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RSS and its use in Libraries
Sukhdev Singh
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First of all let us see what RSS can do?
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Even before that let us see how we can keep
ourselves up-to-date in the Era of Internet
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Blogs
News
Journals
Databases
Keeping yourself Up-to-date
Go Get It
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Blogs
News
Journals
Databases
Keeping yourself Up-to-date
Guests are Welcomed
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RSS is the new way of keeping yourself up-to-date
• RSS (which, in its most recent format, stands for "Really Simple Syndication")
• Some expand it as - Rich Site Summary
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By RSS Feeds
Easily stay informed by subscribing the latest content from the sites you are interested in.
You save time by not visiting each site individually.
Your privacy is maintained unlike subscribing to each site's email newsletter
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What all is Required for this?
A PLACE to mix the new content of your interest
•RSS READER
and Content in Special Format
•RSS Feeds
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RSS READERs
• Desktop Softwareshttp://www.download.com/RSS-Tools/3150-9227-0.html
• Online Services• http://reader.google.com• http://my.yahoo.com• http://bloglines.com
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http://www.bloglines.com/
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Even smart cell phones have means to read RSS
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Where to get RSS Feeds
• Blogs – Most are RSS Enabled• Web sites - Check for buttons
• Databases – • Execute your search query• Create RSS Feed
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Connecting READER with FEEDS
• Clicking on RSS Button will reveal the URL of the RSS Feed
• Copy the URL• Paste the URL in your READER and subscribe
the FEED
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OK, we will take an example
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Say for Example
• I am interested in News – Let me know what current News are reported by NDTV.COM
• I read blogs, so let me know what is latest on Peter Suber’s Blog.
• I want to know what all new articles are deposited in my favorite repository - http://openmed.nic.in
• What all new articles are added in my favorite database - PubMed - on the topic “Medical Informatics in India”?
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Ok,we will use Google Reader as our
RSS Reader for this example
http://www.google.com/reader/
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LoginLogin
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Look for Add Subscription
Look for Add Subscription
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Click on Add Subscription
Click on Add Subscription
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We will now subscribe to RSS feedsOne by One
Let us first add Feed from News Site i.e. NDTV in our example
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Open a New Window in your browser
go to the site i.e. NDTV.COM
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Click on RSS button and Get URL of your RSS Feed for News
Click on RSS button and Get URL of your RSS Feed for News
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Just Look URL. COPY it with
Ctrl + C
Just Look URL. COPY it with
Ctrl + C
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Paste the URL Here
Ctrl+V
Paste the URL Here
Ctrl+V
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Wow, Your News are
Here
Wow, Your News are
Here
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Now let us subscribe a blog!Remember
Most blogs are RSS enabled So no need to look for any Orange
Button.Just enter the blog URL
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Now let us add a feed from Blog
now.
Now let us add a feed from Blog
now.
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Repeat steps for Adding
Subscription
Repeat steps for Adding
Subscription
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Wow, Blog feed is here
Wow, Blog feed is here
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To subscribe RSS Feed from any siteLook for Orange Buttons
Click and get the URL
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Now for Repository.Look for RSS Button.Now for Repository.Look for RSS Button.
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Look for URL Above and Copy
it.
Look for URL Above and Copy
it.
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Add Subscription
Add Subscription
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And it has been
done!
And it has been
done!
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You can also create / customize an RSS feed to suit interest.
However the site should provide such facility
Let us see how we can create an RSS Feed on PubMed Database Site on a
Query
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Now let us create a feed from PubMED
Now let us create a feed from PubMED
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Enter your Query as you do normally.
Enter your Query as you do normally.
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In Display Menu - Click on Drop Down Option for
RSS
In Display Menu - Click on Drop Down Option for
RSS
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Click on Create FeedClick on Create Feed
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Look for Small Orange Icon – and Click it.
Look for Small Orange Icon – and Click it.
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Copy the URL of the Feed.
Copy the URL of the Feed.
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Add Subscription
Add Subscription
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And no surprise, It is
Done
And no surprise, It is
Done
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You can Manage yours RSS Subscriptions
You can Manage yours RSS Subscriptions
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See them all at one place.
No need to visit each site.
See them all at one place.
No need to visit each site.
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You can even Export or Import your subscriptions to / from Other Readers
You can even Export or Import your subscriptions to / from Other Readers
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We have seen the usefulness of RSS.
Now let see what is this RSS?
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BlogsBlogs
Saved SearchersSaved
Searchers
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
WikisWikis
NewsNews
Syndication
Isn’t that Really Simple?
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RSS
• Stands for “Really Simple Syndication”.• Can also stand for “Rich Site Summary”, or
“RDF Site Summary”.
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“Really Simple Syndication” is the default expansion of RSS nowadays.
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RSS is written in XML language for syndicating information items on web.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?><rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>NDTV News</title> <description></description> <language>en-us</language> <link>http://www.ndtv.com</link> <copyright>© Copyright 2006, New Delhi Television Ltd.</copyright> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:13:17 GMT</pubDate> <category>National News</category> <image><title>NDTVNews</title><url>http://www.ndtv.com/images/ndtv.gif</url><link>http://www.ndtv.com</link></image> <item> <title>Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed</title> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href=http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888><img align="left" border="0" src="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/images/thumbnail/ver1/m/mapkarnataka1.jpg" alt="Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed" style="margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;width:70px;height:70px;" /></a>A pilot of an Indian Kiran trainer jet was killed in a crash on Wednesday morning near Bidar in Karnataka. </p><br clear="all" />]]></description> <link>http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888</link> <keywords>crash, pilot, Karnataka</keywords> </item></channel></rss>
XML Source Code of
RSS
XML Source Code of
RSS
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RSS when viewed in Browser
RSS when viewed in Browser
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RSS Format
• RSS feed is an XML file containing a list of items or entries.
• items are identified by links and can have some metadata associated with it.
• The most basic metadata for an item includes a title for the link and a description of it.
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For example, a simple entry of an ‘item’ might look like
<item> <title>Title of an item in feed</title> <link>http://link.domain.com/item</link> <description>
This is the description of the item. </description></item>
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Some Important Tags
rss – it is used to mark the global container.
channel – is used to mark the distributing channel. It has several descriptive tags and holds one or several items.
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Container
<?xml version="1.0" ?><rss version="2.0">
<channel> …… ……</channel>
</rss>
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Required tags for the channel
title - The title of the channel. Should contain the name.link - URL of the website that provides this channel.description - Summary of what the provider is.item. At least one item tag for the content of the feed.
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<rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>Channel Title</title> <link>http://www.xul.fr/</link> <description>Some Description</description> <item>
…..…..
</item> </channel>
</rss>
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Each item tag must hold these tags:
title. Title of the article.link. The URL of the page.description. Summary of the article.
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<item> <title>Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed
</title> <link> http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888
</link> <description> A pilot of an Indian Kiran trainer jet was killed in a crash on Wednesday morning near Bidar in Karnataka
</description> </item>
<item>…….</item>
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Format looks too complicated?Don’t worry
In practice you will perhaps never need to create an RSS Feed manually.
For all practical purposes you will be using RSS Enabled content managers or some other tools to exact data from pages and generate Feeds.
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How does RSS work?
Content Provider
Content Consumer
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How RSS Feeds are created?
• Manual MarkupYou markup the content manually.
• Software Assisted You just type in the content in forms.The software generates the markup.
• Publishing Platforms You simply use RSS enabled publishing platform / content manager.
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Software Assisted
Manual mark-up is not required.
Number of software options are available to assist in creating RSS Feeds.
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One such software is
Download from http://usablelabs.org/feedspringhttp://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Feed-Spring-Download-20514.html
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Just fill in few forms and it will generate XML file i.e. RSS Feed
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http://www.feedforall.com/download.htm
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http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/makerss.pl
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RSS enabled
Publishing platforms Content managersDatabase based applicationsModern Library Automation Softwares
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Modern publishing and content management platforms are RSS
enabledBlogging platforms like – Blogger, Wordpress,
Livejournal, Movable TypeSome popular open source, server-side, portal content
management systems such as PostNuke, (php), PHP-Nuke,(php) phpWebLog (php), SlashDot (Perl), Squishdot (Zope), Rusty Foster's Scoop (Perl), Roller (Java), and Drupal (php) can also create and display RSS feeds using their built-in news aggregators.
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WEB 2.0 Applications are RSS enabled
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http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/List_of_web_2.0_applications
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http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/the-100-top-web-apps-for-2008/
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Database Driven Applications
• Database driven applications can easily be made RSS enabled by creating reports (displaying items) in XML format for RSS Feeds
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PERL Script used in OpenMED
(EPRINTS) TO Generate RSS
Feed
PERL Script used in OpenMED
(EPRINTS) TO Generate RSS
Feed
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Libraries and RSS
Libraries are ideal candidates for adopting and using RSS to their advantage as– Information Producers– Information Gateways– Information Consumers
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Libraries as Information Producers
• As information producers, libraries maintain their web sites providing information about its services, new additions, announcements and other many other information tools like OPAC
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Libraries Can -
• Create an RSS feed for new additions to the online catalogue• Create an RSS feed tied to a library card account for hold
notifications and/or overdue materials.• Create an RSS feed for new programs and events posted on
the library website.• Create an RSS feed for the library’s electronic newsletter.• Create an RSS feed for press releases and other media
advisories.• Create an RSS feed for library closings, including emergency
closings.• Create an RSS feed for library job openings
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As a gateway to information, libraries can:
• Subscribe to a few RSS feeds, such as local news websites, and share the content on the library’s website.
• Subscribe and share RSS feeds of interest to library users.
• Compile list of useful RSS feeds with suitable annotation to help users to pick up feeds of their interest.
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Libraries can Re-Publish RSS Feeds
• Create RSS Feeds from databases like PubMed on “queries” that might be of interest to various departments of parent institute of the library
• Subscribe to RSS feeds of interest to library users and re-publish them
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• Content of RSS feeds can be displayed from
websites by running suitable scripts at web servers.
• When someone visits such websites these scripts get activated.
• Scripts extract RSS Feeds from providers’ websites and display items with appropriate links to providers’ pages.
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• Let us take a simple example of Re-publishing RSS Feeds for special interest groups
• Say there is a university department for “Medical Informatics”.
• Faculty and Students would like to be alerted on what all is being published on “Medical Informatics”.
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Generate an RSS Feed by suitable query
Generate an RSS Feed by suitable query
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For our example we will select a site that allows to publish RSS Feeds for free.
http://suprglu.com
(There are many such services)
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Libraries as consumer can subscribe to Feeds
of Interest to Librarians
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http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=RSS
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Conclusion
• RSS is a new way of delivering and consuming information
• Librarians and Libraries should exploit this technology to effectively promote the content they produce
• Help their users to select appropriate feeds• Re-Publish selective RSS Feeds to cater special target
groups• Use this technology to keep themselves up-to-date in
this era of Information Explosion
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Further Reading:
• RSS - A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers (M.Moffat) - convincing rationale for RSS and valuable Q&A - http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/
• Searching RSS Channels for News (Utah State Library) - http://www.rssgov.com/rsssearchworkshop.html
• RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters (M. Nottingham) - http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
• Set Up a Simple Syndication Feed Using RSS (L. Angelius) - http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/10790
• RSS FAQ (Ed Pimentel) - http://radio.weblogs.com/0105060/categories/blogging/2003/08/26.html#a1637
• RSS 0.92: A Step-by-Step Beginner's Guide to Creating Your First Document(M. Trump) - http://www.jamsterdam.com/rss092/
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• PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0 (K. Yank) - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/560/2
• Explanation of RSS, How You Can Use it, and Finding RSS Feeds (M.Fagan) - http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
• What is RSS and how can it serve libraries? http://eprints.rclis.org/2531/1/RSS_and_libraries_EN3.pdf
• Library 2.0: RSS Feeds Dynamic Uses for Special Libraries http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2007/hartrssfeeds.pdf
• 10 Ways Libraries Can Use RSS - The Moxie Librarian http://moxielibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/10-ways-libraries-can-use-rss/
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THANKS
Slides can be downloaded from:
http://blog.sukhdevsingh.com/2009/02/rss-and-libraries.htmlorhttp://www.slideshare.net/sukhi/rss-and-its-use-in-libraries