Preliminary Draft: RSS Data Exchange for Museums
Sun, Oct 19, 2003; by Geoffrey Wirth.
This is our preliminary draft for an RSS model to exchange museum data.
ann example for a site already offering RSS feeds for all of its objects and much of it's other relevant information is the german site tuerkenbeute.de an example of an RSS feed from that site read into a pge here can be seen in RSS Examples.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">
<channel rdf:about="http://www.virtual-museum.at/example-01/">
<title> Collection title </title>
descripton of collection
<link> http://www.virtual-museum.at/example-01/ </link>
<dc:relation> http: //another.museum.org/example-01/ </dc:relation>
<dc:date> 2003-09-01T08:40:10Z </dc:date>
<dc:publisher> owner/author </dc:publisher>
<dc:creator> creator </dc:creator>
<dc:language> en </dc:language>
<dc:rights> owner/copyright </dc:rights>
<sy:updatePeriod> hourly/day/week/month/year </sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency>
<sy:updateBase> 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z </sy:updateBase>
<image rdf:resource="http: //www.virtual-museum.at/example-01.jpg"/>
<items>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http: //www.virtual-museum.at/example-01.htm"/>
</rdf:Seq>
</items>
</channel>
<image rdf:about="http: //www.virtual-museum.at/example-01.jpg">
<title> image title </title>
http://www.virtual-museum.at/example-01.jpg
<link> http://rss.virtual-museum.at/example-01.jpg </link>
<dc:title> image title to example 01 </dc:title>
<dc:title.alternative> alternative image title to example 01 </dc:title.alternative>
<dc:description> image text </dc:description>
<dc:date> 2003-09-01T08:40:10Z </dc:date>
<dc:language> en </dc:language>
<dc:subject> collection name; category </dc:subject>
<dc:publisher rdf:resource = "http://www.museum.org"> owner/author </dc:publisher>
<dc:creator> FOX </dc:creator>
<dc:contributor> Credit (Name) </dc:contributor>
<dc:identifier> owner/author </dc:identifier>
<dc:rights> copyright </dc:rights>
<dc:source> inventory code </dc:source>
<dc:relation> see also </dc:relation>
<dc:type> Museum; collection; image of object </dc:type>
<dc:type xml:lang="en-US"> Image </dc:type>
<dc:format> image/jpeg </dc:format>
<dc:format> image/gif </dc:format>
<dc:format> video/mov </dc:format>
<dc:relation.requires> http://pluginLink </dc:relation.requires>
<dc:format> http://zoomify.pff </dc:format>
</image>
<item rdf:about="http: //www.virtual-museum.at/example_01.html">
<title> title example 01 </title>
<link> http: //www.virtual-museum.at/example_01.html </link>
example 01 description
<dc:title> title example 01 </dc:title>
<dc:title.alternative> alternative title example 01 </dc:title.alternative>
<dc:date> 2003-09-01T08:40:10Z </dc:date>
<dc:language> en </dc:language>
<dc:subject> collection name; Kategorie </dc:subject>
<dc:publisher> owner/author </dc:publisher>
<dc:creator> FOX </dc:creator>
<dc:contributor> credit (name) </dc:contributor>
<dc:identifier> owner/author </dc:identifier>
<dc:rights> copyright </dc:rights>
<dc:type> Museum; collection; example </dc:type>
<dc:type xml:lang="en-US"> Collection </dc:type>
<dc:format> text/html </dc:format>
<dc:source> inventory code </dc:source>
<dc:relation> see also </dc:relation>
<dc:coverage> dating </dc:coverage>
<dc:description rdf:parseType="Literal">
<example>
<gps> GPS-data </gps>
<spatial> style direction </spatial>
<size> size of example </size>
<dimensions> VRML </dimensions>
<weight> weight of examplees </weight>
<material> material description </material>
<conservationstate> conservation state </conservationstate>
</example>
</dc:description>
</item>
</rdf:RDF>
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