UCISA User Services Conference - April 2002

Brian Kelly (UKOLN) ran a workshop session on Disseminating News Within Your Organisation at the UCISA User Services Conference 2002 on The 24hr University: Stretching the Limits which took place at the University of Leeds on 8-10^th April 2002.

The session took place on Monday 8^th April at 3:45 pm.

Presentations

Slides

[HTML format] - [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format]

Exercises

[HTML format] - [MS Word 97/2000 format]

Abstract

This hands-on workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to explore techniques which can be used to provide automated news feeds. This can be useful for disseminating news information (IT services news or institutional news) in an automated way, which avoids the dangers of providing out-of-date news which often happens when manual approaches are taken.

The workshop is a interactive one, and participants will make use of a number of Web tools and utilities.

URLs Used During Workshop

The following URLs will be used during the workshop.

URLs Used in Exercises

The following URLs are used in the exercises and demonstrations:

Demonstration 1

• Guardian news feed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/distribution/
• Moreover news headlines at http://w.moreover.com/site/products/webmaster/
• EEVL's current awareness at http://www.eevl.ac.uk/current_awareness_services.html

Exercise 1

• W3C home page at http://www.w3c.org/
• UKOLN's RSS-Xpress RSS parser (for viewing W3C News) at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• Moreover's XML news feeds at http://w.moreover.com/dev/xml/
• ILRT's Redland RSS parser at http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/rss

Exercise 2

• UKOLN's RSSxpress parser for viewing news feed at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• DMU news page at http://www.dmu.ac.uk/News/Releases/
• LTSN news page at http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/news/news.asp
• RSS file at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/materials/parallel-newsfeeds/rss-exercise-1b.xml
• RSS template file at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/materials/parallel-newsfeeds/rss-template.html
• UKOLN's RSSxpress-lite at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/

Exercise 3

• UK Web Focus Events news feed at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/
• UKOLN's RSSxpress parser for viewing news feed at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/
• ILRT's Redland RSS parser for viewing news feed at http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/rss/
• Syndicate Your Page service at http://logicerror.com/blogifyYourPage/

Exercise 4

• RSSxpress Search Interface at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/search/
• Pre-canned search for "web" at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/search/aindham/web.html
• Pre-canned search for "vacancy" at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/search/aindham/vacancy.html
• Pre-canned search for "funding" at http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/search/aindham/funding.html
• The RDN's behind The Headlines at http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/headlines/

Other Resources

• ILRT's XHTML-to-RSS Extractor service at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2000/08/hss/sw.html
• Netscape directory
• YahooGroups forum on RSS at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev
• Latest RSS News at http://blogspace.com/rss/>
• RSS DevCenter at http://www.oreillynet.com/rss/
• RSS - WebReference.com at http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/
• Making Headlines with RSS at http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/02/eisenzopf/
• RDF Site Summary at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/rss.html
• RSS Readers at http://blogspace.com/rss/readers