The application
can check the blog for updates once an hour or once a day, depending on the configuration
of the reader. This eliminates the need to engage search engines or news collection sites in
order to read the content from a specific source of information.
The implications for the metadata environment are enormous. Taking a closer look at the
RSS standard reveals that the standard is fairly simply and consistent irregardless of the
context. This indicates that a simple meta-model, such as the Dublin Core, could be easily
exchanged by the use of RSS technology. News readers could replace the majority of the
functionality currently held within the centralized metadata repository. Publishing new
content is very similar to the information required for publishing technology asset metadata
or will be in the future. Advancements in the RSS technology will allow code objects,
analysis documents, modeling artifacts, and other system development lifecycle products
to publish information about the assets automatically. This will eliminate the need for the
extraction of information by hand or forcing integration into a single methodology. RSS
already has search functionality and personal taxonomies where the end user can catalog
their own content, which may prove to be much more valuable than the traditional information
technology-based taxonomies and onotologies.
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