A PowerPoint presentation by Howard Ratner, CTO of Nature Publishing Group. Presented yesterday at the NISO workshop, "Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge." Ratner focuses on some of the "techie" things that Nature Publishing Group is doing with RSS and Urchin, an RSS aggregator they're currently developing.
NPG currently offers 10 feeds, including Nature Science Update and Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues. Unfortunately, the complete list is buried two levels below the NPG index page. However, scattered links to the newsfeeds can be found on the relevant pages, but with no consistency of appearance or location.
May 21, 2004
RSS: Really Simple Syndication - A Publisher's Perspective
May 20, 2004
CompleteRSS: Fresh feeds, served fast!
Joining Syndic8 and NewsIsFree is CompleteRSS, another tool for locating RSS feeds. This one is a search engine, without a browse option.
I searched on 'Science' and found 179 feeds, with no explanation of how the feeds are sorted. CompleteRSS is still in beta, so hopefully this is a work in progress.
May 19, 2004
May 17, 2004
RSS: Reuters and SmartMoney.com
Two more resources have made RSS feeds available, and these examples certainly illustrate the locating challenges that we discussed last week.
SmartMoney.com has put an "orange RSS button" at the bottom of the page. They are currently offering 12 feeds, including one for recent articles. They also give explicit instructions on how to use the feeds in your own Web site.
Reuters has put their "orange XML button" with the text "Reuters RSS" on the left margin, under the list of primary news channels. Sixteen feeds are currently available.
"Plogs"
The Virtues of Chitchat - Michael Schrage, CIO Magazine
Using blogs for project management, and how not to use them
RSS Bibliography: an update
RSS: is this the next step in online marketing? - Trevor Marshall, Backbone
RSS: What it is, Where to get it, How to make it, How to use it - Robert Teeter
Surf's Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing - JD Lasica, Online Journalism Review
May 14, 2004
Thanks!!
We would like to thank everyone who attended the presentation on Tuesday. I'm making a few updates to PowerPoint slides, once that's done we'll convert the file to PDF and make it available to everyone.
The Typepad demo blog will be up until the end of the month, but we'll keep this one going as long as there's interest.
- Here are a few ways we can use this blog:
- Make announcements about upcoming state chapter events
- Show off new blogs by chapter librarians
- Share information about blogs, RSS and other tools. In the few days since we did the presentation, I have already come across new articles on RSS.
If you would like guest author privileges for either blog, just let me know.
May 11, 2004
May 07, 2004
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