Web 2.0 News Portal

I am interested in adding some semantic web goodness to the SEO friendly
parts of this application.

The article.pl script generates an HTML page for a single article and the
articlerss.pl script generates a sitemap for the entire site. The links in
the articlerss.pl take the web browser to the pages generated by the
article.pl script. This is the SEO support that is currently in this
project.

The way I see it, the articlerss.pl should be enhanced to provide RDF Site
Summary modules which is just adding new tags to your existing channels.
Also, the article.pl should be changed to generate HTML with the
appropriate microformats. Yahoo has just announced that it will be
supporting hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support
vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, and
MediaRSS.

I wish that google would come out with a statement on what they will
support since they are the 900 pound gorilla of the search space.

What extensions I will implement will depend on how much search engine
adoption of these standards there are. After all, why bother with an
attribute that no one is looking for?

Sitemap extensions will cause more fields to be added to article
maintenance. Microformats will cause changes to the content markup parser.
Right now, you have square brackets for links, curly braces for images,
asterisks for bullet points, and plus signs for paragraphs. We will need to
extend that to support whatever microformats are chosen.

The search facility (searcharticles.pl) will also need to be enhanced to
support these new fields.

I would be very interested in your feedback with regards to how you would
like to see this project enhanced to support semantic web searching.