what is the Rev interoperability initiative? (was Re: [ANN]RevZilla 2.0)

[Richard Gaskin]

Andre Garzia wrote:
 > On Apr 4, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> Anything we might addrress in the Rev interoperability initiative?
 >> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop/>
 >
 > please tell me what is this... I never heard about it...

Earlier today I wrote:

 > Precisely. The growing number of tool suites in the Rev
 > community is what led to the creation of the RevInterop
 > initiative.
 >
 > Currently each toolkit uses its own method of identifying
 > the info needed for updates, integration, etc., but if we
 > could take the time to draft one universal standard then
 > all tools could ideally be fully interchangeable without
 > futher modification.
 >
 > The initial rought draft identifies a number of common
 > elements needed by all plugins, including author, copyright,
 > URL, and more.  Since most of these types of data were
 > already identified by Dublin Core, we've light-heartedly
 > adopted the name of "Edinburgh Core" for these properties.
 >
 > That initial rough draft and a sample library stack with
 > placeholder properties are available at:
 > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop/files/>
 >
 > All input from plugin developers is appreciated.  No such
 > initiative can be useful in a vacuum. :)

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