Here's what I'm talking about....
Just so we're clear. Events are defined in all sorts of places, under all sorts of conditions, situations and circumstances. Once we have a standard for subscription, we can have a new beast - called an Event aggregator - which can then feed all sorts of digital lifestyle aggregators (among other more traditional output devices...)
So do we do this with JUST RDF or is there a simpler way??? With RSS 2.0?
Here's Nick's feelings on all this.....
weblogs and event management.
There has been some weblog rumbling about calendar formats. It is one of the things that I've been thinking about lately, although I've been less intersted in the implementation levels as of this moment.
In the past, many of our projects have attempted to recreate a shared calendar. The problem with a shared calendar, is that most people have a different favorite program or method - be it Outlook, iCal, Yahoo, MSN and Franklin-Covey (web and software) applications to the paper based Day Timer, Franklin Planner, and sticky notes.
Let's face it... it is really difficult to convince anyone to change the way they work.
I've found that people are really asking for a method to share events, not a new calendar.
This is why an implementation through stanards is important. Share events without obstacles.
However, we've not only got to give parsable text to be sucked up by calendaring applications, but also parsers that translate to something readable.
I want an XML RSS Calendar hyperlink (to the data / file), but also have the data translated into a human readable format in the weblog post. See the image to the right....
What do you think?
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