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Introducing RSS Patti Biggs MRC National Institute for Medical Research 31 st October 2010

Introducing RSS Patti Biggs MRC National Institute for Medical Research 31 st October 2010. What is RSS. Way of sharing information Alerts Mashup Widget Acronym for: R eally S imple S yndication A push technology – polls for new entries. What is RSS. A formatted file in XML eg

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Introducing RSS Patti Biggs MRC National Institute for Medical Research 31 st October 2010

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  1. Introducing RSS Patti Biggs MRC National Institute for Medical Research 31st October 2010

  2. What is RSS • Way of sharing information • Alerts • Mashup • Widget • Acronym for: • Really Simple Syndication • A push technology – polls for new entries

  3. What is RSS • A formatted file in XML eg <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Biomedical research - policy and news</title> <description>Biomedical research policy and news mainly covering UK and EU. Includes reports from government departments and agencies (UK and international), news from UK higher education, Research Councils UK, MRC, BBSRC, Wellcome Trust, research institutes, European Union. Also includes research ethics, major research funding news, scientific prizewinners and major appointments.</description> <link>http://nimri.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/rss</link> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:56:35 +0100</lastBuildDate> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:52:24 +0100</pubDate> <generator>FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com</generator> <item> <title>Call for sector to unite behind open access</title> <description>Ten leading organisations from the higher education and research sectors have joined forces to drive forward the implementation of open access in the UK. </description> <link>http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2010/News/WTX063257.htm</link> <guidisPermaLink="false">012CBD2D-8243-4647-8850-E4BC37D101A1</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:52:24 +0100</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>

  4. RSS files • Information is tagged rather like HTML • Each element has start tag and end tag • Many standards for RSS • RSS 1 • RSS 2 • Atom • Most readers can handle more than one format

  5. Finding feeds • Orange rules OK • Look for these symbols:

  6. Terminology • Subscribe = add this feed • Confusing • All feeds are available for free • The applications that handle RSS feeds can be called: • News readers • Feed readers • Live bookmarks • News aggregators • RSS readers • OPML • A formatted file of your feed subscriptions, used to move feeds to another feed application

  7. Reading RSS • Web browsers • IE7, IE8, Safari, Firefox with Sage extension • Web-based readers • Google Reader • Start pages on web • Netvibes, Pageflakes • Web portals • MyYahoo, iGoogle, Windows live • Desktop applications • Huge numbers of free and costed ones available • Eg Feedreader, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, RSS Bandit, Omea Reader • See: http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html

  8. Creating RSS • Blogging – most blog applications also create RSS files of entries and comments • Create a webpage, then use a web-based feed maker eg Ponyfish http://www.ponyfish.com/ • Web-based tool like Feed Creator http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/makerss.pl • Open source tools eg RSS Feed Creator http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssfeedcreator/ • Commercial software eg Feedforall, Feed Editor • Hand code – not recommended • Republish or remix existing feeds • Phil Bradley has page on tools for creating RSS: http://www.philb.com/iwantto/web2rss.htm

  9. Bibliography • Kroski, Ellyssa. Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals. New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc, 2008. 978-1-55570-614-2 • RSS in Plain English. 3 minute video available from: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english.

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