Feed foundations / INDEPENDENT FIELD GUIDE

Article Tags Feed

An article is more than its headline. Organize identity, source, publication history, excerpts, and topics as separate parts of one editorial record.

Give every article a dependable record.

The core idea

A well-defined article record can serve a website card, a topic archive, and a feed entry without maintaining three competing copies of the facts. Preserve the distinction between the full body, a short excerpt, and a derived summary. They serve different reading situations and may need separate review.

A workable starting pattern

Assign an identifier before publication and choose one canonical destination. Keep visible and machine-readable dates together. When a correction changes the article, review its excerpt and related summaries as well. Use tags to explain the main subject rather than mirror every phrase in the body.

AN EXAMPLE TO THINK THROUGH

A guide to RSS validation could have a short card excerpt and a full-text feed representation. Both point to the same canonical article and use the same reviewed category, even though their displayed length differs.

What this page does—and does not—offer

This page describes publishing structure. It does not import URLs or provide article extraction, rewriting, or storage for visitors.