Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep Using RSS to distribute content and personalize the DLESE experience DLESE Annual Meeting July 10, 2004 Shelley Olds DLESE University Corp for Atmospheric Research

2 DLESE information sent to you, automatically RSS: Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary RSS is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines). Similar to an newsletter  Content comes to you instead of you looking for it  Easier tracking of multiple sources of information  Updated more frequently: hourly/ daily A content publisher syndicates a feed  DLESE is the publisher  Our content is syndicated daily  The feeds are written in XML and provide the content

3 DLESE and RSS Find up-to-the-minute news and supporting educational resources about current Earth events and Earth system science opportunities Current DLESE feeds (or syndications)  New resources to the library  Newly reviewed resources  New resources under review  What’s new in DLESE Syndications coming soon  News and opportunities  Workshops  Latest Resources of Interest  Resources available for Grade Range/Resource Type/etc.

4 Personalizing your experience Allows DLESE content to be redistributed (a la Reuters)  As aggregators pick up DLESE feeds, DLESE content could show up… anywhere!  Other libraries can subscribe to DLESE services Future: "Create-a-feed" (Give the user an RSS URL for their own custom Discovery search)  Most visited resources - last week/last month/all time  Customized search results on a given topic/grade  Most frequently searched keyword terms  Mailing list thread summaries

5 Two parts to make RSS work Part 1-- An XML “news feed” from a website DLESE web page for new resources Turned into XML using RSS format

6 Two parts to make RSS work Part 1-- An XML “news feed” from a website Part 2--A “news reader” to translate and display the feeds  You choose feeds you’re interested in  The news reader displays titles and short summaries of new items New Resources in DLESE Newly Reviewed Resources in DLESE Newly Resources under Review The reader pulls these feeds together in one place

7 Using RSS Feeds Many news readers (aggregators) are separate, "stand-alone" programs such as those listed above; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page. Step 1—Look for xml button Step 2—View XML feed and copy address Step 3—Find a news reader and add the feed to the read Behind the scenes: News readers check the feeds that you tell it to, see if there is any new content, and if so, save the content for you to view when you are ready.

8 List of DLESE Feeds New resources in the DLESE library  Title: DLESE - New resources  0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemnew&wnfrom=recent &show=20 0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemnew&wnfrom=recent &show=20 Resources in the DLESE library that have recently come under review  Title: DLESE - New resources under review  0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannoinprogress&wnf rom=recent&show=20 0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannoinprogress&wnf rom=recent&show=20 Resources in the DLESE library that have new reviews  Title: DLESE - Newly reviewed resources  0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannocomplete&wnfro m=recent&show=20 0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannocomplete&wnfro m=recent&show=20 Breaking news and recent links of interest from the DLESE library  "What's New at DLESE” 

9 Example: What DLESE looks like in a reader Subscribe to and immediately receive the news and categories of DLESE resources as soon as those resources become available in the library

10 Popular news reader programs Pluck: (free, IE add-in) Bloglines: (free, online) NetNewsWire: (Mac, free demo) Rocketinfo: AmphetaDesk: (free) FeedReader: (Free) NewsCrawler: ($) NewsMonster: (Mozilla/Netscape 7+)