Support for

[danni]

Title:
Support for <dc:creator>

Area:
Syndication

Summary:
Support for displaying the Dublin Core 'creator' element.

Description:
On blogs that have several authors, the author is sometimes indicated using the Dublin Core 'creator' element (for example: http://geekfeminism.org/feed/

It would be awesome if this element could be displayed in the entry.

Poll #1001 Support for

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (30.0%)

Should be implemented with changes.
2 (6.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (56.7%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (6.7%)

Comments

[yvi]

Ah, I didn't understand what you meant when i read your Support request, but now I get it. Good idea!

[zvi]

I don't feel particularly strongly about supporting the Dublin Core standard, but if we do do so, we should investigate the most commonly used elements of the standard in RSS, and support that range, instead of picking out a single element of the whole thing.

[melannen]

I... have no idea what you're talking about with "dublin core", and if there was supposed to be some "author" identifier on the entries in your example link, my default RSS reader doesn't support showing it.

So, um, while I support the idea of something to identify authors, I'd prefer to use something that doesn't require a standard not everyone supports, or at least *also* use that. Preferably something visible in plain-html. I would guess that's also better accessibility-wise, too.

[danni]

Dublin Core is just a schema for describing metadata in a standard way. There may be other similar schemas out there, but I think Dublin Core is the most popular.

I'm not sure if many RSS readers do support displaying Dublin Core metadata. My idea would be to take the useful metadata (e.g. the author) and display it at the top of the entry like DW might display the Mood, Music or Location.

In case I wasn't clear in my original suggestion, I was talking about when external RSS is syndicated to DW, not the RSS feeds DW publishes.

[melannen]

Oh! No, I didn't realize that. In that case, I am def. in favor of DW supporting as many standards as possible when it displays syndicated accounts!

(It would also be nice to put an identifier of who created the post in community feeds, actually, since my RSS reader can't tell atm.)

[danni]

Maybe Dublin Core metadata could also be included in the outputted RSS, and other RSS readers might start displaying the data too.

Caveat: I don't use RSS readers, generally

[triadruid]

Can you explain to me why most RSS readers don't display Dublin Core metadata, if it's the most popular? Is it really new or something?

Re: Caveat: I don't use RSS readers, generally

[danni]

The Dublin Core schema has been around for a long time now and is used within a number of XML formats. I'm not sure how common it is in RSS though.

Re: Caveat: I don't use RSS readers, generally

[triadruid]

Gotcha, thanks, that was the piece I was missing.