RSS in the OPAC
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RSS in the OPAC


Here is a great idea; RSS feeds from the OPAC for new books, most popular items, or most reserves. It would be even better if the patron could select genres or formats. This might fit nicely into a MyLibrary portal. Does MyLibrary accept an RSS feed? Having the information in an RSS feed opens up other possibilities for distribution, placement and reformatting. Just a great idea.




- Telescope Metadata
More and more people are getting into the metadata game. Here is a proposed XML metadata schema for telescopes.Earlier I described my idea for an RSS-like XML feed for telescopes. The idea was to allow anyone to keep up with what particular telescopes...

- Mylibrary
Some news from MyLibrary.We have created an additional MyLibrary end-user interface that will be distributed with the Perl modules: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/portal/ The interface supports browse by facet and term, as well as search. The...

- Mylibrary And Oai
The MyLibrary resources table now consists of a superset of Dublin Core elements, and there are methods for doing I/O against these elements. This means it should be an almost trivial task to harvest content from OAI repositories (which require Dublin...

- Mylibrary@ockham
MyLibrary@OCKHAM is an interesting project. OAI records are harvested, indexed, and categorized using open-source tools.The purpose of MyLibrary@OCKHAM is to demonstrate ways a Find More Like This One service can be implemented through the use of "light-weight"...

- Rss
The RSS Valiadator checks RSS feeds. It works with RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0, but it is optimized for RSS 2.0 feeds. This ensures that the RSS feed is up to standards. It also recognizes elements from other name spaces, like Dublin Core....



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