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Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep

Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep. Using RSS to distribute content and personalize the DLESE experience. Shelley Olds. DLESE University Corp for Atmospheric Research. DLESE Annual Meeting. July 10, 2004. DLESE information sent to you, automatically.

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Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep

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  1. Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep Using RSS to distribute content and personalize the DLESE experience Shelley Olds DLESE University Corp for Atmospheric Research DLESE Annual Meeting July 10, 2004

  2. DLESE information sent to you, automatically RSS: Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary • RSS is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines). • Similar to an email newsletter • Content comes to you instead of you looking for it • Easier tracking of multiple sources of information • Updated more frequently: hourly/ daily • A content publishersyndicates a feed • DLESE is the publisher • Our content is syndicated daily • The feeds are written in XML and provide the content

  3. DLESE and RSS • Find up-to-the-minute news and supporting educational resources about current Earth events and Earth system science opportunities • Current DLESE feeds (or syndications) • New resources to the library • Newly reviewed resources • New resources under review • What’s new in DLESE • Syndications coming soon • News and opportunities • Workshops • Latest Resources of Interest • Resources available for Grade Range/Resource Type/etc.

  4. Personalizing your experience • Allows DLESE content to be redistributed (a la Reuters) • As aggregators pick up DLESE feeds, DLESE content could show up… anywhere! • Other libraries can subscribe to DLESE services • Future: "Create-a-feed" (Give the user an RSS URL for their own custom Discovery search) • Most visited resources - last week/last month/all time • Customized search results on a given topic/grade • Most frequently searched keyword terms • Mailing list thread summaries

  5. Two parts to make RSS work • Part 1-- An XML “news feed” from a website Turned into XML using RSS format DLESE web page for new resources

  6. Two parts to make RSS work • Part 1-- An XML “news feed” from a website • Part 2--A “news reader” to translate and display the feeds • You choose feeds you’re interested in • The news reader displays titles and short summaries of new items Newly Reviewed Resources in DLESE Newly Resources under Review New Resources in DLESE The reader pulls these feeds together in one place

  7. Using RSS Feeds • Many news readers (aggregators) are separate, "stand-alone" programs such as those listed above; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page. • Step 1—Look for xml button • Step 2—View XML feed and copy address • Step 3—Find a news reader and add the feed to the read • Behind the scenes: News readers check the feeds that you tell it to, see if there is any new content, and if so, save the content for you to view when you are ready.

  8. List of DLESE Feeds • New resources in the DLESE library • Title: DLESE - New resources • http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemnew&wnfrom=recent&show=20 • Resources in the DLESE library that have recently come under review • Title: DLESE - New resources under review • http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannoinprogress&wnfrom=recent&show=20 • Resources in the DLESE library that have new reviews • Title: DLESE - Newly reviewed resources • http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannocomplete&wnfrom=recent&show=20 • Breaking news and recent links of interest from the DLESE library • "What's New at DLESE” • http://www.dlese.org/whats_new-rss2-0.xml

  9. What DLESE looks like in a reader • Subscribe to and immediately receive the news and categories of DLESE resources as soon as those resources become available in the library Example: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/earthgazer?subid=2165872

  10. Popular news reader programs • Pluck: http://www.pluck.com/ (free, IE add-in) • Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ (free, online) • NetNewsWire: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ (Mac, free demo) • Rocketinfo: http://demo.rocketinfo.com/desktop/ • AmphetaDesk: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ (free) • FeedReader: http://feedreader.com (Free) • NewsCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com ($) • NewsMonster: http://www.newsmonster.org/ (Mozilla/Netscape 7+)

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