[This is preliminary documentation and is subject to change.]

The Live Framework supports a resource model that describes various resources and their relationships to other resources. It is a simple information model based on entities, collections, and their relationships. A collection is a set of entities and an entity represents a resource with a set of properties. A class of properties of type Uri are used to model relationships among resources. Every collection and entity is uniquely addressable and is identified by a URL. Each entry has a set of typed properties that can be primitive or complex.

Relationships between entries are represented through hyperlinks. This makes it possible to navigate from one resource to a related resource (entity) or to a collection of resources (collection). Interaction with the resource model is done through a set of HTTP operations (verbs), with the AtomPub as the application-level protocol. The Live Framework resource model is completely agnostic of any communication protocol or representation and no behavior is associated with the model. Live Framework resources, including FeedSync metadata, can be rendered to any wire format, such as XML, ATOM, RSS, or JSON.