Transcript Document
Adding EdNA Services
to your website
(Workshop B, 2004)
Presenter
Kerrie Smith
School Education Information Officer
EdNA Online
[email protected]
Ph: 08 8334 3213
EdNA Online is a joint initiative of the states, territories and Australian
Governments through their education departments and managed by
education.au limited.
Workshop Objectives
Provide details about the free EdNA Online Shared
Information Services
Provide information about how to add Shared Information
Services to your own website
Help you identify the most appropriate technology for
your website
Provide hands-on experience in adding some Shared
Information Services to a web page.
Getting Started
During this workshop we will be using the following:
EdNA Online website
http://www.edna.edu.au/
Notepad or its equivalent
Workshop Documentation
Documentation supporting this workshop and
use of the Shared Information Services
http://www.edna.edu.au/developers
Shared Information Services
Browse Topics and Categories
EdNA Online Distributed Search
Recently Added Resources
News Headlines
EdNA Online Browse Topics and
Categories
The EdNA Online Browse Topics and Categories
organises collections of like resources.
Using a category or topic and browsing through them is
another way to find information.
EdNA Online has hundreds of categories, some are
organised by sector, some by document type, and others
by subject.
Browse Structure (cont)
Use the topics and categories on your own website to
provide your site users with quality assured information
relevant to their needs and their areas of interest.
See http://www.edna.edu.au/browsemap/0
School Education Browsemap
http://www.edna.edu.au/browsemap/3830
Higher Education Browsemap
http://www.edna.edu.au/browsemap/14899
Vocational Education and Training Browsemap
http://www.edna.edu.au/browsemap/12650
Technology Options
Different technology options are available:
HTML
Javascript
XML
RSS
Your choice will depend on the technical resources
you have available.
HTML and Javascript
A HTML or Javascript option is a 'low technology'
solution.
Suits website administrators who do not have
access to software developer resources or who
manage 'static' websites that cannot be
programmed.
The services available as HTML or Javascript
are also available in XML and RSS
HTML Shared Information Services The Generators
The Generators
[http://www.edna.edu.au/generators]
help you by automatically generating the HTML
or Javascript for you to copy and paste into your
own web pages.
All you need for this option is some basic
knowledge of HTML so you know where to copy
and paste the code.
The Generators – HTML and
Javascript
Available services:
Distributed Search
Browse Topics and categories
Recently Added Resources
News Headlines
http://www.edna.edu.au/generators
Using The Generator for Search
Add an EdNA Online Search to your own website!
Add either a Standard or an Advanced Search
Use the Generator to create the HTML code to put in
your own web page
Modify the resulting search strings to further customise
the search results if you wish.
Parameters for further customisation are available in the
Shared Information Services documentation.
e.g. &showdesc=false will turn descriptions off
&sr=gem will give GEM results
Using The Generator for Browse
Add an EdNA Online Browse topic or category to your own
website!
Choose a topic from the list provided or get one from the
browsemap.
Generate code
Cut and paste into your own web page.
Modify the code according to parameters available in the
Shared Information Services documentation.
E.g. &items=65 will change the number of items
displayed from the default of 10 to 65
&showdesc=false will turn descriptions off
Using The Generator for Recently
Added Resources
Add EdNA Online's Recently Added Resources to your web
page!
Choose a topic from the list provided or get one from the
browsemap.
Generate the code
Cut and paste into your own web page.
Modify the code according to parameters available in the
Shared Information Services documentation.
Default for the number of items shown is 10
e.g. &items=30 or use other topic codes
Using The Generator for News
Headlines
Add EdNA Online's News Headlines to your web page!
Choose from the list provided
Generate the code
Cut and paste into your own web page.
Modify the HTML according to parameters available in
the Shared Information Services documentation.
Default for the number of items shown is 10
e.g. &items=20 (A maximum of 20 is available)
&showdesc=false removes descriptions
XML Overview
XML
• stands for EXtensible Markup Language, a markup
language very much like HTML
• An international standard mainly used in exchanging
data between computers
• can be used to describe any data that has a well
known structure
XML Types
• There are 1,000s of defined XML data formats or types or
schemas (some are industry standards and some are adhoc).
• Common XML data formats used by EdNA Online are:
• RSS describes news feed data exchange format
• EdNA XML API Search Results describes search
results format
RSS Overview
RSS can stand for 'Rich Site Summary', 'RDF Site
Summary' or 'Really Simple Syndication
RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication
of list-oriented content
A feed contains a list of items, each of which is identified
by a hyperlink. The most basic metadata supported by
RSS includes a title for the link and a description of it.
XML Shared Information Services
The XML option suits an organisation that has a
dynamic website or web portal and has access to
software developer resources with XML expertise.
XML Shared Information Services
(cont)
The following services are available
XML Browse
XML News Headlines
XML Recently Added Resources
XML Distributed Search
XML Event Calendars
XML Browsemap
See http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page3035.html
(Developers’ Kit > XML Services)
and Shared Information Services documentation
XML Services Examples
EdNA Online VET News Headlines are used in Vet e-News
at Training.com.au
http://www.training.com.au/
EdNA Online Browse categories are displayed in the
ACTivatED portal
http://activated.decs.act.gov.au/
RSS Shared Information Services
Access the EdNA Online RSS Services via any device
that can support RSS feeds.
Display EdNA Online RSS feeds if your website supports
the display of external RSS feeds.
Include EdNA RSS Services into your desktop products
either via a desktop RSS reader, or by using desktop
products that support RSS.
RSS Shared Information Services
(cont)
Browse
Search
Recently Added Resources
News Headlines
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page3041.html
(Developers’ Kit > RSS Services)
See also the Shared Information Services
documentation
Requesting an RSS Service
All EdNA Online XML services are available as RSS feeds.
Searches available through the EdNA Online website can
be delivered as RSS. See the bottom of the search
results page
Search strings created through the Search generator can
be modified to give an RSS string
e.g. Search is http://api.edna.edu.au/search.xml?q=frogs
RSS is http://api.edna.edu.au/search.rss?q=frogs
RSS strings can be added to your RSS reader.
Requesting an RSS Service (cont)
Similarly the documentation shows how to convert
Browse
Recently Added Resources
News Headlines
to an RSS format.
These can then be added to an RSS reader.
Register with us
Register as a user of EdNA services so we can keep in
touch and let you know when new services are available
or when services change.
[email protected]
Please participate in our online survey about the
usefulness of this workshop.
Please complete the workshop survey
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2GK6R4RD
Thank you for attending this EdNA Online workshop
HTML Shared Information Services
Through ‘The Generators’ EdNA Online provides a
number of its services as simple HTML code that you
can copy and paste into your own web page.
Distributed Search [HTML]
Browse Topics and Categories
News Headlines
Recently Added Resources
Available in HTML or Javascript
• Browse
• Event Calendars
• Recently Added Resources
• Distributed Search
• News Headlines