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Anti-FTAA protestors in Miami Nov 2003. Courtesy of Adbusters. | ||||||||||
| ActiviXML is a dialect of XML that
intends to abstract the information flow particularly between large
scale small scale social activist communities and individual activists
in order to reinforce the impact of social activism events. ActiviXML defines a standard format (ActiviXML Schema) for the documents that describe a social activism event. This standard format categorizes information and builds information hierarchy. ActiviXML Sample ActiviXML Schema (XSD) |
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| Element Structure The top element is the <channel> that describes the source of the information as it is in the popular syndication format RSS. These are the channel elements: |
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| Element | Description | Example | |||||||||
| title | The name of the channel. | Anti-war Actions | |||||||||
| link | The URL to the website corresponding to the channel. | http://www.anti-war.org | |||||||||
| description | Description of the channel. | Compilation of anti-war events. | |||||||||
| language | The language the channel is written in. | en-us | |||||||||
| contact | Email address for person responsible for the channel. | contact@anti-war.org | |||||||||
| A channel contains any number
of <event>s. The sub-elements of event represents
the essential information about the event. These are important for
easy syndication of the event. |
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| Element | Description | Example | |||||||||
| title | The title of the event. | March on Washington! | |||||||||
| link | The URL of the event. | http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ article.php?id=3091 |
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| who | Participating individuals and organizations. | INTERNATIONAL ANSWER, United Peace and Justice | |||||||||
| where | Location of the event. | Washington Monument | |||||||||
| when | Date and time of of the event. | 2004-05-30T09:30:10 | |||||||||
| duration | Duration of the event. | P2H | |||||||||
| what | Manifesto, call to action | We are going to march through the streets of Washington, D.C. in the largest anti-war protest since George W. Bush's May 1 speech on the U.S.S. Lincoln aircraft carrier where he proclaimed "Mission Accomplished." | |||||||||
| contact | Email address for person responsible for more information. | contact@anti-war.org | |||||||||
| pubDate | Indicates when the event was published. | 2004-05-30T09:30:10 | |||||||||
| Related RDF (Resource Description Framework) http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/ RSS Specification http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Atom Specification http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html OPML(Outline Markup Language) http://www.opml.org/spec PML (Psycho-geographical Markup Language) http://socialfiction.org/psychogeography/PML.html XML Schema http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema http://www.w3schools.com/schema/ |
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