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  Source Rankings

  In the APML 0.5 draft,  Source Ranking is used to indicate the 'level of trust" that a user assigns to their "sources of information" which is an excellent primary cut but I think it leaves out an important piece of information -- that of "attention span"

  While it looks like the 'profile" attribute will allow large shifts in perspective (home vs work vs hobby come to mind) I think something is needed to reflect different time spans of interest according to the source of informtion.   If I explictly set both CNN and National Geographics because I have an interest in natural history the stories I expect from each are quite different in nature.  eg.  while I expect CNN to tell me  (briefly) about a pod of dolphins beaching themselves this morning in Florida,  I expect National Geographics to give me a long article about communication in various of marine mammals. 

  Each of these sources provide stories with different relevant time spans... I'm more likely to make a quick decision about selecting the detail or dismissing for the CNN story and leave the National Geographics story till a point where I have a longer time. But applications that 'drop' items according to age currently have no way to select between the two.

  Hence I'd like to be able to say the National Geographics story should not be dissmissed from my application output (be it ticker tape or whatever) as a result of 'old age' nearly as quickly as the cnn  story.... the cnn story of today is unlikely to be of interest to me tomorrow... the national geographic  still will be  - I just haven't been able to get around to it.

  Suggestion: Source Ranking be expanded to include:

  Source Rankings

    Souce 

          Name

          GUID

           Rank

           Lifetime  (count in days{?} an item from this source is likely to be of interest for)

  Posted 07 Apr 07

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  APML Workgroup

  Re: APML v0.5: Draft Specification v0.2 (example)

  I think  there are a few things you could clean up in the example....

  1. the example shows a home and work profile but both use the same hardware ID... and yet the Devices section indicates the type is different for each

  • if the intent was just to show separate home and work profiles on the one work machine, well ok ... but then why not also show a profile for the home tablet?
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  • THe explicit sources for the home profile do not have any guid -- in the examples used should there not be a url for each?
  • The explicit concept "cancer" is duplicated .... this should not be the case within one profile should it?
    
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  Posted 10 Apr 07