Public Library Web Conference - 5-6 November 2002

The following discussion group session will be given at the Public Library Web Managers Workshop to be held at the University of Bath on 5-6^th November 2002.

The workshop will take place from 16:30-17:30 on Tuesday 5^th November 2002.

Don't Do It Yourself - Content Syndication on the Web

Why spend lots of time inventing content for your Web sites when there are lots of people out there already doing it and, more importantly, making that content available for free? The life of a Web editor is a busy one, and one of the hardest tasks has to be updating something like a home page or an information resource that contains all the latest news. But imagine you could, instead, take the News Headlines from the BBC site and place them on your pages instead. What if you only had to do this once and they automatically updated themselves? Sound good? This talk will demonstrate some of the existing services out there that can provide this kind of content to your Web sites and also touch on the technologies that enable content syndication."

Requirements

This session will need a networked PC with a data display. In addition we will need flip charts and pens.

Time

This session will take place from 16:30-17:30 on Monday 4^th November 2002.

Timetable (very flexible ;-))