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Mette B å strup-Larsen, dk Jill Cousins, eu Jean-Blaise Claivaz, ch Nathalie Cornee, uk. Oleg Cvik, sk Elisabeth Freyre, fr Jan Erik Kofoed, no Martin Svoboda, cz. RSS. WS 3 ELAG 2005 Peter van Boheemen. Agenda. Questions RSS – what does it mean? What is it & what is it good for?

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

  2. 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

  3. RSS – what does it mean? Rich Site Summary Real Simple Syndication RDF Site Summary

  4. 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

  5. “news” db RSS principle of operation e-mail weblog RSS RSS reader reformat select read & interpret web page ???

  6. 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?

  7. Relation to other kinds of communication

  8. Conclusions, recommendations • Powerful: reallysimple & 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 (plug-in or separate reader needed) • Likely to be integrated into browsers or e-mail clients soon (tomorrow) … • Be prepared!!!

  9. Sir TimBerners-Leefor Nobel prize !

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