Posts Tagged ‘atom’

New Zealand Government Feed Standard 2009 (Second Consultation)

April 17th, 2009 by Matthew Ross | 8 Comments »

This proposed Government feed standard based on Atom will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.

The consultation period runs to 20th May 2009.

Posted in Developer Resources, Open Data, Standards & Compliance

New Zealand Government Feed Standard (Consultation)

July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 17 Comments »

The State Services Commission has published an updated Government feed standard based on Atom. Currently in draft for consultation until 13th August 2008, this will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.

Posted in Developer Resources, Standards & Compliance

Feeds for Thought

July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 1 Comment »

I gave a presentation Feeds for Thought in June for the Government Web Community covering trends around feeds, microformats and the web slice. The presentation has been updated and is relevant as collateral to the draft 2008 NZ Government Feed Standard.

Posted in Standards & Compliance, Web Trends

What are these things called feeds?

April 11th, 2008 by Greg Rogan | Comments Off

Web feeds - also known as Atom or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds - allow you to read and keep up to date with new content from multiple sources (websites, blogs, wikis etc).

Posted in Standards & Compliance, Web Trends