Have you seen the Data Liberation project that is a focus of WordPress this year?
Migrating your site to WordPress, or exporting all your content from WordPress, should be possible in one click. I want WordPress’ export format to become the lingua franca of CMSes, whether coming to WordPress or moving within WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/news/2024/01/data-liberation-in-2024/
I proposed your .bar format as a solution here: https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/51
I couldn’t find a way to reply on Manton’s thread, so I’m attaching my note here.
I think I was working on this stuff before the .bar. format came about. Too bad we didn’t collaborate. Maybe these ideas will fit into Automattic’s efforts now.
http://source.scripting.com/#1405339599000
It’s based on the idea that since you’re already producing RSS feeds, how about telling us where your archive is, in your feed, so all we need to piece it back together, 25 years from now when you’re retired in Tahiti, it’s all there in the feed. 😉
It would’ve also gotten people talking about future-safety, which has been a big issue of mine forever.
Also — I think we need some way to communicate among people like Manton and myself and Ward Cunningham, and the folks at Automattic (just examples) so when you want to work in an area and want serious collaboration, or to know what prior art is out there, so we don’t reinvent each others’ work (which happens far too often) you actually stand a good chance of finding it.
[…] Notes on the archive element in the source namespace. It’s important that we share our ideas and collaborate, and listen and ask the right people to help. Manton was asking why weren’t his ideas on archiving incorporated in other people’s work, it’s the same concern I have, why didn’t we work together on this Manton? Two heads are better than one in things like this. I think Automattic may be the place to get together on this. Esp since they are the market leader now in this area. What they do, right off the bat, has to be supported everywhere, so we want them to do a good job. 😄# […]
[…] Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.weblog, lately wrote about why and the way he makes use of Weblog Archive format (.bar), a format he developed in 2017, hoping it could turn into common. Apparently, Dave Winer, co-author of the RSS format, had similar ideas. […]
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