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TOC Syndication using RSS
Tony Hammond, ElsevierTimo Hannay & Ben Lund, NPG
17 September 2003
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What is RSS?
A lightweight XML format for syndicating news titles, links and descriptions
Developed by Netscape, more recently adopted by the blogging community
Consumed by (e.g.): Users with desktop readers Webmasters who want to embed titles
from other sites in their own pages
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Example of an RSS feed<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><!DOCTYPE rss SYSTEM "http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/rss-0.91.dtd"><rss version="0.91"> <channel> <title>BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition</title> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/default.stm</link> <description>Updated every minute of every day</description> <language>en-gb</language> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Sep 03 09:21:32 GMT</lastBuildDate> <copyright>Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/services/copyright/html/default.stm</copyright> <docs>http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/</docs> <image> <title>BBC News</title> <url>http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif</url> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk</link> </image> <item> <title>Hutton witnesses face tough questions</title> <description>Witnesses at the inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death will face cross-examination, a day after a BBC boss and a spy chief gave evidence.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/uk_politics/3111926.stm</link> </item> <item> <title>Deadly blast ends Japan siege</title> <description>At least three people are killed in an explosion in an office where a disgruntled worker had taken hostages.</description>
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Example of an RSS feed
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Different versions of RSS
0.9
0.91 0.92 2.0 “Atom”
1.0
Simple: Plain XML
Extensible: RDF/XML
= most popular formats
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Example of a TOC in RSS
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Example of a TOC in RSS<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:prism="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/"><channel rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6954/index.html"> <title>Nature</title> <description>International weekly journal of science</description> <link>http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6954/index.html</link> <dc:publisher>Nature Publishing Group</dc:publisher> <dc:language>en-GB</dc:language> <dc:rights>Copyright (C) 2003 Nature Publishing Group</dc:rights> <prism:publicationName>Nature</prism:publicationName> <prism:issn>0028-0836</prism:issn> <prism:rightsAgent>[email protected]</prism:rightsAgent>
...<item rdf:about="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/425107a"> <title>Science and the war on terror</title> <link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/425107a</link> <description>Two years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the promised reorientation of US national research priorities proceeds without much direction or conviction.</description> <dc:identifier>doi:10.1038/425107a</dc:identifier> <dc:source>Nature 425, 107 (2003)</dc:source> <dc:date>2003-09-11</dc:date> <prism:publicationName>Nature</prism:publicationName> <prism:publicationDate>2003-09-11</prism:publicationDate> <prism:volume>425</prism:volume> <prism:number>6954</prism:number> <prism:category rdf:resource="http://prismstandard.org/vocabularies/1.2/category.xml#column"/> <prism:section>Editorials</prism:section> <prism:startingPage>107</prism:startingPage></item>
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PRISM module for RSS 1.0
Allows additional bibliographic information: ISSN, name, volume, issue, start page DOI Publication date Article type Corrections References Etc.
Adds to metadata that can be captured with existing RSS Dublin Core modules
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Using “feeds of feeds”
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Using “feeds of feeds” with TOCs
Publisher RSS service
Journals
Volumes
Issues
Towards a lightweight OAI-PMH?
Years
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Why syndicated TOCs with RSS?
Publishers: Sends more people to your content Greater range of potential uses than email – e.g,
embedding in third-party web pages
Readers: Allows greater control than email Can be easily aggregated and filtered to create
custom feeds
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What’s wrong with RSS?
Multiple standards, often ill-defined
Most desktop readers still at beta or v1.0
Uses more bandwidth than email
(Virtually) text only, no rich media capability
Not yet clear how best to use it as a platform for marketing and advertising
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The only near certainties
RSS is here to stay
Use will continue to grow
Applications will get more diverse
If your users aren’t already asking for it, they soon will
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Further reading
RSS for Publishers: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/
XML.com: “Why choose RSS 1.0?” by Tony Hammond, 23 July 2003
Content Syndication with RSS by Ben Hammersley, O’Reilly & Associates