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01 Oct 2004
Calendars in XML
I read this weblog entry by Jon Udell. He is exploring the possibilities to import event data through CSV and iCal. It is a difficult procedure. He says:
Why are we in this terrible mess? It seems to me that the Net has yet to embrace ubiquitous sharing of any kind of structured data. Weblogs as we know them today take two steps in the right direction. They make it easy to share unstructured information. It’s now as trivial as it should be to post some text up on the Web at an URL that anybody else can access. Weblogs also make it easy to share a very specialized kind of structured data. The items we post are wrapped in XML metadata can be aggregated and mined. We call this wrapper RSS.
I am not sure wrapper RSS is the right method, but clearly something must be done about the situation.