But I would say, that those efforts for both RSS 2.0 and ATOM have the zeal of the semantic web development and on that note I get "confused". When I joined the group I was desparately hoping to learn more on the RSS 1.0 but the focus was on ATOM and XML.

I see the XML ATOM/RSS 2.0 format as a tool as a common syndication exchange format for common application development and easy file exhange, a more static server/flat file approach. This is effective for its purpose but also limited in purpose.

I do believe that some focus and development on RDF/RSS should have remained a matter of importance to support the semantic web. RDF is the foundation as you know and tool development for RDF RSS servers has not been promoted.

You say you are using triples storage instaed of a RDB for this site. Would you share your setup with me and how you approach back-end storages for triples? I am finding it harder to nail down than I anticipated. Most discussions are on the RDF triple storage themselves and not the actual data. Could you please shed some light for me? I am using Zope 2.9.6 at present for development on RH FC6. The more I research the more I realize I need to learn something, I am missing something fundamental and basic. I am trying to answer the question "Where does the DATA go?". You say in a triple store, so what does that mean?

Thansk so much for your help..

I have seen a lot of comments on various sites saying "Hey, don't you know Atom 1.0 is an IETF standard? Why aren't you supporting that instead of crummy old RSS?"

Even if that kind of comment comes from a position of ignorance about RDF, Atom was created in the hope of bringing an end to the format wars of RSS which mean that any syndication software has to support at least a half a dozen incompatible formats.

That is a goal I support, even if I would much rather see consensus around RDF.

RDF is not going away (indeed, Mauvespace is based around it to the point where it uses a triple store instead of a relational database), but I think its time as a syndication format has been curtailed by the publication of RSS2.0 and Atom specs by people who didn't care about the semantic web.