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RSSWS 3 ELAG 2005
Peter van Boheemen
Mette Båstrup-Larsen, dk
Jill Cousins, eu
Jean-Blaise Claivaz, ch
Nathalie Cornee, uk
Oleg Cvik, sk
Elisabeth Freyre, fr
Jan Erik Kofoed, no
Martin Svoboda, cz
Agenda
• Questions
– RSS – what does it mean?
– What is it & what is it good for?
– Who is using it and why?
• Relation to other kinds of communication
• Conclusions, recommendations
RSS – what does it mean?
Rich Site Summary
Real Simple Syndication
RDF Site Summary
What is it & what is it good for?
• Small chunks of well structured data
(XML; title, date, link, …)
• Simple standardised method of
broadcasting (feeding) news
RSS principle of operation
“news”db
sele
ct
reformat RSS
read
& in
terp
ret
weblog
RSS reader
???
web page
Who is using it and why?
• Who produces RSS feeds?– Bloggers: The Shifted Librarian, Peter Scott’s Library
Blog, …– Media: BBC, CNN, …– Journal publishers: NPG (Nature), …– Libraries: Woodburn Library, …
• Who reads RSS feeds?– individuals, which?– applications
• aggregators, library portals?
Channel Paper E-mail SMS RSS
Characteristics broad personal personal broad
Audience both known known anonymous
Frequency low n/a n/a potentially high
Requirements eyes (+ glasses)
mail reader GSM RSS reader
Costs to produce
high: paper, postage
application development
application development + delivery
application development
Availability widespread widespread widespread emerging
Format free text/html short text simple structured text
Relation to other kinds of communication
Conclusions, recommendations
• Powerful: really simple & easy to implement both at producer and user side
• Ca 15 million bloggers do use it• Could serve libraries well to broadcast „news“ to
users• Not part of our standard applications yet (plug-in
or separate reader needed)• Likely to be integrated into browsers or e-mail
clients soon (tomorrow) … • Be prepared!!!
Sir TSir Timim
Berners-LeeBerners-Lee
for Nobel prize !for Nobel prize !