"Institutional Web Management 2001" Workshop

This page provides details of the "Automated News Feeds" workshop session facilitated by Brian Kelly at the Institutional Web Management: 2001 workshop held at Queen's University Belfast on 25-27 June 2001.

Abstract

This session will consider the requirements for automated news feeds, both on campus and in the wider context. It will investigate ways of sharing 'news' content between university departments, from commercial news providers to the campus and from the campus to external services. It will also consider whether the same techniques used to share news feeds can be re-used to share information about other digital resources.

Session Aims

By the end of the session delegates will:

• Be aware of the potential of automated news feeds within an institutional context.
• Be aware of the current recommendations for standards.
• Have had hands-on experiences in creating news feeds based on RSS and of processing the RSS to create HTML resources.
• Be in a position to make recommendations on local approaches to the provision of news feeds.

Timetable

The following timetable is subject to change.

URLs Used in Exercises

The following URLs are used in the exercises:

Exercise C5-2

• Guardian news feed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/distribution/
• Moreover news headlines at http://w.moreover.com/site/products/webmaster/
• EEVL's current awareness at http://www.eevl.ac.uk/current_awareness_services.html

Exercise C5-3

• W3C home page at http://www.w3c.org/
• UKOLN's RSS-Xpress RSS parser (for viewing W3C News) at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• Moreover's XML news feeds at http://w.moreover.com/dev/xml/
• ILRT's Redland RSS parser at http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/rss

Exercise C5-4

• UKOLN's RSSxpress parser for viewing news feed at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• DMU news page at http://www.dmu.ac.uk/News/Releases/
• LTSN news page at http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/news/news.asp
• RSS file at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/materials/parallel-newsfeeds/rss-exercise-1b.xml
• RSS template file at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/materials/parallel-newsfeeds/rss-template.html
• UKOLN's RSSxpress-lite at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/

Exercise C5-5

• UK Web Focus Events news feed at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/
• UKOLN's RSSxpress parser for viewing news feed at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• ILRT's Redland RSS parser for viewing news feed at http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/rss/
• Syndicate Your Page service at http://logicerror.com/blogifyYourPage/

Other Resources

• ILRT's XHTML-to-RSS Extractor service at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2000/08/hss/sw.html

Materials

Slides

Introduction

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

Standards For News Feeds

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

Deployment Issues

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

Other Approaches And Further Information

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

Conclusions

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

Report Back

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

Exercises

Exercise 1: Introduction

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

Exercise 2: Using Automated News Feeds

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

Exercise 3: Using RSS

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

Exercise 4: Creating An RSS News Feed

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

Exercise 5: Converting HTML to RSS

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

Exercise 6: Deployment Issues

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