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RSS - RDF Site Summary aka Rich Site Summary aka Really Simple Syndication
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
In 1997 Dave Winer at UserLand designed the XML syndication format scriptingNews.
In 1999 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published their specifications for the RDF format RSS 0.90.
RDF - Resource Description Framework is a family of W3C specifications which integrate various applications and events using XML as an interchange syntax.
In 1999 Netscape designed RSS 0.90 for use with my.netscape.com, which also supported scriptingNews format.
UserLand took up the RSS 0.91 dropped by Netscape and went on to design 0.02/3/4 and RSS 2.0.
In 2000 the RSS-DEV Working Group, a private, non-commercial working group released its own set of specifications called RSS 1.0.
In 2003, Winer and UserLand Software assigned the copyright of the RSS 2.0 specification to Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society.
| RSS 0.90 | Netscape | Obsoleted by 2.0 | Based on RDF |
| RSS 0.91 | UserLand | Obsoleted by 2.0 | |
| RSS 1.0 | RSS-DEV Working Group | Active module development | Based on RDF |
| RSS 0.92/3/4 | UserLand | Obsoleted by 2.0 | |
| RSS 2.0 | UserLand | Active module development |
An RSS 2.0 document, called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either full text or a summary of content from a linked website. It is an easy way to keep up with new information on the user's chosen websites. e.g. feeds can be sent directly to a user's inbox.
