Date: Jun. 3, 2000
Link: http://weblogs.oreillynet.com/edd/discuss/msgReader$65
Source Author or Organization: Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly Network

In this article the author explores the relationship between Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Site Summary (RSS) format.

RSS was originally "RDF Site Summary" and was then changed to "Rich Site Summary" because it wasn't truly and application of RDF. Now O'reilly has taken it upon itself to work with members of the Dublin Core and other metadata communities to reformulate RSS as a true application of RDF. For this reason, they are changing the name back to "RDF Site Summary."

The article offers arguments for the reformulation of RSS in RDF, and expains RDF as a means to bring extensibility and other benefits to RSS, and how the reformulation could give the web "a loosely typed, free spirited, language for expressing its metadata".