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Standard: RSS is a widely used standard for news feeds and content syndication.
About the Standard: RSS provides a simple mechanism by which news can be described and made available. RSS alerts can be easily embedded in Web pages, aggregated by RSS aggregation tools, viewed in dedicated RSS readers, etc.
Version: Confusingly the term 'RSS' covers two separate formats. In RSS 1.0 the term standards for RDF Site Summary whereas in 'RSS 2.0' (which is a different, and not later, version to RSS 1.0) RSS standards for Really Simple Syndication.
Maturity: RSS is widely used, is simple to create and is a very powerful technology.
Risk Assessment: The competing approaches and confusion in the terminology can result in an inappropriate version of RSS being used. At present RSS readers can normally process both versions, but this may not be the case in future.
SOA Role: Alerting.
Further Information:
- Really Simple Syndication, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Simple_Syndication>, Wikipedia
- RDF Site Summary, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Site_Summary>, Wikipedia
- RSS (file format), <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)>, Wikipedia
- An Introduction To RSS And News Feeds, <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-77/>, QA Focus briefing document, UKOLN
Author: Brian Kelly, UKOLN
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Date Created: 1 June 2005
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