One of the great things in DeanSpace was the ability to load events from Dean for America into DeanSpace websites via a patched RSS feed. The folks at CivicSpace, the follow on to DeanSpace, have been looking at how this can be done in a more generalized way.

With my work with the Center for Online Investigative Research, I stumbled across the the IPTC’s EventsML. On that mailing list, was a pointer to Scott McMullan’s blog where he has an entry entitled Google/Internet Archive, Meet Mr. Event

He writes an interesting entry about how great it would be if all events could be found by Google, and archived in the Internet Archive. Such a repository would be a valuable research tool as well.

Of course all of this needs to be tempered by the concerns that come up in Epic 2014.

With that caveat, it would be great if EventML folks, CivicSpace folks as well as people like Scott McMullan could collaborate.