Atom in Depth

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Abstract

Atom is an emerging format for creating, syndicating, and archiving of weblog information. This paper explores the design and implementation of this protocol.

Keywords

»Content Model, »Interoperability, »Metadata, »Publishing.

1. Late-breaking Talk

Since this was a late-breaking talk, the author did not have time to complete the paper for the proceedings.

Biography

»Sam Ruby

STSM

»IBM Corporation

»Raleigh, North Carolina

»United States of America

Email: rubys@intertwingly.net

Sam Ruby is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies group at IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and a developer on the Apache SOAP project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta project, whose mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a member of the XML PMC and a member of the ECMA TC39 group standardizing the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET Framework. He is also a member of the PHP group, a select group of developers who contribute to core PHP. Ruby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Math from Christopher Newport College.