[FM Discuss] nicely done

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:33 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> Is someone exploring existing systems (Dublin Core is the obvious candidate) for representing this information? Do you consider RDF too heavyweight?

we arent considering anything yet. just want to get a fast file format
off so people can experiment with visualisations

adam



> 
> Andy
> 
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> 
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 07:59 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> > Thanks for the fuller explanation. HTML 5, by providing containers for multimedia, should also make it easier to generate graphs like this using standard, free technologies. Older browsers, of course, don't support HTML 5, but we can use it as a way to encourage people to update their browsers, which is good for security and other reasons.
> > 
> 
> we were thinking of a file format for visualising revisions like this:
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <booki-revision>
> 	<chapter>additive synthesis</chapter> 
> 	<manual>pure data</manual>
> <url>http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PureData/AdditiveSynthesis</url>
> 	<version number="1.1">
> 		<contributor>Derek Holzer</contributor>
> 		<date>16 Sep 2008</date>
> 		<time>4.06</time> 
> 		<text>
> Additive Synthesis
> 
> ...
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