I came across an interesting publication through Yahoo News - The Role of RSS in Science Publishing

These new ‘disruptive’ technologies are now beginning to challenge the orthodoxy of the traditional website and its primacy in users’ minds. The bastion of online publishing is under threat as never before… While titles and links are the joints that articulate an RSS feed, they can be freely embellished with textual descriptions and richer metadata annotations … This paper describes the growing uptake of RSS within science publishing as seen from Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) perspective.

This work mainly motivates some extensions to the RSS vocabulary from the PRISM(Publication Metadata) and AdSML(Job Opening, Advertisement) perspective i.e more and more of metadata going in as RSS extensions to suite specific domains.

They also discuss URCHIN to manage multiple feeds which can[will] go out of hand –

It all gets interesting when such metadata has to modeled in a way which allows improved knowledge management.
So the question is - Will RSS lead us to the Semantic Web? You will hear a confident YES! from many out there.

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