as United Press, Reuters, etc.
XMLnews
A simplified News format that separates the problem into two separate documents - a news article description language, and a metadata description language (using RDF) for describing properties about a news article.
RSS - Resource/Rich Site Summary
A simple data/web site syndication language developed by Netscape to support syndication of MyNetscape resources. This is now used widely by companies such as moreover.com, slashdot.org, userland.com, and The O'Reilly Network.
See Also: RSS 1.0 Proposal
OCS -- Open Content Syndication
The OCS Directory format is designed to enable channel listings to be constructed for use by portal sites, client based headline software and other similar applications
Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Format
- W3C Note
- ICE web site
- Oasis review page
- Version 1.1 spec draft (local copy)
- RSS-in-ICE - a article describing ways ot putting RSS data in an ICE message ( (RSS in ICE)
- http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/?_fl=ice - A Meerkat feed that distributes RSS in ICE, as described in previous article.
Relevant Mailing Lists / Groups
- Syndication discussion group (general syndication issues)
- rss-dev - development of newer versions of RSS.

http://rick.weblogs.com/stories/storyReader$46 -- Rick Winfield's discussion of the problems with using RSS for generic syndication
David Detlefsen's scientific data aggregation project: http://backend.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$84,
Commments by Dave Winer at http://backend.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$85
http://www.dmoz.org/ -- RDF-based directory/catalog data.

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