Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep: 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
DLESE information sent to you, automatically: 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 email 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
DLESE and RSS: 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.
Personalizing your experience: 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
Two parts to make RSS work : 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
Two parts to make RSS work : 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
Using RSS Feeds: 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.
List of DLESE Feeds: List of DLESE Feeds New resources in the DLESE library
Title: DLESE - New resources
http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?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
http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannoinprogress&wnfrom=recent&show=20
Resources in the DLESE library that have new reviews
Title: DLESE - Newly reviewed resources
http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?q=&s=0&sortby=wndate&wntype=itemannocomplete&wnfrom=recent&show=20
Breaking news and recent links of interest from the DLESE library
"What's New at DLESE”
http://www.dlese.org/whats_new-rss2-0.xml
What DLESE looks like in a reader : Example: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/earthgazer?subid=2165872 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
Popular news reader programs: Popular news reader programs Pluck: http://www.pluck.com/ (free, IE add-in)
Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ (free, online)
NetNewsWire: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ (Mac, free demo)
Rocketinfo: http://demo.rocketinfo.com/desktop/
AmphetaDesk: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ (free)
FeedReader: http://feedreader.com (Free)
NewsCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com ($)
NewsMonster: http://www.newsmonster.org/ (Mozilla/Netscape 7+)