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by hvlck 1936 days ago
I've been thinking of a tool to generate a kind of schema for a website, similar to RDF[0] or JSON-LD[1]. The end goal of this would be interoperability between tools - ideally I could browse HN and other related sites or forums in my RSS reader with a unified interface, or translate the Roam note format into the Athens equivalent to use with either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

[1] https://json-ld.org/
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pedro1976 1936 days ago
To me RSS is exactly that. I don't see the advantage of converting an HTML to RDF because it would cover the entire spectrum. All the semantics might be lost. RSS is the smallest common denominator. If you agree somehow, you might be interested in that tool [0], it converts HTML to RSS using pattern matching.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

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hvlck 1935 days ago
Sorry, RSS was probably a bad example. I meant that I could have One Interface to Rule Them All, seamless collaboration between similar tools (e.g. viewing repositories on Github and Gitlab in a single application, or ordering a few items from a few different sites in a single place). I think the problem today is that data between websites is disjointed and not interoperable with other sites; my solution would be to build a tool that generates a kind of formula for conversion from multiple sites, such as Github and Gitlab, to a standard format, which can then be consumed by an application. Data and features wouldn't be mapped one-to-one, which is probably one of the larger problems.

The tool looks fantastic though, thanks for sharing.

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karlicoss 1934 days ago
Similar tool for "RSS from any page": https://github.com/taroved/pol#readme

Not sure what are the differences though

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pedro1976 1934 days ago
I did not know this one. The difference is that the first one extracts the feeds automatically, the second one not. Here the user has to define everything.
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hvlck 1933 days ago
As it turns out there is already a tool [0] for my original idea which I just discovered today [1].

[0] https://github.com/inkandswitch/cambria [1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html

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