I’ve been tinkering around with OPMLManager.com on suggestion from James Corbett of the Eirepreneur blog and have decided to make my contribution to the Open Irish Directory by managing a node on Irish Film.

So now you’ll think

• What the hell is OPML?
• What is the Open Irish Directory
• What the hell is a node?

So here goes!

OPMLOPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators.

The OPML specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbitrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data.

OPMLManager.com

OPML Manager is simply brilliant. As in simple and brilliant. The simplicity is deceptive because its a very powerful enabler. Not only is it a web-based, AJAX enabled OPML editor but, crucially, it’s an OPML host. That means that anyone can now contribute a node to an open directory project like indiePodder or the Open Irish Directory

Open Irish Directory

OID is a directory of all things Irish, and open in the sense that anyone can contribute to it. Think of it as a catalog of links, hierarchical, with individuals managing the nodes (sub categories of links) and their content (the actual links). Check it out.

Anyway… go check it out!