Promoting Your Service Through News

Brian Kelly gave a talk on RSS and JISC Services Newsfeed Aggregator Demonstrator at a JISC workshop on "Promoting Your Service Through News" at One Great George Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA on 10^th February 2005.

Materials

RSS and JISC Services Newsfeed Aggregator Demonstrator

[HTML format] - [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format]

Useful URLs

Further Reading

RSS @ A Glance, Guidelines from the JISC News Working Group

Malcolm Moffatt, EEVL, <http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/index_glance.htm

RSS - A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers

Malcolm Moffatt, EEVL, <http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/>

Links to RSS Resources

The Fuss, <http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/wiki?TheFuss>

Improving Communications within JISC through News Aggregation

Paul Davey et al, Ariadne 41, <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/davey/>

Syndicated content: it's more than just some file formats

Paul Miller, Ariadne 35, <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/miller/>

RSS: the latest feed

Judith Wusteman, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 22, No. 4, .<http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman/lht/wusteman-rss.html>

Rich Site Services

Gerry McKiernan, <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm>

What Is RSS?

XML.com article, <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html>

Introduction to RSS

WebReference.com, <http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/>

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

Mark Nottingham, <http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/>

Syndication, RSS, RDF and Atom in a Nutshell

Fplanque, <http://fplanque.net/Blog/itTrends/2004/01/10/rss_rdf_and_atom_in_a_nutshell>

The Role of RSS in Science Publishing

Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, and Ben Lund, Nature Publishing Group, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/december2004-hammond>

RSS Workshop

<http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html>

RSS (protocol)

Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28protocol%29>

All About RSS

FaginFinder, <http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml>

RSS FAQ

JISC Information Environment Architecture, <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/faq/rss/>

Lists Of Resources

RSS and Atom Resources

<http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/resources/>

RSS Compendium

<http://allrss.com/rssresources.html>

RSS Tools

<http://blogspace.com/rss/resources>

RSS Resources

<http://www.larkfarm.com/rss_resources.htm>

Directory, RSS At Harvard Law

<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5>

Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips

<http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/>

Userland RSS Central

<http://rss.userland.com/>

Audio Presentations

Libraries get hip to RSS

Future Tense, <http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2005/01/21.shtml>

Tools

Lists of RSS Tools

<http://www.2rss.com/readers.php>

<http://blogspace.com/rss/readers>

<http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_.Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/.Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/>

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator>

RSS Aggregator

EEVL's aggregation service for JISC, <http://www.eevl.ac.uk/downloads/software/aggregator/about.htm>

Aggregation Software

Urchin, <http://urchin.sourceforge.net/>

SOSIG Blog

Use of a Blog to create RSS, <http://www.sosig.ac.uk/news/>

RSSxpress

UKOLN's RSS authoring and vieweing tool, <http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/>

RSS Validators

<http://librdf.org/rss/>

<http://feeds.archive.org/validator/>

Specifications

RSS 1.0

<http://purl.org/rss/1.0/>

RSS 2.0

<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss>

Atom

<http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php>

Directories Of RSS Feeds

Rich Site Services

Gerry McKiernan's list of Library RSS feeds, <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm>

Syndic8

<http://www.syndic8.com/>

RSSXpress

<http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/>

Biographical Details

Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, provides a Web advisory service to the UK higher and further education communities and the cultural heritage sector. Brian works for UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management which is located at the University of Bath. UKOLN is funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council).

Brian became active in Web development in the early days of the Web, having helped establish a Web site at the University of Leeds in January 1993. He immediately saw the potential of the Web and became a early pioneer and advocate of the Web. Brian joined UKOLN in 1996 and has been active in promoting use of Web standards and best practices since then, initially within the higher and further education communities, but now also to the cultural heritage sector.

Brian has given many presentations and written many articles on various aspects on the Web - see <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/presentations.html> and <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/publications.html> Brian also runs an annual 3-day event for Web managers and developers. This year's event, which has the theme "Whose Web Is It Anyway?" will be held at the University of Manchester on 6-8^th July. If you are involved in Web development work, why not attend? See <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/> for details.