1. Advanced Uses of RSS Lisa Rogers ticTOCs and Gold Dust

2. About Me Research Associate at ICBL http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk ticTOCs http://www.tictocs.ac.uk Gold Dust http://www.hull.ac.uk/golddust

3. Use and Re-Use of RSS Viewed in RSS Reader/Browser –Individual Use Embedded into websites. –Others displaying your news on their websites Machine to Machine Use –Used by service providers and aggregators such as News Now, ticTOCs and Gold Dust.

4. Categories of RSS Feeds General Feeds –News, Blogs, Job Adverts, Events, Website Updates, etc. More Specific Feeds –Journal Tables of Contents, Items in Institutional Repositories, Learning Resources, Calls for Funding, Conference Announcements, Industry News, Calls for Papers, etc.

5. RSS Formats RSS 1.0 –Uses RDF –Can be extended through use of Modules DC, PRISM etc. –Provides more structured metadata RSS 2.0 –Simple format –Generally used to provide textual updates, news, blogs etc.

6. Journal Table of Contents Many Publishers are now providing RSS feeds for TOCs. Quality of data provided varies Little standardisation

7. ticTOCs JISC funded Project Piloting a current awareness service. Collection of over 11,000 Journal TOC RSS feeds from over 300 publishers Allows users to find feeds to export to their own reader or view in ticTOCs Will produce guidelines for publishers producing RSS feeds.

8. ticTOCs Demo

9. Guidelines for Publishers of TOCs Use RSS 1.0 specification Use RSS 1.0 Modules (dc, prism)‏ Use well formed and valid XML files for your TOC RSS feeds Use the RSS Content Module to present HTML marked up content. Do not restrict access to TOC RSS feeds. Produce regular static copies of RSS feeds for fast downloading Provide a choice of feeds (e.g current issue, recent issues)‏ Provide up-to-date OPML files

10. Ideal TOC

11. Gold Dust JISC funded Research project investigating alerting users about items of interest based on usage of ticTOCs. Testing using 50 Engineers Push highly relevant items from other RSS feeds.

12. Gold Dust Diagram

13. The Future for ticTOCs Embedding ticTOCs into the research process Standardising TOC RSS feeds Increasing the number of TOC RSS feeds

14. The Future for Gold Dust Develop auto discovery and delivery services Explore possibility of similar service in domains other than engineering.

15. Any Questions? Lisa Rogers l.j.rogers@hw.ac.uk http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mthljr/