In this workshop session, we explore how to make RSS work in your
institution.
Recently, the University of Oxford has risen to this challenge:
it has delivered a devolved institutional newsfeed system.
This workshop session will discuss how this system was produced
and will demonstrate how easy it is to produce news items and
get them displayed on a Web page or delivered through RSS.
The session will look at:
how to deliver a devolved institutional newsfeed system;
the benefits to departments of doing this;
how to succeed in attracting customers to the newsfeed system;
some of the interesting issues when providing a newsfeed system;
authentication and authorisation;
support for multiple newsfeed formats;
support for utf-8;
support for aggregation and categories;
handling events and delivering iCalendar.
Participants will be able to explore these ideas during a hands-on
session that uses the University of Oxford's newsfeed system.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session participants will:
have understood how newsfeeds fit into their institution;
have grasped how easy it is to build a newsfeed system;
be aware of some of the issues involved in delivering a newsfeed system;
have hands-on experience of producing news items, delivering RSS and producing news on a Web page;
be in a position to sell these ideas to their own institution.
