Recommendations and making money

[Aaron Swartz]

Martin L Poulter <M.L.Poulter at b...> wrote:

> How far off is this functionality, if it's far off at all?

Seems to me that this is the perfect application for an RSS file (of course
I'm a bit biased, but still...):

> 2a) Title e.g. "Most-regretted book purchases"
> 2b) Description e.g. "Stupid books with clever jacket blurb."

rss:title, rss:description for a channel element

> 1a) URI [These *can* be shop URIs including my affiliate ID]
> 1b) Title "The Unutterable" "Trinity V3 Keyboard"
> 1c) Creator "The Fall" "Korg"
> 1d) Description "Relatively accessible "The digitally-modelled
> (short, freetext) and very punky... sounds blow me away...

rss:link, rss:title, dc:creator, rss:description would work for all of
those.

Punching that into an RSS file gives me:

<?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="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
>
<channel 
rdf:about="http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plmlp/example/stupid-books.rss">
<title>Most-regretted book purchases</title>
<link>http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plmlp/example/stupid-books.html</link>
<description>Stupid books with clever jacket blurb.</description>
<items>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li resource="http://buy.com/keyboards/trinity/v3"/>
</rdf:Seq>
</items>
</channel>
<item rdf:about="http://buy.com/keyboards/trinity/v3">
<title>Trinity V3 Keyboard</title>
<link>http://buy.com/keyboards/trinity/v3</link>
<description>The digitally-modelled sounds blow me
away...</description>
<dc:creator>Korg</dc:creator>
</item>
</rdf:RDF>

Looks like a perfect fit. And it can be read by RDFweb!

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