Transcript RSS WS 3 ELAG 2005 Peter van Boheemen Mette Båstrup-Larsen, dk Oleg Cvik, sk Jill Cousins, eu Elisabeth Freyre, fr Jean-Blaise Claivaz, ch Jan Erik Kofoed, no Nathalie Cornee,

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WS 3 ELAG 2005
Peter van Boheemen
Mette Båstrup-Larsen, dk
Oleg Cvik, sk
Jill Cousins, eu
Elisabeth Freyre, fr
Jean-Blaise Claivaz, ch
Jan Erik Kofoed, no
Nathalie Cornee, uk
Martin Svoboda, cz
Agenda
• Questions
– RSS – what does it mean?
– What is it & what is it good for?
– Who is using it and why?
• Relation to other kinds of communication
• Conclusions, recommendations
RSS – what does it mean?
Rich Site Summary
Real Simple Syndication
RDF Site Summary
What is it & what is it good for?
• Small chunks of well structured data
(XML; title, date, link, …)
• Simple standardised method of
broadcasting (feeding) news
RSS principle of operation
reformat
RSS
read & interpret
“news”
db
select
e-mail
weblog
RSS reader
web page
???
Who is using it and why?
• Who produces RSS feeds?
– Bloggers: The Shifted Librarian, Peter Scott’s Library
Blog, …
– Media: BBC, CNN, …
– Journal publishers: NPG (Nature), …
– Libraries: Woodburn Library, …
• Who reads RSS feeds?
– individuals, which?
– applications
• aggregators, library portals?
Relation to other kinds of communication
Channel
Paper
E-mail
SMS
RSS
Characteristics
broad
personal
personal
broad
Audience
both
known
known
anonymous
Frequency
low
n/a
n/a
potentially
high
Requirements
eyes (+
glasses)
mail reader
GSM
RSS reader
Costs to
produce
high: paper,
postage
application
application
development development
+ delivery
application
development
Availability
widespread
widespread
widespread
emerging
Format
free
text/html
short text
simple
structured
text
Conclusions, recommendations
• Powerful: really simple & easy to implement
both at producer and user side
• Ca 15 million bloggers do use it
• Could serve libraries well to broadcast „news“ to
users
• Not part of our standard applications yet (plugin or separate reader needed)
• Likely to be integrated into browsers or e-mail
clients soon (tomorrow) …
• Be prepared!!!
Sir Tim
Berners-Lee
for Nobel prize !