Hi and welcome back to our short series on RSS submission and syndication for the newbie. In today's article I'm going to briefly discuss what RSS or Resource Description Framework is. RDF is little more than a form of XML language. RDF is specific in that it represents information about resources on the world wide web. Typically the information it includes is the title, author, and modification date of a web page. It's a framework for XML that describes the information (or resources) available on the web. This is why it is called Resource Description Framework.
In 1999 David Winer and others had called for an update to RSS from Dan Libby of Netscape. Dan Libby then released RSS as version 0.91 to include additional capabilities and features while making the simpler overall. One of the ways Dan did this was by ditching the RDF format all together and worked straight from the XML format. Since he abandoned the RDF format, RSS had to be renamed or redefined. It was redefined to Rich Site Summary. Ironically, David Winer's userland adopted this new format, and the Netscape stopped developing RSS all together.
Oddly, people really liked the idea so in late 2000 Rael Dornfest lead a group of software developers in the development of RSS 1.0 which was again based Dave Winer had left UserLand but was still working on RSS. In late 2002, Dave introduced RSS 2.0 and at this time defined it as the Really Simple Syndication that we know today.
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