| ▲ | 8organicbits 10 hours ago | |
I was looking at the RSS spec a while back to figure out how the category field was supposed to work and ended up digging up web directory history. https://alexsci.com/blog/rss-categories/ Syndic8, DMOZ, NewsIsFree, and TX (lost to history?) used the same taxonomy approach seen on ooh.directory. All are defunct now, but DMOZ appears to live on as curlie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories Technically, we could tag our RSS feeds with the taxonomy defined by ooh.dir, which would allow us to automatically sort blogs into topic groups, but I haven't found a single feed that uses the approach. We end up with ad-hoc category labels that are challenging to deduplicate, or more often, uncategorized blogs. | ||
| ▲ | zozbot234 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Taxonomy labels are often deduplicated on Wikidata, the unofficial "hub" of the modern Semantic Web. There's already a defined property for matching DMOZ/Curlie labels, and others could be added if relevant. | ||