{"id":2090,"date":"2007-06-16T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=338"},"modified":"2007-06-16T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T21:59:00","slug":"library-20-ken-varnum-rss-basics-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/library-20-ken-varnum-rss-basics-and-beyond.html","title":{"rendered":"Library 2.0 : Ken Varnum &#8211; RSS Basics and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varnum.org\/ken\/\">Ken Varnum<\/a> &#8211; RSS Basics and Beyond : Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content. (<a href=\"http:\/\/varnum.org\/papers\/basics-and-beyond.ppt\">PowerPoint<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/library.osu.edu\/sites\/Seminar2-0\/Varnum.pdf\">Handout<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_(file_format)\">Really Simple Syndication<\/a> (RSS)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data format: RSS, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Resource_Description_Framework\">RDF<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atom_(standard)\">Atom<\/a>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>data interchange (sharing) :  syndication &#8211; think of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/\">AP<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\">Reuters<\/a> does with news stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where does RSS come from?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blog\"> blog<\/a> software<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Content_management_system\">CMS<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiki\">wikis<\/a> (&#8220;what&#8217;s new feeds&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perl\">Perl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PHP\">PHP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruby_%28programming_language%29\">Ruby<\/a>, etc &#8211; search databases (Search Alerts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reminder to remember copyright<\/p>\n<p>Tools &#8211; common traits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>can access feed<\/li>\n<li>can track whats been seen already<\/li>\n<li>can reproduce item content<\/li>\n<li>can link to original source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Computer-based:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/Individuals\/FeedDemon\/\">FeedDemon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedreader.com\/\">FeedReader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/Individuals\/NetNewsWire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a> (Mac)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Browser-based:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Safari<\/li>\n<li>IE7<\/li>\n<li>Firefox \/ thunderbird<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aggregators (web-based):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/my.yahoo.com\/s\/about\/rss\/index.html\"> Yahoo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader?tabwy&amp;hl=en\">Google Reader<\/a> (now offline-enabled)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Integration &#8212; RSS = Stream of information = easy to integrate into HTML<\/p>\n<p>hooks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>webblog software<\/li>\n<li>cms<\/li>\n<li>wikis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HTML:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feed2js.org\/\">feed2JS<\/a> (build &amp; post rss html)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss2html.com\/\">RSS2HTML<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfeedz.com\/\">Myfeedz<\/a> &#8212; from Adobe&#8217;s Romanian office<br \/>\ngenerates new content based on your feed choices<\/p>\n<p>Create &#8220;live&#8221; subject guides<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">del.icio.us<\/a>  (all tags have RSS feeds)<\/p>\n<p>New books lists<\/p>\n<p>Checked out book reminders for patrons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryelf.com\/\">Library Elf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monitoring the web<br \/>\nweb page changes<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts\">Google Alerts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/page2rss.com\/\">Page2RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roll your own<br \/>\nWrite by hand (not recommended)<br \/>\nset up free blog<br \/>\nwrite a script (Perl, PHP, Ruby)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedxs.com\/\">FeedXs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Course reserve lists on class pages as an example of a script<\/p>\n<p>Notes:  Kens presentation was great as an overview of what can be done with RSS beyond just blog postings and news story gathering.  I plan to use several of his suggestions, and expect that it will change the way I work with the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Varnum &#8211; RSS Basics and Beyond : Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content. (PowerPoint) (Handout) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Data format: RSS, RDF, Atom, etc. data interchange (sharing) : syndication &#8211; think of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/library-20-ken-varnum-rss-basics-and-beyond.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2924,2943,2944,2952,2955,2977],"tags":[3052,3497,3498,4661,5350,3010,3468,3499,3491,3500,4663,3501,3502,4662,3503,3025],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-conferences","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-online-services","category-osul2007","category-web-design","tag-adobe","tag-blog-software","tag-browser","tag-computer","tag-google","tag-html","tag-ken-varnum","tag-perl","tag-php","tag-reuters","tag-ruby","tag-search-databases","tag-webweb-page","tag-web-web-page","tag-webblog-software","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}