Ken MacLeod wrote:
>
> To summarize what I think I've heard said, and put that in to terms I
> think most important for RSS 1.0, then:
>
> * the explicit connection between <link> and rdf:about should be
> undone, so that at some time in the future they can be used
> seperately.
>
> * the only hard requirement, at this time, for rdf:about is that it
> be unique, globally (for items, channels, and might as well be for
> images and textinputs)
>
> * <link>, therefore, need not be unique (as some existing uses have
> shown)
>
> * recommended current practice is to copy <link> (<url>) to rdf:about
> iff it is unique, and otherwise to create a unique URI for
> rdf:about.
>
> * any more specific definition of rdf:about, at this time, is
> unspecified
>
> I believe I've also read that some think channel rdf:about should
> point to the RSS file, and I'd like to give a counter-argument for
> that: I would like to see the channel rdf:about to uniquely identify
> the *channel*, where there might be several versions of RSS, other
> site summary, topic maps, etc. that may also describe that channel.
> As such, there may (to be determined later) be statements that could
> be made about a channel that provide links to these other resources.
>
> "Uniquely identify the channel" (rdf:about) can mean the site URL if
> there's effectively only one channel to the site, a channel URL/URI if
> there's multiple channels to the site, or a virtual or query URI if
> this is a manufactured channel.
>
> Am I close?

I find it a good summary.

Eric

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