Help:RSS and Atom Feeds
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- RSS is a simple way of disseminating content via the Internet. Using the XML data format, it provides description of content and also imports the data from a remote web site and displays it for publication and/or syndication. The Wiki software environment has the ability to create online feeds. The below example feed Wiki Text shows an implementation a feed.
Documentation
<feed url="http://blog.palinet.org/podcast/?feed=rss2" entries=10>
== [{PERMALINK} {TITLE}] ==
'''{DATE} by {AUTHOR}'''
{DESCRIPTION}
{ENCLOSURE}
[{DELICIOUS} Add to del.icio.us] [{FURL} Add to Furl] [{DIGG} Add to Digg]
</feed>
The Wiki tags for feeds are opened by the Wiki tag <feed url ....>and closed by the Wiki tag
</feed>When these Wiki tags for feeds are used, the Wiki environment automatically knows that the entry between these tags represent a feed.
<feed url="http://blog.palinet.org/podcast/?feed=rss2" entries=10>The above line represents the web content used in the feed.
== [{PERMALINK} {TITLE}] ==
'''{DATE} by {AUTHOR}'''
{DESCRIPTION}
{ENCLOSURE}
[{DELICIOUS} Add to del.icio.us] [{FURL} Add to Furl] [{DIGG} Add to Digg]
</feed>
The PERMALINK key word represents the web feed web site and TITLE represents the title of the individual story in the web site feed. The rest of the above lines represent the way this content is format in publication in your web site. Edit this page to create the feed you would like. Below is the implementation of our given example.
Example
ALA Annual 2008 - Building and Supporting Koha, an open-source ILS
30 July 2008 by John Houser
On Saturday, June 28, 2008, at ALA Annual, I did a live interview of Joshua Ferraro, CEO of LibLime, in a session sponsored by the LITA Open Source Software Interest Group entitled “Building and Supporting Koha, an Open Source ILS.” The complete recording of the session, including about 20 minutes of questions from the audience is attached to this post.
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Technology Conversations - Andrew Nagy and Chris Barr
13 June 2008 by John Houser
Andrew Nagy is the developer and Chris Barr is the user interface designer for Villanova University’s VuFind system. VuFind is an open source discovery tool designed to sit on top of an integrated library system and replace the public catalog interface. VuFind has been quickly adopted by some members of the library community because of its clean and simple look and feel, strong feature set, and ease of modification. The National Library of Australia has already gone live with its implementation of the software, despite the fact that the 1.0 release of VuFind is not yet available.
I spoke Andrew and Chris at Villanova University during the first of a series of interviews with staff there pertaining to their VuFind implementation.
In the interest of proper disclosure, I must mention that PALINET, my employer, has entered into an agreement with Villanova to provide VuFind support services to PALINET member libraries in the near future.
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Technology Conversations - Tim Spalding of LibraryThing, Part 2 of 2
18 April 2008 by John Houser
In this continuation of my conversation with Tim Spalding of LibraryThing, we talked about LibraryThing for Libraries, achieving a critical mass of tags, and improving discovery in the library catalog.
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Technology Conversations - Tim Spalding of LibraryThing, Part 1 of 2
18 April 2008 by John Houser
When Tim Spalding created LibraryThing, he had no idea what it would become. He just wanted to catalog his personal library and share it with a few friends. But LibraryThing has exploded into more than 390,000 members, who have cataloged nearly 26 million books. This rapid growth is probably because LibraryThing is more than a big catalog; it is a social software site that feeds our mania for books, our joy in talking about authors and stories, and our need to share with others.
In Part 1 of our conversation, we talked about LibraryThing generally and what you can do with it. In Part 2 of our conversation, we talked about LibraryThing for Libraries, achieving a critical mass of tags, and improving discovery in the library catalog.
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Technology Conversations - The WorldCat API
21 March 2008 by John Houser
Don Hamparian is Manager of the WorldCat Grid Services Portfolio at OCLC. He has been in the IT and Software Development world for 25 years, starting with CDC mainframe programming. Since joining OCLC eight years ago, he has been working in product management, architecture standardization, and IT roles.
David Walker is Library Web Services manager for The California State University. His work focuses principally on interface design and system integration, particularly for library catalogs, metasearch systems, and link resolvers.
Don and Dave gave presentations at Code4Lib 2008 on the new WorldCat API. This new web service will allow library software developers to run searches and pull holdings information from the WorldCat database–from within their own local applications.
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Technology Conversations - Joshua Ferraro of LibLime
13 March 2008 by John Houser
Joshua Ferraro is CEO of LibLime. His company offers installation, setup, data migration, and custom programming services for libraries implementing the Koha open source integrated library system. Josh founded LibLime in 2005, and already has 17 employees over 200 customers. He is an active contributor to the Koha project and release manager for Koha Version 3, the alpha release of which came out in January. We talked about Koha 3 at the Code4Lib conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state></st1:place>.
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Technology Conversations - Daniel Griffin of Userful
4 March 2008 by John Houser
Daniel Griffin is VP of Public Computing for Userful. He has experience in systems re-engineering, change management and team leadership. From 2000-2003, prior to joining Userful, he led the project to integrate LexisNexis’ print and electronic delivery departments and systems and managed a team of 11 FTE.
<o:p></o:p>At ALA Midwinter, we talked about Userful’s public computing products, which run on Linux PCs and are largely based on open source software. I started out by asking Daniel about a presentation he and some of his customers were going to give, later in the conference.
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Technology Conversations - Stephen Leicht and Darrell Gunter of Collexis
6 February 2008 by John Houser
Collexis makes high end discovery tools and knowledge management software for organizations. Their products allow searchers to find experts, follow trends in scientific literature, or identify promising new areas for research. Moreover, they don’t just give you results in textual form. Their products’ user interfaces provide visual clues to the significance of particular concepts or relationships. If I were a biomedical researcher, I would want their products in my toolkit. At ALA, Collexis announced a new social software site, biomedexperts.com, for biomedical researchers which is pre-populated with profiles of published authors.
Steve Leicht, Collexis Chief Operating Officer, joined the company in 2006 after a career at IBM and experience founding and running his own telecommunications company. He has an MBA from <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and a degree from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bucknell</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p> </o:p>
Prior to joining Collexis, Darrell Gunter, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Collexis, was Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region> for Elsevier. He also worked for Dow Jones Financial News Services and Xerox Corporation.
To find out more about the technology and techniques behind their products, I spoke to Steve Leicht, and Darrell Gunter, at ALA Midwinter.
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IR Conversations - John Sarnowski
24 January 2008 by John Houser
John Sarnowski is Director of the ResCarta Foundation. His long experience in system integration and software development cumulated in the position of Director, Imaging Products at Northern Micrographics. A regular speaker and presenter at library conferences, he has been featured at ALA, as well as Texas, Maine, Wisconsin, and Special Libraries Association events. I asked him about the ResCarta Foundation and its work promoting standards-based digitization at the LITA National Forum in Denver, Colorado.
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Technology Conversations - Chip Nilges
12 July 2007 by John Houser
In 2005, Library Journal selected Chip Nilges as of its library movers and shakers. Currently Vice President, OCLC Business Development, Chip has worked for OCLC since 1994, starting out as a FirstSearch Product Support Specialist. Recently, Chip has been one of the people helping to articulate OCLC’s strategic goals for the WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local products as well as various Web 2.0 initiatives.
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