Atom allows lists of information, known as syndication feeds, to be synchronised between publishers and consumers. Atom feeds are composed of a number of entries, each with an extensible set of associated metadata. common Atom structure content A syndicated feed 1 1 0 1 1 1 Represents an individual entry that is contained by the feed. The Atom entry id is the object's resource URI (So there is no id property) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 hasContent hasEntry an individual entry that is contained by the feed indicates a person or other entity who contributes to the feed indicates the default author of the feed href e-mail address associated with the person indicates the media type of the content indicates the time that the entry was created the default language of the feed human-readable name for the person, corporation or other entity Issue Date the date and time at which the Entry was modified in W3 format Indicates the version of the Atom specification that the construct conforms to. a human-readable copyright statement for the feed info conveys a human-readable explanation of the feed format itself generator indentifies the software agent used to generate the feed, for debugging and other purposes. a URI associated with the person a human-readable title a short summary, abstract or excerpt of the entry indicates the method used to encode the content base64 escaped xml rel the type of relationship that the link represents service.feed service.post service.edit prev next start alternate a human-readable description or tagline for the feed a W3C Date-Time