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- 1. RSS and its use in Libraries Sukhdev Singh
- 2. First of all let us see what RSS can do?
- 3. Even before that let us see how we can keep ourselves up-to-date in the Era of Internet
- 13. Even smart cell phones have means to read RSS
- 17. OK, we will take an example
- 19. Ok, we will use Google Reader as our RSS Reader for this example http://www.google.com/reader/
- 20. Login
- 22. Click on Add Subscription
- 24. Open a New Window in your browser go to the site i.e. NDTV.COM
- 25. Click on RSS button and Get URL of your RSS Feed for News
- 26. Just Look URL. COPY it with Ctrl + C
- 27. Paste the URL Here Ctrl+V
- 29. Now let us subscribe a blog! Remember M ost blogs are RSS enabled So no need to look for any Orange Button. Just enter the blog URL
- 30. Now let us add a feed from Blog now.
- 31. Repeat steps for Adding Subscription
- 33. To subscribe RSS Feed from any site Look for Orange Buttons Click and get the URL
- 35. Look for URL Above and Copy it.
- 36. Add Subscription
- 37. And it has been done!
- 38. You can also create / customize an RSS feed to suit interest. However the site should provide such facility Let us see how we can create an RSS Feed on PubMed Database Site on a Query
- 39. Now let us create a feed from PubMED
- 40. Enter your Query as you do normally.
- 42. Click on Create Feed
- 43. Look for Small Orange Icon – and Click it.
- 44. Copy the URL of the Feed.
- 45. Add Subscription
- 46. And no surprise, It is Done
- 47. You can Manage yours RSS Subscriptions
- 49. See them all at one place. No need to visit each site.
- 51. You can even Export or Import your subscriptions to / from Other Readers
- 52. We have seen the usefulness of RSS. Now let see what is this RSS?
- 53. Blogs Saved Searchers Social Bookmarking Wikis News Syndication Isn’t that R eally S imple?
- 56. RSS is written in XML language for syndicating information items on web.
- 57. XML Source Code of RSS <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>NDTV News</title> <description></description> <language>en-us</language> <link>http://www.ndtv.com</link> <copyright>© Copyright 2006, New Delhi Television Ltd.</copyright> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:13:17 GMT</pubDate> <category>National News</category> <image> <title>NDTVNews</title><url>http://www.ndtv.com/images/ndtv.gif</url> <link>http://www.ndtv.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed</title> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href=http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888><img align="left" border="0" src="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/images/thumbnail/ver1/m/mapkarnataka1.jpg" alt="Surya Kiran trainer jet crashes in Karnataka, pilot killed" style="margin-right:5px;margin-top:5px;width:70px;height:70px;" /></a>A pilot of an Indian Kiran trainer jet was killed in a crash on Wednesday morning near Bidar in Karnataka. </p><br clear="all" />]]></description> <link>http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090080888</link> <keywords>crash, pilot, Karnataka</keywords> </item> </channel> </rss>
- 58. RSS when viewed in Browser
- 68. How does RSS work? Content Provider Content Consumer
- 84. RSS enabled Publishing platforms Content managers Database based applications Modern Library Automation Softwares
- 86. WEB 2.0 Applications are RSS enabled
- 92. PERL Script used in OpenMED (EPRINTS) TO Generate RSS Feed
- 114. Generate an RSS Feed by suitable query
- 122. Libraries as consumer can subscribe to Feeds of Interest to Librarians
- 127. THANKS Slides can be downloaded from: http://blog.sukhdevsingh.com/2009/02/rss-and-libraries.html or http://www.slideshare.net/sukhi/rss-and-its-use-in-libraries