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RSS For Current Awareness & Alerts Sunday, June 3, 2007 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room 304, Denver Convention Center Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President [email protected]
Why are we here - introductions RSS - why RSS - what RSS - dissected RSS feeds ATOM Good & bad RSS RSS - tools & resources RSS - how to
RSS?
An acronym of many names Really simple syndication (RSS 2.0) Rich site summary (RSS 1.0) RDF site summary (RSS 1.0)
RSS - why
Early “push” failed Late 90’s Limited band width Full text Swamped servers IT shut it down But, it was popular
RSS - why
Users Convenience Customized Non intrusive Filtered Automatically fetched Saves a lot of time Aggregates Internet resources of interest Brief - easy to navigate and evaluate Monitors the delta - change
RSS - why
Publisher “Push” that works Increases site traffic Automatically conveys What is new What has changed Urgent issues Etc.
RSS - what
Syndication of content News Blogs Changes - the delta Job openings Apartment vacancies And so on...
Think ‘lists’
RSS - what
XML based syndication of hyperlinks Fetched by RSS readers/aggregators Tracking Personalizing Safari’s presentation of RSS
RSS - what
Players Publishers Aggregators Users
RSS - what
Players Publishers Primary Secondary = Aggregators 3rd Party You Internal External Users
RSS - what
Parts RSS rendering RSS readers/aggregators Fetch - site tracking Organize & categorize Display Single view Update entries Types Portals Email clients Dedicated Browsers - use wherever possible
"> FDA Watch http://www.fdawatch.com/ Continuous coverage of the FDANews for June 3, 2007 http://www.fdawatch.com/2007/06/03 other things happened todayNews for June 2, 2007 http://www.fdawatch.com/2007/06/02
RSS feeds
Recall List http://www.fdawatch.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ /0553575376 0553575376
RSS feeds
Dublin Core example
RSS feeds
Dublin Core example cont.
FDA Watch http://www.fdawatch.com/ Continuous coverage of the FDA
RSS feeds
Dublin Core example cont.
News for June the Third http://www.fdawatch.com/2007/06/03/ other things happened today2007-06-03
RSS feeds
Dublin Core example concluded News for June the Second http://www.fdawatch.com/2007/06/02/ 2007-06-02
ATOM feeds
RSS 1.0 & 2.0 informal standards
ATOM standard of the IETF working group Explicitly labeled (i.e. typed) "entry" (payload) container Atom 1.0 includes an XML schema Separate ‘summary’ and ‘content’ elements, thus allowing inclusion of non-textual content that can be described by the ‘summary’ Use of the XML's built-in xml:base for relative URIs Uses XML's built-in xml:lang attribute Globally unique ID required for reliable updating And more...
ATOM feed example
FDA WatchAll things FDA2007-06-03T18:30:02ZJohn Doe[email protected]urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b91C-0003939e0af6
ATOM feed example concluded
New drug rulingurn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a2007/06/03T18:30:02ZSome text
RSS 1.0, 2.0, or ATOM?
Choice not critical
‘Syndication libraries’
pull core elements RSS 1.0 very extensible RSS 2.0 very simple ATOM Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard
RSS 1.0, 2.0, or ATOM?
Source: http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.php
The good, the bad, and the RSS
Distinct entries rdf:about (RSS 1.0) guid (RSS 2.0) id (Atom) Meaningful meta-data What’s in a name
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<p> No HTML encoding XML entities not predefined as in HTML Character encoding - use UTF-8 Use elements appropriately <title> <description> Etc.</p>
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<p> Be machine friendly - for example, use the appropriate HTTP codes Web caching can help with load Validate Try ‘Feed Validator’ or equivalent www.feedvalidator.org</p>
<p> Handles RSS & ATOM</p>
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<h3>RSS - tools & resources</h3>
<p> Xpath2rss http://www.mnot.net/xpath2rss/ Site Summaries in XHTLM http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/# myRSS http://myrss.com/ RSS.py http://www.mnot.net/python/RSS.py</p>
<p>ROME https://rome.dev.java.net/ XML::RSS http://search.cpan.org/author/EISEN/XML-RSS/</p>
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<p> Syndicated content http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/miller/ Syndic8 http://www.syndic8.com/ RSS Workshop http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html</p>
<p> RSS Devcenter http://www.oreillynet.com/rss/</p>
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<h3>RSS - how to</h3>
<p> Planning Guidelines Editorial policy Permissions Strategy Staffing Funding</p>
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<p> What to RSS?</p>
<p> News Document listings New acquisitions Notices & announcements Calendars & conferences See Netflix http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds iTunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/M RSS/rssGenerator</p>
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<p> What to RSS?</p>
<p> Finding other feeds to aggregate BlogStreet’s RSS Discovery http://www.blogstreet.com/rssdiscovery.html</p>
<p> AmphetaDesk http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ Syndic8 http://www.syndic8.com/ News Is Free http://www.newsisfree.com/ RDF-Ticker http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/findchannels.php</p>
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<p> What to RSS?</p>
<p> Finding other feeds to aggregate - topical feeds The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/ Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/ Moreover http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html</p>
<p>Network54 http://www.network54.com/ Blogging Headline News http://www.blogging-news.info/ The Internet Topic Exchange http://topicexchange.com/</p>
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<h3>RSS - how to</h3>
<p> When NOW How often as soon as possible</p>
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<p>Publishing your RSS feed Self scraping Feed integration from existing publishing process Start with RSS and ‘feed’ your Web site Third party scraping - not recommended</p>
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<p> Preparing your Web site Label RSS feeds <a type="application/rss+xml" href="feed.rss">RSS feed for FDA Watch Summaries</a> Put a link in <head> <head> <title>FDA Watch
RSS - how to
Your feeds Main feed Also, specialty/topical feeds Library news New acquisitions Look at examples above for ideas Netflix, iTunes, NYT, etc.
Thank you!
Questions?
RSS For Current Awareness & Alerts Sunday, June 3, 2007 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room 304, Denver Convention Center Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President [email protected]