Using RSS and EFS for Shareable Calendars
Shimon builds on Cesar Brea’s post about shareable calendars and RSS feeds. Though they both focus on the social application of calendars, using RSS and Event Share Framework (EFS), it has applications in other areas, too. Journalists, for example, often have to deal with calendars. Imagine a government reporter getting the mayor’s calendar of public events magically dumped into her calendar. The sports writer could get the playoff schedule automatically. An editor could zap the entire staff with the production schedule. The calendar editor could send a feed out to subscribers. A public relations officer could quickly distribute a list of events to local journalists.
March 24th, 2004 at 8:06 pm
Ah yes, the glorious promise of the semantic web. Note: a good way to benchmark the totality of your failure is to talk it up like this article does.
March 25th, 2004 at 1:03 pm
Interesting article because of how it illustrates the utility of the semantic Web. Maybe it’s just the way people have presented the semantic Web to me since I’m a librarian, but I thought it was more focused on assigning meanings to things on the Web–like the data structures–so that people could find information easier. I didn’t realize the potential for connecting devices together like it suggests. Nifty.