Thursday, 17 November 2005

RSS Feeds

Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is a XML-based format for content syndication. It has been used extensively at various news sites such as BBC and CNN to "push" news headlines to their readers. By subscribing to the RSS news feeds through RSS readers that run locally on readers' machines, they can get news updates periodically right on their desktop without going to the news websites.
Recently RSS has been picking up by other types of websites to notify their users of their latest changes. Some of these sites are listed below:
  • Personal Blogs
  • Community Forums (e.g. Slashdot)
  • Newsletters for governments and institutes
  • Customized search services (e.g. Craig's list)
    • Currently NEEDS/Engineering Pathway provides a RSS feed for the latest 10 additions to our collection. Users can subscribe to this RSS feed to be notified of any new resources that being cataloged. Other websites can also digest this feed and display the titles and links to these new resources on their pages. We are also considering to expand our RSS feed capability beyond just notifications of changes in our collection.
    Some other possiblities of using RSS feeds are notifications of new results for personalized searches, latest reviews and comments for resources stored in user's workspaces, newsletters and news from Engineering Pathway, and new resource recommendations for the users. Are there any kind of content/news updates that may of interest to users of Engineering Pathway or collections/services within engineering education?
    Posted by jialong at 2:23 PM in Services and Tools
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    Current Services and Tools Provided by TE and NEEDS

    Currently TeachEngineering and NEEDS are offering the following services and tools:

  • Browse curriculum(TE)
  • Search resources/curriculum by Keyword, Grade Level, Educational Standard(TE), Required Time(TE), Cost(TE), Learning Resource Type(NEEDS), Title(NEEDS), Author(NEEDS), Review(NEEDS), Series(NEEDS), Host Collection(NEEDS), Publication Year(NEEDS)
    • Personal workspace (MyTE, NEEDS Workspace)
  • Reviews for resources/curriculum
  • OAI server that exports NSDL Dublin Core metadata for harvesting
  • Recommendation system(NEEDS)
  • Web service for search through SOAP(NEEDS)
  • Metathesaurus to suggest related search terms(NEEDS)
  • RSS feeds of new resources(NEEDS)
  • Online cataloging(NEEDS)

    • Among these services and tools, what are the ones that would be of value to you as an engineering collection? Which fields would your users be searching over? Are there value-added services & tools that you have developed (or are aware of) that would be of value to the Engineering Pathway?
    Posted by jialong at 2:20 PM in Services and Tools
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    Promoting Engineering Education Digital Libraries

    How do we raise the stature/reputation of our libraries?
    Posted by jialong at 1:40 PM in Sustainability
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    Strategies for Aligning ABET criteria

    What directions should we go in alignment with ABET criteria and best practices?
    Posted by jialong at 1:39 PM in Standards
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    Differences of Needs for Services and Tools

    How do these service needs differ for your audiences, such as K-12 or higher ed or with different disciplines?
    Posted by jialong at 1:38 PM in Services and Tools
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    Existing Services and Tools for Engineering Pathway

    Are there value-added services & tools that you have developed (or are aware of) that would be of value to the Engineering Pathway?
    Posted by jialong at 1:37 PM in Services and Tools
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    Engineering Pathway Value-added Services and Tools

    What are the value-added services & tools that the Engineering Pathway can provide to your engineering collection?
    Posted by jialong at 1:35 PM in Services and Tools
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