[Fw:] Describe Open Source Projects with XML

[Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be>]

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Describe Open Source Projects with XML, Part 1
Edd Dumbill, IBM developerWorks

There are many different open source software registries: perhaps the
best known and longest-running of these is Freshmeat, but there are
many more, often meeting more specialized needs. So many registries now
exist that keeping them up to date has become a real problem. The
release cycle for diligent software maintainers often involves visits
to several Web sites to keep the information up to date, not to mention
updating their own Web sites. However, such maintainers are few and far
between, and it's not uncommon to find out-of-date information in a
registry. That this data gets out of date is unsurprising when you
consider the aspects that many modern software projects involve:
mailing lists, IRC channels, Web sites, wikis, CVS repositories, and
so on. This article starts the development of a solution that meets
the need of keeping software project information up-to-date: a
vocabulary that can be used in an XML document for the Web-wide
exchange of project details.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-osproj.html

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