EarleMartin has designed a wonderful ResourceDescriptionFramework-based format to describe the key information about a given wiki. The description provides a semantic description of information like:
- Wiki name
- Wiki description
- Link to RecentChanges
- Link to AllPages
- Links to functions, like page history, search, diff
- WikiEngine
- etc.
This is the key content as part of WikiSelfDiscovery. The other parts are a WikiCrawler, WikiSearchEngine, and a standard <link/> tag to point to the WikiProfile.
Discussion
- For AutoDiscovery, there needs to be either a canonical location (less robust due to UriRewriting and WikiFarms), or a LinkTag.
- There needs to be a place to discuss the standard. Here?
- A way to extend the RDF key:value set in a fluid, natural way so people can add custom extensions.
- A tarball key:value set.