A couple of days ago, Danny Ayers asked the SemWeb community to embrace crappy data exchange formats:
I’d like to humbly ask that anyone exposing RDF services on the web consider also emitting the following :
1. Content supplied as RSS 2.0 and Atom
2. Simple resource relations as OPML
Both of these should be made available through a simple HTTP GET. […] Make SemWeb data available for viewing through RSS readers and the like. Give the innocents a bit of knowledge. Hey, they’ve got the coolest UIs, they deserve some Earthly Delights.
His reasonging:
- Everything Web 2.0 gets tons of attention these days
- Emitting RSS and OPML is very 2.0ish
- Lots of folks do good things with RSS and OPML
- Emitting RSS and OPML is not hard if you already have RDF
- Thus, it’s a great way to show everybody what RDF is all about (and RDF developers get some cool UIs).
Yep. Who builds the first RDF-to-OPML service?