By cel4145 on

Someone just referred me to this yesterday. The Easy News Topics RSS 2.0 Module might be potentially useful for connecting Drupal sites. Unlike XFML which requires a separate feed, this is a way of expanding RSS 2.0 to output Drupal terms for each item. But as it's an RSS module, it's ignored by anyone receiving the feed that doesn't support the standard.

Like XFML, Easy News Topics has an element for mapping classification schemas using a topic map. Obviously useful for Drupal sites to communicate whether they share the same vocabulary or not, thus allowing incoming items to be classified by feed supplied terms, rather than terms applied to the news feed itself by the receiver. Potentially, Drupal communities could have shared XTM's which community members could download and import into their taxonomy as a new vocabulary, making it much easier to begin exporting term tagged items to a community site.

While I guess I could have entered this as a feature request, I thought it might be equally interesting conceptually for the work that I read about which developers are currently implementing with RSS and the import module.

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cel4145’s picture

cel4145 commented

Easy News Topics - RSS2.0 Module

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

Thanks for the link. Easy News Topics looks like a great way to share taxo information.

If anyone wants to take up ownership of the import module in Contrb (4-2-0 branch), this would be a great enhancement to add.

mlwhall’s picture

mlwhall commented

I would be interested in helping with this. My program skills are a bit atrophied...but I am very interested in helping here. I am working with Matt and Paolo on some interestings around this -- particularly adding (human) values as a way of tagging a Topics and analyzing blogs and other text. I am planning to use Drupal to resurrect my sites (with values analysis, and values surveys) and being able to integrate this into Drupal would be great. I am already tryning to figure out a way to use the Taxonomy with the values, but I am not sure yet how to do this. I think it will create some incredibly useful community information. So I would love to help anyway I can. Better get up to speed on PHP maybe?!?

----Martin----

Dries’s picture

Dries commented

Subscribe to the drupal-devel mailing list, get up to speed with PHP and post some prototype code. If you have something concrete to show, we can help you test and refine it. Looking forward to it.

mlwhall’s picture

mlwhall commented

Dries,

Yeah, I added myself to the list a few days ago...thanks for the idea!

----Martin----