Wiley and Wrox author lists updated and new OPML

Lots of new author blogs added to the lists today. In Wrox, I've added, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Bill Ryan, Fredrik Normén, J. Ambrose Little, Jonathan Goodyear, Wally McClure. In Wiley I've added Rocky Oliver and Brian Benz.

Both OPML files are updated with the new lists too.

Comments

[Dave Winer]

Hi Jim!

Rogers Cadenhead sent me a pointer to this post, I think it's fantastic that you're maintaining author lists in OPML. It's a perfect application.

But I'm having trouble finding the files...?

[Rogers Cadenhead]

Here are the direct links:

WROX authors:

http://wroxblog.typepad.com/wroxauthors.opml

Wiley authors:

http://wroxblog.typepad.com/wileyauthors.opml

These files make me wish I could import entire OPML blogrolls into news readers. I thought Bloglines supported the functionality, but I can't find it.

[Danny]

Dave, these look like the files -
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/wileyauthors.opml
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/wroxauthors.opml

(Google site:wroxblog.typepad.com opml)

Jim, any chance of you getting some more data? (Never satisfied). The app [1] I'm currently working on can swallow & use this stuff nicely (after a little XSLT [2], results at [3],[4]).

What would be cool would be to additionally have a list of the books by the authors available, with one or two URIs to help with identification (e.g. the Wrox and Amazon pages for the books). Other publication data could go in using Dublin Core and the PRISM vocab [5].

I've also recently been looking at the XHTML-based 'microformats', which are also RDF-friendly (again largely thanks to XSLT). There's a review format (hReview [6]) which stands a reasonable chance of getting some traction. It'd be nice to have a SPARQL-queryable database containing all the blog, publisher, author, book and review data together.

[1] http://pragmatron.org/docs/sparqlsphere.html
[2] http://dannyayers.com/svn/pragmatron/xslt/opml2skosroll.xsl
[3] http://dannyayers.com/2005/05/wrox-authors.rdf
[4] http://dannyayers.com/2005/05/wiley-authors.rdf
[5] "http://www.prismstandard.org/resources/mod_prism.html
[6] http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hReview&e=10313

[Danny]

Heh, good timing Rogers.

Bloglines - My Feeds - Edit (scroll to bottom) - Import/Export

[Dave Winer]

Just for kicks, I tried running these OPML files through my OPML displayer (work in progress) and it worked.

http://scriptingnews.worldoutline.com/2005/May/22/

Most excellent!

[BillSaysThis]

Dave, there seems to be an extra level when displaying the outlines (the second screen after clicking one of the list names), I wonder if the software shouldn't be smart enough to skip a level with only one item if the label is the same as was shown on the previous level and it has children. The fewer user actions, the better.

[Dave Winer]

Bill, it's just doing what the author of the OPML told it to do.

By analogy: How would you feel if your word processor read the text on your first page, decided it was extraneous and didn't print it. Same thing.

[BillSaysThis]

To me this is analgous to the greasemonkey arguments, once it hits my machine it's my data. Personally I prefer smart software that minimizes the effort I need to put into using it.

[Naba Barkakati]

Jim, Thanks for keeping the author blog list OPML up to date. It's helpful and good publicity as well :-)

[Jim Minatel]

Wow, this is fun! Great feedback on the OPML lists.

I've now moved the links to the lists to a more prominent spot at the top of the right column.

Danny, I'll look at expanding the info in the OPML lists. I've been taking a lazy way to create these so far - I keep Wrox and Wiley author lists in RSSBandit for myself matching the lists on the page here and export them to OPML. I'll look at what I need to do to add the book information outside of RSSBandit.

Dave and everyone else: I'm glad everyone finds this interesting or useful. Connecting readers to authors, and authors to each other, is one of my main goals for this little blog. I'm glad the OPML is helping. Thanks to Alex Givant whose comment about OPML when I first started this blog is what got me doing this to begin with.