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Practical RSS for Collecting and Disseminating New Content
Nick Tomaiuolo, CCSU LibraryConnecticut Library Association114th Annual Conference April 12, 2005
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“Must -- stay -- informed…”
NYTG. Price:Resource
Shelf
LibraryGrants
LocalNews
Open AccessNews
ResearchBuzz
FavoriteBlog
Chron.HigherEd
WiredHubMed
“oddly enough”
Yahoo!Enter-
tainment
TheatreNews
The whole idea of RSS is to go from this
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To this …..
“Will stay informed…on my terms”
NYTG. Price:Resource
Shelf
LibraryGrants
LocalNews
Open AccessNews
ResearchBuzz
FavoriteBlog
Chron. HigherEd
WiredHubMed
“oddlyenough”
YahooEnter-
tainment
TheatreNews
RSS Reader
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What is RSS ?
• A method by which content is delivered to you, the end-user, without constantly needing to search for it.
• Obviates continual manual site visits to monitor new content.
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What is RSS ?
• Corollary:It is a method you can use to deliver content to others.
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How does RSS work ?
And what is needed so I canuse it ?
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How does RSS work ?
RSS files, which could alsobe written as XML files orRDF files, are writtenso they can be read byan Aggregator.
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RSS is SIMPLE• Really Simple
Syndication• Rich Site Summary• RDF Site Summary
• It really doesn’t matter to us anyway; RSS is a list of items
• Each item contains a title, summary, and a link to a URL (e.g. a web page).
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What is required?ItemTitle
SummaryLink to a page
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What is needed so I canuse it ?1)You need to locate
content that is syndicated.
2)You need to use an RSS Aggregator (aka RSS Reader) to view the syndicated content.
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The RSS Aggregator
• Newspaper analogy
Selected “feed”
Today’s new “items”
Selected “item”preview
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Next “feed”
Next “feeds” “items”Selected “item”
preview
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Another aggregator (Newsgator)
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An alternative interface
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Subscription RSS Aggregator
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FeedDemon ($$$) “Watch Channel”
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Choosing an Aggregator? Consider:
• Display• Options• “Portability”• Find Aggregators at: The News Aggregator’s Directoryhttp://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.phpOr Blogspacehttp://blogspace.com/rss/readers
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Finding Content• Sources built in by
the aggregator• “Well known sites”• “Drive by” content• Searching for content
– Syndic8– Daypop– NewsIsFree– Yahoo!
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“Built in” content from the aggregator
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Lists of feeds at known sitesw.moreover.com/categories/
category_list_rss.html (Moreover)
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Feeds at the NYTimes
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Yahoo! Feed list (partial)
Choosefeeds
Search for feedsby keywords
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What am I supposed to do with this?
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“Drive By”
You’re on a page with one of those RSS buttons …..
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I forgot, what am I supposed to do when I see this?
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I forgot, what am I supposed to do when I see this?
a) Click the button
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b) Copy the resulting file
location from yourbrowser’s address bar
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c) Paste the locationinto your
RSS Aggregator’s“Add” or
“Subscribe to”form.
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Searching for feeds (and searching in feeds)• www.syndic8.com
(Syndic8)• www.newsisfree.com
(NewsIsFree)• www.feedster.com
(Feedster)• www.daypop.com
(Daypop)• Some RSS Aggregators
offer feed searches
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NEWSGATOR
FEED
SEARCH
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Syndic8
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Library news LISnews.com
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Uses of RSS Feeds in Libraries• Journal TOCs• New Books• Library Events• Workshop schedules• “Friends” news• Statistics
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Gerry McKiernan: examples of RSS in libraries
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm
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Writing an XML file
• Not overly difficult ….• Refer to “Making an RSS Feed” by Danny Sullivan
(SearchEngineWatch) athttp://searchenginewatch.com/
sereport/article.php/2175271
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What is required?ItemTitle
SummaryLink to a page
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Try your XML file in your favorite aggregators• Copy someone else’s file and
edit it to your criteria (in Notepad; save as filename.xml). (filetype *.txt)
• Make sure it links to your content.
• Save it on your web server.• Perform maintenance as
needed.
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To view this presentation again on the Web, go to:
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/nickcla5.htm