Posted in RSS on Apr 20th, 2005 1 Comment »
I noticed this evening that Bloglines hasn’t picked up my posts from yesterday yet. So I checked Sherri Vokey’s blog ::schwagbag:: (because she pointed the problem out to me before) to see if Bloglines was picking up the feed properly for it. Alas, it is not. Bloglines seemed to go through a period of having [...]
Posted in Library Systems, RSS on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
SIRSI and RSS
Like many folks last week I was really excited when Jenny posted about
SIRSI's offering RSS feeds out of the catalog. The of idea that a
library vendor is catching on to this idea is very hopeful. However,
like Dave
I am still a wee bit skeptical. The idea that this may have to be an
add-on with [...]
Posted in RSS on Jan 21st, 2005 No Comments »
RSS Incompatibility Issues
Recently, I found an interesting post
that discussed the incompatibility issues that exist within RSS. This
is a topic that I am not alltogether unfamilar with because about a
year ago I started playing with incorporating RSS feeds into my site.
The problem with this is that not all RSS feeds are alike. There are a
multitude of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, RSS on Jan 15th, 2005 No Comments »
RSS & the OPAC
There has been a lot of discussion about RSS feeds and the OPAC this week. Catalogablog, Librarian.net, Library Stuff and the Shifted Librarian all were excited about the potential of RSS feeds being included in the new Dynix system. Unfortunately, it seems that it was not to be.
The SPL is offering RSS [...]
Posted in RSS on Jan 7th, 2005 No Comments »
IngentaConnect Makes My Week
A while back I was whining about the fact that it would be really nice
if I had an RSS feed of the table of contents of the latest issues of
my favorite journals. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks that
this is a rationale and cool idea. IngentaConnect is supplying RSS
feeds for [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Nov 11th, 2004 No Comments »
Hectic days
If you have been wondering if I disappeared of the face of the
earth, the answer is “no, I've just been very busy.” My time has been
occupied with article writing (one for Computers in Libraries and another to be sent off to another yet to be determined
journal), search commitees, all my normal work, and presentation [...]
Posted in RSS on Oct 25th, 2004 No Comments »
RSS Feed for Checked Out Items
So I got my code finished for my page that creates an RSS feed. So I am
posting my demo here for people to check out. In order for the feed to
be created for the user to load in a news aggregator, the user must
enter their Library ID and verification. Check [...]
Posted in BLeading Edge Thoughts, RSS on Oct 11th, 2004 No Comments »
RSS of User's Checked out Items
After several hours of work this week I got an RSS feed of checked out
books for a user created. It took quite a bit of playing but it is
working quite well now. The difficult part wasn't writing an XSL to
transform the XML I received from my catalog but rather sending [...]
Posted in RSS on Oct 7th, 2004 No Comments »
OPAC and RSS ideas
On my way home tonight I was thinking about possible applications of
RSS for the catalog. As I previously posted, I am working on and RSS
feed of a user's checked out items. However, I was thinking that there
must be some other applications of RSS for information in the OPAC.
About half way through my [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
RSS Traffic Issues
There is another good article about the traffic and bandwidth issues created by RSS feeds at http://thewhir.com/features/kaye-rsstraffic.cfm .
One nice thing about this article is that goes beyond explaining the
problems that RSS creates. It also offers web managers some possible
solutions. This includes inserting a cache between the server and the
Internet, using GZIP compression for [...]
