1) Custom "flat" protocol mode, which is LJ specific, and should die. 2) Custom "XML-RPC" protocol mode, which is LJ specific, and should die. 3) Export comments XML feed, also LJ specific, death would be too good. 4) Export your journal as XML on the web site. WTF? 5) FOAF data for some profile information. 6) RSS 2.0 (I think) data for the journal feeds. 7) Atom (old old old) data for the journal feeds, as well as for writing posts. 8) fdata, intdata, etc?
I am sure we have some other ways of getting data out of the site. Feel free to point out any that I have missed, so we know precisely where to put the scalpel.
As to where we want to go? #1, I want standards compliance for interoperability. I want other sites to be able to access our data, and for us to be able to access theirs. If this means that we will drop the flat and XML-RPC protocols in favor of implementing (and extending as necessary) Atom, then that's what we should do.
I don't know what the state of the art is on protocols. That sounds like something that a guy like David Recordon would know, maybe we can ping him and get a summary. Or someone can do some leg work and research the various states-of-the-art.
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1) Custom "flat" protocol mode, which is LJ specific, and should die.
2) Custom "XML-RPC" protocol mode, which is LJ specific, and should die.
3) Export comments XML feed, also LJ specific, death would be too good.
4) Export your journal as XML on the web site. WTF?
5) FOAF data for some profile information.
6) RSS 2.0 (I think) data for the journal feeds.
7) Atom (old old old) data for the journal feeds, as well as for writing posts.
8) fdata, intdata, etc?
I am sure we have some other ways of getting data out of the site. Feel free to point out any that I have missed, so we know precisely where to put the scalpel.
As to where we want to go? #1, I want standards compliance for interoperability. I want other sites to be able to access our data, and for us to be able to access theirs. If this means that we will drop the flat and XML-RPC protocols in favor of implementing (and extending as necessary) Atom, then that's what we should do.
I don't know what the state of the art is on protocols. That sounds like something that a guy like David Recordon would know, maybe we can ping him and get a summary. Or someone can do some leg work and research the various states-of-the-art.