Dear NewsML users, This is the end of the summer, and we are all back to work. Huge work for all of us. NewsML 2 requirements draft 14 has been released on...
Dear Mr.Laurent, I am sorry for sending comment to you so late. Currently our topic that we discussed is about definition of Creator. As you read my posted...
naoki onodera
naoki.onodera@...
Sep 1, 2004 1:12 pm
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Dear Naoki, The NewsML Creator element find its origin in the Dublin Core dc:creator element, which is defined as dc:creator Definition: An entity primarily...
A couple of small points on the attached: I believe that as part of editorial policy, organizations like 'The Economist' do not credit the author. I agree with...
Jo, sorry but I disagree with your notion to put the name of a software to the Creator element. 1) A historical note: IIM contains in record 2 two datasets (65...
Good news, Our managing director has set up a new area on the NewsML Web site, called the "Expert zone" (accessible from the fornt page and directly at ...
... person ... Therefore ... allow ... So - should we modify the definition of "creator" in the next spec and restrict it to people (as in Atom, but not as in...
Some comments ... I take it that the values of rev[ision] would continue to start at 0. I'm still unsure how to handle "stories" which repeat, maybe a number ...
Hello Misha, Laurent, I'd like to know how to use 2-part revision. BTW I'd like to separate revision number. One is content counter. Otherone is metadata...
Misha> I'm still unsure how to handle "stories" which repeat . The old IIM format (IPTC Information Interchange Model) offered a specific < fixture identifier...
The previous message about identifiers, revisions and fixtures makes me think about a solution for linking to the *last* instance of something, or more...
I personally would be frightened by a 2-part revision. A revision number is already difficult to understand by many providers (few implement it in fact)....
Hi Laurent, I don't want there to be another way to identify stories. URNs are fine. But we need flexible versioning. Regards, Misha ... From: Laurent Le...
Does anyone know the NewsML history of the word "revision"? Looking at the spec, I see that a revision has to be a positive integer. That means that the...
... In the EventsML work I've choosen "nonNegativeInteger" for such things which allows for 0 to be used. I suspect one should think about the word revision...
I am respectful of the advice of a native English speaker; such modification of the language used would have implications like the need to change the wording...
MessageThe terms revision and version were specifically chosen and explained in the Requirements for NewsML version (sic) 1. The intention was to distinguish...
MessageLaurent kindly pointed out to me that the final choice of words in the NewsML 1 requirements spec was 'representation' rather than 'version' ......
MessageNewsML 1.x has following syntax <RevisionId PreviousRevision="0">1</RevisionId> PreviousRevision attribute is required and the first revision must be 0....
Misha! Laurent! If we define revision as a positive integer, it could run (almost) forever. Nobody says that revision identifier has to be "small" integer....
MessageI'm a bit confused by this discussion. Why does a two part revision ID help with Misha's problem? More fundamentally, is there in fact a need to have...
Hi Jo, I'm a bit confused by this discussion. Why does a two part revision ID help with Misha's problem? Because it enables one to identify the 6,000th version...
Misha! Could we solve your problem by introducing non-mandatory version control mechanism that is not part of the URN itself ? To illustrate my previous idea: ...
MessageHi Misha, Jo My understanding of NewsML concept is we do not include some meanings to the NewsML-URN. And when we want to have some meanings, include it...
... Agreed. This is used extensively by Reuters' systems, to either i/ reference the latest rev (omit rev from URN), or ii/ reference a specific rev (inc rev...
Dave.Compton@...
Sep 8, 2004 7:28 am
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MessageHi Misha I would like to know the following you said; Because it enables one to identify the 6,000th version of a story as being the 12th of today's...
naoki onodera
naoki.onodera@...
Sep 8, 2004 1:43 pm
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Hi Naoki, Earlier, I wrote: I'm still unsure how to handle "stories" which repeat, maybe a number of times per day, while constantly changing. Some Reuters...
Hi Misha, Thank you for your rapid reply again my question. I think there are need to have the revision number as part of URN to identify the NewsItem. In...
naoki onodera
naoki.onodera@...
Sep 9, 2004 3:29 am
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MessageIt seems to me that Misha's point raises the philosophical question of of when one news item is a revision of another news item and when it is a ...
Hi Laurent, A minor point ... In this date/time format, the time offsets require a ":". Regards Misha Wolf Standards Manager Product and Platform Architecture...
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