Easy News Topics
Easy News Topics (ENT) is a new specification for defining topic meta-data in RSS2.0 news feeds. As the authors explain:
The goals of ENT are to:
- be as simple to implement as possible
- represent topics sufficiently that they be useful in enabling smart aggregators (e.g. filtering, recombining feeds, etc...)
- allow, via linking, use of more powerful and flexible standards where appropriate
I have implemented some of the ENT specification into a new RSS2.0 feed from this blog at sockdrawer's RSS2.0 with ENT news feed. All that was required to get this far was the creation of a new Moveable Type template - I have made mine available for download here. Some ENT information is not available in a typical Moveable Type feed - notably the 'classification' attribute of the 'cloud' tag, however coming versions of MT will allow custom tags in the MT template engine. To do:
- OPML/XTM? resource for the cloud to reference
- more RSS2.0 information
This was previously published at http://blog.sockdrawer.org and was retrieved from the Internet Archive.