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Corporate/Company RSS Extension




Version 0.3 (Draft)
Contact: Jonathan Crossland, Lucid Ocean Limited 
Last Modified: 26th February 2007
 

The CRSS (pronounced CRoSS) specification provides an extension for the RSS 2.0 format. A working knowledge of RSS 2.0 is required. For more information on RSS 2.0, please see http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss .
There is also a reference made to the OPML specification by Dave Winer, please see http://www.opml.org/spec

Who can use these extensions?
This specification can be utilized by Content Producers and Content Consumers.
 
Extension Name: CRSS (Corporate/Company RSS)
Extension Namespace: http://lucidocean.com/crss
Purpose The intent of CRSS
 
The CRSS specification provides you or your company a place to insert company information and/or disclaimers.
Usually many of us write a disclaimer of some kind, or perhaps your blog publishing tool or website does.
Now there is a place to insert it, so that aggregators and consumers of feeds can readily see it when simply subscribed to your feed.
Also the intent is to make company blogging a little more formal and likeable to suit those companies who think that its not something for them, and/or aid a company getting a little more structure and boost into their employee company blogs.
By allowing them to
  • Provide Company Details such as Name and Contact Information
  • Offer a Company disclaimer via text and link to full formal disclaimer
  • Link to Company Website and specify details about the company
  • Link to Official Company Feeds (other company bloggers, or departments), via OPML
Notes: Optional elements will be marked as [Optional]
Declaration: <rss version="2.0" xmlns:crss ="http://lucidocean.com/crss">
Example
<!-- Begin Snippet -->
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:crss="http://lucidocean.com/crss">
<channel>
<crss:disclaimer url="http://www.lucidocean.com/disclaimer.aspx">
  Lucid Ocean does not neccesarily agree with the opinions expressed herein.
</crss:disclaimer>
<crss:aggregation isAggregated="true" url="http://www.lucidocean.com/aggregated.xml">
</crss:aggregation>
<crss:details url="http://www.lucidocean.com">
  Lucid Ocean Limited
</crss:details>
<crss:feed url="http://www.lucidocean.com/feeds.opml">
Lucid Ocean Limited Bloggers
</crss:feed>
<title>Lucid Ocean Blog</title>

<!-- End Snippet -->

example: crss.xml

 
Specification
<crss:disclaimer> Contains the Disclaimer text. A short description is recommended.
1 or more can be defined for different disclaimers. example below.

Attributes
  • url
    [Optional] The url to a page with a full disclaimer
Example of using more than one disclaimer

<crss:disclaimer url="http://www.thepublisher.com/disclaimer">
  Although we publish this on behalf of the author, we do not imply that we agree or disagree with their opinions.
</crss:disclaimer>
<crss:disclaimer url="http://www.thecompany.com/disclaimer">
  Our company does not agree or disagree with these opinions.
</crss:disclaimer>

<crss:details> Company details of name, website url and description

Attributes
  • url
    The company website url.
Nodes
  • <crrs:name>
    Contains the full Company name.
  • <crrs:description>
    [Optional] Contains description of the Company.
  • <crrs:image>
    [Optional] Url to Image or company logo.
<crss:aggregation> Describes whether this is aggregated content and/or specifies an aggregated url

Attributes
  • isAggregated
    "true" or "false" specifiying whether this feed is aggregated from other company feeds.
    By Specifying "true", the url would generally be ignored.
  • url
    [Optional] Specifies a feed url for the aggregated feed version resides. it can also be where the content from two or more of the authors contained within the crss:feed url is aggregated.
    However, this can also be used with or without the crss:feed being specified, so the relationship is a loose one.
Nodes
  • <crrs:name>
    Contains the full Company name.
  • <crrs:description>
    [Optional] Contains description of the Company.
  • <crrs:image>
    [Optional] Url to Image or company logo.
<crss:feed> A listing for other company bloggers/feeds. This could be one or more OPML links.

Node Text
  • The friendly name of the OPML list.
Attributes
  • url
    The url to the Company OPML formatted file containing one or more links to company bloggers.

One could choose to have all the company bloggers listed in one OPML file with one crss:feed entry pointing to it. Or a number of crss:feed entries pointing to various OPML lists. The multiple route may be useful for separating departments, or custom groups of company blogs.
 
Enquiries: Comments are welcome, please send your comment, enquiry or suggestion to
contact [@] lucid ocean [dot] com
Revision History: 0.1 Draft
0.2 Draft 
0.3 Release
  • Typos fixed

Acknowledgements: Author: Jonathan Crossland

A special thanks to:
On the Lucid Ocean Team: Matthew Ball
Matrix e-Business Team: Glen Jones
And everyone in Lucid Ocean and Matrix e-Business who have contributed.

Licence Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Creative Commons License

We would prefer discussion and the evolving of this specification together with you.
Feel free to contact us.

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