Thanks Michael.
>From a quick look, Media RSS looks to be the most
flexible approach
(http://search.yahoo.com/
mrss) allowing a <media:thumbnail> within
<item> in RSS and many other multimedia types.
<item>
<title>New York History</title>
<link>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/a
merihist/nyc.html</link>
<media:thumbnail url="http://www.foo.com/ke
yframe.jpg" width="75"
height="50"/>
<description>
... Harlem.NYC - A virtual tour and information on
businesses ... with historic photos of Columbia's
own New York
neighborhood ... Internet Resources for the City's
History. ...
</description>
</item>
Any other thoughts anyone?
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fagan [mailto:mfagan gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 2:00 PM
To: Tony Boston
Cc: discussopensearch.org
Subject: Re: [OpenSearch Discuss] Extending OpenSearch 1.1
there are a couple of choices I think..
1) atom:link with a custom rel value
3) atom:enclosure - doesn't seem very appropriate
2) pheed extension http://www.pheed.com/phee
d/ - not so great because
you can't specify dimensions etc
4) yahoo-initiated media rss - seems like the most
appropriate to me
thoughts, anyone?
On 8/10/06, Tony Boston <tbostonnla.gov.au> wrote:
> Hi OpenSearchers,
>
> We are working on a project to OpenSearch enable
collection databases
> from several Australian cultural agencies such as
libraries, museums,
> archives and galleries.
>
> We would like to include links to thumbnail images in
the OpenSearch
> RSS or Atom Response and I wanted to get advice on the
best way to do
this.
> Traditionally when searching say a database of art or
museum objects
> it is good to include thumbnails of the collection item
in the results
> list so that the user can quickly see if the item is of
interest. In
> fact wouldn't this be a good optional element to
include in the
> OpenSearch
> 1.1 Response?
>
> I note that OpenSearch 1.1 includes reference to an
optional <Image>
> element in the OpenSearch Description. Could this be
re-used in the
> OpenSearch Response like this? :
>
> <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss
version="2.0"
> xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/
spec/opensearch/1.1/">
> <channel>
> <title>Example.com Search: New York
history</title>
> <link>http
://example.com/New+York+history</link>
> <description>Search results for "New
York history" at
> Example.com</description>
>
<opensearch:totalResults>4230000</opensearch:totalR
esults>
>
<opensearch:startIndex>21</opensearch:startIndex>
;
>
<opensearch:itemsPerPage>10</opensearch:itemsPerPag
e>
> <opensearch:link rel="search"
>
href="http://e
xample.com/opensearchdescription.xml"
>
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"/>
;
> <opensearch:Query role="request"
searchTerms="New York History" />
> <item>
> <title>New York History</title>
>
> <link>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/ameri
hist/nyc.html</link
> >
>
> <opensearch:Image>
http://www.centralparknyc.org/media/image/Bethesda19
> th
> C.jpg</opensearch:Image>
> <description>
> ... Harlem.NYC - A virtual tour and information
on
> businesses ... with historic photos of
Columbia's own New
York
> neighborhood ... Internet Resources for the
City's History.
...
> </description>
> </item>
> <!-- 9 additional <item> elements appear
here -->
> </channel>
> </rss>
>
> Or I guess we could do this just for our project via
the extensibility
> feature of OpenSearch
> (http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/response/#extensibili
ty).
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> Tony Boston
> National Library of Australia
>
>
>
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