mRSS
I’m here in NYC for teh Syndicate conference.
Brad Horowitz officially announced Yahoo’s Media RSS (mRSS) format today - and ourmedia.org was part of the announcement - announcing our enthusiastic support.
mRSS solves the problem I’ve been bitching about - since podcasting started. It attached basic meta-data info onto a media enclosure - thereby enabling an eco-system to prosper.
mRSS also lays the groundwork for Yahoo becoming a player in the open standards areana. Can you imagine what it means to have REAL resources, not these hobbyist, amatuer hackers - build standards?
JUST KIDDING!
Of course the definition of an amateur is someone who does it for love, not for pay. This is not to say that David Hall and the other Yaho engineers aren’t building Media RSS out of love - but it’s just kind of nice having a “legitimate” company join us in developing open source infrastructure.
Now what’s next? Well obviously it’s time for the aggregators and search engine sot start grokking the format. It’s also time for us to start to think about what else we want -a ndASK Brad and companyf or that.
I myself have asked for the video and audio equivalents of the Flickr APIs. Certainly there needs to be some “simpler”, easier to deploy sceanrios as well - but all in all I really think that Media RSS is a great START to solving the media meta-data issue.
Now add into the mix - MusicBrainz, XSPF and the ourmedia.org schemas we’ve been baking - and we’re talking about some serious media infrastructure.