OPML for tags
Just had a thought if you could create an OPML out of a del.icio.us tag bundle.
Instead of sending a bunch of URL’s (tags) to someone, you could use an OPML outliner, to send someone a tag outline of a portion of your del.icious account.
Problem with del.icio.us is that the export feature is for the whole account, you can’t export a selection of tags, or export a tag bundle.
What you can do is view a HTML version of your account, or just a tag, or an intersection of tags, but this just shows the last 15 entries, and not an archive.
NOTE: To do this choose export, this defaults to your main account, simply add a tag to the end of the URL.
But even so a HTML version is not as good as the sharing, interchange, and extensible features of an OPML file.
This example below assumes that the tag bundle heading is a tag itself, like in Raw Sugar, where the first level heading contains all the items of the second level headings…see here.
- Blogs
Weblogs for universities
Weblogs in the classroom
k-logs: share knowledge
Syndicate your blog
Keep user statistics with Feedburner
Full-text or summary feeds
RSS Demographics researched
Usability of blogs
Statistics on who reads blogs
A Conversation on Blog Research
Search incoming links
A look at a few blog search engines
Promote your blog
RSS vs. email readership
- Blog_edu
Weblogs for universities
Weblogs in the classroom
+ Blog_rss
+Blog_km
- Blog_rsch
RSS Demographics researched
Usability of blogs
Statistics on who reads blogs
- Blog_search
Search incoming links
A look at a few blog search engines
+ Blog_mkting
Note again that the tag Blogs (at top) has aggregated content from all the other tags, as it is the tag bundle heading.
So this is a portion of a del.icio.us account, under the tag bundle Blogs…this is what it could look like as an OPML outline.
I haven’t used an OPML outliner before, but I assume it would be possible to import the RSS of each del.icio.us tag into an OPML file, and arrange the tags accordingly.
This OPML file would have a URL that you could view at OPML search, or do with it whatever you please…it would be great to be able to create an OPML file within del.icio.us.
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You might use Del.icio.us’s API to pull out this kind of information. It’s much easier to control the kind of information you can export from your Del.icio.us account, plus the data is in XML, which gives you the possibility of converting it to OPML via XSLT. Not sure, if the API will give you the control you seek, but it certaintly would work better than using the default export function.
Comment by Travis Ennis — September 24, 2005 @ 5:17 pm