WebDAV is one of those
interesting standards that sometimes gets lost in the broader
industry hoopla. Well I finally decided to take a look at Mozilla's Calendar
project as more open solution for sharing my calendar. After
browsing around a little I came a across the following piece:
To share your calendars, you need
access to a webDAV
server. If you run your own web server, you can
install mod_dav, a free
Apache module that will turn your web server into a webDAV server.
Instructions on how to set it up are on their website. Once you set
up your webDAV server, you can publish your calendar to the site,
then subscribe to it from any other Mozilla Calendar. Automatically
updating the calendar will give you a poor man's calendar
server.
Through WebDAV we will be able to share calendars across
disparate calendaring tools (albeit with some degree of pain when
Outlook is in the mix). Even better for me, I can post my shared
calendar data via a Virtuoso instance
(internally and externally since WebDAV is
one of the many protocols that it implements), in short I could
even seriously consider generating this on the fly and sharing it
via this blog (Wow!).
Wearen't too many miles away from open and standards
compliant Unified Data Storage thanks to WebDAV.