RSS in Libraries

• What is RSS?
• What does RSS look like?
• How do I know that a site has RSS feeds?
• What kind of content is available through an RSS feed?
• RSS at UNT Libraries
• Interesting things you can do with RSS
• Aggregators
• Links

What is RSS?

• RDF Site Summary
• Rich Site Summary
• Real Simple Syndication
• XML
• RSS (Wikipedia entry)
  

What does RSS look like?

• Shows Matt Casey has taped

How do I know that a site has RSS feeds?

What kind of content is available through an RSS feed?

• news articles (Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Denton Record Chronicle, E! Online, Yahoo! News, etc.)
• jobs (Chronicle of Higher Education, Lisjobs.com)
• sports news & scores (ESPN, FoxSports)
  
• blog postings (Catalogblog, Tame the Web, lisnews)

• search results (from catalog, electronic resources, amazon, Craigs List Searches, photodatabase results, etc.)

RSS at UNT Libraries

• RSS from Digital Projects Development
• RSS from Web calendar
• RSS from Wiki

Interesting things you can do with RSS

• 10x10
• Google News
• Feedster - RSS Search Engine

Aggregators

• Web Based
  • Bloglines
  • Feed on Feeds

• Browser Based
  • Firefox 'Live Bookmarks' - Both Windows and Mac
  • Apple's Safari - Only for Mac

• Desktop
  • List of Desktop Aggegators
  • List of Others via RSS Compendium

Links

• Library Forum - discussion on RSS for new books

• Feed Validator for Atom and RSS

• RSSforLiaisons